Macomber, Debbie
Summary: Jenna Boltz's life is at a crossroads. After a messy divorce nearly twenty years ago, she raised her two children on her own, juggling motherhood with her beloved job as a Seattle intensive care nurse. Now that Paul and Allie have gone to college and moved out, Jenna can't help but wonder what her future holds. Her best friend, Maureen, is excited for Jenna's newfound independence. Now is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MACMartin, Cynthia Newberry
Summary: For the first time in a lifetime, Angelina and Will can choose again. After twenty-two years with children at home, she has no idea what she wants and is counting on the empty house to figure it out. But he already knows, he wants her, all to himself. Nine days into their child-free life, he quits his job and announces he's home to stay. So Angelina announces she's returning to nursing, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vine Leaves Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARSeely, Kim Brown
Summary: "A narrative memoir about the particular midlife crisis that comes when children leave home. Author Kim Brown Seely and her husband (Seattle residents who did time in NYC) decide somewhat spontaneously to acquire a 54-foot sailboat, learn how to sail, then set off to find a spirit bear (the rare white Kermode bear) in the forest that on the BC mainland north of the tip of Vancouver Island. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B SEELEYSEEFerrante, Elena
Summary: When Leda's daughters leave home to be with their father, she decides to take a trip to a small coastal town in Italy, but soon after she arrives memories from her unsettled past come back to haunt her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa 2008
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERPerrotta, Tom
Summary: Eve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve is struggling to adjust to her empty nest when one night her phone lights up with a text message. Sent from an anonymous number, the mysterious sender tells Eve, "U R my MILF!" Over the months that follow, that message comes to obsess Eve. While leading her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Perrotta 2017Wall, Judith Henry.
Summary: A widow cuts short her mourning period to search for her first love. She is Charlotte Haberman of Nebraska and her decision shocks her children and the community. The Habermans were married 27 years and he has not even been dead a year, but Charlotte wants to live a little.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALLink, Teresa.
Summary: A gorgeously written, sharp debut novel about three middle-aged couples who find themselves unmoored in the prime of their lives, in the vein of Sue Miller, Anne Tyler and Meg Wolitzer Three couples in San Diego - best friends, empty nesters living the California dream - have reached a tipping point. With the blurry years of child rearing and corporate ladder-climbing over, each pair is finally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINMacomber, Debbie
Summary: When a single mom becomes an "empty nester," she spreads her wings to rediscover herself -- and her passions -- in this heartwarming novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Jenna Boltz's life is at a crossroads. After a messy divorce nearly twenty years ago, she raised her two children on her own, juggling motherhood with her beloved job as a Seattle intensive care...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction MacDelinsky, Barbara.
Summary: Her daughter grown up, her husband always working late, Emily Arkin spends evenings alone with memories of her infant son, kidnaped and never found. When the police chief brings a widowed detective looking for a garage, Emily rents hers. They fall in love and learn the husband has had another woman for eight years. Next, the detective digs under a neighbor's tree to find the body of the infant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELGreen, Jane
Summary: Living on opposite coasts and preparing to see their children depart for school, two women, the wives of frequently traveling husbands, are shattered by a devastating secret that brings them together and tests their beliefs about forgiveness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Green 2013Green, Jane
Summary: "Gabby and Elliott have been happily married for eighteen years. They have two teenaged daughters; they have built a life together. So why does forty-three-year-old Gabby feel like she has only three more minutes left of youth? Why do her friends so desperately try to hang on to their attractiveness? And why does she ever even look at the handsome guy--ten years younger--at the other end of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION GREMacomber, Debbie
Summary: When a single mom becomes an "empty nester," she spreads her wings to rediscover herself -- and her passions -- in this heartwarming novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Jenna Boltz's life is at a crossroads. After a messy divorce nearly twenty years ago, she raised her two children on her own, juggling motherhood with her beloved job as a Seattle intensive care...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MACGoldhammer, Catherine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4043 GOLHolland, Judy
Summary: "HappiNest provides a road map to help parents navigate new paths, evolving relationships and existential challenges when their kids leave home. This book distills the latest research and presents vignettes from interviews with more than 300 experts, including psychologists, sociologists, seasoned empty nesters, and fledglings"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 HOLMei, Zihan
Summary: "A moving, lovely cri de coeur from a father, whose daughter has moved to another country. The sense of loss and dislocation is countered by acceptance of the child's need to move away, grow up and become herself. This book would have great resonance in the Chinese diaspora -- but also in any diaspora. The loss that is entailed in leaving home, while at the same time the recognition of why it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids, Greystone Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MEIShipman, Viola
Summary: "Adie Lou Kruger's ex never understood her affection for what her parents called their Cozy Cottage, the charming, ramshackle summer home--complete with its own set of rules for relaxing--that she's inherited on Lake Michigan. But despite the fact she's facing a broken marriage and empty nest, and middle age is looming in the distance, memories of happy childhoods on the beach give her reason...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHIWax, Wendy
Summary: "The story of a book club of broken hearts, where four women come together and discover the power of female friendship and find the courage to pursue their dreams, from the USA Today bestselling author of My Ex-Best Friend's Wedding. Jazmine was supposed to be a professional tennis player, but her plans to go pro were quashed in a car crash. Now she's a top sports agent balancing a demanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAXSummary: Julia McKenzie and Anton Rodgers return as empty nesters Hester and William Fields. Hester is ready for an exciting new life; William wants things to stay exactly as they are. Reluctantly and always hilariously, he's pulled into her self-improvement schemes, from redecorating to catering. Includes fourteen episodes from seasons three and four.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FRESummary: The only comprehensive cookbook specially designed for a 2-person household--with more than 650 foolproof recipes scaled down for two. From breakfast to dinner, sides to desserts, plus slow cooking, vegetarian, and grilling--we include a wide range of cuisines. A perfect gift for newlyweds, small families, or empty nesters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: America's Test Kitchen 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5612 COMSummary: The outrageous ninth season revolves around the blended Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan, headed by Jay Pritchett. Jay and his vivacious second wife Gloria are raising their young son Joe and Gloria's college bound son Manny. Meanwhile, Jay's grown daughter Claire and her husband Phil are becoming empty nesters, while Clare's brother Mitchell and his husband Cameron fumble through nurturing their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MODGunn, Robin Jones
Summary: Carissa doesn't know who she is anymore. She and her husband, Richard, are recent empty-nesters. Richard is spending more time at work counseling his volatile clients, some of whom are starting to show up at their home. And now, Carissa just learned that she's been downsized. Carissa has already stopped trusting her husband--and now she's not so sure she trusts God. As her world is tilting off...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010