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Summary: When a Category 5 tornado ravaged Mercy, Oklahoma, no family in the small town lost more than the McClouds. Their home and farm were instantly demolished, and orphaned siblings Darlene, Jane, and Cora made media headlines. This relentless national attention and the tornado's aftermath caused great tension with their brother, Tucker, who soon abandoned his sisters and disappeared. On the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GENBishop, Jenn
Summary: "Nothing is going right this summer for Drew. And after losing his dad unexpectedly three years ago, Drew knows a lot about things not going right. First, it's the new girl Audrey taking over everything at the library, Drew's sacred space. Then it's his best friend, Filipe, pulling away from him. But most upsetting has to be the mysterious man who is suddenly staying with Drew's family. An old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC BISDennis-Benn, Nicole
Summary: Receiving her long-coveted visa to America, Patsy leaves behind her family in Jamaica, only to discover that life as an undocumented immigrant is not what her best friend had described.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DENGeye, Peter
Summary: "The dream of ski jumping haunts Jon Bargaard as his tale unfolds. As thrilling as those soaring flights, as precarious as his family's complicated love, as tender as Jon's backward gaze while disease takes him inexorably forward, Peter Geye's gorgeous prose brings Jon and his brother to the ultimate choice: each other, or the secrets they've held tightly for so long"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEYGeye, Peter.
Summary: In the wilds of early-twentieth-century Duluth, Minnesota, the orphan son of a immigrant woman tries to build a life for himself and the woman he loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Unbridled Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEYGunn, Robin Jones
Summary: "After her mom passed away, Jennalyn was in the midst of moving, adjusting to life with a new baby, and helping her husband, Joel, work toward his dream job. At the time, she thought she'd processed her mother's death, but only now that Jennalyn has two small children, a lovely new home, and a husband who is always working does she feel the full impact of what she has lost. Even among her sweet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GUNDann, Patty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ticknor & Fields 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANFeng, Linda Rui
Summary: "In the summer of 1986 in a small Chinese village, ten-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter from her parents, who had left for America years ago: her father promises to return home and collect her by her twelfth birthday. What Junie doesn't know is that her parents, Momo and Cassia, are newly estranged from one another in their adopted country. In order for Momo to fulfill his promise, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FENDunn, Katherine
Summary: Aloysious and Lillian Binewski, proprietors of a traveling carnival, attempt to reduce overhead by breeding their own freak show, with tragic results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2002
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Summary: "Every Kind of Wanting explores the complex intersection of three unique families and their bustling efforts to have a "Community Baby." Miguel could not be more different from his partner Chad, a happy-go-lucky real estate mogul from Chicago's wealthy North Shore. When Chad's sister, Gretchen offers the couple an egg, their search for a surrogate leads them to Miguel's old friend Emily,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAWilkinson, Gina
Summary: At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the mukhabarat--the secret police who watch and listen for any scrap of information that can be used against America and its allies. They have ordered her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print. 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WILDunn, Sarah
Summary: A progressive New York couple with an autistic son move to a bucolic Hudson Valley exurb and immerse themselves in the local community only to have their bond tested by an invitation to become an open-marriage couple.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNBunn, T. Davis
Summary: Line producer Danny Byrd is well-known in Hollywood for being someone who gets things done on time and under budget. But when his reputation takes a beating after his partner-- and former best friend-- makes off with their investors' money, Danny has but one chance to redeem himself and restore his ruined career. LA lawyer Megan Pierce sacrificed years proving herself to bosses only to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUNMichaels, Fern.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. Corp. 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MICMichaels, Fern.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICMichaels, Fern.
Summary: Darby Lane and Russell Gunn had been inseparable friends from their early years in the Horseshoe, their wonderful Baton Rouge neighborhood, all the way through to graduate school dreams and beyond. Then the unthinkable happens - a tragic accident takes Russ's life, and Darby's world is shattered. Her long journey to healing takes hold as Darby begins to see Russ's brother Ben through new eyes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Michaels 2006Michaels, Fern.
Summary: Struggling to recover her long-buried memories of a childhood tragedy, Cody Jordan searches for fulfillment and self-identity in the face of adversity, acrimonious relationships, and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICMichaels, Fern.
Summary: Set in 1980 Las Vegas, this steamy, suspenseful romance centers on Fanny, married to Simon, whose first husband was Simon's brother, Ash. Now Simon's paranoia about his casino and Ash's illness cause Fanny and her children to become estranged.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 1997
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MICMichaels, Fern
Summary: "The flames of memory always seem to glow a little brighter during the holidays. Perhaps that's why this time of year is so difficult for airline heiress Ivy Macintosh, as she faces thoughts of yet another festive season alone. Since the plane crash that claimed the lives of her husband and two children eight years ago, she's been submerged in grief. When eleven-year-old Holly Greenwood knocks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Michaels 2017Michaels, Fern.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MICMichaels, Fern.
Summary: The return of Nealy Coleman to SunStar, the home she fled thirty years earlier with her illegitimate child Emmie, has serious repercussions for Nealy's brothers Pyne and Rhy, as well as all the other Thorntons and Colemans associated with the thoroughbred horse farm, including Nealy herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICMichaels, Fern.
Summary: This is a spirited, touching tale of three dynamic siblings who will do anything to bring their grandmother home for Christmas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MICMichaels, Fern.
Summary: At seventeen, Rosalind Townsend finds herself pregnant and alone. Her father, deeply religious yet cruel, throws her out of the house. Nick Pemberton, her baby's father and the man she naively hoped to marry, rejects her. Yet even at the lowest point in her life, Rosalind vows to succeed on her own terms, and to give her son, Will, all the love and happiness she's been denied.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MICMichaels, Fern.
Summary: A Texas woman escapes her dirt poor beginnings to become a powerful Las Vegas businesswomen and to found a family dynasty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 1997