Baker, Ellen
Summary: Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BakerBaker, Jo.
Summary: A novel whose principal characters are the servants in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Baker 2013Baker, Nicholson.
Summary: A box of matches is the record of an untumultuous month in the life of Emmett, a forty-five-year-old editor of medical textbooks. Emmett has a wife and children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match, and thinks. What Emmett thinks about is the subject of this wise and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAKBaker, Tiffany.
Summary: A tragic bus accident has devastating repercussions for two families from opposite sides of the tracks of a tiny New England paper milling town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Baker 2014Baker, Ellen
Summary: Decades after the women in her family and their friend are shattered by the losses of two beloved men during World War II, Julia is approached by her long-lost great-grandmother and untangles a dark secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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Summary: In the aftermath of the collapse of Weiss & Partners investment bank, CEO Bob D'Amico's daughter Madison, her mother, her best friend, her nanny, and a family friend begin to question their shifting roles in the insular, moneyed world of Greenwich, Connecticut. All these women have witnessed more than they've disclosed, all harbor secret insecurities and fears, and all must ask themselves:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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Summary: "A novel about four generations of a British family--their secrets, their loves and losses, dreams and heartbreaks--captured in a series of individual moments that span the years from World War I, to World War II, to the 1960s, and up to the present"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAKBaker, Chandler
Summary: "From Chandler Baker, the New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network comes The Husbands, a novel that asks: to what lengths will a woman go for a little more help from her husband? Nora Spangler is a successful attorney but when it comes to domestic life, she packs the lunches, schedules the doctor appointments, knows where the extra paper towel rolls are, and designs and orders the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAKBaker, David
Summary: Food journalist, wine connoisseur, and onetime bestselling writer Bruno Tannenbaum has long believed that good ingredients, an open heart, a dash of tenacity and a pinch of courage are the elements of a full life. But lately, Bruno's career is floundering, he's separated from his wife and daughters, and is drinking his way through a dwindling bank account. When he stumbles on a clue leading to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2015
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Summary: It was an accident. It was dark, it was raining, Alison had only had two drinks. And the other car ran the stop sign. But Alison finds herself trapped under the crushing weight of grief and guilt, feeling increasingly estranged from her husband Charlies, who has his own burdens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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Summary: "Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2020
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Summary: Castellamare is an island far enough away from the mainland to be forgotten, but not far enough to escape from the world’s troubles. At the center of the island’s life is a café draped with bougainvillea called the House at the Edge of Night, where over generations the community gathers to gossip and talk. Amedeo Esposito, a foundling from Florence, finds his destiny on the island with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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Summary: Dark themes of colonial misconduct, racial prejudice, and doomed love resonate throughout this novel, yet it is infused with characteristic humor and warmth. It opens in Malaysia during the 1950s Communist insurrection when a young Englishman, Christopher, falls in love with a Chinese girl. The book then moves to 1969 where Frances, Christopher's Eurasian teenage daughter, is seduced by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Swan 2009