Lalli, Sonya
Summary: "Acclaimed author Sonya Lalli is back with a delightfully modern look at what happens for a young woman when tradition, dating, and independence collide. Adulting shouldn't be this hard. Especially in your thirties. Having been pressured by her tight-knitIndian community to get married at a young age to her first serious boyfriend, Anu Desai must now start from the beginning: learning who she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LALLalami, Laila
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Summary: An inappropriate bond between the preadolescent daughter of a famous novelist and a rising 1970s London composer twenty years her senior intensifies into a predatory affair, in a tale told from three perspectives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZINEphron, Hallie.
Summary: A novel of psychological suspense, in which a young woman returns to the quirky Bronx riverfront neighborhood where she grew up, only to find that her mother's house has become a hoarder's nest. As Evie digs into the events of the past few months, a bigger, more sinister story begins to unfold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2013
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Summary: "Hoping to escape the pain of the recent murder of her best friend, art student Zoe Beech finds herself studying abroad in the bohemian capital of Europe-Berlin. Zoe, rudderless, relies on the arrangements of fellow exchange student Hailey Mader, who idolizes Warhol and Britney Spears and wants nothing more than to be an art star. On Craigslist, Hailey unknowingly stumbles on an apartment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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Summary: Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2008
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Summary: "In this compelling and poignant debut novel, a woman skilled at caring for animals must learn to mend the broken relationships in her family. For veterinarian Geneva Novak, animals can be easier to understand than people. They're also easier to forgive. But when her mother, Helen, is injured in a vodka-fueled accident, it's up to Geneva to give her the care she needs. Since her teens, Geneva...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAL Accent 2015
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Summary: Seven-year-old Lissie Woodham and her four-year-old sister Janey were playing with their porcelain dolls in the front yard when an adorable puppy scampered by. Eager to pet the pretty dog, Lissie chased after the pup as it ran down the street. When she returned to the yard, Janey’s precious doll was gone . . . and so was Janey. Forty years after Janey went missing, Lis—now a mother with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2007
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Summary: Relocating to a family farm in Connecticut after surviving the Columbine school shootings, Caelum and Maureen discover a cache of family memorabilia dating back five generations, which reveals to Caelum unexpected truths about painful past events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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Summary: Caelum Quirk and his wife Maureen move to Colorado and find jobs at Columbine High School. One day in April 1999, when Caelum is called away by a family emergency, Maureen cowers in a cupboard in the school library, hiding from two students on a murderous rampage. Though miraculously she survives, Maureen cannot recover from the trauma. Seeking solace, the couple returns to Connecticut to an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2009
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Summary: "Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he's done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn't want to die--he wants to be celebrated, understood. Through a kaleidoscope of women--a mother, a sister, a homicide detective--we learn the story of Ansel's life. As the clock ticks down, these three women sift...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: "I'm your husband, Chloe. We're a partnership now and we do what's best for us as a couple." Chloe finally feels like she's got her life together. After a difficult childhood and losing both parents, she worked hard for the life she loves in lively Brighton, helping people as a physiotherapist. And then she meets the perfect man. ..."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bookouture 2019
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Summary: Ruby gives up talking at a young age. Her mother isn't always there to notice; she comes and goes and goes and comes, until, one day, she doesn't. Silence becomes Ruby's refuge, sheltering her from the weather of her mother's mental illness and a pressurized suburban atmosphere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: And Other Stories 2021
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Summary: Follows Lizzie, a young woman growing up in Mississauga, as she fights her way from fat to thin, but who still, even as a married adult woman, sees herself as a fat girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2015
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Summary: "For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books 2023
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Crosby, Tanya Anne.
Summary: Zoe Rutherford wasn't sure what she was expecting when she returned to Sullivan's Island. The house on Sullivan's hadn't represented home to her in decades. It was the place where she endured her father's cruelty. It was the place where her mother closed herself off from the world. It was the place where her sister disappeared. But now that her parents are gone, Zoe needs to return to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Story Plant 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Crosby 2016Beauman, Sally.
Summary: "Before the summer is over, a catastrophic event changes the life of three young sisters in 1967 England"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: "In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampeden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life -- in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 2004
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Summary: Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young, but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021
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Summary: Gabe and Pippa Gerard have just moved into their dream house: a cliffside cottage in a sleepy coastal town outside Melbourne. It's a fresh start to their marriage, and the perfect place to raise their two young daughters. But the houses perfect facade hides something more sinister: The Spot, where the tall cliffs have become a popular place for those wishing to end their lives. After talking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023