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Webber, Heather S.

Summary: "Sadie Way Scott has been avoiding her family and hometown of Sugarberry Cove, Alabama, since she nearly drowned in the lake just outside her mother's B&B. Eight years later, Sadie is the host of a much-loved show about southern cooking and family, but despite her success, she wonders why she was saved. What is she supposed to do? Sadie's sister, Leala Clare, is still haunted by the guilt she...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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Macomber, Debbie.

Summary: Revisiting the town of Cedar Cove, Washington, this new novel centers around Corrie McAfee and her husband, a private investigator, as they solve a mystery from their past, while their daughter Linette moves back home and opens a new medical clinic and finds unexpected romance.

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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2010

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Shipman, Viola

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Summary: "Devastated by the sudden death of her mother -- a quiet, loving and intensely private Southern seamstress called Miss Mabel, who overflowed with pearls of Ozarks wisdom but never spoke of her own family -- Sutton Douglas makes the impulsive decision to pack up and head north to the Michigan resort town where she believes she'll find answers to the lifelong questions she's had about not only...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC SHI

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Shipman

Lukasik, Gail

Summary: Nurse Nellie Lester can't escape death. Fleeing Chicago at the height of the 1918 Spanish flu, she takes a nursing job at a decrepit mansion on a desolate Michigan island, convinced the island holds the secret to her mother's murky past. The only problem? Her dead mother seems to have followed her there. Nightly she's haunted by a ghostly presence that appears in her bedroom. But is it her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: CamCat Publishing, LLC 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LUK

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUK

Leavitt, Caroline

1 hold on 2 copies

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 LEA

Acampora, Lauren

Summary: "Celebrated by the Boston Globe as "a brilliant anthropologist of the suburbs," the seductively weird and darkly offbeat Lauren Acampora returns to the lush world that got us all hooked on the NPR Best Book of the Year The Wonder Garden, drawing us into the secret lives of a polished Connecticut haven and jolting us with the sparks that fly when those lives collide. Formerly a model and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ACA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACA

Méndez, Jasminne

Summary: A novel-in-verse about a 12-year-old Dominican American girl who must keep her love of swimming a secret from her mother, is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis, and is forced to reimagine the person she is to become.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MEN

Chouhan, Anu

Summary: Meenu discovers the magic in her culture's tradition of hair oiling, and the bond she shares with her mother and grandmother. Includes Meenu's magic hair day tips.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHO

McNeil, Gretchen

Summary: Izzy and her family welcome foreign exchange student Alberto into their home, but after a series of mishaps and coincidences, and with a serial killer on the loose, Izzy begins to suspect Alberto is not who he seems.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCN

Kamal, Sheena

Summary: "Find your enemy. Before he finds you. Nora Watts has a talent for seeing what lies beneath strangers' surfaces, and for knowing what they're working hard to keep hidden. Somehow, it's the people closest to her she has trouble truly connecting with. In the case of Bonnie, the teenage daughter Nora gave up for adoption, she has to keep trying. For Bonnie has a target on her back--and it's all...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAM

Thayne, RaeAnne

Summary: "As the older sibling to identical twins Violet and Lily, Cami Porter was always the odd sister out. The divide grew even wider when their parents split up--while the twins stayed in Cape Sanctuary with their free-spirited mother, Rosemary, fourteen-year-old Cami moved to LA with her attorney father. Nearly twenty years later, when Cami gets the terrible news that Lily has drowned saving a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC THA

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Thayne 2022

Miranda, Megan

17 holds on 11 copies

Summary: "When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town--and people--she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge ... including evidence...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIR

Anganuzzi, Clara

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Ayla lives on a beautiful tropical island surrounded by a coral reef. Her mom is a marine biologist, and every day, the two go exploring together. One day, Ayla notices that many of the fish have disappeared, and the once-vibrant corals have turned pale. She and her mom set out to save the corals--but is it too late?"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales 2024

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ANG

Cox, Amanda

Summary: "Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until his untimely death sends her world into a tailspin. She suddenly finds she must deal with a new part owner of the family business--one who is looking to sell the property. Beck cannot fathom why her father would put her into the position to lose everything they built together. When Callie Peterson...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023

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Van Meter, Crissy

Summary: "Winter Island, off the coast of Southern California. Evangeline grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island's world-famous strain of marijuana, Winter Wonderland. Tomorrow Evie is getting married-- but on the eve of the wedding a dead whale becomes lodged in the bay; the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother shows up...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAN

Rum, Etaf

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 RUM

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUM

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUM

Brock, Kimberly

Summary: "Based on real history and alternating between the story of war widow Alice searching for identity in the 1940s and excerpts from Eleanor Dare's Commonplace Book and the tale of her harrowing survival, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of female history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Patterson, Sue

Summary: Laurie surprises her mother, "Dr. Liz", with a mother-daughter vacation in Paris, France--one that brings to light a lifetime of secrets.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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Steel, Danielle

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Summary: Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband's venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024

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Sumner, Jamie

Summary: When her mother is injured in a car accident, twelve-year-old Franny tries to keep their fragile world intact by taking over her mom's cleaning jobs.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SUM

Gerritsen, Tess

Summary: "Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are newly plagued by what seems like a completely senseless murder. Sofia Suarez, a widow and nurse who was universally liked by her neighbors, lies bludgeoned to death in her own home. But anything can happen behind closed doors, and Sofia seemed to have plenty of secrets in her last days, making covert phone calls to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GER

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Gerritsen

Glasgow, Kathleen

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Summary: Tiger, sixteen, has been pushing away from her overprotective mother, but when her mother dies suddenly Tiger must learn to live when it feels she is surrounded by darkness.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019

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Murphy, 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, Call number: FIC MUR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Murphy

Dev, Sonali

Summary: "When sixty-five-year-old Bindu Desai inherits a million dollars, she's astounded--and horrified. The windfall threatens to expose a shameful mistake from her youth. Desperate to keep the secret, Bindu quickly spends it on something unexpected: a condo in a posh retirement community in Florida. The impulsive decision blindsides Bindu's daughter-in-law, Aly. At forty-seven, Aly still shares a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mindy's Book Studio 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEV

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEV

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dev

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