Wiggs, Susan
Summary: At the break of dawn, Caroline Shelby returns home to Oysterville, Washington, a tiny coastal hamlet, a place she thought she'd left forever. With her are two orphaned children for whom she is now legal guardian, a role she's not sure she's ready for. But the town has changed. For solace, Caroline returns to her favorite place: the sewing shop owned by Mrs. Lindy Bloom, where she discovers that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WIGDe Blasi, Marlena.
Summary: Krakow, 1931. A baby girl is born out of wedlock, and deposited at a remote convent in the French countryside. Amandine is raised by her governess, Solange. As global war looms, the two flee toward Solange's childhood home, and begin a perilous, years-long odyssey across Occupied France-- and deeper into the treacheries of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEBCookson, Catherine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOWiggs, Susan
Summary: At the break of dawn, Caroline Shelby returns home to Oysterville, Washington, a tiny coastal hamlet, a place she thought she'd left forever. With her are two orphaned children for whom she is now legal guardian, a role she's not sure she's ready for. But the town has changed. For solace, Caroline returns to her favorite place: the sewing shop owned by Mrs. Lindy Bloom, where she discovers that...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC WIGCooper, Tea
Summary: "Ranging from the gritty reality of the Australian goldfields to the grand institutions of Sydney, the bucolic English countryside to the charm of Maitland Town, this compelling historical mystery in the company of an eccentric and original heroine is rich with atmosphere and detail"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COONewton, Dylan
Summary: "When disaster strikes and chef Bryce Weatherford is given guardianship of her three young nieces, her life goes from cooking with fire...to controlling a dumpster fire. Five year old Addison refuses to remove her fairy wings, eight year old Cecily won't bathe, and tween June is majoring in belligerence. With all this chaos, Bryce jettisons hope for a life outside of managing her family and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NEWDe Blasi, Marlena.
Summary: Deemed an illegitimate child by her royal Polish family, Amandine is abandoned as a baby at a French convent. As she grows, Amandine struggles to accept her orphaned state. She longs to put together the missing pieces of her identity, but as WWII engulfs Europe, her time to find answers may be running short.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEBCoetzee, J. M.
Summary: In Estrella, David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old who is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Simon and Bolivar the dog usually watch while his mother Ines now works in a fashion boutique. David still asks many questions, challenging his parents, and any authority figure in his life. In dancing class at the Academy of Music he dances as he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Coetzee 2020Laurens, Stephanie.
Summary: After roguish Max Rotherbridge inherits the dukedom of Twyford and the Twinning sisters as wards, he must figure out a way to protect them from his disreputable friends and win the heart of the oldest sister, Caroline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAUBowen, Elizabeth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWDowning, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWJohansen, Iris
Summary: "New York Times bestseller Iris Johansen is back with another high octane thriller that will leave your mind racing and your heart pounding. Despite her tragic childhood, violin prodigy Cara Delaney has finally found peace in her career as a professional musician and stability in her relationship with her guardians, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy SEAL Joe Quinn. If only Jock Gavin,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHWharton, Edith
Contents: The age of innocence -- Summer -- Madame De Treymes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHAKleypas, Lisa.
Summary: Mark Nolan's happy-go-lucky bachelorhood is interrupted by the death of his sister and his subsequent guardianship of her six-year-old daughter, Holly, who is traumatized into muteness and desperately seeking a maternal figure. Enter Maggie Collins, a toy shop owner who lost her own husband to cancer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLELadd, Sarah E
Summary: "In the first of a new series from beloved Regency romance author, Sarah Ladd, Delia, a governess to five recently orphaned children, would risk anything to protect them ... even her heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LADJohansen, Iris
Summary: Despite her tragic childhood, violin prodigy Cara Delaney has finally found peace in her career and stability in her relationship with her guardians, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy SEAL Joe Quinn. But the constructed life Cara has built for herself is suddenly threatened when she is kidnapped by a mysterious man, setting off a chain of events that puts everyone Cara loves in danger....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHRoberts, Nora.
Summary: "A lifetime of dedication to dance left Lindsay Dunne little time for romance. That is until she meets brooding architect Seth Bannion, the guardian of a talented young ballerina in Lindsay's class. As Lindsay and Seth clash over their hopes for the girl's future, passions flare ... and Lindsay receives a crash course in the art of love"--Container.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROBBradley, Kimberly Brubaker
Summary: When Ada's clubfoot is surgically fixed at last, she knows for certain that she's not what her mother said she was--damaged, deranged, crippled mentally as well as physically. She's not a daughter anymore, either. What is she? World War II continues, and Ada and her brother, Jamie, are living with their loving legal guardian, Susan, in a borrowed cottage on the estate of the formidable Lady...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC BRACoss Aquino, Melissa
Summary: "Carmen and Grace have been inseparable since they were little girls--more like sisters than cousins, survivors of a childhood marked by neglect and addiction and a system that never valued them. For too long, all they had was each other. That is, until Doña Durka swept into their lives and changed everything, taking Grace into her home, providing stability and support, and playing an outsize...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AQUCarr, Robyn
Summary: Hannah Russell's carefully crafted plans for her life have been upended without warning. When her best friend died suddenly, Hannah became guardian to a five-year-old named Noah. With no experience at motherhood, she's terrified she's not up to the challenge. She and Noah need time to get to know each other, so she decides to rent a country house with stunning views on a lake in rural Colorado....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARSchine, Cathleen.
Summary: In the Greenwich Village of 1964, eleven-year-old Fin moves in with his glamorous, careless older sister, and it's hard to tell who's raising whom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P SCHLewis, Beverly
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEWBradley, Kimberly Brubaker
Summary: "As the frightening impact of World War II creeps closer and closer to her door, eleven-year-old Ada learns to manage life on the home front"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRACoetzee, J. M.
Summary: "A major new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for the Barbarians, The Life & Times of Michael K and Disgrace Nobel laureate and two-time Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee returns with a haunting and surprising novel about childhood and destiny that is sure to rank with his classic novels. Separated from his mother as a passenger on a boat bound for a new land, David is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013