Ginder, Grant

Summary: "This rollicking book has it all: sex, lies, and scenery. Grant Ginder weaves a wonderful, engrossing multi-generational family story, with the Greek isles as a backdrop so beautiful that the reader will want to dive in"--Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and Modern Lovers. An irresistible, deftly observed novel about family, regret, and vacation by the author of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ginder 2019

Ginder, Grant

Summary: "Relationships are awful. They'll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life. Paul and Alice's half-sister Eloise is getting married! In London! There will be fancy hotels, dinners at "it" restaurants and a reception at a country estate complete with tea lights and embroidered cloth napkins. They couldn't hate it more. The People We Hate at the Wedding is the story of a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017

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Wilber, Rick

Summary: "The year 2030 sees a new era in social media with sweepcasting, a multisensory interface that can convey every thought, touch, smell, sight, and sound, immersing the audience in another person's experience. By fate, chance, or some darker design, Peter is perfectly positioned to be the one human to document the arrival of the aliens, the S'hudonni, [who] offer advanced science in exchange for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2016

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Furst, Joshua

Summary: Luna outgrows her stroller just as Ernie needs one, and when he outgrows it he passes it along to Gigi, and soon many different families have received and shared the gift.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2019

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Silber, Joan

Summary: "The novel begins with the character of Ethan, a lawyer living in New York City who tells us the story of his family's life just as they learn his father - a textile manufacturer who spent long trips throughout Asia - has fathered a secret family from a woman he met on one of his trips and set up in a house in Queens. From here, we move to different related characters as the novel expands...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021

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Alharthi, Jokha

Summary: In the village of al-Awafi in Oman live three sisters. Mayya Marries after a heartbreak. Asma marries from a sense of duty. Khawla rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. Celestial Bodies is the story of the history and people of modern Oman told through one family's losses and loves.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2019

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Wilde, Lori

Summary: It was a story that couldn't possibly be true: identical twins, separated at birth. Anna Drury wouldn't have believed it, but the woman standing before her was physically alike her in every way, and held in her hands a keepsake baby bracelet, the same as Anna had. How could it be? Anna, with her tall, strong husband and two adorable children, grew up loved and secure, and she freely opens her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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Feldman, Joshua Max

Summary: "The author of the critically acclaimed The Book of Jonah explores questions of love and choice, disappointment and hope in the lives of two strangers who meet by chance in this mesmerizing tale that unfolds over one Thanksgiving Day. Adam is a former musician and recovering alcoholic who is home for Thanksgiving for the first time in many years. Surrounded by his parents and siblings, nieces...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2017

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Miller, Jeff R.

Summary: While his mother waits for a life-saving heart transplant, eleven-year-old Graham Dodds sets out to find an endangered Snail Kite in the Florida Everglades.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2023

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Miller, Emily Jeanne.

Summary: Leaving his wife after discovering her with another man, stay-at-home dad Logan packs up his four-year-old son and embarks on a journey that takes him to his late father's cabin, where he seeks unexpected redemption at the side of his father's young widow.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012

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Miller, Nathaniel Ian

Summary: "In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year and he might witness the splendor of the Northern Lights one night and be attacked by a polar bear the next. But his time in a mining camp ends when an avalanche nearly kills him, leaving him disfigured, after which Sven flees even farther,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

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