Nair, Kamala.
Summary: When Rakhee Singh is ten years old, her mother takes her from their Minnesota home to visit relatives in India. There she discovers a family secret that will haunt her. Only as a woman on the verge of marriage does Rakhee find the strength to confront the events of that summer and face the price of secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAIJohnson, Sarai
Summary: "A novel about four generations of Black women contending with motherhood and daughterhood, generational trauma and the deeply ingrained tensions and wounds that divide them as they redefine happiness and healing for themselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2024
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Summary: Raised in a conservative and emotionally volatile Palestinian family in Brooklyn, Yara thought she would finally feel free when she married a charming entrepreneur who took her to the suburbs. She's gotten to follow her dreams, completing an undergraduate degree in Art and landing a good job at the local college. As a traditional wife, she also raises their two school-aged daughters, takes care...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUMBandele, Asha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANVijay, Madhuri
Summary: "Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner Madhuri Vijay's The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present. In the wake of her mother's death, Kalyani, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIJFielding, Joy
Summary: "A lifetime ago, every year Carole Shipley looked forward to her wedding anniversary. But then a celebratory trip to Mexico for the occasion with her husband and friends ended in the unsolved kidnapping of her infant daughter, Samantha. Now, fifteen years after that horrific time, divorced and isolated, Carole is forced to relive the kidnapping by reporters who call every year on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIEGould, Judith.
Summary: After her father's suicide, Tracey Sullivan finds her birth certificate with a different name and a photograph of the mother who abandoned her, and Tracey recognizes her as Urania Vickers, a famous movie star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GOULeavitt, Caroline
Summary: "As a teenager, for a moment, Ella Fitchburg found love--yearning, breathless love--that consumed both her and her boyfriend, Jude, as they wandered the streets of New York City together. But her life was unexpectedly upended when she was accused of trying to murder Jude's father, an imperious superior court judge, and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. When she learns she's pregnant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEALyon, Rachel
Summary: An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld. Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LYOFielding, Joy
Summary: Haunted by the kidnapping of her infant fifteen years earlier, Carole Shipley receives a phone call from a young girl claiming to be her lost daughter, an event that plunges Carole back into a world of heartbreak, suspicion, and questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction FieNguyen, K. T.
Summary: "In this heart-pounding debut thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Celeste Ng, a first-generation Vietnamese American artist must confront nightmares past and present. ... Annie "Anh Le" Shaw grew up poor, but seems to have it all now: a dream career, a stunning home, and a devoted husband and daughter. When Annie's mother, a Vietnam War refugee, dies suddenly one night, Annie's carefully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUHooper, Kim
Summary: "Emily Morris got her happily-ever-after earlier than most. Married at a young age to a man she loves passionately, she is building the life she always wanted. But when her mother-in-law becomes chronically ill, enormous stress threatens her marriage. Emily watches helplessly as the devotion Drew once showed her is transferred to his ailing mother. When she's thrust into an enforced caretaker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATMurphy, Jennifer
Summary: "Part mystery, part coming-of-age story, and part tragedy, Scarlet In Blue, by acclaimed novelist Jennifer Murphy, traces the lives of a mother and daughter who, because of their fugitive lifestyle and the pain that overshadows it, share a dependence and a love so strong neither can imagine life without the other. Fifteen-year-old Blue Lake is a budding pianist who resents her mother Scarlet's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MurphyGunnis, Emily
Summary: A tragic death. A missing baby. A long-kept secret... 1960. Thirteen-year-old Rebecca lives in fear of her father's temper. As a storm batters Seaview Cottage one night, she hears a visitor at the door and a violent argument ensues. By the time the police arrive, Rebecca's parents are dead and the visitor has fled. No one believes Rebecca heard a stranger downstairs... 2014. Iris, a journalist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Headline Review 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNClement, Jennifer
Summary: Born in a rural Mexico region where girls are disguised as boys to avoid the attentions of traffickers, Ladydi dreams of a better life before moving to Mexico City, where she falls in love and ends up in a prison with other women who share her experiences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLECadwalladr, Carole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CADGordon, Mary
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GORCadwalladr, Carole.
Summary: Presents a novel narrated by pop culture researcher Rebecca Monroe who tells of her marriage to a behavioral geneticist, her childhood and mother's suicide, her grandmother's biracial marriage and all the other family secrets that seem to control her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CADYoerg, Sonja Ingrid
Summary: "In this compelling and poignant debut novel, a woman skilled at caring for animals must learn to mend the broken relationships in her family. For veterinarian Geneva Novak, animals can be easier to understand than people. They're also easier to forgive. But when her mother, Helen, is injured in a vodka-fueled accident, it's up to Geneva to give her the care she needs. Since her teens, Geneva...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Accent 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOEDrabble, Margaret
Summary: Divorced and estranged from her grown daughters, Candida Wilton moves to a rundown flat well below her means and finds exhilaration in her self-imposed poverty, during which she confides her thoughts to a computer and makes friends with new peers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRABrasfield, Lynette.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAGordon, Mary
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GORHuntley, Swan.
Summary: Feeling empty in spite of the wealth that affords her a luxurious Manhattan apartment, designer accessories, and fine art, Catherine West pursues a relationship with the son of a family friend who her Alzheimer's patient mother only remembers negatively.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016