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Kingsolver, Barbara

Summary: How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KIN

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KIN

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KIN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kingsolver 2018

Grainger, Jean

Summary: "Queenstown, County Cork. 1920. For twenty-year-old Harp Deveraux, life should be idyllic. At university, she feels for the first time in her life that she belongs, her mother Rose is running the Cliff House as a successful business, and her childhood sweetheart JohnJoe is by her side, but the storm clouds of war grow ever darker. For eight hundred years Ireland had made numerous bids for her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grainger

Kingsolver, Barbara.

Summary: The story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum, as they navigate the challenges of surviving a world in the throes of major cultural shifts. In this mesmerizing story told in alternating chapters, Willa and Thatcher come to realize that though the future is uncertain, even unnerving, shelter can be found in the bonds of kindred, whether family or friends,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2018

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KIN

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Kin

Grainger, Jean

Summary: "Queenstown, County Cork, Ireland. April 1912. Twelve-year-old Harp Delaney is an unusual child, quiet and intelligent far beyond her years. She would rather spend her days in the library of the grand Georgian house that she sees as her home than playing on the streets with other children. Her mother, Rose, is the reserved and ladylike housekeeper at the Cliff House. The local women envy her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grainger

Kingsolver, Barbara

Summary: How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Riley, Lucinda.

Summary: "The story of Merope, the missing sister, is waiting to be told ... Following Georg Hoffman's revelation that he may have found The Missing Sister, Maia and Ally discover that all they have to go on is an address of a vineyard in New Zealand, plus a drawing of an unusual star-shaped emerald ring. Deciding that CeCe, who lives in Australia, is the closest, they send her to investigate with her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Box Press, an imprint of Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Riley 2020

Hannah, Kristin

8 holds on 5 copies

Summary: Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018

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Hannah, Kristin

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 0000

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Eves, Rosalyn

Summary: Elizabeth Bertelsen dreams of becoming an astronomer, but for her such dreams are as unreachable as the stars she so deeply adores. As a Mormon girl, her duty is to her family and, in a not too far away future, to the man who will choose to marry her. When she unexpectedly finds herself in Colorado, she is tempted by the total eclipse of the sun that is about to happen-- and maybe even meeting...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EVE

Steel, Danielle

Summary: From the glamorous San Francisco social scene of the 1920s, through war and the social changes of the '60s, to the rise of Silicon Valley today, this extraordinary novel takes us on a family odyssey that is both heartbreaking and inspiring, as each generation faces the challenges of their day. The Parisian design houses in 1928, the crash of 1929, the losses of war, the drug culture of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steel 2020

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