Epstein, Jennifer Cody
Summary: East Village, 1989. Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava's father? Where had Ilse been during the war? Why had she left her only child in a German orphanage during the war's final months? But now Ilse's ashes have arrived from Germany, and with them, a trove of unsent letters addressed to someone else...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EPSCholdenko, Gennifer
Summary: With their house in foreclosure, sisters India and Mouse and brother Finn are sent to stay with an uncle in Colorado until their mother can join them, but when the plane lands, the children are welcomed by cheering crowds to a strange place where each of them has a perfect house and a clock that is ticking down the time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CHOMelamed, Jennie
Summary: A smoldering debut about an insular community on an island at the end of the world and the girls who start to question the rules that bind them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELJenner, Natalie
Summary: "Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare bookstore that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager's unbreakable fifty-one rules. But in 1950, the world is changing, especially the world of books and publishing, and at Bloomsbury Books, the girls in the shop have plans: Vivien Lowry: Single since her aristocratic fiance was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction JennerHedlund, Jody
Summary: Running from the mistakes of her past, Tessa Taylor heads to the uppermost reaches of Michigan, planning to serve as the new teacher of the children of miners. She quickly learns the town has requested a male teacher, but Percival Updegraff, superintendent and chief mine clerk, says she can stay through winter since it's too late to replace her. Tessa can't help but thank him and say she is in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HEDCondé, Maryse
Summary: Babakar is a doctor living alone, with only the memories of his African childhood. In his dreams, he receives visits from his blue-eyed mother and his ex-lover Azelia, both now gone, as are the hopes and aspirations he's carried with him since his arrival in Guadeloupe. Until, one day, the child Anais comes into his life, forcing him to abandon his solitude. Anais's Haitian mother died in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Editions 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONCoel, Margaret
Summary: When Arapaho Ned Windsong is shot to death, his fiance Marcy is the only witness. And when the men Marcy has accused of murdering her fiance are found dead in an abandoned barn, Vicky and Father John realize they are caught up in a web of lies and deceit woven by a master.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Pub. Group 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COETóibín, Colm
Summary: "Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be drawn back into it. Wounded, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOIStein, Triss
Summary: Erica Donato is researching the 1930s when Brownsville, New York, was the home of the notorious organized criminals the newspapers called Murder Inc. Two young women are found murdered. One of them, Savanna, had helped Erica at the local library. Erica digs deeper than necessary into her research and encounters an apparent derelict white man, a vengeful rejected girlfriend, the role of boxing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STESimon, Coco
Summary: Since all her Cupcake Friends have other activities besides making cupcakes, Katie tries her hand at softball and after much deliberation, steps up to the plate, realizing doing what you love always makes life sweeter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2024
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Summary: Katie starts to realize that doing what you love always makes the batter sweeter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2011
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Summary: Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women-cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives-answered their nation's call. These "munitionettes" worked grueling shifts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023
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Summary: After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life filled with love, friendships, and rewarding work--but the rise of a malevolent new political faction inexorably changes their fate....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIDornbush, Jennifer
Summary: Recently engaged and deeply ensconced in her third year of surgical residency in Chicago, Emily Hartford gets a shock when she's called home to Freeport, MI, the small town she fled a decade ago after the death of her mother. Her estranged father, the local medical examiner, has had a massive heart attack, and Emily is needed urgently to help with his recovery. Not sure what to expect, Emily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DORBardsley, Jennifer
Summary: "They're coworkers, friends, and confidants, but Peter Marshal has always pined for a little something more with Noelle Walters. As a widow and a single mom, Noelle prefers to play it safe, and falling for Peter was never part of the plan. Then again, neither of their plans accounted for the well-meaning but meddling actions of Peter's sister, who offers him up as their town's most eligible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BARBlake, Jennifer
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: "Summer Sullivan, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, has spent the last two years pursuing a master's degree in history at the University of Chicago. Her unexpected return home to the celebrated quilter's retreat is met with delight but also concern from her mother, Gwen; her best friend, Sarah; master quilter Sylvia; and her other colleagues--and rightly so. Stymied by writer's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEDornbush, Jennifer
Summary: "July 1989, in a sleepy Michigan town, high school grad, Nina Laramie, heads out with her friends and is never seen alive again. Months later, her skeleton is found near a remote party spot in the forest.The ME determines Nina has been brutally raped and bludgeoned to death. Fear and anger ripple through this tight knit community when the case goes cold.Thirty years later, Riley St. James, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ally Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 364.1 DorHaigh, Jennifer
Summary: Bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town and the conflicting forces at its heart - hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIMcMahon, Jennifer
Summary: "Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call. Mavis, Alison's estranged mother, has been diagnosed with cancer and has only weeks to live. She wants to spend her remaining days with her daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters. But Alison grew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MCMSkogen, Jennifer
Summary: What really happened during the Fire of 1966? Go back in time and see the famous tragedy through the eyes of student Henry Grey, and history teacher Lorna Evans. Henry's uncle, Principle Grey, is teaching Henry to fight ghosts, but is there something his uncle isn't telling him? Lorna returns to Grey Hills after inheriting her father's house. She also inherits an urn of her grandfather's ashes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SKOSteil, Jennifer
Summary: "An atmospheric and meditative novel based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, following a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia. As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother is a well-regarded opera...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEWeiner, Jennifer
Summary: "A smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters' lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find their places--and be true to themselves--in a rapidly evolving world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WEIEgan, Jennifer.
Summary: Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs, confront their pasts in this story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and how art and music have the power to redeem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2011