Shriver, Lionel
Summary: Over ten years, Kay Wilkinson watched as Alzheimer's steadily eroded her father into a paranoid lunatic. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes a modest proposal: To spare themselves and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRReul, Robin
Summary: Told in separate voices, Jack and Hallie, eighteen-year-olds facing separate crises, discover who they are meant to be while taking a spontaneous road trip together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REUHayes-McCoy, Felicity
Summary: On the Finfarran Peninsula on Ireland's west coast, at the Lissbeg Library, a group of women gather together for the first book club of the summer where they'll all face difficult choices and hope to get the happy endings they all deserve.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYLester, Natasha
Summary: "Alix St. Pierre. An unforgettable name for an unforgettable woman. She grew up surrounded by Hollywood glamor, but, as an orphan, never truly felt part of that world. In 1943, with WWII raging and men headed overseas to fight, she lands a publicity job to recruit women into the workforce. Her skills-persuasion, daring, quick-witted under pressure-catch the attention of the U.S. government and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESWurzbacher, Ashley
Summary: "From "a writer at the top of her game" (The New York Times) comes a bighearted and sharply funny debut novel about two estranged sisters and the crossroads they face after becoming unexpectedly pregnant at the same time. Two years after the death of their mother, Jada and Maddy Battle both navigate unplanned pregnancies. Jada, a thirty-one-year-old psychology PhD student living in Pittsburgh,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WURLee, Marie G.
Summary: "Dr. Yungman Kwak is in the twilight of his life. Every day for the last fifty years, he has brushed his teeth, slipped on his shoes, and headed to Horse Breath's General Hospital, where, as an obstetrician, he treats the women and babies ... Yungman's life is thrown into chaos--the hospital abruptly closes, his wife refuses to spend time with him, and his son is busy investing in a struggling...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEEBeukes, Lauren
Summary: "Twenty-four-year-old Bridge is paralyzed by choices: all the other lives she could have lived, the decisions she could have made. And now, who she should be in the wake of her mother's unexpected death. Jo was a maverick neuroscientist fixated on an artifact she called the "dreamworm" that she believed could open the doors to other worlds. It was part of Jo's grand delusion, her sickness, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BEUActon, Helly
Summary: "Have you ever wanted to change the past and discover the result of choices not taken? Now, in this brilliantly fun novel of what-ifs, missed chances, and new beginnings, Frankie McKenzie discovers what starting over might bring... Despite living firmly in her comfort zone, Frankie McKenzie feels unsettled. She can't help feeling something's missing. Is it a home to call her own? Travel? A more...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024