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Crooks, Noelle Donoghue, Emma Fossey, Brooke Porter, Regina Steel, Danielle Weiner, JenniferFossey, Brooke
Summary: "An unlikely friendship between a curmudgeonly old man and a desperate young woman delivers a funny and uplifting message about the power of human connection and how it's never too late to be the person you wanted to be. Eighty-eight-year-old Duffy Sinclair wants the last leg of his bachelor life to be strictly predictable, so Centennial Assisted Living is perfect: low-sodium meals, off-key...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSCrooks, Noelle
Summary: After a series of go-nowhere jobs in the New York publishing world, Harper Cruz is desperate for a salary that won't leave her scrambling to make rent each month. Self-help guru Charlotte Green's relentless optimism and charismatic can-do spirit has created a cult-like following of women across the country. She selects Harper among thousands of other applicants, and Harper becomes the newest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRO1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Porter, Regina
Summary: Meet James Samuel Vincent - an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish American background but hews to his father's philandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, which is further complicated when Rufus marries Claudia Christie. Claudia's mother - Agnes Miller Christie - is a beautiful African American woman who survives a chance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Porter 2019Donoghue, Emma
Summary: Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Emma Donoghue presents a novel based on the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen. As their friendship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC DONWeiner, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WEISteel, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019