Doctorow, Cory
Summary: "It's thirty years from now. We're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can't let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DOCTahir, Sabaa
Summary: Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TAHThayer, Nancy
Summary: A grandmother-granddaughter duo are eager to spend their summer together on peaceful Nantucket, but the season that unfolds brings about unforgettable surprises in New York Times best selling author Nancy Thayer's magical, multigenerational novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC THAGalm, Ruth
Summary: "Ruth Galm's spare, poetic debut novel, set in the American West of early Joan Didion, traces the drifting path of a young woman caught between generations as she skirts the law and her own oppressive anxiety. Into the Valley opens on the day in July 1967 when B. decides to pass her first counterfeit check and flee San Francisco for the Central Valley. B. is caught between generations. She's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALOrange, Tommy
Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ORAOrange, Tommy
Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. Now adrift, Opal searches for a way to heal her wounded family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC ORAZeineddine, Ghassan
Summary: "Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine's debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, home and belonging, and more. In Dearborn, a father teaches his son how to cheat the IRS and hide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWEkwuyasi, Francesca
Summary: "Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, Kehinde and Taiye. Kambirinachi believes that she is an Ogbanje, or an Abiku, a non-human spirit that plagues a family with misfortune by being born and then dying in childhood to cause a human mother misery. She has made the unnatural choice of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EKWRobinson, Marilynne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROBSteel, Danielle.
Summary: When Olympia Rubinstein's twin daughters are invited to a debutante ball chaos erupts. One twin and Olympia's ex-husband are anxious to go, while the other twin and Olympia's current husband refuse to go.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print in association with Delacorte Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STERobinson, Marilynne.
Summary: Returning to Gilead to care for her dying father, Glory Boughton is joined by her long-absent brother, with whom she bonds throughout his struggles with alcoholism, unemployment and their father's traditionalist values.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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Summary: With her father ailing, Glory Boughton has returned home to Gilead to care for him. Shortly after she returns, her brother Jack shows up after a twenty year absence. As the family copes with the death of their patriarch, they learn valuable lessons about love, death, and the fortitude of familial bonds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROBRivers, Francine
Summary: In a saga set from the 1950s to the present, the rift between mother and daughter is examined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION RIVThayer, Nancy
Summary: "Fresh off the heels of her college graduation, Eleanor's dear granddaughter, Ari, has just ended an engagement that felt less like true love and more like a chore. She longs for a change of scenery and to venture far from her parents' snobbish expectations. Taking advantage of her newfound freedom, she heads to Nantucket to clear her head before graduate school, moving in with her grandmother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Thayer 2021Eicher, Jerry S.
Summary: Emma Raber has refused to remarry since her daughter Katie's daett died soon after she was born. And in an effort to keep Katie home, she has forbidden her from participating in the rumspringa tradition. When widower Jesse Mast calls for Mamm's hand in marriage, Katie hopes to move into a new phase of life and leave the old "Emma Raber's daughter" behind. But sparks fly when Jesse's children...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EICMillet, Lydia
Summary: "[This novel] follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILTahir, Sabaa
Summary: "Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAHPilcher, Rosamunde.
Summary: This is a warm family saga of three generations of heroines: Penelope, her daughter Olivia, and a young girl named Antonia, whom Olivia and Penelope have adopted as surrogate child. Confronted with her own mortality, Penelope returns to the Cornwall coast to come to terms with her son Noel, with Antonia's haunted young boyfriend Danus, and with the memory of Richard, the soldier who never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacMillan Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PILGynther, Dana.
Summary: "Crossing on the Paris chronicles the experiences of three women from different generations and classes whose lives intersect on a majestic ocean liner traveling from Paris to New York"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gynther 2012Trollope, Anthony
Summary: "Newly restored from the original manuscript and more than a quarter longer than the existing editions: one of the finest novels from one of the greatest English novelists is finally available in the form he intended. Trollope wrote The Duke's Children,his final Palliser novel, as a four-volume work but was required by his publisher to reduce it to three, necessitating the loss of nearly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman's Library 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROBrown, Sandra
Summary: Returning to her Louisiana hometown after the suicide of her younger brother, Danny, Sayre Lynch examines the turbulent relationship between Danny and their favored older brother and begins to suspect that Danny was murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROGamble, Terry.
Summary: Returning to her family summer home near Lake Michigan after an eleven-year absence, Maddie Addison struggles to reconnect with people she has long avoided, including a mother whose life was compromised by her husband's rigid mores.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAMGraver, Elizabeth
Summary: Returning to Ashuant Point to escape from the chaos of rapidly changing times, Helen Porter and her son Charlie soon discover that the Point has not remained unscathed from events unfolding beyond its borders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013