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Summary: "Winter Island, off the coast of Southern California. Evangeline grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island's world-famous strain of marijuana, Winter Wonderland. Tomorrow Evie is getting married-- but on the eve of the wedding a dead whale becomes lodged in the bay; the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother shows up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: "Melody Logan knew her beautiful mother, Haille, was unhappy in their hardscrabble mining town...but with her wonderful father's unwavering love, Melody always felt safe -- until a dreadful mine accident ripped her from her family's moorings. She was still devastated by her father's death when she left West Virginia with Haille to follow her mother's dream of becoming a model or actress. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ANDBank, Melissa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BANCrouch, Katie.
Summary: Sarah Walters becomes increasingly disenchanted with undercurrents of barbarism in her Southern community and relocates to New York, where she and fellow displaced Southerners struggle to make sense of the city's sophistication.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CROCrouch, Katie.
Summary: Sarah Walters knows she doesn't really fit in at the Cotillion Training School, that she'll never live up to the legacy of her mother and grandmother as a Camellia - the society for proper young Southern belles. As soon as she's out of school, Sarah and a group of friends forsake the South for the bright lights of New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CROFrench, Wendy.
Summary: Claire McLeod's peaceful life in Portland, Oregon, is turned upside down by the arrival of her tyrannical mother as she tries to negotiate peace between her mother and her lesbian sister and find out why her father remained home in Omaha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREGaffney, Patricia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GAFMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Journeying up the Missouri River in 1830, the wealthy Berrybenders encounter the challenges of the untamed American West before Tasmin Berrybender falls in love with frontiersman and part-time preacher Jim Snow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: WES MCMBrennan, Maeve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BREGibbons, Kaye
Summary: Maureen Ross, who has had her spirit battered throughout her marriage to Troop Ross, is experiencing a difficult pregnancy, and Troop's niece, coming to help her aunt in the last weeks of confinement, is horrified by Troop's bullying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike/Chivers 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GIBGibbons, Kaye
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBSteel, Danielle.
Summary: A chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes, and ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious Los Angeles. Her parents are disappointed by their daughter's looks. Later in life, the one thing Victoria knows is that she has to get as far away from home as possible and, after college in Chicago (which her parents disapprove of), she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STETarkington, Booth
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1922 offers a wry, realistic portrait of a middle-class, midwestern family dominated by a disgruntled woman who, with her precocious daughter Alice, fashions a series of outlandish schemes to climb the social ladder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAREliot, George
Summary: One of the great works of 19th-century England as well as one of the masterpieces of English fiction, this novel is set in the Midlands, 1830-32, in the fictitious town of Middlemarch. It is concerned with the blighted marriage of a young idealistic woman, but also presents a vivid portrait of England during the Georgian era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Eliot 2011House, Silas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOUMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: The Berrybender's party is moving forward across the Great Plains of the West towards Santa Fe. Tasmin's husband scouts ahead and falls in love with Pomp Charbonneau, who dies at the hand of the ruthless commander of the Spanish troops. A vast cast of characters meet up with the party as they travel, proving that the rolling grassy plains are not as empy as they look.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: WESTERN McMurtryMorgan, Robert
Summary: Seen through the eyes of the youngest daughter, Annie, the Richards family faces triumph and hardships during the Great Depression and World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Morgan 2013Andrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ANDDuncan, Pamela.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNMcMurtry, Larry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD W MCMGaffney, Patricia.
Summary: Embittered by betrayals that have rendered her unable to trust, Anna takes a job in the family restaurant, while her aunt tries to rekindle their relationship and help Anna realize that she is falling in love despite her determination to leave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gaffney 2002Gross, Gwendolen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: The Berrybenders, a family of wealthy English eccentrics, now have a growing brood of children. During the fourth year of their Western odyssey, each faces danger from Indian attacks, disease, and deprivation as they travel across the desert toward Santa Cruz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: WES mcmCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: WESTERN McMurtryMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: The Berrybenders, a family of English sportsmen, have traveled to America to hunt buffalo and other big game. As winter strikes, they settle in a trading post near the junction of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. The aristocratic and outspoken eldest daughter Tasmin has married taciturn trapper Jim Snow, and is pregnant with their first child. But if this union seems strange, it is rivaled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003