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Family secrets Fiction Germany History 1918-1933 Fiction Great Britain History George V, 1910-1936 Fiction Great Britain Social life and customs 1918-1945 Fiction Large type books Secrecy Fiction Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 Fiction Twentieth century Fiction United States History 1913-1921 Fiction World War, 1914-1918 FictionWillett, Sabin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWillett, Marcia
Summary: "Marcia Willett's The Garden House is a charming and heartwarming novel about family, yearning, and long-buried secrets ..."-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWillett, Marcia.
Summary: The tender story of a boy, his father, his grandmother, and the bond they form over Christmas. Beloved novelist Willett's gentle and compassionate holiday tale will touch the hearts of parents and grandparents everywhere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILWillett, Marcia
Summary: "As summer beckons, Evie's family gathers once more at the beautiful old riverside house they all adore. But when Evie discovers a secret that threatens their future, a shadow falls over them all: this summer by the river could be their last together"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Willett 2015Willett, Marcia
Summary: "When Jess arrives in Devon to receive an award, she is welcomed into Kate's home and her close unit of extended family and friends, something Jess has been missing. As this group begins reminiscing on their pasts, it becomes apparent that Jess's family history may be linked with theirs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILWillett, Marcia
Summary: When Mattie invites her old friend Tim to stay in one of her family cottages on the edge of Dartmoor, she senses he is holding on to a painful secret. But as he gets to know the rest of the warm jumble of family by the moor, Tim discovers that everyone there has their own secrets. There is Charlotte, a young navy wife struggling to bring up her son while her husband is at sea; William, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WILWillett, Marcia.
Summary: Abandoned by her mother as a child, Brigid Foster struggles with conflicted feelings when her mother reenters her life, while her summer lodger, Louise, also gives way to a painful past, with unexpected repercussions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003
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Summary: When Maudie Todhunter, the elderly owner of a charming farmhouse in Cornwall, decides to sell the family homestead, a family drama unfolds, with old secrets bubbling to the surface.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWillett, Marcia
Summary: "A busy mom of twins, Liv is looking forward to a week at the Beach Hut--even if she feels that something's not right between her and Matt. She's sure he's just too busy at work to join them on their summer holiday, not that he wants time alone. Baz, her father-in-law, loves having his family stay by the sea; but when an unexpected guest arrives, he finds himself torn between the past and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WILWillett, Marcia
Summary: "Evie loved the house. The bright, sunny rooms looking across the river. The terraced gardens with fruit trees growing against the high stone walls. The scent of lavender at the end of a hot day. It was a family house...As summer beckons, Evie's family gathers once more at the beautiful old riverside house they all adore. But when Evie discovers a secret that threatens their future, a shadow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWillett, Marcia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILWillett, Marcia.
Summary: Jolyon Chadwick, despite long odds, has become a veritable success story. He's a famous television presenter, and the company that he started is thriving despite his mother Maria's disdain for the project. Now Maria, who abandoned Jolyon and his father long ago, has been widowed from her second marriage and returns to ask forgiveness for her transgressions. Can Jolyon trust her motives? Does...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILFrancis, Patry
Summary: Two long-term foster parents in a mid-twentieth-century Massachusetts community reluctantly take in an abused indigenous girl who strengthens their family's bonds in unexpected ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRACopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Francis 2021Dann, Patty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ticknor & Fields 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANMillet, Lydia
Summary: Lydia Millet’s chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who’s just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILMillet, Lydia
Summary: "[This novel] follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILBeatty, 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 BEATalty, Morgan
Summary: "From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine's Penobscot Reservation. On the far bank, he caught brief moments of his neighbor Elizabeth's life--from the day she came home from the hospital to her early twenties. But there's always been something deeper and more dangerous than the river that divides him from her and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC TAL1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction TaltyFollett, Ken.
Summary: Follows the fates of five interrelated families-- American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-- as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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Summary: Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev Peshkov embark on radically different paths when their plan to immigrate to America falls afoul. Billy's sister Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLFollett, Ken.
Summary: Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, Welsh--enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLFollett, Ken.
Summary: Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FollettPatel, Neel
Summary: "From rising star Neel Patel ("refreshing...defiant...consistently surprising" --New York Times), a darkly funny and heartbreaking debut novel about an Indian-American family confronting the secrets between them. Renu Amin always seemed perfect: doting husband, beautiful house, healthy sons. But as the one-year anniversary of her husband's death approaches, Renu is binge-watching soap operas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATPatton, Lisa.
Summary: Leelee's efforts to run a new restaurant with Peter are challenged by her unpredictable friends, a male dog named Roberta, and the return of Leelee's notorious ex-husband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2013