Roberts, Paige.
Summary: When Amy Kravitz opts to leave Washington, D.C., behind in favor of a less stressful life in the Philadelphia suburbs, she has a certain kind of house in mind. And on a charming street in a family-friendly neighborhood, she and her husband Rob find it. It's a perfect brick colonial with plenty of space, a beautiful yard, and great schools nearby. The sellers, Julian and Grace Durant, are eager...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBGaige, Amity
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAIGaige, Amity
Summary: "Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids - Sybil, age seven, and George, age two - Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GaigeRotert, Rebecca
Summary: "A highly ambitious and stylish literary debut set against the 1960's Chicago jazz scene about a talented but troubled singer's heartbreaking relationship with her precocious ten-year-old daughter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTNaigle, Nancy
Summary: Sydney Ragsdale is looking for a fresh start far away from her controlling ex-husband and the self-doubt that has plagued her since the divorce. Returning to her childhood home in Hopewell, North Carolina is just what her soul needs. Praying some Christmas magic will follow her she moves with her daughter to a farmhouse that once belonged to her grandparents. While there Sydney finds solace...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAIPride, Christine
Summary: "Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event--a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives. Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRILange, Tracey
Summary: When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. But it's not easy. She deserted them all, and her high school sweetheart, five years before with little explanation, and they've got questions. Sunday is determined to rebuild her life back on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LANHaigh, Jennifer
Summary: Unaware of the long-standing grievances harbored by their divorced parents, three adult siblings embark on a tumultuous summer when the oldest, a successful Manhattan doctor, investigates his sister's chromosomal disorder against his mother's wishes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAIMeloy, Maile.
Summary: Continuing the family saga of her first novel, "Liars and Saints," Meloy's second follows Abby Collins from the age of seven, when her feckless mother and sober father separate, to her success as a young novelist. The kernel of the story is a melodrama involving her uncle Jamie, who rescues her first from the boredom of her childhood illness and then, later, from grief after the sudden death of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: Set in California, Liars and saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present, as they navigate a succession of life-altering events -- through the submerged emotion of the fifties, the recklessness and excess of the sixties and seventies, and the reckonings of the eighties and nineties. In a family driven by jealousy and propriety as much as by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELPage, Sally
Summary: Janice is a collector of stories. When she starts cleaning for elderly Mrs. B, she finally meets someone who wants to hear her story. But Janice doesn't have a story, at least not one she can share.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: Unaware of the long-standing grievances harbored by their divorced parents, three adult siblings embark on a tumultuous summer when the oldest, a successful Manhattan doctor, investigates his sister's chromosomal disorder against his mother's wishes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
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Summary: When her older brother Art--a Catholic priest and the popular pastor of a large suburban parish--finds himself at the center of a scandal, Sheila McGann, estranged from her family for years, returns to Boston, ready to fight for him and his reputation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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Summary: A series of interconnected stories portrays the close-knit coal mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, exploring themes of regret, redemption, and acceptance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction HaighMeloy, Maile
Summary: "From a beloved, award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two families go on a tropical vacation--and the children go missing. When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities seem infinite. The children--two eleven-year-olds, an eight-year-old, and a six-year-old--love the nonstop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: A compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2005
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Summary: For the people of Bakerton, and the five children of the Novak family, the years after World War II alter their lives in unforeseen and irrevocable ways. Dorothy is a fragile beauty hooked on romance. Brilliant Joyce, the family's keystone, is bitterly aware of the life she might have had elsewhere. Sandy, the youngest boy, sails through life on looks and charm. George, the veteran, is driven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIRobards, Karen.
Summary: Maggy, having endured twelve years in an abusive marriage to the much older Lyle Forrest for the sake of her son David, finds her defenses crumbling when Nick, her first love and the father of her child, returns to claim her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1994
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Summary: A novel on an unusual household in our day and age, three generations of women living together in Boston. They are a lawyer who owns the house, her ailing mother--the mother had no time for the lawyer before she fell ill--and the lawyer's daughter, unemployed and on drugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PiercyRobertson, Kay
Summary: "The crazy story of one troubled teen who finds the true meaning of Christmas when he spends Christmas with the Robertson family in West Monroe, Louisiana"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2014
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Summary: Three dedicated artists living in a small Cape Cod community watch the seasonal migration of summer people with mixed emotions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIERoberts, Michèle
Summary: 2011: When Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer, she decides to leave her riverside flat in cobbled Stew Lane, where history never feels far away and move to Apricot Place. Yet here too, in this quiet Walworth cul-de-sac, she senses the past encroaching: a shifting in the atmosphere, a current of unseen life. 1851: Joseph Benson has been employed by Henry Mayhew to help research his articles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBRoberts, Nora
Summary: "Nora Roberts, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with Of Blood and Bone, a new tale of terror and magic in a brand new world. They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed. Fallon Swift, approaching her thirteenth birthday, barely knows the world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019