Pride, Christine
Summary: Cinnamon Haynes has fought hard for a life she never thought was possible--a good man by her side, a steady job as a career counselor at a local community college, and a cozy house in a quaint little beach town. It may not look like much, but it's more than she ever dreamed of or what her difficult childhood promised. Her life's mantra is to be good, quiet, grateful. Until something shifts and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PRIGrillo, Christine
Summary: The year is 2023, and things are bad -- bad, but still not as bad as they could be. Hestia Harris is forty-two, abandoned by her husband (he left to fight for the Union cause), and estranged from her parents (they're leaving for the Confederacy). Yes, the United States has collapsed into a second civil war and again it's Unionists against Confederates, children against parents, friends against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIKline, Christina Baker
Summary: Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KLICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KLINelson, Christina Suzann
Summary: Popular podcaster and ex-reporter Faith Byrne made a name for herself telling stories of greatness after tragedy, but her real life does not mirror the stories she tells. While her daughters spend the summer in Hawaii with her ex-husband and his new wife, she must manage life on her own. All of that changes when she's asked to spotlight her childhood best friend's missing person case on her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC NELWiggs, Susan
Summary: At the break of dawn, Caroline Shelby returns home to Oysterville, Washington, a tiny coastal hamlet, a place she thought she'd left forever. With her are two orphaned children for whom she is now legal guardian, a role she's not sure she's ready for. But the town has changed. For solace, Caroline returns to her favorite place: the sewing shop owned by Mrs. Lindy Bloom, where she discovers that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019