Finkbeiner, Susie
Summary: "Pearl Spence has been through more in her young life than most folks could handle. But through it all, her family has been by her side. They may not be perfect, but they love her and they all love each other, come what may. That's one thing Pearl no longer questions. But the end of her beautiful day signals the beginning of the end of her secure life. Now her family is fleeing their Oklahoma...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kregel Publications 2017
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Summary: It's 1957 and Lewis Aldridge is traveling back to his home in the South of England. He is straight out of jail and nineteen years old. His return will trigger the implosion not just of his family, but of a whole community. A decade earlier, his father's homecoming casts a different shape. The war is over and Gilbert reverts easily to suburban life--cocktails at six-thirty, church on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONCrusie, Jennifer.
Summary: North Archer, Andie Miller's ex-husband, asks her to become the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already--and live in a haunted house! What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting parapsychologist, an annoyed medium, her Tarot-card reading mother, an avenging ex-mother-in-law, and, of course, her jealous fiancé. And just when Andie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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Summary: A captivating coming of age story told by Amy and Lan, two children whose journey from innocence to moving experience is shaped by their families' attempt at the pastoral dream on a farm, deep in the English countryside. Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood ever. They live on a 78-acre farm in the South West of England, with sisters and brothers, other kids, chickens, goats,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Andie Miller is ready to move on with her life. She wants to marry her fiance and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband, North Archer. But when Andie tries to gain closure with him, he asks one final favor of her. A distant cousin has died and left North the guardian of two orphans who have driven away three nannies already, and things are getting worse. When Andie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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Summary: In a novel that incorporates elements of Hindu mythology, an apartment building becomes a metaphor for the divisions and cultural clashes of modern India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SURHoward, Rosie
Summary: Maddy fled the idyllic market town of Havenbury Magna three years ago, the scene of a traumatic incident she revisits most clearly in her dreams. Even so, when she is called back to help at the Havenbury Arms when her godfather Patrick suffers a heart attack, she is unprepared for the welter of emotions her return provokes. Psychologist and ex-army officer Ben is sure he can help Maddy to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allison & Busby 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWWalsh, Rosie
Summary: An idyllic romance between Sarah and her boyfriend, Eddie, is shattered when Eddie abruptly disappears, prompting Sarah to ignore her friends' advice and investigate what really happened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Walsh 2019Harris, Rosie
Summary: "Now in her seventies and widowed for the past three years, Mary Wilson never expected to find love again. But when a kindly stranger helps her home with her shopping and she invites him in for a cup of tea, it marks the start of a slow-burning friendship. Mary's affection for Bill grows steadily, despite his failing health and repeated attempts to interfere by her scheming daughter-in-law. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishing 2018
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Summary: Over three decades of writing, bestselling novelist Rosie Thomas has earned an untold number of awards and glowing critical praise. Her latest novel, Constance, is a powerful story of a woman's anguished reckoning with her past. Far away from her home in England--and a heartbreak she can never truly escape--Connie has carved out a new life for herself in Bali--an idyllic place of perfect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2013
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Summary: In 1941, newlywed Nerys Watkins accompanies her husband to a missionary posting in the exotic lakeside city of Srinagar, where she is swept up in a liaison that completely changes her life, a transformation that is explored by a descendant generations later.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOLewis-Barned, Suzi
Summary: "Grandpa Forgets is a beautifully simple story that explores the life of a grandparent living with dementia from a child's perspective. It's a story of love and hope that gently highlights what's really important in this unique relationship" -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Windmill Books 2023
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Summary: Before the storm, thirteen-year-old Quinn was happy flying under the radar. She was average. After the storm, Quinn can't seem to go back to unremarkable. But her friends weren't changed by the tornado. To them, the storm left behind a playground of abandoned houses and distracted adults. As Quinn struggles to find stability in the tornado's aftermath, she must choose: between homes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC DUBVerghese, A. (Abraham)
Summary: Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between an Indian nun and a British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, they are bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine. Marion flees his homeland fresh out of medical school when he and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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Summary: "A successful artist with a doting husband, Isabel Dryland knows she should be grateful for her happy life. It's a complete reversal from the one she led before, when normalcy seemed out of reach, after a violent assault she cannot remember left her shattered and scarred. Even though the memory was lost, the nagging feeling that she was damaged goods and the lingering effects of her injuries...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scarlet 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMCannon, Julie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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Summary: " When two estranged sisters reunite for their parents' 50th anniversary, a family tragedy brings unexpected lessons of hope and healing amid the flowers of their mother's perennial garden. Eva--known to all as Lovey--grew up in Oxford, MS, surrounded by literary history and her mother's stunning perennial gardens. But a garden shed fire and the burns suffered by one of her best friends seemed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CANOtsuka, Julie
Summary: Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any previously written--a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTSLangsdorf, Julie
Summary: A turf war between neighbors leads to a small-town crisis in this hilarious, addictive, and sharply observant debut novel. The White Elephant looms large over the quaint suburban town of Willard Park: a gaudy, newly constructed behemoth of a home, it soars over the neighborhood, dwarfing the houses that surround it. When owner Nick Cox cuts down Allison and Ted Millers' precious red maple--in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANConley, Susan
Summary: When Elsey's husband, Lukas, hands her a brochure for a weeklong mountain retreat, he is really giving her an ultimatum: Go, or we're done. Once a successful painter, Elsey set down roots in China after falling for Lukas, the tall, Danish MC at a warehouse rave in downtown Beijing. Now, with two young daughters and unable to find a balance between her identities as painter, mother, and wife,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Conley 2018Conley, Susan
Summary: "From acclaimed author Susan Conley, a novel that gives us a luminous emotional portrait of a young woman living abroad in Paris in the 1980s and trying to make sense of the chaotic world around her as she learns the true meaning of family. When Willie Pears agrees to teach at a Parisian center for immigrant girls who have requested French asylum, she has no idea it will utterly change her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Conley 2013Fletcher, Susan
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2004