McCauley, Stephen
Summary: "After a lifetime of kindly taking care of his irresistible but impossible sister and her wonderful daughter, Tom is finally ready to put himself first. Naturally, that's when his phone rings. His niece, Cecily—the real love of Tom’s life, as his boyfriend reminded him when moving out—is embroiled in a Title IX investigation at the college where she teaches that threatens her career and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Carr, Robyn
Summary: Empty-nester Anna McNichol is ready for a new life direction, but disaster strikes when her husband dies and secrets surface. Facing challenge after challenge, she must look for support from an unexpected source.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CARWilkerson, Charmaine
Summary: "In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Carr, Robyn
Summary: Empty-nester Anna McNichol is ready for a new life direction, but disaster strikes when her husband dies and secrets surface. Facing challenge after challenge, she must look for support from an unexpected source.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARWilkerson, Charmaine
Summary: "In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Wilkerson, Charmaine
Summary: In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking journey...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WILSteel, Danielle
Summary: Jane Addison is an ambitious young woman with big dreams of owning her own company someday. At twenty-eight, she arrives in New York to start a job at Fletcher and Benson, a prestigious talent agency. Eager to impress her new colleagues, Jane jumps right in as an assistant to Hailey West, one of the agents in the literary department. Even though she's a newcomer, Jane quickly realizes that...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEESteel, Danielle
Summary: Jane Addison is an ambitious young woman with big dreams of owning her own company someday. At twenty-eight, she arrives in New York to start a job at Fletcher and Benson, a prestigious talent agency. Eager to impress her new colleagues, Jane jumps right in as an assistant to Hailey West, one of the agents in the literary department. Hailey is dedicated to the authors she represents, but her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC STEHarvey, Kristy Woodson
Summary: "Four women. One family heirloom. A secret connection that will change their lives...and history as they know it. Present Day: Julia Baxter's wedding veil, bequeathed to her great-grandmother by a mysterious woman on a train in the 1930s, has passed through generations of her family as a symbol of a happy marriage. But on the morning of her wedding day, something tells Julia that even the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Andrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: After the tragic death of her mother and a long period of isolation under the thumb of a cruel grandfather, young Caroline Brady has little to hope for in her life in the foreboding Southerland mansion. Her only companion, her enigmatic cousin, Simon, may be a wolf in sheep's clothing and is not to be trusted. But when Caroline's estranged father suddenly resurfaces with news of a new wife and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Display, Call number: CD FIC ANDReich, Susanna
Summary: "A delightful meal with a big extended family becomes a free-for-all when one particularly excitable baby joins the fun"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REIWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEASacheri, Eduardo A. (Eduardo Alfredo)
Summary: "--Ese es tu problema. No se puede dudar en el medio de una guerra popular, Cabezón. --A vencer o morir, como dicen ustedes. --¡Más bien que a vencer o morir! --¿Y no pensaste qué pasa si no vencemos? ¿Estás seguro de que preferís morir? --¡No, porque vamos a vencer! --¿Y si no? --¡Si no, nada, porque vamos a vencer, te digo! Corre 1975 y dos jóvenes integrantes de distintas organizaciones...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC SACIxta, Carolina
Summary: Belen Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. She's at risk of not graduating. And Leti, her super-Catholic, nerdy-ass best friend, is pregnant--by the boyfriend she hasn't told her parents about because he's Black and her parents are racist.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC IXTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC IXTBostwick, Marie
Summary: "The Restoration of Celia Fairchild is wise, witty, and utterly compelling." --Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author of The Friends We Keep Evvie Drake Starts Over meets The Friday Night Knitting Club in this wise and witty novel about a fired advice columnist who discovers lost and found family members in Charleston, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Second Sister. Celia...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BOSColbert, Brandy
Summary: Told from multiple points of view, Ardith and Hollis Blackwood's lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC COLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COLGowda, Shilpi Somaya
Summary: "Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC GOW1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Gerber, Alyson
Summary: From the author of the critically acclaimed Braced comes a story of a girl caught between her love of chess and her ADHD. Clea can't control her thoughts. She knows she has to do her homework, but she gets distracted. She knows she can't just say whatever thought comes into her head, but sometimes she can't help herself. Other kids are starting to notice. When Clea fails one too many tests, her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT PA Fiction Gerber 2022Smith, Wilbur A.
Summary: 1774. Rob Courtney has spent his whole life in a quiet trading outpost on the east coast of Africa, dreaming of a life of adventure at sea. When his grandfather Jim Courtney dies, and the mysterious Captain Cornish calls into the fort, Rob takes his chance and stows away on Marston's ship as it sails to England. Arriving in London, Rob is seduced by the charms of the big city and soon finds...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zaffre, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Hanlon, Abby
Summary: Dory's separation anxiety from her mother turns into a ghostly, goofy escapade.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Keneally, Thomas
Summary: Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022