Ison, Tara.
Summary: Sarah, a California native, retreats to Rockaway Beach during the summer of 2001 with the hope of rekindling her passion for painting, and she finds inspiration in Marty, an elderly musician, who provokes unexpected feelings in her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ISOZarr, Sara
Summary: From award-winning author Sara Zarr comes a story of the small moments that show us who we are, and how family is not just something you're part of, but something you make. Lou and her family don't have much, but for Lou it's enough. Mom. Her sister, Casey. Their apartment in the city. Her best friend, Beth. It would be better if Dad could stop drinking and be there for her and Casey, and if...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ZARRaheem, Zara
Summary: To Leila Abid's traditional Indian parents, finding a husband is as easy as match, meet, marry. But for Leila, a marriage of arrangement clashes with her lifelong dreams of a Bollywood romance, where real love happens before marriage, not the other way around. Yet after twenty-six years of singledom, and still no sign of "Mr. Perfect," even Leila is starting to get nervous. And to make matters...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAHAppiah, Krystle Zara
Summary: "A provocative debut novel about a British Ghanaian marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted in a home that's on the brink of collapse? It seemed everyone knew Efe and Sam were meant to be--everyone except for Efe and Sam. Efe, newly arrived in the UK from Ghana and sinking under the weight of her parents' expectations, finds comfort in the focused and idealistic Sam,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APPLiasson, Miranda.
Summary: When it comes to her heart, Arabella D'Angelo has moved on--even though she still lives in Mirror Lake, Connecticut, a little tourist town with a long memory for mistakes. Ever the dutiful daughter of a cantankerous widower who holds grudges, Bella has spent the past twelve years raising her younger brother and making a name for herself as a successful psychologist. Now, when she isn't...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LIAHorn, Dara
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORTison, Ari
Summary: When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TISConklin, Tara
Summary: When she is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, renowned poet Fiona Skinner recounts the summer her family spent in a middle-class Connecticut town.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Conklin 2019Laskowski, Tara
Summary: Gathering at their lush winery estate for a joint birthday celebration, the Van Ness siblings, heirs to a copper fortune, find old tensions ignited as they are pushed to the edge during this tradition that turns into a weekend to die for.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LASBala, Sharon
Summary: "For readers of Khaled Hosseini and Chris Cleave, The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's shores, the young father thinks he and his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bala 2018Stringfellow, Tara M.
Summary: "In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house for her grandmother--only to be lynched, days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis, by his all-white police squad. This wasn't the first...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STRBuckley, Carla (Carla S.)
Summary: An enthralling domestic thriller about the lies we tell, and let ourselves believe, in the name of love. The first thing you should know is that everyone lies. The second thing is that it matters. On her way to her nineteenth wedding anniversary celebration, Natalie Falcone leaves the struggling restaurant she owns with her brother-in-law, Vince. She doesn t speak to him on her way out; they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCBanerji, Sara
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flamingo 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANBaume, Sara
Summary: "A couple, Bell and Sigh, move into a remote house in the Irish countryside with their dogs. Both solitary with misanthropic tendencies, they leave the conventional lives stretched out before them to build another ... They make a promise to climb the mountain, but--over the course of the next seven years--it remains unclimbed. We move through the seasons with Bell and Sigh as they come to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAUShepard, Sara
Summary: "New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars Series. When the principal of an elite California preschool is attacked, three moms--who feel like outsiders among the school's manicured and ultra-wealthy community--must work together to uncover her secrets, and figure out who is trying to blame them for the attempt on her life. Amanda, Ronnie, and Lauren all arrive at the Silver Swans preschool...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHECard, Maisy
Summary: Abel and Vera Paisley are a working-class Jamaican couple, striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CARFairbrother, Alison
Summary: "Twentysomething Ellie thought she was her father's favorite child; she was sure he would leave her his most prized possession, a baseball with which they played catch, and which sat on his desk, as a kind of inspiration: her poet father's most famous poem was called "The Catch." But when her father's will is read, his children, including from other marriages, each receive a meaningful object,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAIMcGhee, Alison
Summary: "When Clara Winter left her rural Adirondack Mountain town for college, she never looked back. Her mother, Tamar, a fiercely independent but loving woman who raised Clara on her own, all but pushed her out the door, forcing Clara to build a new life for herself, far from her roots, far from her high school boyfriend, far from the life she has always known. Now more than a decade has passed, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCGHammer, Alison
Summary: The heartbreaking, yet hopeful, story of a mother Alexis Gold and her daughter CeCe are struggling to be a family while the one person who holds them together, Tommy, struggles with a terminal cancer diagnosis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMNović, Sara
Summary: "True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 0000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC NOVAckerman, Sara
Summary: "Hawaii, 1944. The Pacific battles of World War II continue to threaten American soil, and on the home front, the bonds of friendship and the strength of love are tested. Violet Iverson and her young daughter, Ella, are piecing their lives together one year after the disappearance of her husband. As rumors swirl and questions about his loyalties surface, Violet believes Ella knows something....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P ACKPennypacker, Sara
Summary: What are people for? That's the burning question on the mind of Leeva Spayce Thornblossom. Fame! says Leeva's mom, the mayor of Nutsmore. Money! says her dad, the town treasurer. With the help of an orphaned badger, a risk-averse boy in a hazmat suit, and the towns librarians, Leeva sets off to discover her own answer--setting off a chain of events that will change Nutsmore forever. From an...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Nović, Sara
Summary: "True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOV1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVAlexander, Sara
Summary: "Famed for its natural beauty and rich history, Sardinia in 1968 is notorious, too, for the bandits who kidnap wealthy landowners for ransom. Eleven-year-old Alba Fresu's brother, and her father, Bruno, are abducted by criminals who mistake Bruno for a rich man. After a grueling journey through the countryside, the two are eventually released--but the experience leaves Alba shaken and unable to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019