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Brown, Eleanor

Summary: "Madeleine is trapped-- by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears-- in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside, it looks like she has everything, but on the inside, she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine's memories, her grandmother Margie is the kind of woman she should have been-- elegant, reserved, perfect. But when...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brown 2016

Center, Katherine

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Center

Burdette, Lucy

Summary: Thirty-two-year-old 'happiness guru' Dr Cooper Hunziker has it all - a dream job as assistant psychology professor at Yale University, a soon-to-be published self-help book, The Happiness Connection, and the perfect man. But there's a problem. Cooper isn't happy. Of course, it doesn't help that she's facing cut-throat competition for her tenure at Yale, an accusation of plagiarism that could...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BUR

Maynard, Frances

Summary: "Elvira Carr believes in crisp schedules, clear guidelines, and taking people at face value. She lives at home with her overbearing mother, who has deemed her unfit to interact with the rest of society. But when her mother has a stroke, Ellie is suddenly forced to look after herself. She quickly comes up with an ingenious way of coping with the world: the seven social rules spreadsheet....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAY

Fishman, Zoe

Summary: "A poignant breakout novel about a single mother who inherits a beautiful beach house in Sag Harbor--with a caveat--she must take care of the ornery elderly woman who lives in it who has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Together they embark on a path to forgiveness, acceptance, and a life-changing friendship"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FIS

White, Karen (Karen S.)

Summary: It has been thirteen years since Georgia left her family home on the coast of Florida, and nothing much has changed except that there are fewer oysters and more tourists. She finds solace in seeing her grandfather still toiling away in the apiary where she spent much of her childhood, but encountering her estranged mother and sister leaves her rattled. Seeing them after all this time makes...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHI

Raymer, Beth

Summary: ""Florida, we got it all. Motorsports, ribs, beer. You can drive on the sand right on up to the ocean. Fireworks every night." That's how twelve-year-old CC's father, who named her after his beloved Canadian Club whiskey, describes the appeal of their new home. The man is a born grifter, a used-car salesman who burns down his dealership in southern Ohio for enough insurance money to set up a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: FIC RAY

Grainger, Jean

Summary: As someone raised in an orphanage, Carmel knows she should be grateful for a roof over her head and a respectable family, but she would love nothing more than to escape Birr, Co Offaly and get away from her husband, the monosyllabic Bill and his horrible sister forever. Life as Mrs Sheehan should be bearable, all she had to do was look after the house and cook Bill's meals. She didn't even need...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grainger

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