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Alvarez, Julia Kyles, Cedric Meyler, Deborah. Towler, Katherine Tyler, Anne Tyler, Anne. Tyree, Omar.Alvarez, Julia
Summary: "A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Alvarez 2020Alvarez, Julia
Summary: A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALVTyler, Anne
Summary: "The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TYLTyler, Anne.
Summary: A lovable loser tries to get his life in order. He is Barnaby Gaitlin, 30, the black sheep of a rich Baltimore family, ex-juvenile delinquent who specialized in housebreaking for kicks. He works for Rent-a-Back, moving furniture for old people, and dreams of having a future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TYLKyles, Cedric
Summary: "Cedric The Entertainer's debut novel Flipping Boxcars is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities during the Depression and World War II. The story is also an homage to Cedric's grandfather, who in this tale emerges as Babe. He is a charismatic and widely loved man. He is also a gambler, whose gift of gab often gets him out of tricky situations, which is often....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CEDTyler, Anne
Summary: Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2004
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Summary: The story of two people struggling in a marriage that never should have been. As they become the guardians of their grandson, their deep-rooted differences become unbearable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1992
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Summary: Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TYLTyree, Omar.
Summary: Now that the boys are reaching an interesting age, a woman with two illegitimate sons is courted by their fathers. One man is a banker, the other a laborer, but she is not interested as her heart belongs to a truck driver.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TYRTyler, Anne.
Summary: "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their faithful old dog--is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2015
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Summary: The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TYLTyler, Anne
Summary: "The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TYLTyler, Anne
Summary: "From the beloved and best-selling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection. Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tyler 2020Tyler, Anne.
Summary: Marrying quickly during World War II after falling in love at first sight, a mismatched couple discovers that their different personalities and approaches to life are taking a toll on their relationship and their family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TYLTyler, Anne.
Summary: Ben Joe Hawkes comes from a large, cheerful family of women. But when one of his sisters takes her baby and leaves her husband, everything--including his perceptions of the past--changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2000
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Summary: "From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Tyler 2015Meyler, Deborah.
Summary: Mitchell captured Esme's heart with his stunning good looks and a penchant for all things erotic. Life seems truly glorious... but before she has a chance to tell Mitchell about her pregnancy, he suddenly declares their sex life is as exciting as a cup of tea, and ends it all. Esme starts work at a small West Side bookstore, finding solace in George, the laconic owner addicted to spirulina, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MEYTowler, Katherine
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacAdam/Cage Pub. 2002
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Summary: When Willa Drake gets a call telling her that her son's ex-girlfriend has been shot, she drops everything to look after this woman. But the impulsive decision will lead Willa into uncharted territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TYLTyler, Anne
Summary: "The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TYLCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction TylerTyler, Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004