McLaren, Kaya
Summary: "In Kaya McLaren's What's Worth Keeping, during one unforgettable summer, three generations of one family receive the best gift of all time: a second chance ... The day her doctor says the one word that no one wants to hear, Amy Bergstrom discovers a secret that her husband of 25 years has been keeping from her. Now that the months of treatment and surgeries are behind her, she escapes her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MCLFerber, Edna
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 FERHarrigan, Stephen
Summary: "The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a five-year-old boy's world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the zoo, throwing all of Oklahoma City into dangerous excitement, in this evocative story of a child's confrontation with his deepest fears. For Grady McClarty, an ever-watchful but bewildered five-year-old boy, World War II is only a troubling, ungraspable event that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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Summary: "Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Ficiton Meadows 2016Nayeri, Daniel
Summary: "At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NAYFinkbeiner, Susie
Summary: "Pearl Spence has been through more in her young life than most folks could handle. But through it all, her family has been by her side. They may not be perfect, but they love her and they all love each other, come what may. That's one thing Pearl no longer questions. But the end of her beautiful day signals the beginning of the end of her secure life. Now her family is fleeing their Oklahoma...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kregel Publications 2017
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Summary: "Eastern Oklahoma, 1928. Eighteen-year-old Maud Nail lives with her rogue father and sensitive brother on one of the allotments parceled out by the U.S. government to the Cherokees when their land was confiscated for Oklahoma's statehood. Maud's days are filled with hard work and simple pleasures, but often marked by violence and tragedy, a fact that she accepts with determined practicality....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: When a Category 5 tornado ravaged Mercy, Oklahoma, no family in the small town lost more than the McClouds. Their home and farm were instantly demolished, and orphaned siblings Darlene, Jane, and Cora made media headlines. This relentless national attention and the tornado's aftermath caused great tension with their brother, Tucker, who soon abandoned his sisters and disappeared. On the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GENAtinuke
Summary: Presents three tales of an endearing and enduring character, Tola, who lives in an apartment in the busy city of Lagos, Nigeria, with her sister, brother and grandmommy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ATIHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILBarclay, Linwood.
Summary: Back on the job as a features writer for the city paper, Zack Walker stumbles into a murder that may be linked to a gang that has been terrorizing the city's high-end shopping district.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARPratt, James Michael.
Summary: Twin brothers from Depression-era Oklahoma fall in love with the same girl, and one of them marries her, creating an unbridgeable rift between them--a rift that is widened further yet by their experiences as prisoners of war in the Pacific.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001
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Summary: The poor but proud Dunne family and their friends struggle to survive on the dust-plagued prairies of the Oklahoma Panhandle, but discover bitter disappointment in the orchards and vineyards of the so-called promised land of California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2004
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Summary: Eleven-year-old Juniper Berry lives off the grid in the California woods with her family, but when her brother gets sick, they have to leave to get help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2023
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Summary: "From a bright new talent comes this debut novel about a young woman who travels for the first time to her mother's hometown, and gets sucked into the mystery that changed her family forever. Mattie Wallace has really screwed up this time. Broke and knocked up, she's got all her worldly possessions crammed into six giant trash bags, and nowhere to go. Try as she might, Mattie can no longer deny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction DeCarlo 2015Kaufman, Heather (Heather M.)
Summary: Hana is between homes, between jobs, between a rock and a hard place. She and her special needs son, Isaac, are running from a painful past, and she's looking to the future without much hope. Then she meets Pastor Matthew Schofield. As Matt forms a surprising bond with Isaac, Hana is challenged to view God and his promises in a whole new light.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Concordia Publishing House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAUSteinbeck, John
Summary: Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STEHeley, Veronica.
Summary: After 24 years, she's learning the truth that was hidden from her as a child. Now the fate of many people depends on what she will do with it. At the age of four, Araminta "Minty" Cardale was exiled from Eden Hall on the wings of a scandal. Twenty years later, summoned by her half-sister, she has returned to see her dying father. But her hopes of a warm family welcome are shattered, and she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2004
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Summary: Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the dynamic between two sisters: the pragmatic Lorena and the chimerical Elise. Their connection to each other supersedes all else, until the arrival of a schoolteacher sunders the sisters' relationship as they both begin to fall for him. With poetic intensity and the deadpan humor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARBrown, Rita Mae.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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Summary: Forty-two, divorced, and responsible for an aging aunt and uncle, florist Emily Lucretia, deciding to put herself out there, starts dating the owner of the local barbecue joint until her meddling small town gets involved in her relationship, with hilarious and unexpected results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canary Street Press 2023
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Summary: When a group of friends in Mason, Missouri decide to start a monthly supper club, they get more than they bargained for. Instead of sharing recipes, they begin sharing secrets. When Iris Winters and Maddy Harris are invited to the club, they find that it's just what each of them needs. Iris hasn't yet told anyone about the unlikely man who has captured her attention, and Maddy has come back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019
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Summary: Explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter, who has been adopted by an American couple, tracing the very different cultural factors that compel them to consume a rare native tea that has shaped their family's destiny for generations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction See 2017Berg, Elizabeth
Summary: "It all started as a supper club, a group gathering monthly to share homemade dinners, until the night one woman made a startling revelation. After that, the 'Confession Club'decided to meet weekly to feast not only on dinner, but on admissions of misdeeds, embarrassments, and insecurities. When Iris Winters and Maddy Harris are invited to the club, they find that it's just what each of them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019