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Harts, Minda

Summary: "A guide for girls of color looking to find their voice and claim space as they prepare for high school, college, and their careers"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.235 HAR

Grainger, Jean

Summary: As someone raised in an orphanage, Carmel knows she should be grateful for a roof over her head and a respectable family, but she would love nothing more than to escape Birr, Co Offaly and get away from her husband, the monosyllabic Bill and his horrible sister forever. Life as Mrs Sheehan should be bearable, all she had to do was look after the house and cook Bill's meals. She didn't even need...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grainger

Hollis, Rachel

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: Rachel Hollis is sounding a wake-up call. She knows that many women have been taught to define themselves in light of other people--whether as wife, mother, daughter, or employee--instead of learning how to own who they are and what they want. With a challenge to women everywhere to stop talking themselves out of their dreams, Hollis identifies the excuses to let go of, the behaviors to adopt,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Leadership, an imprint of HarperCollins 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 HOL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 HOL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 HOL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 158.1082 HOL

Wambach, Abby

Summary: Updated with stories that trace the Olympic gold medalist's journey from youth soccer to the Hall of Fame, an adaptation of the best-selling Wolfpack inspires readers to harness their inner strength, forge their own path, and band together with teammates to make the world a better place.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring BrookPress 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 155.3 WAM

Dalton, Tonya

Summary: Productivity expert and CEO of inkWELL Press Productivity Co. Tonya Dalton challenges women to rethink "busy" and intentionally live with a mind-set of abundance. Overwhelmed. Too many women are swamped and exhausted by all they strive to do, ending most days feeling unsatisfied and unsuccessful. Tonya Dalton, productivity expert and CEO of inkWELL Press Productivity Co., offers these women a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1092 DAL

Kinsella, Sophie

Summary: Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, "urgent" (but obviously not at all urgent) email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn't seen her friends in months. Sex? Seems like a lot of effort. Even cooking dinner takes far too much planning. Sasha has hit a wall. Armed with good intentions to drink kale smoothies, try yoga, and find...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Grainger, Jean

Summary: "Carmel Sheehan was raised in an orphanage in Dublin, and always believed what she was told, that her unmarried mother abandoned her as a newborn. Forty years later, living in rural Ireland, in an unfulfilling marriage, and she has no reason to suspect that version of her past was untrue, until she gets a Facebook message one day from a stranger claiming it was all lies. Carmel begins a journey...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grainger

Center, Katherine

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CEN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Center

Bedrick, David

Summary: Why is today's diet industry pulling in 70 billion dollars every year, while when people go on a diet, only five percent of them succeed and the rest gain weight or stay the same? Here's why: A heavy, shamed body is a body with an unheard message and a thwarted quest, and until the secrets are unlocked and the wisdom is harvested, that impasse will be unbreachable. In these pages, Bedrick...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Belly Song Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 BED

Parker, Miriam (Miriam Rebecca)

Summary: Hannah is finally about to have everything she ever wanted. With a high-paying job, a Manhattan apartment, and a boyfriend about to propose, all she and Ethan have to do is make it through the last couple of weeks of grad school. But when, on a romantic weekend trip to Sonoma, Hannah is spontaneously offered a marketing job at a family-run winery and doesn't immediately refuse, their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION PAR

Raymer, Beth

Summary: ""Florida, we got it all. Motorsports, ribs, beer. You can drive on the sand right on up to the ocean. Fireworks every night." That's how twelve-year-old CC's father, who named her after his beloved Canadian Club whiskey, describes the appeal of their new home. The man is a born grifter, a used-car salesman who burns down his dealership in southern Ohio for enough insurance money to set up a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: FIC RAY

Shipstead, Maggie

Summary: After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Summary: Controlled by a domineering mother and an over-opinionated family, Valency Stirling awakens on her twenty-ninth birthday resigned to dull existence. Her only escape is the Blue Castle of her imagination. But when an unexpected letter changes everything, Valency breaks the bonds of fear and finds purpose in a whole new life that turns the Blue Castle of her dreams into a reality.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MON

Porter, Jane

Summary: "In the wake of a tragedy that tore her life down to the foundations, Dr. Alison McAdams has lost her way. So when she's summoned to Napa to care for her ailing father, she's not sure she has anything to offer him--or anyone else. What Ali finds in Northern California wine country is a gift--an opportunity to rest, and distance from her painful memories. Most unexpectedly, she finds people who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POR

Fishman, Zoe

Summary: "A poignant breakout novel about a single mother who inherits a beautiful beach house in Sag Harbor--with a caveat--she must take care of the ornery elderly woman who lives in it who has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Together they embark on a path to forgiveness, acceptance, and a life-changing friendship"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017

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

Hurley, Blair

Summary: "Nicole has become sexually and emotionally entangled with her mentor. To break free, she must retrace her entire life's journey--from her strict Irish Catholic upbringing to her drug-fueled year as a teenage runaway. Even as she reinvents herself in New York City, her master's intoxicating voice pursues her, whispering dangerously in her ear. Somehow, he knows everything. A hypnotic and daring...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUR

Tsabary, Shefali

Summary: "Dr. Shefali Tsabary was 44 years old when she had an epiphany: the only person stopping her from harnessing her inner power was herself. Awoken to the patriarchal forces that shape female consciousness, Dr. Shefali dedicated her life to inspiring women to take back their power and liberate themselves mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. A Radical Awakening not only lays out a path to heal a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2021

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Burdette, Lucy

Summary: Thirty-two-year-old 'happiness guru' Dr Cooper Hunziker has it all - a dream job as assistant psychology professor at Yale University, a soon-to-be published self-help book, The Happiness Connection, and the perfect man. But there's a problem. Cooper isn't happy. Of course, it doesn't help that she's facing cut-throat competition for her tenure at Yale, an accusation of plagiarism that could...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BUR

Corlett, Anne

Summary: "All Jamie Allenby ever wanted was space. Even though she wasn't forced to emigrate from Earth, she willingly left the overpopulated, claustrophobic planet. And when a long relationship devolved into silence and suffocating sadness, she found work on a frontier world on the edges of civilization. Then the virus hit ... Now Jamie finds herself dreadfully alone, with all that's left of the dead....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COR

Maynard, Frances

Summary: "Elvira Carr believes in crisp schedules, clear guidelines, and taking people at face value. She lives at home with her overbearing mother, who has deemed her unfit to interact with the rest of society. But when her mother has a stroke, Ellie is suddenly forced to look after herself. She quickly comes up with an ingenious way of coping with the world: the seven social rules spreadsheet....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAY

Brown, Eleanor

Summary: "Madeleine is trapped-- by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears-- in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside, it looks like she has everything, but on the inside, she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine's memories, her grandmother Margie is the kind of woman she should have been-- elegant, reserved, perfect. But when...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brown 2016

White, Karen (Karen S.)

Summary: It has been thirteen years since Georgia left her family home on the coast of Florida, and nothing much has changed except that there are fewer oysters and more tourists. She finds solace in seeing her grandfather still toiling away in the apiary where she spent much of her childhood, but encountering her estranged mother and sister leaves her rattled. Seeing them after all this time makes...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHI

Cliff, Sophie

Summary: "Research tells us that joy has a whole host of health benefits and now using the tools in this book, you can start taking the necessary daily steps toward building a life that lights you up instead of drags you down"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Star Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 CLI

Smith, Maggie

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "Life, like a poem, is a series of choices." In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman's personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2023

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