Steel, Danielle
Summary: "Paige Watts is the ultimate stage mother. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Paige channels her own acting dreams into making her daughter, Emma, a star. By the age of nine, Emma is playing a central role in a hit TV show. Then everything is shattered by unforeseeable tragedy. Now Emma is living with her aunt Whitney, who had chosen a very different path than her sister. Whitney was always the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEShipman, Viola
Summary: To gain viewers as a local meteorologist, Sonny throws herself into all the holiday shenanigans hosted by a widowed father and Chamber director whose genuine love for the town, winter, and Sonny may just thaw her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Shipman 2021Fowler, Therese
Summary: "A gripping contemporary novel that examines the American dream through the lens of two families living side by side in an idyllic neighborhood, and the one summer that changes their lives irrevocably"-- Oak Knoll, a tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood. Professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who is headed to college in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Fowler 2020Levine, Jessica
Summary: "When Anna, now living in California, is contacted by the Italian lover she knew decades before, she recalls their affair and the child she gave up for adoption. As the episode returns to haunt her--threatening the life she's built, including her marriage--the story moves back in time to her youth in Europe. Rome, 1979. Anna, twenty-two and living abroad, is involved with a man already engaged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVShortall, Eithne
Summary: "The Husband's Secret meets Big Little Lies in this story of three women looking for a fresh start, and the love affairs, rivalries, and scandals found on the other side of the white picket fence."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: "The March sisters have grown from little women to young adults. Now that the Civil War has ended, Meg is getting married, Beth still struggles to regain her health, and Jo and Amy are pursing their dreams, encountering love and heartbreak along the way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALCMacomber, Debbie
Summary: Joan Sample is not living the life she thought she would. Now a widow and an empty nester, Joan is content being something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to get back out into the world. With her encouragement, Joan makes big strides, taking care of her overgrown lawn, making new friends through a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC MACJohnson, Sadeqa
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising her daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed onto her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrived in Washington, DC with ambition and secrets. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHJacobs, Liska
Summary: A trip to Italy reignites a woman's desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACRoberts, Sheila
Summary: "Bonnie Brinks and her all-woman band, The Mermaids, are the pride of Moonlight Harbor. They're the house band at The Drunken Sailor, and that's just the right amount of fame for Bonnie. A lifetime ago, she went to Nashville to make it big, but she returned home with a broken heart and broken dreams. Now she's got a comfortable life and a brilliant daughter, Avril, who plays for The Mermaids...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBMatthews, Carole
Summary: "Molly Baker is living her best life. Thirty-eight years old, she lives on the twenty-five-acre Hope Farm in Buckinghamshire, surrounded by (mostly) four-legged friends and rolling hills. There's Anthony the anti-social sheep, Tina Turner the alpaca with attitude, and the definitely-not-miniature pig, Teacup. Molly runs the farm as an alternative school for kids who haven't thrived in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATCarr, Robyn.
Summary: For the Hempsteads, two sisters who married two brothers and had three daughters each, summers were idyllic. The women would escape the city the moment school was out to gather at the family house on Lake Waseka. The lake was a magical place, a haven where they were happy and carefree. All of their problems drifted away as the days passed in sun-dappled contentment. Until the summer that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CARMacomber, Debbie
Summary: Joan Sample is not living the life she expected. Now a widow and an empty-nester, she has become by her own admission something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to reengage with the world. With her support, Joan gathers the courage to take some long-awaited steps: hiring someone to tame her...
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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 MACCao, 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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAOGreen, Jane
Summary: "Evvie, Maggie, and Topher have known each other since college. Their friendship was something they swore would last forever. Now years have passed, the friends have drifted apart, and none of them ever found the lives they wanted - the lives they dreamed of when they were young and everything seemed possible. Evvie starved herself to become a supermodel but derailed her career by sleeping with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction GreNyhan, Loretta
Summary: Paige Moresco found her true love in eighth grade and lost him two years ago. Since Jesse's death, she's been sleepwalking through life, barely holding on for the sake of her teenage son, Trey. As Paige stares at her neglected lawn, she knows she's hit rock bottom. So she does something entirely unexpected: she begins to dig. As the hole gets bigger, Paige decides to turn her entire yard into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Nyhan 2018Novak, Brenda
Summary: When Serenity Alston discovers she has two half sisters through 23andMe, everything about her loving family is drawn into question. Meeting these newfound sisters might be the only way to get answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC NOVSteel, Danielle
Summary: Now on her own, Maggie decides to face her fears, setting off on a whirlwind trip from San Francisco to Monaco. But a chance encounter reconnects her with a thrill-seeking man she's tried to forget.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Steel 2021Badani, Sejal
Summary: Nothing prepares Jaya, A New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi -- her grandmother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Badani 2018Steel, 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 STEGreen, Jane
Summary: Eight years ago, Emma Montague left behind the strict confines, and rather dull boyfriend, of her upper-crust English life and moved to New York City, where she immediately found success in finance. But her soulless, cutthroat, all-consuming job was another life she didn't want. Answering an ad on Craigslist, Emma finds a tiny beach cottage in the small town of Westport, Connecticut. It needs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREWeiner, Jennifer
Summary: When Veronica Levy bought her home on the Outer Cape, she imagined generations of her family gathering there each summer for many years to come, but things didn't work out that way. Forty years later, Ronnie's husband is gone. Her son, Sam, is in California, and rarely makes the trip back home. Her daughter, Sarah, packs her kids' summers full of enriching, educational, resume-building...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WEIHoover, Colleen
Summary: After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter's life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself. The only person who hasn't closed the door on her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC HOOHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Hollis Shaw's life seems picture-perfect. She's the star of the popular food blog, Hungry with Hollis, and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, Matthew leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis's perfect life--her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023