English, Talley
Summary: A novel about a girl on the cusp of her teenage years, who is growing up faster than she ever hoped she would. When Teagan's father abruptly abandons his family and his farm, Teagan finds herself wading through the wreckage of what was once an idyllic life, searching for something--or someone--to hold on to. What she finds is Ian, short for Obsidian: the magnificent but dangerously headstrong...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGKinsella, Sophie
Summary: "It's been over two years since Effie's beloved parents got divorced, destroying the image of the happy, loving childhood she thought she had. Since then, she's become estranged from her father and embarked on a feud with his hot (and much younger) girlfriend, Krista. And now, more earth-shattering news: Greenoaks, the rambling Victorian country house Effie called home her whole life, has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: Emma Harte rises from impoverished, pregnant servant to the heights of wealth and power as she parlays a small shop into the world's finest department store, outwitting her enemies, seeking revenge on her betrayers, and realizing her greatest dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAMcKinnon, Hannah Roberts
Summary: "Wendell Combs is as local as they come. Born and raised in the small town of Saybrook, Connecticut, his venture into the larger world was met with heartbreak. Now, middle-aged and a confirmed bachelor, he seeks solitude from his tour of duty as a soldier back in his hometown, working as head caretaker for wealthy Alan Lancaster's forty-acre estate, White Pines, a place he has come to love for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCKThayer, Nancy
Summary: A woman's second act on the beautiful island of Nantucket delivers much more than she expected in this hopeful novel by New York Times best selling author Nancy Thayer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC THAThayer, Nancy
Summary: "While placing the finishing touches on her summer nuptials, Alison is anxious to introduce her fiancé, David, to her grown daughters, hoping to give the siblings a chance to reconnect and to get to know David's grown children. Revelations, intrigue, and resentments will make this a wedding to remember"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC THAKinsella, Sophie
Summary: "It's been over two years since Effie's beloved parents got divorced, destroying the image of the happy, loving childhood she thought she had. Since then, she's become estranged from her father and embarked on a feud with his hot (and much younger) girlfriend, Krista. And now, more earth-shattering news: Greenoaks, the rambling Victorian country house Effie called home her whole life, has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINWillett, Marcia
Summary: When Mattie invites her old friend Tim to stay in one of her family cottages on the edge of Dartmoor, she senses he is holding on to a painful secret. But as he gets to know the rest of the warm jumble of family by the moor, Tim discovers that everyone there has their own secrets. There is Charlotte, a young navy wife struggling to bring up her son while her husband is at sea; William, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: It's been over two years since Effie's beloved parents got divorced, destroying the image of the happy, loving childhood she thought she had. Since then, she's become estranged from her father and embarked on a feud with his hot (and much younger) girlfriend, Krista. And now, more earth-shattering news: Greenoaks, the rambling Victorian country house Effie called home her whole life, has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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Summary: One phone call is all it takes to lure Mallory Aldiss back to her family's Rhode Island beach home. It's been twenty years since she's been gone, running from the scandal that destroyed her parents' marriage, drove her and her two sisters apart, and crushed her relationship with the love of her life, Jack Sabathian. Twenty years during which she lived in New York, building her career as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: In this gripping tale of self-discovery, Victoria Benton Frank introduces us to Maggie, a South Carolina transplant in New York City struggling to find her place in the world. When she receives a phone call from her troubled sister, Violet, Maggie must return to her hometown of Sullivan's Island, where she uncovers shocking secrets about her family's past. Upon her arrival, Maggie is confronted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: It's been nearly six years since Julia Jones had her heart broken. After her husband became involved with another woman, she did everything she could to save their marriage, to no avail. Their two daughters continue to stand by Julia in the wake of their father's behavior, and they've had a tough time getting along with the 'other woman' who became their stepmother. Distraught after selling the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MACMcQuestion, Karen
Summary: "Joe Arneson's ordinary life is upended by troubling dreams of himself as a different man in another place and time. It isn't until he visits his estranged grandmother, Pearl, in her Wisconsin hometown that a startling connection emerges. Drawn into his family's past, Joe discovers secrets weighing on the old woman's soul: the tragic death of her sister Alice a half century ago and its ripple...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCQMoyes, Jojo
Summary: In the wake of an accident that leaves her back at home and in a support group, Louisa meets paramedic Sam Fielding, a man who might finally understand her, but she is forced to change her plans when someone from her past reappears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOYSteel, Danielle
Summary: Spencer Brooke always knew she was destined to be CEO of her grandfather's business-the most respected and luxurious department store in New York City. Brooke's has been at the center of every happy memory she has, but it hasn't been an easy journey. Seven years after her father's death, her life is very different from the days when she walked through the store with her grandfather as a young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEWilliams, Ian
Summary: "Felicia, a nineteen-year-old student from a Caribbean family, and Edgar, the lazy-minded and impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet by chance when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. After the death of Felicia's mother and the recovery of Edgar's, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as caregiver to Edgar's mother. The odd-couple relationship between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILDelinsky, Barbara
Summary: One phone call is all it takes to lure Mallory Aldiss back to her family's Rhode Island beach home. It's been twenty years since she's been gone, running from the scandal that destroyed her parents' marriage, drove her and her two sisters apart, and crushed her relationship with the love of her life, Jack Sabathian. Twenty years during which she lived in New York, building her career as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DELRichell, Hannah
Summary: Two summers, decades apart. Two women whose lives are forever entwined. And a house that holds the secrets that could free them both. At twenty-six, Lillian feels ancient and exhausted. Her marriage to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she thought it would. To her it seems she is just another beautiful object captured within the walls of Cloudesley, her husband's Chilterns manor house....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Richell 2018Steel, Danielle
Summary: After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family's haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice and care for her younger siblings: Allegra, who survived the tragedy that killed their parents with scars and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEYagisawa, Satoshi
Summary: Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence, until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man she expected to wed, casually announces he's been cheating on her and is marrying the other woman. Suddenly, Takako's life is in freefall. She loses her job, her friends, and her acquaintances, and spirals into a deep depression. In the depths of her despair, she receives a call...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAGKrivak, Andrew
Summary: Rooted in the small, mountain town of Dardan, Pennsylvania, where patriarch Jozef Vinich settled after surviving World War I, Like the Appearance of Horses immerses us in the intimate lives of a family whose fierce bonds have been shaped by the great conflicts of the past century. After Bexhet Konar escapes fascist Hungary and crosses the ocean to find Jozef, the man who saved his life in 1919,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRICao, Xueqin
Summary: Beloved by generations of Chinese readers, The Dream of the Red Chamber is China's touching equivalent of the Romeo & Juliet story. In addition to being a tale of star-crossed lovers, this epic novel also follows the story of five generations of one Chinese family giving modern readers a multi-layered dramatic plot to get lost in at the same time as it offers up key insights into Chinese culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Pub. 2010