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Kelly, Mary Pat.

Summary: "In the bestselling tradition of Frank Delaney, Colleen McCullough, and Maeve Binchy comes a poignant historical family saga set against Ireland's Great Starvation and the building of Chicago."--Provided by the publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009

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Wingate, Marty

Summary: England, 1957. Olive Kersey's only love never returned from World War II, and now she's alone and penniless. Then the last person she ever expected to see again returns to Southwold. Olive's childhood friend, Margery Paxton, arrives to claim her inheritance: Mersea House, a stately old home she plans to turn into the town's only lodging. Olive's life takes a sunny turn when Margery hires her to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIN

Mirren, Lilly

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Summary: "Set against the backdrop of the golden sands and crystal clear waters of Cabarita Beach, three sisters inherit an inn and discover a mystery about their grandmother's past that changes everything they thought they knew of their family... Bindi Summer, the hard-working manager at The Waratah Inn is tired, feeling low, and wondering where her life is headed. Then, she is blind-sided by a shock...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Lab Press 2020

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Kelby, N. M. (Nicole M.)

Summary: White truffles in winter imagines the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935), who changed how we eat through his legendary restaurants at the Savoy and the Ritz. A man of contradictions, kind yet imperious, food-obsessed yet rarely hungry, Escoffier was also torn between two women: the famous, beautiful, and reckless actress Sarah Bernhardt and his wife, the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KEL

Kelly, Julia

Summary: "Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous Jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEL

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEL

Rimmer, Kelly

Summary: Since age nine, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now engaged, she waits for his return from college in Warsaw so they can marry. But when the Nazi occupation takes hold, he disappears.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RIM

Yang, Belle.

Summary: Baba is "Papa" in Chinese, and this particular Baba is Joseph Yang, born in Manchuria in 1928. His daughter, Belle, a writer and visual artist who was born in Taiwan but whose "spiritual address is so much in the West," set out to paint and to write - and thereby to preserve for posterity - Baba's memories of his coming-of-age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. The result is the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1994

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAN

Monroe, Mary

Summary: Popular, generous, forty-something widow Jessie Tucker decides to make herself indispensable to recently widowed Hubert Wiggins but is disappointed when he is not everything she dreamed he would be and instead turns her attentions to a much younger man.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MON

Monroe, Mary

Summary: "The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew her only way out was to marry someone upstanding and church-going. Someone like Hubert Wiggins, the most eligible man in Lexington, Alabama--and the son of its most revered preacher. Proper and prosperous, Hubert is glad to finally have a wife, even one with Maggie's background. For Hubert has a secret he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MON

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MON

Alcott, Louisa May

Summary: Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALC

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION Alc

Alcott, 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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Carr, Philippa

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1989

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

Morris, Mary McGarry.

Summary: Abandoned by his beautiful wife, Irene, Henry and their two young children, Thomas and Margaret, spend that summer in a tent on the edge of Black Pond. Henry, an itinerant butcher, struggles to provide for them, but often must leave them alone as he travels the county in search of work. And while Henry loves his children deeply, he is devastated by their mother's desertion. He has not told them...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Barry, Sebastian

Summary: Roseanne McNulty, once one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland, is now an elderly patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital. As her hundredth year draws near, she decides to record the events of her life, hiding the manuscript beneath the floorboards. Meanwhile, the hospital is preparing to close and is evaluating its patients to determine whether they can...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2008

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BAR

Barry, Sebastian

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAR

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