Kramer, Richard
Summary: Wesley, a tenth grader, tries to navigate through life, despite having divorced parents, a father who has come out as gay ,and a popular friend who also comes out as gay right after winning a school election.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Unbridled Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRAMcKinnon, Hannah Roberts
Summary: "Wendell Combs is as local as they come. Born and raised in the small town of Saybrook, Connecticut, his venture into the larger world was met with heartbreak. Now, middle-aged and a confirmed bachelor, he seeks solitude from his tour of duty as a soldier back in his hometown, working as head caretaker for wealthy Alan Lancaster's forty-acre estate, White Pines, a place he has come to love for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MCKBaldacci, David.
Summary: Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2011
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Summary: The students at an elite private school that has admitted females for the first time navigate painful secrets, family dynamics and a prying media in the aftermath of a Halloween event that is upended by a classmate's alcohol poisoning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEHannah, Kristin.
Summary: Jude Farraday is a happily married, stay-at-home mom who puts everyone's needs above her own. Her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill enters their lives, no one is more supportive than Jude. A former foster child with a dark past, Lexi quickly becomes Mia's best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable. But senior year of high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HANGeorge, Alex.
Summary: The Meisenheimer family struggles to find its place among the colorful residents of its new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than music, and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gale Cengage Learning 2012
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Summary: After a string of foster homes and the death of her heroin-addict mother, Lexi Baill is taken in by a newly discovered great-aunt who lives a spartan life near Seattle. Lexi soon meets Mia and her loving twin brother, Zach. The friendship flourishes, and Mia's mother draws Lexi into the family circle. A slowly growing attraction between Zach and Lexi begins, but then Lexi, Mia, and Zach...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANHannah, Kristin.
Summary: After a string of foster homes and the death of her heroin-addict mother, Lexi Baill is taken in by a newly discovered great-aunt who lives a spartan life near Seattle. Lexi soon meets Mia and her loving twin brother, Zach. The friendship flourishes, and Mia's mother draws Lexi into the family circle. A slowly growing attraction between Zach and Lexi begins, but then Lexi, Mia, and Zach...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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Summary: It's been nearly six years since Julia Jones had her heart broken. After her husband became involved with another woman, she did everything she could to save their marriage, to no avail. Their two daughters continue to stand by Julia in the wake of their father's behavior, and they've had a tough time getting along with the 'other woman' who became their stepmother. Distraught after selling the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Macomber 2021Mallery, Susan
Summary: "Once upon a time, when her dad married Sage's mom, Daisy was thrilled to get a bright and shiny new sister. But Sage was beautiful and popular, everything Daisy was not, and she made sure Daisy knew it. Sage didn't have Daisy's smarts--she had to go back a grade to enroll in the fancy rich-kid school. So she used her popularity as a weapon, putting Daisy down to elevate herself. After the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "After her marriage ends, one woman's struggle to pick up the pieces finally leads to a new beginning but is the past truly behind her? It's been nearly six years since Julia Jones had her heart broken. After her husband became involved with another woman, she did everything she could to save their marriage, to no avail. Their two daughters continue to stand by Julia in the wake of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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Summary: In this hilariously heartwarming sequel to Call Me Irresistible, Lucy Jorik, the daughter of the former president of the U.S., jilts her soon-to-be husband at the altar and makes a run for it on the back of a stranger's motorcycle, finally embarking on the adventure she has been waiting for.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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Summary: "Once upon a time, when her dad married Sages mom, Daisy was thrilled to get a bright and shiny new sister. But Sage was beautiful and popular, everything Daisy was not, and she made sure Daisy knew it. Sage didn't have Daisy's smarts-she had to go back a grade to enroll in the fancy rich-kid school. So she used her popularity as a weapon, putting Daisy down to elevate herself. After the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira, an imprint of Harlequin books 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINLuo, Susie
Summary: "Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. There's Tony, a Chinese-born engineer turned Manhattan doorman, who immigrated to the United States to give his family a better life. His daughter, Tammy, who we meet at age nine and follow through adulthood, and who grapples with the expectations of a first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
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Summary: Charles Marlow is a Seattle English teacher who instructs his students to expand their worlds through language. Lately, however, with one child off to college and the pressure from his ex-wife to make plans for their severely autistic son, who's about to age out of the system, he prefers the company of the ghosts he turns up in the storage boxes in his crawl space. There he finds the totems...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband's venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: Five years ago Elian was kidnapped. Physicall and emotionally abused, brainwashed, now his captor sends him into the mall-- with a bomb strapped to his chest. Across the mall is Maya, a girl whose crippling anxiety holds her prisoner in its own way. When Maya keeps Eli from detonating the bomb, nothing is the same. They are drawn together by their dark pasts-- and only time will tell if meeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EMEAnderson, James
Summary: "A trucker sets out to protect an abandoned child in the Utah desert...Winter has come to Route 117, a remote road through the high desert of Utah trafficked only by eccentrics, fugitives, and those looking to escape the world. Local truck driver Ben Jones, still in mourning over a heartbreaking loss, is just trying to get through another season of treacherous roads and sudden snowfall without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDGreenwood, T. (Tammy)
Summary: Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she has no way of knowing that Frank LaSalle, fresh out of prison, is watching her, preparing to make his move. Accosting her outside the store, Frank convinces Sally that he's an FBI agent who can have her arrested unless she does as he says. Over the next two years Frank mentally and physically...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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Summary: "For months Kitty MacLean has been crushing on Rio Sanchez, who is probably the cutest boy in the world. But it looks like she might never get a chance to hang out with him until ... 1. Kitty goes camping with her best friends like she promised them, and finds out Rio just happens to be staying not too far away. But should she meet up with him? Or is a grubby camping holiday not the best time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FISRoberts, Nora.
Summary: For a change of pace, renowned anthropologist Kasey Wyatt takes a job working for bestselling author Jordan Taylor, who needs helps researching his latest novel about the Plains Indians. Upon arriving at Jordan's impressive Palm Springs estate, Kasey finds all the trappings of a family, but none of the warmth. Jordan's forbidding mother is immediately suspicious of her, while Jordan's shy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Trade 2014
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Summary: While her mother, Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law, a Hollywood icon at 62, deals with conflicting feels for a much-younger man, her daughter, Morgan, a successful plastic surgeon in NYC, falls for a much-older man, which brings them together as they each try to navigate an unconventional romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: Confined to a wheelchair, James Lapp's unwilling to saddle Rachel King with his troubles, but a runaway Englisher girl unites them in a common goal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks 2014