Leali, Michael
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Luca Salvatore is always running interference: in arguments between his younger twin siblings, in his parents' troubled marriage, and between Will, the cute new boy in town, and Luca's best friend, June, who just can't seem to get along. When the host of his favorite culinary TV show announces an open call for submissions for its final season, Luca is sure getting his family's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEAEven, Aaron Roy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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Summary: A sinister, sexy noir about art, motherhood, and the intensity of female friendships, set in the posh hills above Los Angeles, from the New York Times bestselling author of California High in the Hollywood Hills, writer Lady Daniels has decided to take a break from her husband. Left alone with her children, she's going to need a hand taking care of her young son if she's ever going to finish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2017
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Summary: "When an English and an Amish family become neighbors in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, their lives are linked in unexpected ways through conflict, then friendship, and finally, love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2015
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Summary: "The passing of time and the distance between Zane and Lila haven't been enough to halt their feelings for each other. But all choices have consequences, and with Lila preparing to marry another, will these one-time sweethearts ever find the life together that they both still long for?" -- back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GOULesley, Craig.
Summary: Danny Kachiah is a Native American fighting not to become a casualty. His father, Red Shirt, is dead, his wife, Loxie, has left him, and his career as a rodeo cowboy is flagging. But when Loxie dies in a car wreck, leaving him with his son, Jack, whom he hardly knows, Danny uses the magnificent stories of Red Shirt to guide him toward true fatherhood. Together, Danny and Jack begin to make a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 1997
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Summary: Fifi Brown is headstrong. Her mother is appalled when she secretly marries Dan Reynolds, a handsome but itinerant bricklayer. But Dan and Fifi move to a seedy South London flat determined to be happy. Despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings, Fifi finds London and the freedom from her middle-class family background exhilerating. Insatiably inquisitive, Fifi is fascinated by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2006
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Summary: The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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Summary: Elizabeth Bertelsen dreams of becoming an astronomer, but for her such dreams are as unreachable as the stars she so deeply adores. As a Mormon girl, her duty is to her family and, in a not too far away future, to the man who will choose to marry her. When she unexpectedly finds herself in Colorado, she is tempted by the total eclipse of the sun that is about to happen-- and maybe even meeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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Summary: "Ursa possesses a very special gift. She can travel through memory and revisit her past. After she flees her hometown for the counterculture glory of 1950s California, the intoxicating potential of her unique ability eventually draws a group of women into her orbit and into a ramshackle Victorian mansion in the woods outside Santa Cruz. But Ursa's powers come with a cost. Soon this cultish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2023
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Summary: While visiting his and his wife's closest friends, John and Sophie, a creative writing professor sleeps with Sophie, but instead of succumbing to his failures as a teacher, writer and husband, he believes a love affair could be the answer to earning everything he needs to be set for life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024
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Summary: Gretchen Lin leaves behind a floundering marriage to return to her Singapore home, where she confronts the challenges of her mother's alcoholism and her father's artisanal soy sauce business before being pulled into a family controversy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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Summary: Stranded for eighteen years since the 1990s, time-traveling agent Kin Stewart, suffering from memory loss, has started a new life, but when rescuers from the year 2142 finally arrive, he must choose between his current family and the one he left behind in the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2019
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Summary: Pearl Li is ready to spend the summer before seventh grade hanging out with her two best friends, crocheting the cutest amigurumi dolls, and visiting her favorite tea shop, Boba Time. Its quirky owner, Auntie Cha, is the only adult Pearl can confide in about her art--if only her tech-obsessed family would understand her love of crafts! After Pearl learns of Boba Time's financial troubles, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHEArimah, Lesley Nneka
Summary: "A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild," a disastrous night out shifts a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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Summary: After reporting his grandmother's actions to local authorities, Ah Liam and his family attempt to flee their home on Drum Wave Islet to escape the Communist Party's investigation and punishment of their family's disloyalty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2018
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Summary: Six years after a global pandemic wiped out most of the planet's population, the survivors are rebuilding the country, split between self-governing cities, hippie communes and wasteland gangs. Krista, Moira, Rob and Sunny are brought together by circumstance, and their lives begin to twine together. But when reports of another outbreak throw the fragile society into panic, the friends are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020
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Summary: "When popular restaurateur Laurel Thibodeau is found brutally murdered in her own home, and her husband is the prime suspect, six friends gather together, sharing theories about Laurel's death, soon realizing they each have something to hide as jealousy, revenge, adultery and greed converge"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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Ferrante, Elena
Summary: Italian teenager Giovanna searches for a sense of identity and clear perspectives when she finds herself torn between the refinements and excesses of a divided Naples.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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Summary: Her happy life in New York shattered by a property dispute in India that culminates in her father's claim that a curse has been placed on them, Maya rejects family superstitions until a series of misfortunes prompts her to visit relatives in India to break the curse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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Summary: Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home, she's built the perfect life. But beneath this faȧde, Ava's world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn't been used in years, and her toddler's tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point....
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Summary: "At the turn of the twentieth century, Yun Hong is born into a loving family in the southern China countryside, but as Communism consumes her older brothers, it threatens her stability-and her love affair with the son of a wealthy landlord. The line of women who later descend from Yun Hong share the burden of a family birthmark and are also each forced to reckon with both dramatic political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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Summary: Nine stories set in the universe of the best-selling author's previous romance novels includes a visit with friends of Mallory Blessing three years after her death and Margot Carmichael encouraging her husband to reunite with his ex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019