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Detective Jo Fournier 1Center, Katherine
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020
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Summary: Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesn't even need to be in love--sex is all she's looking for. Then her dad drops a bombshell: he and Claude's mom are splitting up. Suddenly, Claude's entire world feels like a lie, and the ground under her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: "Power Play takes readers into the boardrooms and playgrounds of top tier corporate America, exploring the costs of great power through the intersecting stories of three indelible women: a high-powered CEO, a long-time 'corporate wife,' and an aspiring artist struggling to raise a family with an absentee father. The lives of three women are linked in ways that none could have imagined. Fiona...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STECenter, Katherine
Summary: Sadie Montgomery suddenly went from being a finalist in an art competition to being diagnosed with a "face blindness." Struggling to cope, she falls in love with not one man but two. The timing couldn't be worse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FICTION CENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC CENOwens, Lisa
Summary: "In the tradition of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary and Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It comes a wise and laugh-out-loud debut novel that captures a young generation trying not to have it all, but to figure out what it all means. Claire has just resigned from her job without a plan for her next move. As she struggles to explain herself to friends and family, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OWEEssbaum, Jill Alexander.
Summary: "Anna Benz, an American woman in her thirties, lives in comfort and affluence with her Swiss banker husband and their three young children in a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Despite the tranquility and order of her domestic existence, Anna is fallingapart inside. Isolated in a foreign country and a faltering marriage, Anna begins three adventures to restart her life: Jungian analysis,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESSRadulescu, Domnica
Summary: "A riveting novel about two women--one Serbian, one Bosnian--whose friendship spans decades and continents, war and peace, love and estrangement, in the vein of Elena Ferrante and Julia Alvarez. Closer than sisters, Lara and Marija share everything, from stolen fruit and Hollywood movies as girls to ideologies and even lovers as young women. But when the Bosnian War pits their homelands against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RADKatchur, Karen.
Summary: "Jo has been hiding the truth about her role in her high school boyfriend's drowning for sixteen years. Every summer, she drops her children off with her mother at the lakeside community where she spent summers growing up, but cannot bear to stay herself;everything about the lake reminds her of the guilt she feels. For her daughter Caroline, however, the lake is a precious world apart; its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KATWeiner, Jennifer.
Summary: Struggling with the demands of her job, distant husband, spoiled daughter and Alzheimer's patient father, Allison becomes addicted to painkillers and lands in rehab, where amid fellow inpatients she confronts incompatible recovery techniques, barely trained counselors and her own denial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Weiner 2014Harvey, Kristy Woodson
Summary: Now in their thirties, four childhood friends put aside their current tensions to come together and save the summer camp where they all met, and rediscover themselves in the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARGable, Michelle.
Summary: "When April Vogt's boss tells her about the discoveries in a cramped, decrepit ninth arrondissement apartment, the Sotheby's continental furniture specialist does not hear the words "dust" or "rats" or "shuttered for seventy years." She hears Paris. She hears escape. Once in France, April quickly learns the apartment is not merely some rich hoarder's repository. Beneath the dust and cobwebs and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABTaylor, Katherine
Summary: "A razor-sharp, cross-generational tragicomedy set in California's wine-soaked Central Valley Ingrid Palamede never returns to places she's lived in the past. For her, "whole neighborhoods, whole cities, can be ruined by the reasons you left." But when her boyfriend, Howard, en route to Aspen, breaks things off out of the blue, she's forced to return to her childhood home of Fresno,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYCasale, Jana
Summary: A college student's procrastination over reading a Noam Chomsky work becomes a metaphor throughout subsequent decades of milestones that reflect the disparity between the carefully planned life she wants and the person she is really meant to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAS1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Steel, Danielle
Summary: Nicole Coco Martin is destined to have it all. But when her beloved parents are killed in a terrorist attack, Coco must find a way to make her way in the world without the family she loved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020
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Summary: Zoe Bascombe has never said no to her family. When she blew her Juilliard audition, she caved to their wishes and went to business school. But when her mother dies and leaves instructions for Zoe to spread her ashes at a place called Wind Chime Beach, she defies her brothers and starts out for a New England town none of them has ever heard of and discovers a side of her garden club mother that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC NOBChouinard, M. M.
Summary: "When Jennine Hammond is found dead in a hotel in the picture-perfect town Oakhurst, newly-promoted Detective Jo Fournier is thrown into a disturbing case. Who would murder this shy, loving wife and leave her body posed like a ballerina? Jo wants to know why Jeanine's husband is so controlling about money, and where Jeanine"s wedding ring is, but before she and her team can get close to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bookouture, an imprint of StoryFire, Ltd. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHOKo, Lisa
Summary: "Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024
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Summary: "Elizabeth, Veronica, Rachel and Emily met at Camp Birchwood as girls in 1985, where over four summers they were the Clover Girls--inseparable for those magical few weeks of freedom--until the last summer that pulled them apart. Now approaching middle age, the women are facing challenges they never imagined as teens, struggles with their marriages, their children, their careers, and wondering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Shipman 2021Ohlin, Alix
Summary: "A masterful achievement: a joint coming-of-age story and an achingly poignant portrait of the strange, painful, ultimately life-sustaining bonds between sisters. Lark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for birds. While Lark is shy and studious, Robin is wild and artistic. Raised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother, they form a fierce team in childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OHLAllende, Isabel
Summary: After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Allende 2013McCullough, Colleen
Summary: "Returning to the sweeping romantic saga, Colleen McCullough presents a new major work: the story of four unforgettable sisters navigating work, love, and their dreams in 1920s Australia. Because they are two sets of twins, the four Latimer sisters are as close as can be. They are famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, wit, and ambition, but as they step into womanhood, they are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McCullough 2014Warden, Anoushka
Summary: When a woman can't stand sex with her third serious boyfriend, she embarks on a journey of desperation and self-discovery in which she'll try anything to fix it, but maybe desire and long-term love just don't go together. -- Adapted from book jacket summary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARStrecker, Susan.
Summary: "One October night, when Jensen Reilly is sixteen, she and her high school sweetheart, Ryder, are involved in a horrible accident that kills her brother, Will. Ever since then Jensen has been running--from her past, from the Connecticut shoreline home she loved, to boarding school and then out west, where she dropped out of college to elope with her professor, a charismatic artist who takes her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRWingate, Lisa.
Summary: When soon-to-be college student Tam Lambert learns that her family's finances are collapsing, the life she's known is forever changed. Her father, facing prosecution for financial fraud, has fled to Mexico. Their upscale home is in foreclosure. Tam, her high-maintenance stepmother, and four preschool siblings have no choice but to move to a tiny house owned by her father's Householders company...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Accent 2010