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Businesswomen Fiction Conflict of generations Fiction Family-owned business enterprises Fiction Inheritance and succession Fiction Large type books London (England) Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Marital conflict Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Self-actualization (Psychology) in women FictionCortese, Katie
Summary: A girl afflicted with pyrokinesis tries to control her fire-starting long enough to go to a dance with a boy she likes. A woman trapped in a stalled marriage is excited by an alluring ex-con who enrolls in her YMCA cooking class. A teen accompanies her mother, a prestigious poet, to a writing conference where she navigates a misguided attraction to a married writer -- who is, in turn, attracted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COREicher, Jerry S.
Summary: Emma Raber has refused to remarry since her daughter Katie's daett died soon after she was born. And in an effort to keep Katie home, she has forbidden her from participating in the rumspringa tradition. When widower Jesse Mast calls for Mamm's hand in marriage, Katie hopes to move into a new phase of life and leave the old "Emma Raber's daughter" behind. But sparks fly when Jesse's children...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EICGamble, Terry.
Summary: Returning to her family summer home near Lake Michigan after an eleven-year absence, Maddie Addison struggles to reconnect with people she has long avoided, including a mother whose life was compromised by her husband's rigid mores.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2005
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Summary: In this tale that explores the themes of class, women's rights and domestic abuse in the 1970s American South, the author returns to her classic Southern setting in the Isle of Palms with the sequel to her novel The Beach House. She weaves together issues of class, women's rights, and domestic abuse set in the tumultuous South during the 1970s as she tells the story of Olivia, "Lovie" Rutledge,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONAustin, Lynn N.
Summary: "Lynn Austin presents a tale of family secrets, forgiveness, and reconcilation in the story of three generations of women: Kathleen, her mother, Eleanor, and her grandmother, Fiona. Each woman left home to escape her family's past and to start a new life"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AUSHadley, Tessa.
Summary: After growing up in a household with no male family members, Joyce works to protect her nuclear family and wonders why her own daughter rejects domestic life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HADBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: Emma Harte's great-granddaughters find themselves at a crossroads involving family values, traditions, new romance, and business, in the final episode of the Harte family saga.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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Summary: Just as Carolyn had formed a stronger bond with her Oma Marta than with her mother, so Carolyn's daughter is drawn to her grandma more than to a mom who's caught up in the 1960s counterculture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RIVFox, Lauren.
Summary: "The story of a woman who, in the wake of her best friend's sudden death, must face the crisis in her marriage, the fury of her almost-teenage daughter, and the possibility of opening her cantankerous heart to someone new"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOXBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: Linnet O'Neill, great-granddaughter of Emma Harte, finds herself following in the footsteps of the original woman of substance as she battles to modernize the family business. Returning from her honeymoon full of fresh ideas for bringing the Harte empire into the new century, Linnet locks horns with her mother, Paula, in a battle about the future. But due to unexpected circumstances, Linnet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRACain, James M. (James Mallahan)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAIRivers, Francine
Summary: In a saga set from the 1950s to the present, the rift between mother and daughter is examined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2010