Beatty, Pete
Summary: "Big Son is a spirit of the times--the times being 1837. Behind his broad shoulders, shiny hair, and church-organ laugh, Big Son practically made Ohio City all by himself. The feats of this proto-superhero have earned him wonder and whiskey toasts but very little in the way of fortune. And without money, Big cannot become an honest husband to his beloved Cloe (who may or may not want to be his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEACarleton, Jetta.
Summary: "On a farm in western Missouri during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo will escape to New York. And wild child Mathy's fate will be the family's greatest tragedy. Over the decades they will love, deceive,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2009
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Summary: The story of the Nolan family, including daughter Francie, and life in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn during the early part of the 20th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2010
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Summary: Brooklyn, the 1920s. Margy Shannon-- shy, eager, joyfully optimistic-- lives with her parents and has witnessed how a lifetime of work and poverty has worn them down. Unable to speak up to her overbearing mother, Margy takes refuge in dreams of finding a husband she loves, having children, and living in a nice home. When she meets Frankie Malone, she thinks at last her dreams might be fulfilled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial Modern Classics 2020
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Summary: A young girl from an impoverished family comes of age in Brooklyn at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2001
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Summary: "The Mormon church may have disavowed the polygamy it became so famous for in the 19th century, but for some Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints, "plural marriage" isn't just ancient history. Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim is stunned to learn her son Kenneth has gotten engaged to a young woman from a polygamous family. Naomi Carter may have left the religion she grew up in, but the Carters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARZeldis, Kitty
Summary: One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War II, a minor traffic accident brings together Eleanor Moskowitz and Patricia Bellamy. Their encounter seems fated: Eleanor, a teacher and recent Vassar graduate, needs a job. Patricia's difficult thirteen-year-old daughter Margaux, recovering from polio, needs a private tutor. Though she feels out of place in the Bellamys' rarefied...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim is stunned to learn her son Kenneth has gotten engaged to a young woman from a polygamous family. Naomi Carter may have left the religion she grew up in, but the Carters will still be the Wallheims' in-laws once Kenneth and Naomi are married. Stephen Carter, Naomi's father and the patriarch of the Carter clan, invites the Wallheims over to the Carter family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ticknor & Fields 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANMandelbaum, Becky
Summary: "2016. The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals is in trouble. Ariel discovers that her mother Mona's animal sanctuary in Western Kansas has not only been the target of anti-Semitic hate crimes, it is also for sale, due to hidden financial ruin. Ariel, living a new life in progressive Lawrence, and estranged from her mother for six years, returns to her childhood home - and finds her first love, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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Summary: "Meet Noah--an A-honor roll student, award-winning swimmer, and small-town star destined for greatness. There weren't any signs that something was wrong until the day he confesses to molesting little girls during swim team practice. He's sentenced to eighteen months in a juvenile sexual rehabilitation center. His mother, Adrianne, refuses to turn her back on him despite his horrific crimes, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Rise Press] 2017
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Summary: Opening an antiques shop in Charleston after discovering a talent for restoring furniture, Teddi Overman struggles to come to terms with her shattered family and sense of self after receiving news that her long-missing brother might still be alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: For years twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille, a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen. When Camille is killed by a truck, CeeCee's previously unknown great-aunt, Tootie Caldwell, whisks CeeCee away to Savannah, a world seemingly run entirely by women. These exotic women keep CeeCee enthralled for an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: "The world has changed around seventy-nine-year-old librarian Millicent Carmichael, aka Missy. Though quick to admit that she often found her roles as a housewife and mother less than satisfying, Missy once led a bustling life driven by two children, an accomplished and celebrated husband, and a Classics degree from Cambridge. Now her husband is gone, her daughter is estranged after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORPattillo, Beth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2008
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Summary: Brad and Darlene Henderson move from Houston to the small town of Round Top, Texas, to provide a safe environment for their children. Their marriage has had its rocky periods, but when Darlene begins working outside the home, the problems intensify. When the widowed father of one of her special needs students begins to pay inappropriate attention to her, she is torn between her marriage and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2012
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Summary: "Sisters Esther and Lizzie have a new employee, Rose Petersheim, to help them tend to The Peony Inn. But their old matchmaking ways have stayed the same. The sisters focus their efforts on the lovely twenty-five-year-old Rose. Though Rose is witty and outspoken, her nervous chattering makes her the best match for someone calm and good at listening. Someone like Benjamin--the handsome handyman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WISGutcheon, Beth Richardson.
Summary: A comedy on a group of women in a health spa in Arizona. The ladies' problems include smoking, obesity and an unfaithful husband. The novel describes how the regimen improves their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cliff Street Books 1998
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Summary: In a tale that spans a long-term twentieth-century marriage, wealthy Sydney Brant marries Danish pianist Laurus Moss on the eve of the Nazi invasion of Denmark and finds their marriage challenged by disparate views of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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Summary: "From the beloved bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, an unforgettable novel about a couple in a small town and the complexities of marriage, family, longing, and desire. Malcolm Gephardt, handsome and gregarious longtime bartender at the Half Moon, has always dreamed of owning a bar. When his boss finally retires, Malcolm stretches to buy the place. He sees unquantifiable magic and potential...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023