Gazi, Leesa
Summary: Two sisters are at lifelong odds with each other, their mother, and themselves, and as every hour becomes more twisted than the last, they are all pushed to their breaking point.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: C FIC GAZIgnatieff, Michael.
Summary: A woman's decline and death from Alzheimer's disease, told by her philosopher son, chronicling its impact on the family: a heart attack for the father, depression for the one son, a marriage breakdown for the other. Lots of reflections on the process of aging and dying, including the thought that having inherited her genes he, too, may end that way. By the author of Aysa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGNRickstad, Eric
Summary: Wayland Maynard is just eight years old when he sees his father kill himself, finds a note that reads I am not who you think I am, and is left reeling with grief and shock. Terrified, Wayland keeps the note a secret, but his reasons for being afraid are just beginning. Eight years later, he makes a shocking discovery and becomes certain the note is the key to unlocking a past his mother and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RICKoppelman, Amy
Summary: We meet Julie several weeks after her suicide attempt, on the eve of her son's first birthday. Grateful to be alive, Julie tries her best to appreciate every moment. She has, for whatever reason, been given a second chance, but her emotional demons are unrelenting, and she is slowly and quietly losing the battle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 813 KOPWillett, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILZimmerman, Vicky
Summary: "After a major life upheaval on the eve of her 40th birthday, Kate Parker finds herself volunteering at Lauderdale House for Exceptional Ladies. There she meets 97-year-old Cecily Finn. Cecily's tongue is as sharp as her mind but she has lost her spark, simply resigning herself to the Imminent End. Having no patience with Kate's plight, Cecily prescribes her a self-help book with a difference -...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ZIMLane, Harriet
Summary: "On the face of it, Emma and Nina have very little in common. Isolated and exhausted by early motherhood, Emma finds her confidence is fading fast. Nina--sophisticated, generous, effortlessly in control--seems to have all the answers. It's easy to see why Emma is drawn to Nina. But what does Nina see in her? A seemingly innocent friendship slowly develops into a dangerous game of cat and mouse...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANIrving, John
Summary: The author's most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, this novel is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself "worthwhile."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IRVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Irving 2012Offill, Jenny
Summary: "Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband, postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OFFEssbaum, Jill Alexander.
Summary: "Anna Benz, an American woman in her thirties, lives in comfort and affluence with her Swiss banker husband and their three young children in a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Despite the tranquility and order of her domestic existence, Anna is fallingapart inside. Isolated in a foreign country and a faltering marriage, Anna begins three adventures to restart her life: Jungian analysis,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESSKegan, Stephanie.
Summary: "In the vein of Defending Jacob or We Need to Talk About Kevin, a compelling literary drama about finding evil close to home and how far a woman will go to protect her family. All her life, Natalie Askedahl has been the good girl, an obedient team player. Growing up as the youngest child in one of California's most prominent political families, she worshipped her big brother, Bobby, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEGMoriarty, Liane
Summary: "The new novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies, and What Alice Forgot, about how sometimes we don't appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it's too late. "What a wonderful writer--smart, wise, funny." --Anne Lamott Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It's just a normal weekend. What...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MORBock, Dennis
Summary: "After two acclaimed historical novels, one of Canada's most celebrated young writers now goes contemporary with the vibrant story of a man taking stock of the shape his life has taken, and why, and what--as a husband, a father, a brother, and an uncle--his responsibilities truly are. Charlie Bellerose leads a semi-nomadic existence, traveling widely to manage the language academies he has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOCLevine, Jessica
Summary: "When Anna, now living in California, is contacted by the Italian lover she knew decades before, she recalls their affair and the child she gave up for adoption. As the episode returns to haunt her--threatening the life she's built, including her marriage--the story moves back in time to her youth in Europe. Rome, 1979. Anna, twenty-two and living abroad, is involved with a man already engaged...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVHunt, Margot
Summary: As a hurricane besieges their coastal Florida town, the Davies family invites close friends to wait out the storm in comfort and style, but when three uninvited strangers seeking safe haven arrive, long-held secrets are revealed, one by one, until only one truth remains: not everyone is going to make it out alive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNGiordano, Paolo
Summary: "When a young married couple hire a middle-aged widow during the wife, Nora's, difficult pregnancy, they don't realize the dominating force she will become in their small family. Signora A--maid, nanny, and confidante--becomes the glue in their household, and over time, the steady and loving presence whose benign influence allows them to negotiate the complexities of married life. But the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIOLewis, Susan
Summary: "Everything seems perfect for Jenna Moore: her loving husband adores their new Welsh home, their new business is on the verge of taking off, and her children are thriving in their new schools. But her fragile new life is threatened when her husband begins keeping secrets and lying to cover them up. Their business is in trouble, and her fifteen-year-old daughter is growing increasingly distant...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION LEWMoriarty, Liane
Summary: Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit, busy life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime. If there's anything they can count on, it's each other. Clementine and Erika are each other's oldest friends. A single look between them can convey an entire conversation. But theirs is a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORSummary: On the surface, everything seems the same in the seaside town of Monterey, CA: mothers continue to dote, husbands support, children are adorable, houses are beautiful. But the night of the school fundraiser changed all that. Meanwhile, Perry's grieving mother Mary Louise Wright comes to town in search of answers after the son's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BIGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Bi 2Ellison, J. T.
Summary: In a world where appearances are everything, no one questions the cruelties of the secret societies or the dubious behavior of the privileged young women who expect to get away with murder.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ELLFeeney, Alice
Summary: Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can't recognize friends or family, or even his own wife. Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts, and each year...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FEEHart, Joe
Summary: Kaylee Volk's vlogs celebrate a happy home up to the day her family's private plane crashes. Only Kaylee survives, with a shocking revelation: her foster daughter caused it. Now, CPS agent Nora McTavish must find what she missed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARParis, B. A.
Summary: When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they've dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive. As Alice is getting to know her neighbors, she discovers a devastating secret about her new home, and begins to feel a strong connection with Nina, the therapist who lived there before. Alice becomes obsessed with...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARHatvany, Amy
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014