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Weiner, Jennifer

Summary: When Veronica Levy bought her home on the Outer Cape, she imagined generations of her family gathering there each summer for many years to come, but things didn't work out that way. Forty years later, Ronnie's husband is gone. Her son, Sam, is in California, and rarely makes the trip back home. Her daughter, Sarah, packs her kids' summers full of enriching, educational, resume-building...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022

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

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC WEI

Brashares, Ann

Summary: Summer for Sasha and Ray means the sprawling old house on Long Island. Since they were children, they've shared almost everything--reading the same books, running down the same sandy footpaths to the beach, eating peaches from the same market, laughing around the same sun-soaked dining table. Even sleeping in the same bed, on the very same worn cotton sheets. But they've never met. Sasha's dad...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRA

Williams, Ian

Summary: "Felicia, a nineteen-year-old student from a Caribbean family, and Edgar, the lazy-minded and impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet by chance when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. After the death of Felicia's mother and the recovery of Edgar's, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as caregiver to Edgar's mother. The odd-couple relationship between...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Colgan, Jenny

Summary: When Flora MacKenzie traded her glum career in London to reunite with her family on the remote Scottish island of Mure, she never dreamed that Joel, her difficult, adorable boss, would follow and that they would soon be taking their first faltering steps into romance.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Steel, Danielle

Summary: Enduring her late husband's death by embracing strict self-discipline to secure her career and the prospects of her children, a prestigious Manhattan attorney is confronted by astonishing secrets and an out-of-wedlock baby.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Steel, Danielle

Summary: "A senior partner at a prestigious New York law firm, Kate Morgan couldn't be prouder of her three grown children. Tamara, Anthony, and Claire all went to great schools, chose wonderful career paths, and would have made their father proud. A single mother for years after the death of her husband, Kate keeps a tight rein on her family, her career, and even her own emotions, never once asking...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Steel 2019

Watson, Larry

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Edie--smart, self-assured, beautiful--always worked hard. She worked as a teller at a bank, she worked to save her first marriage, and later, she worked to raise her daughter even as her second marriage came apart. Really, Edie just wanted a good life, but everywhere she turned, her looks defined her. Two brothers fought over her. Her second husband became unreasonably possessive and jealous....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAT

McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: "In the microcosm of 44 Scotland Street, all of life's richness is found in the glorious goings-on of its residents. There's Domenica, whose anthropological training has honed her observations of her neighbors; Matthew, whose growing triplets are more than a handful; Bruce, whose challenge as ever is thinking of anything but himself; and Big Lou, who may just have found her shot at romance. And...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Polygon 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCC

Quinn, Julia

Summary: Meet Our Hero ... Gareth St. Clair is in a bind. His father, who detests him, is determined to beggar the St. Clair estates and ruin his inheritance. Gareth's sole bequest is an old family diary, which may or may not contain the secrets of his past ... and the key to his future. The problem is--it's written in Italian, of which Gareth speaks not a word. Meet Our Heroine ... All the town agreed:...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Steel, Danielle

Summary: Fishtail, Montana, is home to Anne and Pitt Pollock, local royalty, high school sweethearts, and owners of the successful Pollock ranch. The sprawling foothills of the Beartooth Mountains surround the town, overlooking the Pollocks' property and the nearby ranch belonging to Bill and Pattie Brown. Their sons Peter Pollock and Matt Brown are the best of friends. When they and two other local...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022

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Faulkner, Katherine

Summary: "A sophisticated female-led thriller about a woman whose life starts to unravel as a result of her friendship with an unpredictable single mother, Greenwich Park explores the terrible consequences of guilt, the complexity of female friendships, and the fallibility of the memories we cherish"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAU

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAU

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Faulkner

Taylor, Mary Ellen

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "Adrift in the wake of her father's death, a failed marriage and multiple miscarriages, Libby McKenzie feels truly alone. Though her new life as a wedding photographer provides a semblance of purpose, it's also a distraction from her profound pain. When asked to photograph a wedding at the historic Woodmont estate, Libby meets the owner, Elaine Grant. Hoping to open Woodmont to the public,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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Bradford, Barbara Taylor

Summary: James Falconer, a tycoon and a self-made man, seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023

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Ohlin, Alix.

Summary: 1996: Grace, a psychiatrist, juggles a suicidal boyfriend and a young patient's impending abortion. 2002: Annie, a struggling actress, takes pity on a homeless girl and invites her into her New York apartment. 2006: Mitch, a divorced counsellor, finds that listening to other people's problems takes his mind off his own. Ten years. Three lives. One truth: helping other people is infinitely...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OHL

Moore, Meg Mitchell

Summary: Anthony Puckett was a rising literary star. The son of an uber-famous thriller writer, Anthony's debut novel spent two years on the bestseller list and won the adoration of critics. But something went very wrong with his second work. Now Anthony's borrowing an old college's friend's crumbling beach house on Block Island in the hopes that solitude will help him get back to the person he used to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Moore

Barbery, Muriel

Summary: Rose has turned 40, but has barely begun to live. When the Japanese father she never knew dies and she finds herself an orphan, she leaves France for Kyoto to hear the reading of his will. In the days before Haru's last wishes are revealed, his former assistant, Paul, takes Rose on a tour of the temples, gardens and eating places of this unfamiliar city. Initially a reluctant tourist and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BAR

Chen, Mike

Summary: Six years after a global pandemic wiped out most of the planet's population, the survivors are rebuilding the country, split between self-governing cities, hippie communes and wasteland gangs. Krista, Moira, Rob and Sunny are brought together by circumstance, and their lives begin to twine together. But when reports of another outbreak throw the fragile society into panic, the friends are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHE

Cavender, Chris

Summary: When Maddy's cheating ex-husband shows up in Timber Ridge with a scheme to win Maddy back and is later found stabbed to death with a barbecue skewer, Maddy and Eleanor must investigate to find the killer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2013

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Hershon, Joanna

Summary: "Over the course of a weekend, two couples reckon with the long-hidden secrets that have shaped their families in Joanna Hershon's charged, poignant novel of motherhood and friendship. It's the end of summer when we meet Sarah, the end of summer and the middle of her life, the middle of her career (she hopes it's not the end), the middle of her marriage (recently repaired). And despite the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HER

Enright, Anne

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "From Booker-prize winning author Anne Enright, an astonishing novel about the love between mother and daughter--sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent. "Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other; one life into another life, and the baby knew exactly how alone her mother had been."...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENR

Gornick, Lisa

Summary: "A collection of linked short stories tracking an ensemble of interconnected characters from 1961 to the present, from the author of Tinderbox"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOR

Frank, Dorothea Benton.

Summary: "Best friends since the first day of classes at The College of Charleston, Ashley Anne Waters and Mary Beth Smythe, now 23 years old, live in Ashley's parents' beach house rent-free. Ashley is a gallery assistant who aspires to become an artist. Mary Beth, a gifted cook from Tennessee, works for a caterer while searching for a good teaching job. Though they both know what they want out of life,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co. 2014

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRA

Wells, Tina

Summary: Eleven-year-old June must juggle friendship, first love, and the fallout from a newly discovered family secret involving the entire town--all while under a truth-telling spell.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WEL

Rai, Alisha

Summary: If Sonia Patil had her way, she'd be attending her local comic con instead of covering a shift for her boss's daughter. Since Sonia's mom was deported and her sister, who never claimed deferred status under DACA, had to forgo college to support them, Sonia's had her hands full with work, school, and pretending everything is okay at home. Then Sonia, in homemade superhero cosplay, stumbles into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RAI

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RAI

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