Phillips, Caryl
Summary: A reimagining of Wuthering Heights traces the multigenerational forces that shape the lives of a young Heathcliff, the Brontë sisters and their brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PHICampbell, Marcy
Summary: "A modern-day response to 'The Giving Tree,' this lyrical picture book shows how family love is passed down from generation to generation"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CAMShahi, Arya
Summary: "Omid needs the right words to connect with his newly met grandfather and distant Iranian heritage, words to tell a special girl what she means to him and to show everyone that he truly belongs in Tucson, Arizona, the only home he's ever known. Neither the school play's Shakespearean English nor his parents' Farsi seems up to the task, and it's only when Omid delves into the rhymes and rhythms...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allida, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC SHALowe, Mari
Summary: A long ago "accident." An isolated girl named Aviva. A community that wants to help, but doesn't know how. And a ghostly dybbuk, that no one but Aviva can see, causing mayhem and mischief that everyone blames on her. That is the setting for this suspenseful novel of a girl who seems to have lost everything, including her best friend Kayla, and a mother who was once vibrant and popular, but who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOWPhillips, Jayne Anne
Summary: "In 1874, in the wake of the Civil War, eleven-year-old ConaLee and her mother arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia. They're delivered to the hospital's entrance by Papa--an abusive veteran who forces himself into their lives--after ConaLee's mother, who hasn't spoken in a year, grows even more withdrawn. Before he departs, Papa assigns them new identities and demands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: Nicky has always known Russell was rich, but he has no idea how astronomically rich Russell is until his friend drops dead, on his 50th birthday, in his San Francisco mansion, with Nicky as the only witness. For forty years the two men have kept up their friendship, with Russell's birthday offering him an annual opportunity to remind Nicky of how much more successful Russell is, and how much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction May 2014Casanova, Mary.
Summary: Unable to speak or remember the events surrounding her mother's mysterious death eleven years earlier, sixteen-year-old Sadie Rose, the foster child of a corrupt senator in 1920s northern Minnesota, struggles to regain her voice, memory, and identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CASHoffman, Mary
Summary: Babies, Babies Everywhere! Sleeping, crying, laughing, looking, gurgling, eating, crawling...and at last toddling! Follow five families and their babies from birth to around 12 months, with all the excitements, challenges and joys of that first year with a new baby in the world. With lots to look at and point to, this diverse and inclusive celebration of babies, from the team who created The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Otter-Barry Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOFNoga, Cari
Summary: At forty-five, Jane McArdle has experienced her share of life's twists and turns. Yet she's shaken by the sudden death of her estranged half sister and the news that she's now the guardian of her orphaned niece, Lucy. Still nurturing unresolved grief from a marriage bookended by loss, as well as her guilt over her adult son's imperfect upbringing, Jane is her own worst enemy, content to focus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC NOGCarr, Lakiesha
Summary: "In this magisterial, intimate novel, debut writer Lakiesha Carr captures the essence of Black womanhood, richly articulating the private lives of a cast of women from East Texas, illuminating the grief that is carried inside them, as well as the bonds of love that both define them and give them strength. A middle-aged colon hydrotherapist feeds the slots at a secret parlor, fighting memories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCarr, Robyn
Summary: "Anna McNichol is at the peak of her career and ready to focus on her future. But when her husband dies suddenly, Anna's carefully constructed world falls apart. The mysterious young woman at the memorial service confirms her husband had been keeping secrets, and Anna is determined to get to the truth. For once, she doesn't have the answers. Her kids are struggling with their grief, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: Empty-nester Anna McNichol is ready for a new life direction, but disaster strikes when her husband dies and secrets surface. Facing challenge after challenge, she must look for support from an unexpected source.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Arthur is unhappy about going on vacation with his family, but he shows them how to make the best of a bad situation when they end up stuck in a motel because of rain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1993
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Summary: Danny North is the first Gate Mage to be born on Earth in nearly two thousand years, or at least the first to survive and claim his power, for families of Westil in exile on Earth have a treaty that requires the death of any suspected Gate Mage. The wars between the families had been terrible, until at last they realized it was their own survival in question. But a Gate Mage, one who could...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fantasy Card 2015Haddon, Mark
Summary: Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join his for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Richard has just re-married and inherited a willful stepdaughter in the process. Angela has a feckless husband and three children who sometimes seem alien to her. The stage is set for seven days of resentment and guilt, a staple of family gatherings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HADHaddon, Mark.
Summary: The set-up of Mark Haddon's brilliant new novel is simple: Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join his for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Richard has just re-married and inherited a willful stepdaughter in the process; Angela has a feckless husband and three children who sometimes seem alien to her. The stage is set for seven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HADLamprell, Mark.
Summary: "Michaelo O'Dell is hit by a car, and when he doesn't die, he is surprised and pleased. But he can't seem to move, frozen in the crash position. He can't concentrate, or control his anger and grief, or work out what to do about much of anything. His professional life begins to crumble, and although his wife Wendy is heroically supportive, his teenage children only exacerbate his post-accident...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMBeyer, Mark
Summary: What would you do if a dying stranger begged you to save his daughter and then paid you seven figures to do it? When suburban dad Terry Holbrook stops to help the quickly dying driver of an icy car wreck on a dark, lonely country road, he can't believe the bloody check thrust into his hands is worth the paper it's printed on. Yet, in no time, Terry and his family are swept into a dangerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BeyerHaddon, Mark
Summary: Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join his for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside, which results in a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams, and rising hopes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Haddon 2012Helprin, Mark
Summary: Jules is confronted headlong and all at once by a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood, and home, forcing him to grapple with his complex past and find a way forward. He risks fraud to save his terminally ill infant grandson, matches wits with a renegade insurance investigator, is drawn into an act of savage violence, and falls deeply, excitingly in love with a young cellist a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELAndrews, Mary Kay
Summary: In the crosshairs of a political bribery investigation, Dempsey Jo Killebrew suddenly finds herself unemployed and the victim of a sleazy smear campaign by her former boss. Dempsey decides to take up her father's offer of flipping a recently inherited family home in Guthrie, Ga., where she quickly slides into the renovation groove, fits in with the locals, and embarks on a romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe/HarperCollinsPublishers 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ANDMonroe, Mary Alice
Summary: "The coming of Spring usually means renewal, but for Linnea Rutledge, Spring 2020 threatens stagnation. Linnea faces another layoff, this time from the aquarium she adores. For her - and her family - finances, emotions, and health teeter at the brink. To complicate matters, her new love interest, Gordon, struggles to return to the Isle of Palms from England. Meanwhile, her old flame, John,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary Alice
Summary: At Cara Rutledge's home on Isle of Palms, everything is comfortingly the same, yet rife with painful memories. Only through reconnecting with family, friends, and the rhythms of the lowcountry can Cara release the hold of the past and open herself to the possibility of a new love, career, and hope for the future. Meanwhile, her niece Linnea, a recent college graduate who doesn't know where her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MONMonroe, Mary Alice
Summary: It's been sixteen years since Caretta "Cara" Rutledge has returned home to the beautiful shores of Charleston, South Carolina. Over those years, she has weathered the tides of deaths and births, struggles and joys. And now, as Cara prepares for her second wedding, her life is about to change yet again. Meanwhile, the rest of the storied Rutledge family is also in flux. But as excitement over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020