Snyder, Carrie
Summary: "As a young runner, Aganetha Smart defied everyone's expectations to win a gold medal for Canada in the 1928 Olympics. It was a revolutionary victory, because this was the first Games in which women could compete in track events--and they did so despite opposition. But now Aganetha Smart is in a nursing home, and nobody realizes that the frail centenarian was once a bold pioneer"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SNYAlcott, Kathleen.
Summary: Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all deeply in need of shelter. Crippled in various ways--in spirit, in mind, in body, in heart--the renters struggle to navigate daily existence, and soon come to realize that Edith's deteriorating mind, and the menacing presence of her estranged, unscrupulous son, Owen, is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCMacomber, Debbie
Summary: Joan Sample is not living the life she thought she would. Now a widow and an empty nester, Joan is content being something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to get back out into the world. With her encouragement, Joan makes big strides, taking care of her overgrown lawn, making new friends through a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC MACMacomber, Debbie
Summary: Joan Sample is not living the life she expected. Now a widow and an empty-nester, she has become by her own admission something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to reengage with the world. With her support, Joan gathers the courage to take some long-awaited steps: hiring someone to tame her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MACWeiner, Jennifer
Summary: When Veronica Levy bought her home on the Outer Cape, she imagined generations of her family gathering there each summer for many years to come, but things didn't work out that way. Forty years later, Ronnie's husband is gone. Her son, Sam, is in California, and rarely makes the trip back home. Her daughter, Sarah, packs her kids' summers full of enriching, educational, resume-building...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WEISchwarz, Liese O'Halloran
Summary: Clare, one of the oldest women in Rhode Island, believes that all the painful secrets of her long life have been laid to rest, until an unexpected encounter with a piece of her past forces her to realize the time has come to tell her story. Ben, a shy, precocious six-year-old being gently raised by a devoted mom, witnesses a terrible crime and is taken to the hospital, bewildered and alone....
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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 SCHGilbert, Victoria
Summary: Sixty-year-old Jane Hunter, forced into early retirement from her job as a university librarian, is seeking a new challenge to keep her spirits up and supplement her meager pension. But as she's about to discover, a retiree's life can bring new thrills--and new dangers. Cameron "Cam" Clewe, an eccentric 33-year-old collector, is also seeking something--an archivist to inventory his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILMacomber, Debbie
Summary: "Joan Sample is not living the life she expected. Now a widow and an empty-nester, she has become by her own admission something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to reengage with the world. With her support, Joan gathers the courage to take some long-awaited steps: hiring someone to tame her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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Wood, Charlotte
Summary: "For nearly four decades, lifelong friends Jude, Wendy, Adele, and Sylvie have seen each other through romances, child-rearing, changing careers, divorces, medical recoveries, and general aging. But now Sylvie has died, and the three remaining women are tasked with cleaning out her beach house before it's sold. Thrust together In this weathered old house on the ocean, where the ghosts of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC WOOHogan, Ruth
Summary: After a lifetime of keeping other people's secrets, fortune teller Madam Burova, before she can have a little piece of life for herself, must fulfill a promise made in the 1970s, when she and her girlfriends were carefree, with their whole lives still before them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOGMcMillan, Terry
Summary: Loretha Curry's life is full. A little crowded sometimes, but full indeed. On the eve of her sixty-eighth birthday, she has a booming beauty supply empire, a gaggle of lifelong friends, and a husband who's still got moves that surprise. True, she's carrying a few more pounds than she should be, but she's not one of those women who thinks her best days are behind her, and she's determined to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MCMChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: Colored illustrations on endpapers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ChiavAllende, Isabel
Summary: "From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALLChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: In 1930, when Sylvia Bergstrom Compson was only a child, her mother passed away. Decades later, when several of her mother's hand-stitched heirloom quilts vanish, Sylvia resolves to find them. Traveling far and wide, she uncovers the surprising truth about her mother's romantic and ultimately tragic life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIDe Castrique, Mark
Summary: "This urgent, cleverly plotted high stakes thriller is set in motion by a botched attack on two law clerks, leaving one dead and the other in a coma. The ensuing cover up leaves a string of bodies and too many players at cross-purposes. It also leaves Chief Justice Clarissa Baxter with a target on her back. They'll need an off the grid hero with friends in high places: enter retired FBI...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DECO'Neal, Barbara
Summary: "Popular blogger and foodie queen Lavender Wills reigns over Lavender Honey Farms, a serene slice of organic heaven nestled in Oregon wine country. Lavender is determined to keep her legacy from falling into the profit-driven hands of uncaring relatives, and she wants an heir to sustain her life's work after she's gone. So she invites her three closest online friends--fellow food bloggers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONEGangi, Stephanie
Summary: "A woman looks back at the events that shaped her life, especially the scandals and family secrets that stand in the way of her making peace with her past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GANQuindlen, Anna
Summary: Moving to a small country cabin, a once world-famous photographer bonds with a local man and begins to see the world around her in new, deeper dimensions while evaluating second chances at love, career, and self-understanding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Quindlen 2014Rooney, Kathleen
Summary: "Fall 2016 Library Journal Editors' Pick "In my reckless and undiscouraged youth," Lillian Boxfish writes, "I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street ..." She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy's to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. It was a job that, she says, "in some ways saved my life,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROOCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rooney 2017Skomsvold, Kjersti A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dalkey Archive Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SKOFreed, Lynn
Summary: "A witty new novel about three self-proclaimed "old bags" who run off to a Greek island ... Since their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to living wonderfully free lives. Only now they're beset by children again--this time, their grandchildren. In order to escape, they decide to run away to Greece together for a year. At first, settled on a glorious island, barefoot and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017