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Carie, Jamie.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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

Hemingway, Mariel.

Summary: "A moving, compelling memoir about growing up and escaping the tragic legacy of mental illness, suicide, addiction, and depression in one of America's most famous families: the Hemingways"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 HEMINGWAY, MARIEL HEM

Meloy, Maile.

Summary: Continuing the family saga of her first novel, "Liars and Saints," Meloy's second follows Abby Collins from the age of seven, when her feckless mother and sober father separate, to her success as a young novelist. The kernel of the story is a melodrama involving her uncle Jamie, who rescues her first from the boredom of her childhood illness and then, later, from grief after the sudden death of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006

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

Piercy, Marge.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1994

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

Dawson, Maddie

Summary: "Marnie McGraw is marrying the man of her dreams when she meets Blix Holliday, her fiancé's irascible matchmaking great-aunt who's dying. When her marriage ends after two miserable weeks, Marnie is shocked. She's even more astonished to find that she's inherited Blix's Brooklyn brownstone and all of Blix's unfinished 'projects' to follow in Blix's matchmaker footsteps"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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

Binchy, Maeve

Summary: Collects the best of the author's essays from five decades of the "Irish Times" to reflect a changing culture as well as her observations on such topics as the royal wedding, waitressing, and boring airline companions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2014

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 824 BIN

Bank, Melissa.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005

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

Runyan, Aimie K.

Summary: In 1667, an invisible wall separates settlers in New France from their Huron neighbors. Yet whether in the fledgling city of Quebec or within one of the native tribes, every woman’s fate depends on the man she chooses—or is obligated—to marry. Although Claudine Deschamps and Gabrielle Giroux both live within the settlement, their prospects are very different. French-born Claudine has followed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017

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

Binchy, Maeve.

Summary: In the Irish town of Schancarrig, the young carve their initials--and those of their loves-into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarrig's closed doors, or Dr. Jims, the village doctor, who knows all the rest, realizes that not everything in the placid village is what it seems.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1992

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

Stack, Andy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 STA

Beck, Jamie

Summary: Claire McKenna knows about loss. The bullet wound that ended her promising professional tennis career drove her to make a quiet life for herself working with fabric samples, chatting with her book group, and spending time with her parents in her sleepy coastal Connecticut hometown. There was a boyfriend who dumped her to pursue her adventurous childhood friend. Claire's business has hit a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

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

Walsh, Marcie.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M WAL

Ford, Jamie

Summary: A half-Chinese orphan whose mother sacrificed everything to give him a better chance is raffled off as a prize at Seattle's 1909 World's Fair, only to land in the ownership of the madam of a notorious brothel where he finds friendship and opportunities, in a story based on true events.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Escobar, Mario

Summary: "Madrid, 1934. Though the Spanish Civil War has not yet begun, the streets of Madrid have become dangerous for thirteen-year-old Marco Alcalde and his younger sisters, Isabel and Ana. When Marco's parents align themselves against General Franco and his fascist regime, they have no inkling that their ideals will endanger them and everyone they love--nor do they predict the violence that is to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ESC

Escobar, Mario

Summary: August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys' parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt's care until they can find safe harbor for their family. But before the Steins can reunite, a great and terrifying roundup occurs. The French gendarmes, under Nazi order, arrest the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ESC

Ford, Jamie

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Summary: "Dorothy Moy channels her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. When her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has come to haunt her. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Freveletti, Jamie.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010

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

Beck, Jamie

Summary: "Steffi Lockwood has survived more than most. Now left with puzzling memory lapses following an assault, she returns to her coastal Connecticut hometown to rebuild her life the best way she knows how: with her hands. But starting a remodeling business with one longtime friend puts her in the middle of a rift with another. Worse, being hired by her ex-boyfriend's mother forces her to confront...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

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

Binchy, Maeve.

Summary: A story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new in Ireland.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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

Binchy, Maeve.

Summary: "While she was writing columns for The Irish Times and her best-selling novels, Maeve Binchy also had in mind to write a book that revolved around one street with many characters coming and going. Every once in a while, she would write about one these people. She would then put it in a drawer. "For the future," she would say. The future is now. Just around the corner from St. Jarlath's Crescent...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Binchy 2014

Binchy, Maeve.

Summary: When Nöel learns that his former flame is terminally ill and pregnant with a child she claims is his, he agrees to take care of the baby girl once she's born. But as a recovering alcoholic whose demons are barely under control, he can't do it alone. Luckily, he has an amazing network of family and friends who are ready to help. A tale of joy, heartbreak and hope in a close-knit Dublin community.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Binchy 2011

Binchy, Maeve.

Summary: Follows the efforts of Chicky who, with the help of Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the place) and her niece Orla (a whiz at business), turns a coastal Ireland mansion into a holiday resort and receives an assortment of first guests who throughout the course of a week share laughter and the heartache of respective challenges -- John, the American movie star who thinks he has...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP Fiction Binchy 2012

Hauck, Rachel

Summary: Elle loves her comfortable life in Beaufort, South Carolina, but after being swept off her feet by the pastor of her church, she must decide if she will move with him to his new church in a different state, leaving behind the people and place she loves so dearly. As if things aren't complicated enough, she has recently developed a close friendship with her new tenant, a widower, and his daughter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009

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Benedict, Marie

Summary: In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021

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