Berne, Suzanne
Summary: "A "brilliantly done" (Sunday Times, London) comedy of manners that explores the unease behind the manicured lawns of suburban America from the Orange Prize-winning author of A Crime in the Neighborhood. Littlefield, Massachusetts, named one of the Ten Best Places to Live in America, full of psychologists and college professors, is proud of its fine schools, its girls' soccer teams, its leafy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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Summary: Strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have managed to remain "devoted"—as long as they stay on opposite coasts. When Frances arranges to host Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy family reunion, one that will include the sisters' long-estranged father. Cynthia, however, doesn't understand how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 2007
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Berne, Suzanne
Summary: "Silence has always marked Lorna's family. Her father was deaf. Her mother, Marika, helped rescue children as a teenage member of the Dutch Resistance, yet later abandoned her own young son and daughter. No explanation was ever offered. Nor why she resurfaced decades afterward to invite Lorna--by then a married social worker with a baby--to visit her remote cottage on Lake Champlain. For the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books/Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBerne, Suzanne
Summary: Secrets abound in Lorna's family. Her mother Marika, who survived the Nazi occupation of Holland, abandoned the family when Lorna and her brother Wade were just seven and twelve years old. The reason she left, and her whereabouts afterward, were shrouded in mystery. As is a darker secret Marika has repressed for nearly seventy years. Now that Lorna, a respected psychotherapist, has a child of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "A satirical social commentary with an element of suspense that explores the unease behind the manicured lawns and picket fences of suburban America. Littlefield, Massachusetts is named one of the Ten Best Places to Live in America, but someone is poisoning the town's dogs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: The Ghost at the Table reveals what happens when one person tries to rewrite another's history, and explores the mystery of why families try to stay together even when it may be in the best interests to stay apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006