Trigiani, Adriana.
Summary: Ambitious teen Nella, the daughter of an Italian family from a small Pennsylvania village, aspires to live in society far from the rigors of farm life, a dream that is compromised when a poet she loves mysteriously disappears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRIHarbison, Elizabeth M.
Summary: In the wake of a marriage proposal, Erin finds herself coming unraveled over the past and the love she never forgot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARDavies, Katharine.
Summary: "By turns comic and moving, The Madness of Love is a deftly woven tale of mistaken identity, bold moves, and unrequited desires. Valentina, a clerk in a London bookstore, is still reeling after her twin brother broke a childhood promise and ran off without her to exotic lands. When she cuts her hair, masquerades as a gardener to the melancholic Leo, and moves to the remote seaside town of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVMacomber, Debbie
Summary: Annie Marlow has been through the worst. Rocked by tragedy, she heads to the one place that makes her happy: Oceanside in the Pacific Northwest, the destintation of many family vacations when Annie was a teenager. Once there, Annie begins to restore her broken spirit, thanks in part to the folks she meets: a local painter, Keaton, whose large frame is equal to his big heart--and who helps Annie...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MACEicher, Jerry S.
Summary: "Ella Yoder has moved into her dream house. In the stillness of the great house, Ella ponders her options. How is she to survive on her own? How will she ever forget Aden? What is to become of her? Two would-be suitors soon make their intentions known, but Ella is unsure of her own feelings. As she agrees to take care of Preacher Stutzman's three motherless girls, Ella's heart is touched by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EICPorter, Jane
Summary: "In the wake of a tragedy that tore her life down to the foundations, Dr. Alison McAdams has lost her way. So when she's summoned to Napa to care for her ailing father, she's not sure she has anything to offer him--or anyone else. What Ali finds in Northern California wine country is a gift--an opportunity to rest, and distance from her painful memories. Most unexpectedly, she finds people who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORMichaels, Fern
Summary: Swindled out of his home by his gold-digging wife, successful accountant Gus Hollister returns to his grandmother Rose's Virginia farmhouse where he helps the residents of Blossom Farm expand their business and finds the courage to love again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Michaels 2013Dailey, Janet
Summary: Emily Hunter came to Alaska on the promise of marriage, but is soon on the run from her would-be husband. Stranded in the wilderness, she stumbles across a small plane-- and the rugged bush pilot who would reconnect with his estranged son. She's wary of trusting John Wolf, but sharing his wilderness home means protection from the predator on her trail. Will he be willing to risk everything to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DAIRice, Luanne.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RiceKokoris, Jim.
Summary: Drifting through life on his good looks and his wife's money, apathetic Chicago attorney Sam finds his world shattered by a violent incident and journeys to the side of a television personality nun in the hope of acquiring forgiveness and spiritual peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOKKrauss, Nicole.
Summary: Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRABrunt, Carol Rifka.
Summary: "1987. There's only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that's her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BruntSolow, Jennifer.
Summary: A Manhattan kleptomaniac remembers her childhood spent in her uncle's Madison Avenue department store, where she lived a fairy-tale existence before her recruitment into an organized South American shoplifting ring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLBrunt, Carol Rifka
Summary: Her world upended by the death of a beloved artist uncle who was the only person who understood her, fourteen-year-old June is mailed a teapot by her uncle's grieving friend, with whom June forges a poignant relationship.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRUHarbison, Elizabeth M.
Summary: After the sudden death of her husband, Ben, Willa's grief made her an absentee mother to her young son, Jamie. Years later it's time to put their Ocean City, Maryland beach house on the market. But the house is in worse shape than she could have imagined, and the memories of her time with Ben are overwhelming. She sees him around every corner-- literally. Ben's ghost keeps trying to start...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Harbison 2018Steel, Danielle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SteelSteel, Danielle.
Summary: At once a story of triumph and a moving elegy to those who suffer and survive, "Safe Harbour" is perhaps Danielle Steel's most powerful and life-affirming novel to date. At age 11, Pip Mackenzie's life has already been touched by tragedy--a terrible accident that plunged her mother, Ophelie, into inconsolable grief. But on a a beach near San Francisco, Pip meets someone who fills their gray...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: Anne Marie Roche, owner of a bookstore on Seattle's Blossom Street, marks Valentine's Day by making a wish list with other widows. Following her wish list, Anne Marie begins volunteering and meets Ellen. Together, they work to complete Anne Marie's wish list.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MACMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: Thirty-eight-year-old widow Anne Marie Roche, the owner of a successful Seattle bookstore, creates a list of twenty wishes, and, while acting upon her wishes, encounters an eight-year-old girl named Ellen who helps her complete her list--with unexpected results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACHay, Ashley
Summary: ""An absorbing and uplifting read." -M.L. Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans "This is a book in which grief and love are so entwined they make a new and wonderful kind of sense." -Fiona McFarlane, author of The Night Guest Amidst the strange, silent aftermath of World War II, a widow, a poet, and a doctor search for lasting peace and fresh beginnings in this internationally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYBerg, Elizabeth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC Berg,Hill, Patti (Patti Ann)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HILPatterson, James
Summary: Katie Wilkinson, blissfully in love, is suddenly abandoned by the man who made her happy, left with only a diary written by a new mother named Suzanne for her infant son, Nicholas--and as Katie reads, she gains a new understanding of Matt, the man who left her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATRaney, Deborah.
Summary: Unearthing a lost memory may cause Bryn to lose everything she holds dear--but could it also set her free? The night the homeless shelter burned to the ground, five heroic firefighters died at the scene. Now their survivors must find a way to begin again.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010