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Family secrets Fiction Female friendship Fiction France France History German occupation, 1940-1945 Fiction Mothers and daughters Mothers and daughters Fiction Russian Americans Fiction Sisters Fiction Women booksellers France Paris Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Women France FictionRiggle, Kristina.
Summary: "Trish isn't perfect. She's divorced and raising two kids-so of course her house isn't pristine. But she's got all the important things right and she's convinced herself that she has it all under control. That is, until the day her youngest son gets hurt and Child Protective Services comes calling. It's at that moment when Trish is forced to consider the one thing she's always hoped wasn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION RIGRiggle, Kristina
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Morgan Monetti shocks her parents and her community with one simple act: She chooses to stand by the man everyone else believes has exploited her, popular high school teacher TJ Hill. Quietly walking across a crowded courtroom to sit behind TJ, and not beside her parents, she announces herself as the adult she believes herself to be. But her mother Dinah wants justice. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIGElgar, Emily
Summary: A small town's beloved family. A shocking, senseless crime--and the dark secret at the heart of it all. Everyone in Ashford, Cornwall, knows Meg Nichols and her daughter, Grace. Meg has been selflessly caring for Grace for years, and Grace--smiling and optimistic in spite of her many illnesses--adores her mother. So when Meg is found brutally bludgeoned in her bed and her daughter missing, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ELGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELGAcker, Monica
Summary: When a young girl's fish-wrestling, spider-wrangling mom becomes an illness-fighting mom, they explore together what it means to be strong, brave, and fierce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ACKCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ACKDodd, Christina
Summary: Kellen Adams has three deadly problems: She seriously offended a maniacal killer ; she just had a bullet removed from her brain; and, her new daughter is growing up too fast-- and she's in the line of fire. Living on an obscure, technology-free island off California should mean safety from the murderer who hunts Kellen and her new family. But as family time becomes terror-time, Kellen faces a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DODCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DODDodd, Christina
Summary: "Kellen Adams suffers from a yearlong gap in her memory. A bullet to the brain will cause that. But she's discovering the truth, and what she learns changes her life, her confidence, her very self. She finds herself in the wilderness, on the run, unprepared, her enemies unknown--and she is carrying a priceless burden she must protect at all costs. The consequences of failure would break her....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DODCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DODCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DODSchwarz, Christina.
Summary: Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and young niece, Ruth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHAngel-Ajani, Asale
Summary: "A debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the California desert"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANGMcDonald, Christina
Summary: "Eva Hansen wakes in the hospital after being struck by lightning and discovers her mother, Kat, has been murdered. Eva was found unconscious down the street. She can't remember what happened but the police are highly suspicious of her. Determined to clear her name, Eva heads from Seattle to London--Kat's former home--for answers. But as she unravels her mother's carefully held secrets, Eva...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDMcDonald, Christina
Summary: "In the small hours of the morning, Abi Knight is startled awake by the phone call no mother ever wants to get: her teenage daughter Olivia has fallen off a bridge. Not only is Olivia brain dead, she's pregnant and must remain on life support to keep her baby alive. And then Abi sees the angry bruises circling Olivia's wrists. When the police unexpectedly rule Olivia's fall an accident, Abi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDDalcher, Christina
Summary: "A chilling look into an alternate near future where a woman and her daughter seek refuge in a women-only colony, only to find that the safe haven they were hoping for is the most dangerous place they could be. Miranda Reynolds always thought she would rather die than live in Femlandia. But that was before the country sank into total economic collapse and her husband walked out in the harshest,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DALGarza, Amber
Summary: Tatum hasn't seen her daughter, Adrienne, in years, not since Tatum's husband--the pastor in their small California town--all but disowned her. When she finally gathers the courage to secretly reconnect with Adrienne, Tatum's thrilled she's even willing to talk to her. But then--Adrienne disappears. Tatum tries desperately to get the police or her husband to take her daughter's disappearance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARGarza, Amber
Summary: Whitney had some misgivings when she dropped her increasingly moody teenage daughter, Amelia, off at Lauren's house. She'd never met the parents, and usually she'd go in, but Amelia clearly wasn't going to let something so humiliating happen, so instead Whitney waved to her daughter before pulling away from the little house with the yellow roses in front. But when she goes back the next day, an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GARHannah, Kristin
Summary: With her wedding day approaching, Claire Cavenaugh prepares to confront her estranged older sister and self-absorbed mother after more than twenty years apart and find out how to transform themselves into a family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks 2009
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Summary: Meredith and Nina are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard, the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their father falls ill, Meredith and Nina find themselves together again, standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now, offers no comfort...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 310 FIC HANHarmel, Kristin
Summary: "Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change. When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life--her young daughter, playmate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHannah, Kristin.
Summary: Half-sisters Meghann Dontess, a high-powered lawyer, and Claire Cavenaugh, a single mother who helps run a campground, meet again years after being abandoned by their mother when Claire announces her intention to marry thrice-divorced country crooner Bobby Austin, but the sisters learn they may have waited too long for a reunion when Claire is diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Ballantine Pub. Group 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HanHannah, Kristin.
Summary: Meredith and Nina are as different as sisters can be. When their father falls ill, they find themselves together, standing with their cold, disapproving mother, Anya. As children their only connection was the Russian fairy tale Anya often told the girls at night. On his deathbed, their father extracts a promise: the fairy tale will be told one last time--and all the way to the end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction HannahHannah, Kristin
Summary: In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France ... but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When France is overrun, Vianne is forced to take an enemy into her house,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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Summary: The dying wish of a loving father ignites a family drama that brings two sisters and their acid-tongued, Russian-born mother together in a story that reaches back to WWII Leningrad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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Summary: A follow-up to "Firefly Lane" returns readers to the world of Tully, Kate, and Tully's mother, who explore their understandings about love, family, loss, and redemption while turning to each other in the hopes of salvaging their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hannah 2013Hannah, Kristin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANHarmel, Kristin
Summary: Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change. When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life her young daughter, playmate to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARHannah, Kristin.
Summary: Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father fails ill, Meredith and Nina find themselves together again, standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now offers no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010