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Abi-Ezzi, Nathalie

Summary: "In her peaceful town outside Beirut, Ruba is slowly awakening to the shifting contours within her household: hardly speaking and refusing to work, her father has inexplicably withdrawn from his family in favor of his favorite armchair; her once-youthful mother looks so sad that Ruba imagines her heart must have withered like a fig in the heat; and Ruba's brother, Naji, has started to spend...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABI

Sharma, Nisha

Summary: Born and raised in the US, Tara Bajaj hides her family secrets. With beautiful clothes, a popular social media presence, and a spot on the Rutgers High Bollywood dance team, she does it well--until her carefully cultivated image shatters. Shut out by friends and with her future in flux, Tara accepts a guide position for a youth group's temple tour through North India. Rediscovering the heart of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Skyscape 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHA

Murphy, Jennifer

Summary: "Part mystery, part coming-of-age story, and part tragedy, Scarlet In Blue, by acclaimed novelist Jennifer Murphy, traces the lives of a mother and daughter who, because of their fugitive lifestyle and the pain that overshadows it, share a dependence and a love so strong neither can imagine life without the other. Fifteen-year-old Blue Lake is a budding pianist who resents her mother Scarlet's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MUR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Murphy

Walls, Jeannette

Summary: Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie is her father's daughter, sharp-witted...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WAL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC WAL

Wells, Benedict

Summary: "From internationally bestselling author Benedict Wells, a sweeping, heartbreaking novel of friendship, memory, and the lives we never get to live. At eleven years old, Jules Moreau loses his parents in a tragic accident, and in an instant, his childhood is shattered. Leaving a comfortable home in Munich and holidays in the south of France far behind, he and his siblings, Marty and Liz, are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEL

Sie, James.

Summary: "Recent high school graduate and aspiring artist Walter Stahl lives with his ailing father in the dregs of Las Vegas, their lives overshadowed by the disappearance of Walter's mother, who drove off when he was five and never returned. Although Walter has never so much as seen a photograph of his mother, it doesn't stop him from keeping an eye out for her in the groups of tourists he caters to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIE

Patterson, Richard North

Summary: A family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings is set against the backdrop of the turbulent summer of 1968 in Martha's Vineyard, where twenty-two-year-old Whitney Dane begins questioning her goals and sense of independence at the side of a fiercely ambitious, underprivileged man.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2013

Irving, John

Summary: In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC IRV

Lemmie, Asha

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: "From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance-and the unexpected ally that will change everything-in post-World War II Japan. Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC LEM
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEM

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEM

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEM

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lemmie 2020

Burdick, Serena

Summary: In New York City in the 1910s, Luella and Effie Tildon realize that even as wealthy young women, their freedoms come with limits. When the sisters discover a shocking secret about their father, Luella, the brazen elder sister, becomes emboldened to do as she pleases. Her rebellion comes with consequences, and Effie suspects her father has sent Luella to the "House of Mercy." Effie gets herself...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUR

Hepinstall, Kathy

Summary: "The laugh-out-loud story of a girl determined to keep up with her aging, crazy-as-a-fox mother and learn the truth of her mother's long-secret past...Willow Havens is ten years old and obsessed with the fear that her mother will die. Her mother, Polly, is a cantankerous, take-no-prisoners Southern woman who lives to shoot varmints, drink margaritas, and antagonize the neighbors--and she sticks...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEP

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEP

McFadden, Bernice L.

Summary: "Abeo Kata, a young woman must learn to love and trust again after experiencing the brutality of ritual servitude in West Africa."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCF

Wynne, Phoebe

Summary: "Phoebe Wynne's The Ruins is a suspenseful, feminist Gothic coming-of-age tale with shades of Patricia Highsmith, Rebecca, and Atonement, pitched against the sun-soaked backdrop of a summer holiday on the French Riviera. Welcome to the Chateau des Sètes, a jewel of the Cote d'Azur, where long summer days bring ease, glamour, and decadence to the holidaymakers who can afford it. Ruby Ashby...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WYN

Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)

Summary: When author Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends. There he finds more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined. But their personal struggles, their hidden desires, will soon be eclipsed by far greater forces, as the tides turn...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2009

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BYA

Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)

Summary: When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum--a talented working-class boy who could be a character out of one of Olive's magical tales--she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends--a world that conceals more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined and that will soon be...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYA

Smith, Sarah Elaine

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Fourteen year old Cindy and her two older brothers live in rural Pennsylvania, in a house with occasional electricity, two fierce dogs, one book, and a mother who comes and goes for months at a time. Deprived of adult supervision, the siblings rely on one another for nourishment of all kinds. As Cindy's brothers take on new responsibilities for her care, the shadow of danger looms larger and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Smith 2019

De los Santos, Marisa

Summary: Cornelia Brown is reeling from a terrifying act of violence when she gets word that her mother has been badly injured in an accident. Cornelia returns to Virginia, to the house she grew up in, and in the weeks that follow, she watches her mother Ellie struggle to recover, fluctuating between her usual crisp, can-do clarity and periods of delirium during which she seems haunted by a devastating...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DE L

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEL

Maynard, Joyce

Summary: Thirty years after destroying her detective father's career and altering the lives of everyone she loves, Rachel, who has never given up hope of vindicating her father, finally finds The Sunset Strangler, a killer who, in the summer of 1979, preyed on young women in northern California.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Maynard 2013

Patterson, Richard North.

Summary: A family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings is set against the backdrop of the turbulent summer of 1968 in Martha's Vineyard, where twenty-two-year-old Whitney Dane begins questioning her goals and sense of independence at the side of a fiercely ambitious, underprivileged man.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Patterson 2013

O'Donnell, Lisa

Summary: Eleven-year-old Michael Murray is the best at keeping secrets. He listens at doors; it's the only way to find out anything. And Michael's heard a secret, one that might explain the bruises on his mother's face. When the whispers at home and on the street become too loud to ignore, Michael begins to wonder if there is an even bigger. Scared of what might happen if anyone finds out, and desperate...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC O'DO

Gilbert, David

Summary: A famous reclusive writer and his three sons find their bond tested by the weight of long-held secrets and a cumbersome legacy shaped by boarding school, Hollywood, and the elite circles of the publishing world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIL

Crosby, Polly

Summary: A girl who would save her mentally ill artist father from succumbing to the pressures of fame follows clues in the illustrations of his remarkable children's book before uncovering an astonishing family secret.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRO

Bender, Aimee.

Summary: Being able to taste people's emotions in food may at first be horrifying. But young, unassuming Rose Edelstein grows up learning to harness her gift as she becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEN

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC BEN

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