McBride, Eimear
Summary: "By the award-winning author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, Strange Hotel is a book about grief, travel, and female loneliness narrated by an unnamed middle-aged woman from a series of hotel rooms around the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCBSarvas, Mark
Summary: After receiving an unexpected call from the Australian consulate, Matt Santos becomes aware of a painting that he believes was looted from his family in Hungary during the Second World War. To recover the painting, he must repair his strained relationship with his harshly judgmental father, uncover his family history, and restore his connection to his own Judaism. Along the way to illuminating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARSagan, Françoise
Summary: Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old CÃcile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her fatherâa handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eyeâfor a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress, Elsa. CÃcile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket 2009
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SAG FRENCHStewart, Mariah
Summary: The first in an "all-new series, The Hudson Sisters, following a trio of reluctant sisters as they set out to fulfill their father's dying wish. In the process, they find not only themselves, but the father they only thought they knew. When celebrated and respected agent Fritz Hudson passes away, he leaves a trail of Hollywood glory in his wake--and two separate families who never knew the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEFoer, Jonathan Safran
Summary: "A monumental new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, "Abraham!" to order him to sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham responds, "Here I am." Later, when Isaac calls out, "My father!" to ask him why there is no animal to slaughter, Abraham responds, "Here I am." How do we fulfill our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOEMarch, Emily
Summary: Widowed young, Genevieve Prentice dedicated her life to raising her four children. Now, though, they're all grown and scattered to the wind, and Genevieve is ready for a change. In a flash of inspiration, she puts her home on the market and heads to Lake in the Clouds, Colorado, to renovate a rustic waterfront lodge with her sister. But just as they begin, Genevieve gets the shock of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMcCoy, Sarah
Summary: "From bestselling author Sarah McCoy, a sun-splashed romp with a rich divorcee and her two wayward daughters in 1970s Mustique, the world's most exclusive private island, where Princess Margaret and Mick Jagger were regulars and scandals stayed hidden from the press..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCCBernstein, Sarah
Summary: "A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings--more than she cares to remember --from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. Soon after she arrives, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf Canada 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction BernsteinMlynowski, Sarah
Summary: Tired of being the middle sister, eleven-year-old Addie Asante uses a magical bracelet to switch places with her thirteen-year-old sister and discovers that being older is not necessarily easier--and worse, her baby sister is now living as Addie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MLYPekkanen, Sarah
Summary: "Bucolic Newport Cove, where spontaneous block parties occur on balmy nights and all of the streets are named for flowers, is proud of its distinction of being named one the top twenty safest neighborhoods in the United States. It's also one of the most secret-filled"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PEKGruen, Sara
Summary: Twenty years after a tragic accident destroyed her Olympic aspirations, and her beloved horse, Annemarie Zimmer returns to her dying father's New Hampshire horse farm with her troubled teenage daughter. But everything will change yet again with one glimpse of a white striped gelding startlingly similar to the one Annemarie lost in another lifetime. And an obsession is born that could shatter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GRUAckerman, Sara
Summary: "Hawaii, 1944. The Pacific battles of World War II continue to threaten American soil, and on the home front, the bonds of friendship and the strength of love are tested. Violet Iverson and her young daughter, Ella, are piecing their lives together one year after the disappearance of her husband. As rumors swirl and questions about his loyalties surface, Violet believes Ella knows something....
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P ACKPennypacker, Sara
Summary: What are people for? That's the burning question on the mind of Leeva Spayce Thornblossom. Fame! says Leeva's mom, the mayor of Nutsmore. Money! says her dad, the town treasurer. With the help of an orphaned badger, a risk-averse boy in a hazmat suit, and the towns librarians, Leeva sets off to discover her own answer--setting off a chain of events that will change Nutsmore forever. From an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: In this novel authorized by Little House Heritage Trust, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before--Caroline Ingalls, "Ma" in Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books. In the frigid days of February, 1870,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Miller 2017Allen, Sarah Addison
Summary: "Down a narrow alley in the small coastal town of Mallow Island, South Carolina, lies a stunning cobblestone building comprised of five apartments. It's called The Dellawisp and it is named after the tiny turquoise birds who inhabit the building, alongside the human tenants, and imbue it with an air of magical secrecy. When Zoey Hennessey comes to claim her deceased mother's apartment at The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALLCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction AllenPerrotta, Tom
Summary: Eve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve is struggling to adjust to her empty nest when one night her phone lights up with a text message. Sent from an anonymous number, the mysterious sender tells Eve, "U R my MILF!" Over the months that follow, that message comes to obsess Eve. While leading her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017