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Authors Fiction Best friends Fiction England Fiction Families Fiction Family secrets Fiction Female friendship Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Saint Petersburg (Russia) History Siege, 1941-1944 Fiction Sieges Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg FictionGreathead, Kate
Summary: "A tender, witty debut novel about a single mother raising her daughter among the upper crust of New York City society in the late twentieth century from a nine-time Moth StorySLAM champion. Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early thirties. One weekend in 1981 she meets Jefferson. The two sleep together. He vanishes. And Laura...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Greathead 2018Heley, Veronica.
Summary: After 24 years, she's learning the truth that was hidden from her as a child. Now the fate of many people depends on what she will do with it. At the age of four, Araminta "Minty" Cardale was exiled from Eden Hall on the wings of a scandal. Twenty years later, summoned by her half-sister, she has returned to see her dying father. But her hopes of a warm family welcome are shattered, and she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELGreer, Helena
Summary: "A witty, glittering rom-com about finding the courage to face your past and learning what it truly means to return home, perfect for fans of Jenny Bayliss and Alexandra Bellefleur. Artist Miriam Blum has her decoupaged glitter ducks perfectly lined up. Only for one phone call to bring her whole life all crashing down. Her beloved and eccentric great-aunt has just died-leaving her part-owner of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREHaien, Jeannette.
Summary: When a World War II veteran returns home he struggles with self-doubt as his wife and children have changed, his successful business is gone, and he questions how to face the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIHelfer, Monika
Summary: "The multigenerational family saga set in a fractured rural village in WWI Austria. Maria and Josef live with their children in a valley in westernmost Austria. When the First World War breaks out and Josef is drafted into the army, Maria is left to provide for her family alone. Every day is a struggle against starvation, the harsh alpine climate and the hostile nearby villagers who see Maria...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHealey, Jane
Summary: "In the summer of 1973, Ruth and her four friends were obsessed with pre-Raphaelite paintings -- and a little bit obsessed with each other. Drawn to the cold depths of the river by Ruth's house, the girls pretend to be the drowning Ophelia, with increasingly elaborate tableaus. But by the end of that fateful summer, real tragedy finds them along the banks. Twenty-four years later, Ruth returns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HEAKimmel, Haven
Summary: From her earliest years, Trace turned away from her abusive mother toward her loving father. Within the twisty logic of abuse, her desperate love for him took on a romantic cast that persists to this day, though she's had no contact with her family since she ran away from home years ago. Alone but for her beloved dog, she's eked out an impoverished but functional existence, living in an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIMKimmel, Haven
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIMFerrante, Elena
Summary: The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FERDunmore, Helen
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DUNGarner, Helen
Summary: "Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels embodied Australia's tumultuous 70s and 80s, and her incisive nonfiction evokes the keen eye of the New Journalists. The Atlantic dubbed her "the Joan Didion of Australia." Now, The Children's Bach, the beloved work that solidified her place among the masters of modern international letters, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC GARCullen, Helen
Summary: Trinity College, Dublin, 1978. Aspiring actress Maeve meets pottery student Murtagh Moone. As their relationship progresses, marriage and motherhood come in quick succession. But for Maeve, with the joy of children also comes the struggle to hold on to the truest parts of herself. Decades later, on a small Irish island, the Moone family are poised for celebration but instead are struck by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CULDunmore, Helen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DUNBryan, Helen.
Summary: Alice Osbourne, the stolid daughter of the late vicar, is reeling from the news that Richard Fairfax broke their engagement to marry Evangeline Fontaine, an American girl from the Deep South. Evangeline's arrival causes a stir in the village but not the chaos that would ensue if they knew her motives for being there. Scrappy Elsie Pigeon is among the poor of London who see the evacuations as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Encore 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRYDunmore, Helen
Summary: Intertwines the love stories of two couples whose lives are forever changed after the 1941 siege on Leningrad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNSimonson, Helen
Summary: It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's Latin teacher: Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good breeding in search of a position after the death of her father. Agatha's nephews, meanwhile, have come to spend the summer months, as always, both with dreams of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2016
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Summary: Every year they have met up for a vacation, but their time away is much more than just a bit of fun. Over time, it has become a lifesaver, as each of them struggles with life's triumphs and tragedies. Sophie, Emily, Amy and Melissa have been best friends since they were girls. They have seen each other through everything--from Sophie's private fear that she doesn't actually want to be a mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2018
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION WARHenley, Patricia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENBrown, Helen
Summary: "The windows rattle. The roof leaks. Every surface cries out to be stripped, painted, or polished. But for writer Lisa Trumperton, the dilapidated manor house that once belonged to her great-grandfather is far more than the sum of its battered parts. It's the chance for a new start on her own terms. The fact that it's in the Melbourne countryside of her Australian homeland, far from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brown 2016Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P BRODunmore, Helen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNOyeyemi, Helen.
Summary: Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, the celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OYEBenedict, Helen
Summary: "After a hurricane devastates a small town in upstate New York, the lives of three women and their young children are irrevocably changed. Rin, an Iraq War veteran, tries to protect her blind daughter and the three wolves under her care. Naema, a widowed doctor who fled Iraq with her wounded son, faces life-threatening injuries. Beth, who is raising a troubled son, waits out her marine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P BENSchulman, Helen
Summary: "Taking place over three non-consecutive but vitally important days in the lives of Amy, Dan, and their three sons, Come with Me is searing, entertaining, and unexpected--a dark comedy that is ultimately a deeply romantic love story, one which takes place on infinite planes but ends in a single chord"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: Jen's 15-year-old daughter goes missing for four agonizing days. When Lana is found, unharmed, in the middle of the desolate countryside, everyone thinks the worst is over. But Lana refuses to tell anyone what happened, and the police draw a blank. The once-happy, loving family return to London, where things start to fall apart. Lana begins acting strangely: refusing to go to school, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018