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Chari, Sheela

Summary: Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC CHA

Chari, Sheela

Summary: Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CHA

Kingsbury, Karen

Summary: "Eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter wants to become a police officer. His mother, who lost her own father on September 11, objects, but Tommy's father, Luke, is proud of his son's decision. Tommy is also planning to ask his girlfriend, Annalee Miller, to marry him someday. However, she hasn't been feeling well--and tests reveal the unthinkable. While his girlfriend begins the fight of her life,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020

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McKinnon, Hannah Roberts

Summary: "At age ninety-two, Tish Darling is the matriarch and protector of what's left of the Darling family fortune, including the decades-old beach house, Riptide. Located on the crook of Cape Cod, it's a place she once loved but has not returned to in decades, since a tragic family accident one perfect summer day. Her daughter-in-law Cora has her own complicated feelings surrounding Tish's return,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MCK

Griffeth, Bill (William C.)

Summary: "In his 2016 best-seller, 'The Stranger in My Genes: A Memoir,' Bill Griffeth told of learning that the father who raised him was not, in fact, his biological father. In this sequel, Bill continues his journey to learn about his newly discovered biological family and shares some of the dramatic stories strangers and friends told him about their own shocking DNA discoveries..."--Inside jacket flap.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRIFFETH, BILL GRI

Summary: The family and friends of prominent Danish patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt gather at his country estate to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Two months prior to this event, Helge's daughter committed suicide. Her twin brother, Christian, makes a birthday toast that brings a barrage of family secrets out into the open.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CEL

Wilkerson, Charmaine

2 holds on 7 copies

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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Wilkerson, 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

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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 WIL

Arnold, Elana K.

Summary: "There are a few things you should know about Harriet Wermer: she just finished third grade; she has a perfect cat named Matzo Ball; she doesn't always tell the truth; she is very happy to be spending summer vacation away from home and her mom and dad and all the wonderful things she had been planning all year. Okay, maybe that last one isn't entirely the truth. Of course, there's nothing...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA Fiction Arnold 2022

Frank, Victoria Benton

Summary: In this gripping tale of self-discovery, Victoria Benton Frank introduces us to Maggie, a South Carolina transplant in New York City struggling to find her place in the world. When she receives a phone call from her troubled sister, Violet, Maggie must return to her hometown of Sullivan's Island, where she uncovers shocking secrets about her family's past. Upon her arrival, Maggie is confronted...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FRA

Ward, J. R.

Summary: With his brother on trial for patricide, Lane Baldwine is now the head of the family, and the Bradford Bourbon Company. But his lover, Sutton Smythe, is the CEO of their biggest rival. It is said that love survives all things. But murder?

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WAR

Zusak, Markus

Summary: Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZUS

Hoffman, Alice

Summary: "With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she's abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the "Unnamed Arts." Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: Always love someone who will love you back. When Maria is abandoned by the man who has...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOF

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOF

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOF

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOF

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOF

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hoffman 2020

Mbue, Imbolo

Summary: "Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty--and Jende is eager to please....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MBU

Hoffman, Alice

Summary: We first met the Owens in the glorious novel Practical Magic. We discovered the tragedy of the Owens siblings in Rules of Magic. Now we learn how it all began ... with a baby abandoned in a snowy English field in the 1600s. Under the care of gentle Hannah Owens, little Maria learns about the 'Unnamed Arts'. Maria has a gift for them - a gift that may well prove her undoing. When Maria is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HOF

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOF

McFadden, Freida

20 holds on 10 copies

Summary: Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

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McQuestion, Karen

Summary: "Joe Arneson's ordinary life is upended by troubling dreams of himself as a different man in another place and time. It isn't until he visits his estranged grandmother, Pearl, in her Wisconsin hometown that a startling connection emerges. Drawn into his family's past, Joe discovers secrets weighing on the old woman's soul: the tragic death of her sister Alice a half century ago and its ripple...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCQ

Taylor, Mary Ellen

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "Adrift in the wake of her father's death, a failed marriage and multiple miscarriages, Libby McKenzie feels truly alone. Though her new life as a wedding photographer provides a semblance of purpose, it's also a distraction from her profound pain. When asked to photograph a wedding at the historic Woodmont estate, Libby meets the owner, Elaine Grant. Hoping to open Woodmont to the public,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC TAY

Adams, Michelle

Summary: A reunited couple search for a valuable treasure, a precious jewelry box, stolen from the Nazis and hidden away since World War II, in this powerfully emotional and romantic novel of rekindled love. Once upon a time, in a small village in southern France, a pretty, willful English girl is falling in love. Frances Langley has fallen under Benoit's romantic spell, so sure is she that he is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADA

Hoffman, Alice.

Summary: In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOF

Morton, Kate

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. An epic story that spans generations, Homecoming asks what we would do for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOR

Mosher, Howard Frank.

Summary: "Earnest and innocent, a bright high school student, Jim grows curious about the unspoken 'trouble in the family' that haunts his father, a small-town newspaper editor, and his grandfather, a raconteur who keeps the Kinnesons' secrets to himself. Layer by layer, tale by tale, sorting out fact from deliberately obscured legend, Jim explores the Kinnesons' long relationship with others in the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOS

Richell, Hannah

Summary: Two summers, decades apart. Two women whose lives are forever entwined. And a house that holds the secrets that could free them both. At twenty-six, Lillian feels ancient and exhausted. Her marriage to Charles Oberon has not turned out the way she thought it would. To her it seems she is just another beautiful object captured within the walls of Cloudesley, her husband's Chilterns manor house....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Richell 2018

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