Wiggs, Susan
Summary: "In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Natalie Harper inherits her mother's charming but financially strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew, her only living relative--not counting her scoundrel father. But the gruff, deeply kind Andrew has begun displaying signs of decline. Natalie thinks it's best to move him to an assisted living facility...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WIGPeterson, Tracie
Summary: 1871, Duluth Minnesota. Kirstin Hallberg came to care for her elderly grandmother Lena Segerson only to discover Lena very full of life and full of secrets. When Kirstin opens their front door one day, she finds the brother she long thought dead on the other side. Domar begs his sister to say nothing to their parents, viewing their grief as payment for falsely accusing him of bad behavior years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PETCopeland, Lori.
Summary: In 1887 rural Missouri, Lyric Bolton lives a life of isolation to care for her mother when Ian Cawley bursts into her life on a runaway stallion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COPWiggs, Susan
Summary: "When caregiver Faith McCallum arrives at the enchanted lakeside estate of Avalon's renowned Bellamy family, she's intent on rebuilding her shattered life and giving her two daughters a chance at a better future. But she faces a formidable challenge in the form of her stubborn and difficult new employer, Alice Bellamy. While Faith proves a worthy match for her sharp-tongued client, she often...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wiggs 2015Wiggs, Susan.
Summary: When caregiver Faith McCallum arrives at the enchanted lakeside estate of Avalon's renowned Bellamy family, she's intent on rebuilding her shattered life and giving her two daughters a chance at a better future. But she faces a formidable challenge in the form of her stubborn and difficult new employer, Alice Bellamy. While Faith proves a worthy match for her sharp-tongued client, she often...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC WIGDe los Santos, Marisa
Summary: Cornelia Brown is reeling from a terrifying act of violence when she gets word that her mother has been badly injured in an accident. Cornelia returns to Virginia, to the house she grew up in, and in the weeks that follow, she watches her mother Ellie struggle to recover, fluctuating between her usual crisp, can-do clarity and periods of delirium during which she seems haunted by a devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DELDonellan, J. M. (Joshua M.)
Summary: Freya Miller, funny and tenacious with a taste for vodka, escapes a recent tragedy by answering an advertisement for a nursing job that promises LIGHT DUTIES. LARGE PAY. NO QUESTIONS ASKED OR ANSWERED. Her new employer is the infamous, eccentric, and stupendously rich Vincetti family, heads of the Halcyon Corporation. Her task will be to care for their adored heir, Elijah, who is currently...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2016
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Summary: 1871, Duluth Minnesota. Kirstin Hallberg came to care for her elderly grandmother Lena Segerson only to discover Lena very full of life and full of secrets. When Kirstin opens their front door one day, she finds the brother she long thought dead on the other side. Domar begs his sister to say nothing to their parents, viewing their grief as payment for falsely accusing him of bad behavior years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2021
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Summary: "When Vivien Walker left her home in the Mississippi Delta, she swore never to go back, as generations of the women in her family had. But in the spring, nine years to the day since she'd left, that's exactly what happens--Vivien returns, fleeing from a broken marriage and her lost dreams for children. What she hopes to find is solace with "Bootsie," her dear grandmother who raised her, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Maud Drennan is a dedicated caregiver whose sunny disposition masks a deep sadness. A tragic childhood event left her haunted, in the company of a cast of prattling saints who pop in and out of her life like tourists. Cathal Flood is a menace by all accounts. The lone occupant of a Gothic mansion crawling with feral cats, he has been waging war against his son's attempts to put him into an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kidd 2018Douglas, Claire
Summary: After the devastating death of her mother, Una Richardson becomes a ladies' companion for Mrs. Elspeth McKenzie, garnering the wrath of Elspeth's cold and bitter daughter, which leads to the discovery that there were two companions before her, never to beseen again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOUWhite, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: "When Vivien Walker left her home in the Mississippi Delta, she swore never to go back, as generations of the women in her family had. But in the spring, nine years to the day since she'd left, that's exactly what happens--Vivien returns, fleeing from a broken marriage and her lost dreams for children. What she hopes to find is solace with "Bootsie," her dear grandmother who raised her, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014