Harper, Rachel M.
Summary: Raised by a single mother in Miami, Florida, Jenry Castillo, newly arrived at Brown University on a music scholarship, finds himself searching for information about his late father Jasper Patterson, an internationally recognized principal ballet dancer who died tragically when Jenry was two. Jenry thinks his estranged grandfather, Winston Patterson, a professor of African American history at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarper, Rachel M.
Summary: "This tender novel tells a universal story of struggle, loss, and ultimately, survival. Arcelia Perez left Puerto Rico for the American dream, but within a few years she's living on the tough side of Providence, Rhode Island with three children, no job, and a powerful heroin addiction. Through rotating narration, we meet a diverse cast of characters-most notably Arcelia's charming, street-savvy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prospect Park Books 2016
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Summary: "Meredith thought she'd done it all right - married the perfect man, had the perfect daughter - but as she grows increasingly restless, she can't help but wonder if she got the love part wrong. Josie has been happily single for years, but she wants a child of her own so much she's one bad Match.com date away from heading straight for the baby carriage all on her own. The sisters, whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: "Meredith thought she'd done it all right - married the perfect man, had the perfect daughter - but as she grows increasingly restless, she can't help but wonder if she got the love part wrong. Josie has been happily single for years, but she wants a child of her own so much she's one bad Match.com date away from heading straight for the baby carriage all on her own. The sisters, whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GIFRichell, Hannah
Summary: Two summers, decades apart. Two women whose lives are forever entwined. And a house that holds the secrets that could free them both. At twenty-six, Lillian feels ancient and exhausted. Her marriage to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she thought it would. To her it seems she is just another beautiful object captured within the walls of Cloudesley, her husband's Chilterns manor house....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Richell 2018Giffin, Emily
Summary: "In the new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of First Comes Love and Something Borrowed, a woman is forced to choose between her family and her most deeply held values. Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville's elite. Her husband's tech business is booming, and her adored son, Finch, is bound for Princeton. Tom Volpe is a single dad working...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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Summary: Growing up, Josie and Meredith Garland shared a loving, if sometimes contentious, relationship. Josie was impulsive, spirited, and outgoing; Meredith hardworking, thoughtful, and reserved. When tragedy strikes, their delicate bond splinters. Fifteen years later, Josie and Meredith are in their late thirties, following very different paths. Josie, a first grade teacher, is single -- and this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2016
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Summary: Is there ever a deal-breaker when it comes to true love? What happens to the perfect couple when they suddenly want different things? First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes--a baby carriage. Isn't that what all women want? Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIFBache, Ellyn.
Summary: Paisley Lamm's terminal cancer helps her and her four friends suddenly appreciate their memorable life experiences, their own families and their lifestyles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2011
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Summary: Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville's elite. Her husband's tech business is booming and her son is bound for Princeton. Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs. His daughter, Lyla, recently earned a scholarship to attend Windsor Academy, Nashville's most prestigious private school. Then one devastating photo snapped at a drunken moment at a party changes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GIFGriffin, Anne
Summary: "From Anne Griffin, the bestselling author of When All is Said, comes Listening Still, a refreshing new novel about a young woman who can hear the dead--a talent which is both a gift and a curse. Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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Summary: Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy about censoring some of the dead's last messages to the living. Unsure, too, about the choice she made when she left school seventeen years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2022
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Summary: "Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy about censoring some of the dead's last messages to the living. Unsure, too, about the choice she made when she left school seventeen years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Griffin 2022Griffin, Anne
Summary: If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each of them, what would you say? And what would you learn about yourself, when all is said? At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. He's alone, as usual, though tonight is anything but. Pull up a stool and charge your glass, because Maurice is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRIStone, Michel
Summary: "For Hector and Lilia, pursuit of the American Dream became every parent's worst fear: their infant daughter vanished in the midst of their border crossing from Mexico to the United States. With great empathy and a keen awareness of current events, Michel Stone delivers a novel of surpassing sensitivity and heart. Years ago, young lovers H©♭ctor and Lilia dreamed of a brighter future for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday 2017
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Summary: ""Incredibly poignant . . . Rachel Khong's first novel sneaks up on you -- just like life . . . and heartbreak. And love."--Miranda July A few days after Christmas in a small suburb outside of L.A., pairs of a man's pants hang from the trees. The pants belong to Howard Young, a prominent history professor, recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Howard's wife, Annie, summons their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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Summary: "An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family, and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: "A domestic thriller about a nanny whose new job working for a picture-perfect family is not everything it seems"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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Summary: Lily Sterne's life is torn apart when her daughter is burned in a cooking accident, but when the police try and take her children away from her, she knows she will have to go to any length to prove she is innocent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1998
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Summary: "Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to "America's Playground" and move into the apartment above their bakery. The apartment is where they raised their two daughters, Fannie and Florence, and, despite the cramped quarters, it still feels like home. Now Florence has returned from college, determined to spend the summer training...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BEAHoward, Rachel
Summary: What is the cost of motherhood? When The Risk of Us opens, we meet a forty-something woman who deeply wants to become a mother. The path that opens up to her and her husband takes them through the foster care system, with the goal of adoption. And when seven-year-old Maresa comes into their lives, with her inch-deep dimples and a voice that can beam to the moon, their hearts fill with love. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster, and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only child of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Growing up in a Glasgow community haunted by Ireland's Troubles and religious divides, young Stevie finds his precarious family stability and sense of self threatened by his father's marching band's loyalist paramilitary ties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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Summary: Michaela is a junior in high school, close with her single mom. Her dad lives a few towns away and pops in and out of her life only on holidays and birthdays. They barely know each other beyond surface obligations. That is, until her mom dies. Suddenly on her own, Michaela has to move in with her Dad . . . and learns he's been married with kids all this time, and she was the product of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2022