Huston, Nancy
Summary: Sol is a highly gifted six-year-old; his adoring mother believes he is destined for greatness. Yet he is also unsettling, chillingly un-childlike. He bears the same birthmark as his father, grandmoth- er and great-grandmother had before him. When Sol and his family make an unexpected trip to Germany, terrible secrets start to emerge.Narrated by children in each generation of the family, "Fault...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bolinda Audio 2009
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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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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLELott, Bret.
Summary: The life of Jewel Hilburn, a mother living with her husband and children in the backwoods of Mississippi in 1943, undergoes a drastic change when her sixth child, Brenda Kay, is born without the gift of common sense.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1993
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Summary: "As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martins Press 2016
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Summary: "Zee is nobody's fairy tale princess. Almost six-foot, with a redhead's temper and a shattered hip, she has a long list of worries: never-ending bills, her beautiful, gullible sister, her five-year-old nephew, her housebound mother, and her drug-dealing boss. Zee may not be a princess, but Gentry is an actual knight, complete with sword, armor, and a code of honor. Two years ago the voices he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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Summary: "Juana's life in Bogotá, Colombia, is just about perfect. Every now and then a big problema comes along--like having to learn English or Juana's mami getting remarried--but things eventually settle down, and life goes back to feeling pretty perfect again. But then Mami springs two new sorpresas on Juana. One: Juana will be spending her school break going to skating camp instead of relaxing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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Summary: "People used to say Iris Bowen was beautiful, what with the wild weave of her red hair, the high cheekbones, and the way she carried herself like a barefoot dancer through the streets of Ranelagh on the outskirts of Dublin city. But that was a lifetime ago. In a cottage in the west of Ireland, Iris--gardener and mother to an adopted daughter, Rose--is doing her best to carry on after the death...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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Summary: Twenty years after a tragic accident destroyed her Olympic aspirations, and her beloved horse, Annemarie Zimmer returns to her dying father's New Hampshire horse farm with her troubled teenage daughter. But everything will change yet again with one glimpse of a white striped gelding startlingly similar to the one Annemarie lost in another lifetime. And an obsession is born that could shatter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Twenty years after a tragic accident destroyed her riding career, Olympic aspirations, and beloved horse, Annemarie Zimmer returns to her dying father's New Hampshire horse farm with her troubled teenage daughter and encounters two men who could change her life--the gentle veterinarian she had loved as a girl and the seductive trainer with a gift for working with horses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2007
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Summary: Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie. Yancy Cravat is a newspaperman and lawyer who helps found the town of Osage. An adventurer, he finds town-life stifling and seeks his thrills even further into the frontier. His wife ends up becoming a town leader when his absences leave her no other choice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, Doran and Company 1930
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERChen, Kirsten.
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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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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Summary: Warring Irish sons Joseph Brennan and Mick Bugler come to terms when Joseph claims recently inherited acreage on what Mick considers his property.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBREnger, Leif.
Summary: The story of an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes with him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday & Co. 1952
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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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Manushkin, Fran
Summary: When Katie's grandmother trips and breaks her ankle, Katie learns about the importance of paramedics to her neighborhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2019