Alvarez, Julia.
Summary: In the 1960s, political tension forces the García family away from Santo Domingo and towards the Bronx. The sisters all hit their strides in America, adapting and thriving despite cultural differences, language barriers, and prejudice. But Mami and Papi are more traditional, and they have far more difficulty adjusting to their new country. Making matters worse, the girls--frequently embarrassed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVMoyes, Jojo
Summary: Louisa Clark heads for New York and finds herself torn between her old life and her new one. As she tries to keep the two sides of her world together, Lou finds herself carrying secrets--not all her own--that cause a catastrophic change in her circumstances.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOYNeuberger, Emily
Summary: "Under the bright lights of Broadway, one new musical pushes the boundaries of love, legacy, and art. Growing up in rural Wisconsin, Eleanor O'Hanlon always felt different. In love with musical theater from a young age, she memorized every show album she could get her hands on. So when she discovers an open call for one of her favorite productions, she leaves behind everything she knows to run...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putman's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEUGiffin, Emily
Summary: A young woman falls hard for an impossibly perfect man before he disappears without a trace. It's two AM on a Saturday night in the spring of 2001, and twenty-eight-year-old Cecily Gardner sits alone in a dive bar on New York's Lower East Side, questioning her life. Feeling lonesome and homesick for the Midwest, she wonders if she'll ever make it as a reporter in the big city and whether she...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction GifSchwab, Victoria
Summary: Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GILFlynn-Hui, Kathleen.
Summary: "A young woman from rural New Hampshire is thrust into the world of New York's hottest hair salon, tending to socialites and actresses, models and moguls"--Provided by publisher.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FLYSchwab, Victoria
Summary: France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever, and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction SchSimons, Paullina
Summary: International bestselling author Paullina Simons delivers a riveting novel about a young woman whose search for her missing friend turns into a life-shattering odyssey. The truth will change her forever. Living in bustling New York City, Lily Quinn has plenty of distractions and is struggling to finish college as well as pay her rent. But that all pales in comparison when Amy, her best friend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SIMPoeppel, Amy
Summary: "Kate is a young woman who is unexpectedly thrust into the cutthroat world of New York City private school admissions as she attempts to understand city life, human nature, and falling in love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Poeppel 2016Marshall, Catherine
Summary: The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her - and her one-room school - as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "In the year 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves home to teach school in the Smoky Mountains -- and comes to know and love the resilient people of the region, with their fierce pride, their dark superstitions, their terrible poverty, and their yearning for beauty and truth. But her faith will be severely challenged by trial and tragedy, by the needs and unique strengths of two...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MARYu, An
Summary: One autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her husband dead. She discovers a pencil sketch of a strange watery figure, an image that swims into Jia Jia's mind and wont leave. The mysterious drawing launches her on an odyssey across contemporary Beijing, as she encounters some of the people who call the city home, including a jaded bartender....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Chelsea Myles earns her living as an actress with her uncle's theatre troupe, performing cheap plays on the streets of London and picking the customers' pockets. Until one night, a robbery goes awry and Chelsea is left holding a purse with enough gold to buy her passage to Australia, and the chance of a fresh start. Once on board the vessel, Chelsea is intrigued by a fellow passenger, Quaid...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010