Novak, Ali
Summary: Felicity, seventeen, has struggled to meet her mother's expectations since her older sister disappeared, and when she connects with a famous band member at a charity ball, she begins to consider what will make her truly happy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION NOVGrainger, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GraingerBrowne, Mahogany L.
Summary: "A teen girl hiding the scars of a past relationship finds home and healing in the words of strong Black writers. A beautiful sophomore novel from a critically acclaimed author and poet that explores how words have the power to shape and uplift our world even in the midst of pain. When Darius told Angel he loved her, she believed him. But five weeks after the incident, Angel finds herself in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BROCharlton-Trujillo, e. E.
Summary: "Celebrating all the different ways girls can make things, this brilliant, inclusive ode to self-expression and girl power will inspire readers to jump up and start to build--because they can do anything!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CHECarey, Peter
Summary: The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country/continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000-mile race, the Redex Trial. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARRayo, Alberto
Summary: Tania, called "Thumbelina" because she is really tiny, has worked very hard to be a wrestling champion in the Junior Indie League, and now she and her friend Jorge, "Mouse," are being offered a chance at the pros, appearing in wrestling matches across the country--but her unscrupulous manager, Mr. Mole, wants her to adopt a flashy persona with elaborate moves, and somehow Tania must break free...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC FARPancol, Katherine
Summary: Excellent feuilleton contemporain basé sur un mensonge accepté. Une jeune médiéviste compose un livre qui sera signé par sa soeur. S'ensuit une romanesque histoire bien tricotée. [SDM].
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Publisher / Publication Date: Le Livre de poche 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 PAN FRENCHForna, Aminatta
Summary: A fox makes its way across London's Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide - Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. In this delicate tale of love and loss, of cruelty and kindness, Aminatta Forna asks us to consider the interconnectedness of lives, our co-existence with one another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORForman, Gayle
Summary: Meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working mother who's so busy taking care of her husband and twins, she doesn't even realize she's had a heart attack. Surprised to discover that her recuperation seems to be an imposition on those who rely on her, Maribeth does the unthinkable: she packs a bag and leaves. But, as is so often the case, once she gets to where she's going, she sees her life from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Forman 2016Backman, Fredrik
Summary: It's Christmas Even morning. Years ago a man abandoned his son to pursue professional success; now he wonders if it's too late to forge a relationship with him. One week earlier, in a hospital late at night, the man met a five-year-old girl with cancer. When the man is given the chance to do something selfless that could change the destiny of the little girl in the hospital bed, he needs to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: FIC BACCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Holiday Fiction, Call number: FICTION BACCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Backman 2017Blooms, Ashley
Summary: "Misty's holler looks like any one of a thousand hollers that fork through the Appalachian Mountains. But Misty knows her home is different. She may be only ten, but she hears things. Even the crawdads in the creek have something to say, if you listen. All that Misty's sister, Penny, wants to talk about are the strange objects that start appearing outside their trailer. The grown-ups mutter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "Reggie has never felt destined for greatness. He dreams about basketball brilliance all day and night, but the hard truth is that he's a benchwarmer for the West Bottom Badgers, the worst team in the league. Even their mysterious new coach, Rolabi Wizenard, can't seem to help them end their losing streak. Reggie is willing to train tirelessly to improve his game, but the gym itself seems to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Granity Studios 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KINMcMillan, Terry
Summary: Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life is not enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When she decides to make some major changes in her life, quitting her job as an optometrist, and moving house, she finds herself on a wild journey that may or may not include a second chance at love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction McMillan 2016DiCamillo, Kate
Summary: Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DICCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DICLittlewood, Fran
Summary: "Bernadette, Eleanor Oliphant, Rosie, Ove ...meet Amazing Grace Adams, the funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink--who finally pushes back. Grace Adams gave birth, blinked and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal and stalled --the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she's really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction LittlewoodMcFadden, Bernice L.
Summary: "Abeo Kata, a young woman must learn to love and trust again after experiencing the brutality of ritual servitude in West Africa."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCFForman, Gayle
Summary: For every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, for every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention--meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working mother who's so busy taking care of her husband and twins, she doesn't even realize she's had a heart attack. Afterward, surprised...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FORBlackburn, Lizzie Damilola
Summary: "Meet Yinka: a 30-something, Oxford educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is "Yinka, where is your huzband?" Yinka's Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her girlfriends think she's too traditional (she's saving herself for marriage!), her sister thinks she needs to get over her ex already, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAHalpern, Sue
Summary: A head librarian trying to forget the painful realities of her suburban past unexpectedly bonds with a teenager performing community service, a disgruntled former Wall Street high flyer, and other offbeat regulars who encourage her out of her self-imposed isolation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HALHolmes, Linda
Summary: "Smarting from her recently canceled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown of Calcasset to handle the estate of her great-aunt Dot, a spirited adventurer who lived to be ninety-three. Alongside boxes of Polaroids and pottery, a mysterious wooden duck shows up at the bottom of a cedar chest. Laurie's curiosity is piqued, especially after she finds a love...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOLGreengrass, Jessie
Summary: Francesca is Caro's stepmother, and Pauly's mother. A scientist, she can see what is going to happen. The high house was once her holiday home; now looked after by locals Grandy and Sally, she has turned it into an ark, for when the time comes. The mill powers the generator; the orchard is carefully pruned; the greenhouse has all its glass intact. Almost a family, but not quite, they plant,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREKo, Lisa
Summary: "One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KoLuloff, Joanna
Summary: "Claire wakes in a hospital room with no memory of how she got there or why. She tries to piece together her past by looking at a box of photos saved by her husband and her best friend, but she senses a mystery at the center of these fragments. Is Charlie still her husband? Is Rachel still her friend?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LULCantor, Joanna
Summary: When 22-year-old Olivia learned that her mother had only months to live, she pulled up roots, leaving Vassar and her career plans far behind to be with her mother for her last days. And yet, just four months after her mother's death, everyone in Olivia's family already seems ready to move on. Her brothers are settled comfortably in careers and families of their own; her father has already...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2018