Agee, Jonis
Summary: "The award-winning author of The River Wife returns with a multi-generational family saga, set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sandhills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee--an ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of characters shaped by violence, love, and a desperate loyalty to the land"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Summary: After arriving at the family estate of her husband Clement Ducharme, pregnant bride seventeen-year-old Hedie Rails learns through old diaries of the dark side of the Ducharme legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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Summary: Story of love and passion that evokes the Nebraska sandhills and explores the power of familial and cultural myths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ticknor & Fields 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AGEJonas, Julia May
Summary: "When I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also loved me." And so we are introduced to our deliciously incisive narrator: a popular English professor whose charismatic husband at the same small liberal arts college is under investigation for his inappropriate relationships with his former students. The couple have long had a mutual understanding when it comes to their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONOwens, Janis
Summary: "A compelling, deeply rewarding novel from a unique southern storyteller, American Ghost is Janis Owens' richly woven story about how unresolved family history and the racial tensions of the past threaten a love affair between two young Floridians"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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Summary: "Emily Proudman's life is in chaos. She's just lost her acting agent and her job in one miserable day. Scott Denny has a problem. Even though he's a successful CEO, neither his business acumen nor vast wealth can come close to fixing it. He's at a breaking point. Until he meets Emily. Emily is friendly and agreeable. Emily is desperate. Emily is perfect. Scott offers Emily what seems the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWJakes, John
Summary: From the "New York Times" bestselling author who "makes history come brilliantly alive" ("The Washington Post Book World") comes a novel that spans decades and generations--from the American Revolution through the downfall of the Confederacy--in Jakes's most ambitious work yet.From the "New York Times" bestselling author who "makes history come brilliantly alive" ("The Washington Post Book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKJakes, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKJakes, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Books 1976
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Summary: After her husband leaves her for another woman, Ruby McMillan, dealing with an unpaid mortgage and her failing bakery, decides, for once in her life, to live life without following a recipe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOJones, Sandie
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of the Hello Sunshine Book Club pick The Other Woman, comes a compelling new domestic suspense novel about a family who is forever changed when a stranger arrives at their door. THE TRUTH Sisters Kate and Lauren meet for Sunday lunch every week without fail, especially after the loss of their father. THE LIE But a knock at the door is about to change...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONJones, Sadie
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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONJones, Tayari.
Summary: Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, Silver Sparrow revolves around James Witherspoon's two families-the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Jones 2011Jones, Gayl
Summary: "Set primarily on the island of Ibiza, the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw, whose closest friend, a gifted sculptor named Catherine Shuger, is repeatedly institutionalized for trying to kill a husband who never leaves her. The three form a quirky triangle on the white-washed island"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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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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Summary: Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JONHomes, A. M.
Summary: A novel on a middle-class suburb that produces a school shooting. The protagonists are bored parents, comfortably off and looking for kicks. They find them in violence, drugs, adultery, and in one case burning their house and parking the children with neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rob Weisbach Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLGunn, 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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Summary: "On a routine trip to the Piggly Wiggly in Albany, Georgia, widower Fletcher Dukes smells a familiar perfume, then sees a tall woman the color of papershell pecans with a strawberry birthmark on the nape of her neck. He knows immediately that she is his lost love, Altovise Benson. Their bond, built on county fairs, sit-ins, and marches, once seemed a sure and forever thing. But their marriage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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Summary: "When 73-year-old Emmy Hart asks her to help revitalize Hart's Hollow farm, Kristen accepts, despite her fears about becoming too attached to the family; and then there's Emmy's ruggedly handsome grandson."--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Daily 2019Dailey, Janet
Summary: A desire for absolution brought ex-con Travis Alden to Paradise Peak. But when he finds honest work, along with a keen sense of belonging, he shelves his plan to unburden his guilty secret, instead working to rehabilitate a ranch - alongside the very people his transgressions hurt the most. With the chance to create a haven for wildfire refugees, Travis seizes the opportunity to do good, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2021
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Summary: Laura Calder, a sophisticated young woman of the world, finds her plans to remained unattached thwarted by two men--Boone Rutledge, the son of a Texas billionaire, and Sebastian Dunshill, the Earl of Crawford--who vie for her affection, while an enemy from her past prepares to destroy the Calder name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2004
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Summary: Pursued by two men, each with a hold upon her heart, Laura Calder leaves the nightclubs of Rome and returns to Montana and the Triple C Ranch; nothing in her privileged background has prepared her for the danger she encounters when she is thrown into the path of a man who threatens her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Summary: Jessy Calder finally has everything she's ever longed for, the strong bonds of family, a thriving ranch, and the promise of a child, but when her husband's ex-wife returns, her entire world comes crashing down around her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2002