Patrick, Phaedra
Summary: "Ginny Splinter, acclaimed radio host and advice expert, is sure her husband, Adrian, will love the special trip to Italy she's planned for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. But when Ginny presents the gift to Adrian, he surprises her with his own very different plan--a divorce. Beside herself with heartache, Ginny impulsively invites four heartbroken listeners to join her in Italy while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: "On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie's pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko's mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death. But tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko manages to get a rash kidnapping plot off the ground . . . and then nothing goes as planned. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEClay, Dan
Summary: Mark Davis put the dress on for a joke: the other guys did it too, for the talent show. But when his boyfriend saw Mark in that dress, everything changed. Now Mark has given up on love. His older brother, Eric, tells him "Be yourself! Your full sequin-y self." When he realizes that Eric has problems of his own, Mark's escape to become someone else-- however briefly-- becomes an unexpected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLAJoella, Ethan
Summary: From the author of A Little Hope--a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick--comes an enormously powerful and life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. Set in a close-knit Pennsylvania suburb in the grip of winter, A Quiet Life follows three people grappling with loss and finding a tender wisdom in their grief. Chuck Ayers used to look forward to nothing so much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOEMiranda, Megan
Summary: A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine--a tragedy that claimed the lives of multiple classmates and teachers. The nine students who escaped the river were irrevocably changed. A year later, after one of the survivors dies by suicide, the rest of them make a pact to come together each year to commemorate that terrible night. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: "Adelaide Williams is a 20-something American, living in dreamy London. With wonderful friends and fierce ambitions, Adelaide has little interest in finding "The One" right now, but when she meets Rory Hughes on a dating app-a charming Englishman who's been placed there by fate, she swears-that all changes. All of a sudden, Adelaide finds herself completely in love. Does he respond to texts?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHESmith, Eric (Eric A.)
Summary: Follows the intertwining lives of five teens whose world is changed forever after the events at a party. Adopted Black girl Frankie struggles to see eye-to-eye with her white mother--who would rather ignore a problem and preserve their "perfect" life than stand up for what's right. Jo just wants her religious mom to accept her queer identity--and is totally crushed when her girlfriend Frankie,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMIBraunstein, Sarah
Summary: A Maine librarian is fired after a teen accuses her of spying on her romantic romps in the bathroom and reaches out to her favorite author to speak at their library and help her clear her name. A novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation through the eyes of a disgraced small-town librarian. Now that her brilliant botanist daughter is off at college, buttoned-up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: "A story of summer, secrets, love and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades. Set against the summer backwoods and beaches of Cape Cod, The Paper Palace unfolds over 24 hours and across 50 years, as decades of family legacy, love, lies, secrets, and one unspeakable childhood tragedy lead wife and mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COWCross-Smith, Leesa
Summary: "On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home when she spots a man precariously standing on the edge of a bridge. Without a second thought, Tallie pulls over and jumps out of the car into the pouring rain. She convinces the man to join her for a cup of coffee, and he eventually agrees to come back to her house, where he finally, reluctantly,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROKessler, Brad
Summary: "As a late spring blizzard brews, Brother Christopher, a cloistered monk at Blue Mountain Monastery in Vermont, rushes to tend to his Ida Red and Northern Spy apple trees in advance of the unseasonal snowstorm. When the storm lands a young Somali refugee, Sahro Abdi Muse, at the monastery, Christopher is pulled back into the world as his life intersects with Sahro's and that of an Afghan war...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KESPatrick, Phaedra
Summary: After her husband asks for a divorce on their anniversary, acclaimed radio host Ginny Splinter impulsively invites four heartbroken listeners to join her on her holiday to Italy and, with her newfound friends, embarks on a vacation of healing and second chances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: FIC PATOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? The follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OATWong, Cecily
Summary: From rags to riches, sleepy Oregon to haute New York, they are the biracial Chinese American family that built Kaleidoscope, a glittering, 'global bohemian' shopping empire sourcing luxury goods from around the world. Statuesque, design savant, and family pet--eldest daughter Morgan Brighton is most celebrated of all. Yet despite her favored status, both within the family and in the press,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022