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Taylor, Mary Ellen

Summary: "As a hospice nurse, Zara Mitchell has already seen more death than most people will experience in a lifetime. So when her older sister asks her to help care for their ailing grandmother, Zara agrees - despite strained family relationships. Though pale and tired, Nonna has lost none of her sharp mind. She's fixated on finding something long forgotten, and she immediately puts Zara to work...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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Mirren, Lilly

Summary: "After her grandmother's death, Reeda Summer decides to try to solve a family mystery and run from her troubled marriage; following the clues in her grandmother's journals to Italy. Under the Italian sky, Reeda discovers that the joy she was searching for was hidden inside her all along. And instead of running from her problems, she embraces the healing she needs to face them."--Publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Lab Press 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MIR

Hoover, Colleen

Summary: "Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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McQuestion, Karen

Summary: "Joe Arneson's ordinary life is upended by troubling dreams of himself as a different man in another place and time. It isn't until he visits his estranged grandmother, Pearl, in her Wisconsin hometown that a startling connection emerges. Drawn into his family's past, Joe discovers secrets weighing on the old woman's soul: the tragic death of her sister Alice a half century ago and its ripple...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCQ

Macomber, Debbie

Summary: Lindsay Snyder returns to Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, to visit her old family house, "to explore family secrets and to reevaluate her life," and decides to stay.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2023

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAC

Frank, Victoria Benton

Summary: In this gripping tale of self-discovery, Victoria Benton Frank introduces us to Maggie, a South Carolina transplant in New York City struggling to find her place in the world. When she receives a phone call from her troubled sister, Violet, Maggie must return to her hometown of Sullivan's Island, where she uncovers shocking secrets about her family's past. Upon her arrival, Maggie is confronted...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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Willett, Marcia

Summary: "A busy mom of twins, Liv is looking forward to a week at the Beach Hut--even if she feels that something's not right between her and Matt. She's sure he's just too busy at work to join them on their summer holiday, not that he wants time alone. Baz, her father-in-law, loves having his family stay by the sea; but when an unexpected guest arrives, he finds himself torn between the past and the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WIL

Badani, Sejal

Summary: Nothing prepares Jaya, A New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi -- her grandmother's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Badani 2018

Bradford, Barbara Taylor

Summary: James Lionel Falconer has become the right-hand man of the head of London's most prestigious shipping company. Can James continue to be the master of his own fate, even after entering the lion's den?

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BRA

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

Chappell, Connie

Summary: When Callie MacCallum sews her first quilt after the death of her lover Jack Sebring, she doesn't realize she'll be drawn into a Sebring family battle between wife and daughter-in-law. She simply wants to fulfill her promise to Jack to visit their cabin in the West Virginia mountains, where their long love affair was safely hidden. Instead, her emotionally reminiscent trip becomes crowded with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rose Writing 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHA

Evans, Richard Paul

Summary: "After nearly two decades, Noel Post, an editor for a major New York publishing house, returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC EVA

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

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Evans 2021

Hoffman, Alice

Summary: "The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three hundred years, but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger - the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HOF

Hoffman, Alice

Summary: "The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger-the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man's life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOF

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOF

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOF

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOF

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOF

Mirren, Lilly

Summary: "Set against the backdrop of the golden sands and crystal clear waters of Cabarita Beach, three sisters inherit an inn and discover a mystery about their grandmother's past that changes everything they thought they knew of their family... Bindi Summer, the hard-working manager at The Waratah Inn is tired, feeling low, and wondering where her life is headed. Then, she is blind-sided by a shock...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Lab Press 2020

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Rose, M. J.

Summary: "A young painter's traumatic past threatens to derail her career at a prestigious summer artists' colony run by Louis Comfort Tiffany of Tiffany & Co. fame"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Rose 2018

Garwood, Julie

Summary: "Family secrets and a hidden past-a woman's search to uncover the truth ignites danger and passion in the latest novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Julie Garwood. Cordelia Kane has always been a daddy's girl-her father raised her alone after her mother died in a car crash when Cordelia was just two years old. So when he has a serious heart attack, Cordelia is devastated, and the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2014

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

Goodnight, Linda

Summary: Memories of motherhood and marriage are fresh for Julia Presley, though tragedy took away both years ago. Finding comfort in the routine of running the Peach Orchard Inn, she lets the historic, mysterious place fill the voids of love and family, until a stranger with a young boy and soul-deep secrets shows up in her Tennessee town and disrupts the loneliness of her world. Julia suspects there's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2015

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOO

Howard, Rosie

Summary: Maddy fled the idyllic market town of Havenbury Magna three years ago, the scene of a traumatic incident she revisits most clearly in her dreams. Even so, when she is called back to help at the Havenbury Arms when her godfather Patrick suffers a heart attack, she is unprepared for the welter of emotions her return provokes. Psychologist and ex-army officer Ben is sure he can help Maddy to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Allison & Busby 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOW

Joyce, Jessica

Summary: "Two high school enemies must reunite for a road trip inspired by their grandparents' broken engagement in this electric debut romance. Noelle Shepherd is unemployed, living with her parents, and grieving the loss of her beloved grandmother when she discovers decades-old photos of Gram and a smitten man, tucked alongside a love letter. She creates a TikTok to search for the mystery man, which...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOY

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOY

Andrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)

Summary: Married to the handsome, wealthy Garland Foxworth following a wildfire romance, and an unexpected pregnancy, young Corrine Dixon finds her life very different from how she imagined it. Often alone in the mansion of Foxworth Hall, she can practically feel the ancestors' judgment of her as insufficient--as not a Foxworth. Stern portraits glare at her from the walls, and the servants treat her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC AND

Boyadjian, Maral

Summary: It is 1913 and late summer in the Ottoman Empire. The sun rises, full and golden, atop a lush, centuries-old village tucked into the highlands where the blood-red poppies bloom. Outside the village leader's home, the sound of voices carries past the grapevines to the lane where Anno, his youngest daughter, slips out unseen. She heads to a secret meeting place. She forgets that enemies surround...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Salor Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOY

Burke, Alafair

Summary: "When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters--one the dead man's widow, the other his ex--must set aside mistrust and old resentments. but can they escape their past? Though Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she always seemed to be in charge. She was the honor roll student with big dreams and an even bigger work ethic. Nicky was always restless. and more...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BUR

Connealy, Mary

Summary: "After his father's death, Kevin Hunt inherits a ranch in Wyoming-the only catch is it also belongs to a half brother he never knew existed. But danger follows Kevin, and he suspects his half brother is behind it. The only one willing to stand between them is Winona Martin-putting her in the cross hairs of a perilous plot and a risk at love"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CON

Hunter, Denise

Summary: "From the bestselling author of The Convenient Groom (now a beloved Hallmark Original movie) comes a heartfelt story of family secrets, forgiveness, and unexpected romance. Following a painful betrayal, Maddy Monroe's love life is a wreck, and her restaurant career is in shambles. When her grandmother goes missing, she and her estranged sisters converge at the family beach house in Sea Haven,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUN

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