Howard, Rachel
Summary: What is the cost of motherhood? When The Risk of Us opens, we meet a forty-something woman who deeply wants to become a mother. The path that opens up to her and her husband takes them through the foster care system, with the goal of adoption. And when seven-year-old Maresa comes into their lives, with her inch-deep dimples and a voice that can beam to the moon, their hearts fill with love. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWRichell, 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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Richell 2018Bache, Ellyn.
Summary: Paisley Lamm's terminal cancer helps her and her four friends suddenly appreciate their memorable life experiences, their own families and their lifestyles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1979
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FASHoward, Linda
Summary: "Sarah Harper had loved Rome Matthews silently for years. She'd seen him marry her best friend, then lose his wife and sons in a tragic accident. Years later, when he turned to her for comfort and made her his wife, Sarah felt her world was at last complete. Only one thing could have made her happier: to have Rome's baby. But that was denied to her, because Rome dared not risk losing another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2018
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Summary: Maddy fled the idyllic market town of Havenbury Magna three years ago, the scene of a traumatic incident she revisits most clearly in her dreams. Even so, when she is called back to help at the Havenbury Arms when her godfather Patrick suffers a heart attack, she is unprepared for the welter of emotions her return provokes. Psychologist and ex-army officer Ben is sure he can help Maddy to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allison & Busby 2018
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Summary: "For Hector and Lilia, pursuit of the American Dream became every parent's worst fear: their infant daughter vanished in the midst of their border crossing from Mexico to the United States. With great empathy and a keen awareness of current events, Michel Stone delivers a novel of surpassing sensitivity and heart. Years ago, young lovers H©♭ctor and Lilia dreamed of a brighter future for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday 2017
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Summary: "A cynical twentysomething must confront her cultish family in this fiery, irreverent novel from the national bestselling author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle. Vesper Wright is in hell. The night she gets fired from her unglamorous restaurant job, she comes home to find an envelope waiting on her doorstep. There's no return address, but she knows exactly who it's from --her estranged family....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHauck, Rachel
Summary: Executive assistant Lexa is eager for a much-deserved promotion, but her boss is determined to keep her underemployed. Literature professor Jett is dealing with a broken heart, as well as a nagging suspicion his literary idol, Gordon Phipps Roth, might be a fraud. Uber driver Chuck just wants a second chance with his kids. Aging widower Ed is eager to write the true story of his incredible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hauck 2020Seiffert, Rachel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007
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Summary: Growing up in a Glasgow community haunted by Ireland's Troubles and religious divides, young Stevie finds his precarious family stability and sense of self threatened by his father's marching band's loyalist paramilitary ties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEIVincent, Rachel
Summary: Michaela is a junior in high school, close with her single mom. Her dad lives a few towns away and pops in and out of her life only on holidays and birthdays. They barely know each other beyond surface obligations. That is, until her mom dies. Suddenly on her own, Michaela has to move in with her Dad . . . and learns he's been married with kids all this time, and she was the product of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VINKhong, Rachel
Summary: ""Incredibly poignant . . . Rachel Khong's first novel sneaks up on you -- just like life . . . and heartbreak. And love."--Miranda July A few days after Christmas in a small suburb outside of L.A., pairs of a man's pants hang from the trees. The pants belong to Howard Young, a prominent history professor, recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Howard's wife, Annie, summons their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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Summary: "An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family, and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: "A domestic thriller about a nanny whose new job working for a picture-perfect family is not everything it seems"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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Summary: Lily Sterne's life is torn apart when her daughter is burned in a cooking accident, but when the police try and take her children away from her, she knows she will have to go to any length to prove she is innocent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1998
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Summary: "Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to "America's Playground" and move into the apartment above their bakery. The apartment is where they raised their two daughters, Fannie and Florence, and, despite the cramped quarters, it still feels like home. Now Florence has returned from college, determined to spend the summer training...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BeanlandMosher, Howard Frank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1995
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Summary: In the summer of 1939, Britain has entered WW II, and the nine young Cazalet cousins are gathered for the duration under the rural Sussex roof of their grandparents, the indomitable Brig and his wife, Duchy. The appealing characters engage in a series of interrelated plots and subplots, and each family unit acts out a personal drama against the ever-present backdrop of the war. The children,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1991
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dundurn Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELHarper, Rachel M.
Summary: Raised by a single mother in Miami, Florida, Jenry Castillo, newly arrived at Brown University on a music scholarship, finds himself searching for information about his late father Jasper Patterson, an internationally recognized principal ballet dancer who died tragically when Jenry was two. Jenry thinks his estranged grandfather, Winston Patterson, a professor of African American history at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2022
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Summary: "This tender novel tells a universal story of struggle, loss, and ultimately, survival. Arcelia Perez left Puerto Rico for the American dream, but within a few years she's living on the tough side of Providence, Rhode Island with three children, no job, and a powerful heroin addiction. Through rotating narration, we meet a diverse cast of characters-most notably Arcelia's charming, street-savvy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prospect Park Books 2016