Yanagihara, Hanya
Summary: When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC YANTanen, Sloane
Summary: The wildly flawed and dysfunctional Kessler family--retired film producer Marty; his daughter Janine, a former child star; granddaughter Hailey; and long-forgotten first wife, Bunny--comes together in Malibu's most exclusive rehab center.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION TANHornbacher, Marya
Summary: In the aftermath of her husband's devastating suicide, Claire Schiller moves with their two young children into the home of her in-laws during an oppressive Minnesota winter and shares unexpected moments of comfort, healing, and humor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORAnaya, Rudolfo A.
Summary: "Mythmaker, master storyteller, and a writer powerfully attuned to the land and history of his native New Mexico, Rudolfo Anaya is one of the undisputed fathers of Chicano literature. Writing in an era when Latino voices were marginalized and just beginning to be read and acknowledged, Anaya broke new ground with Bless Me, Ultima (1972), a mythic novel that captures the richness and complexity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANACrosby, Tanya Anne
Summary: In search of change, Gillian Frazer returns to her grandmother's ranch, which has been in the family for generations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Story Plant 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Crosby 2018Lalli, Sonya
Summary: "Serena Singh is tired of everyone telling her what she should want-and she is ready to prove to her mother, her sister, and the aunties in her community that a woman does not need domestic bliss to have a happy life. Things are going according to plan for Serena. She is smart, confident, and just got a kick-ass new job at a top advertising firm in Washington, D.C. Even before her younger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Lalli 2021Montefiore, Santa
Summary: Ireland. 1925. The war is over. But life will never be the same... In the green hills of West Cork, Ireland, Castle Deverill has burned to the ground. But young Celia Deverill is determined to see her ruined ancestral home restored to its former glory — to the years when Celia ran through its vast halls with her cousin Kitty and their childhood friend Bridie Doyle. Kitty herself is raising a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMontefiore, Santa
Summary: 1939: Peace has flourished since the Great War ended, but much has changed for the Deverill family as now a new generation is waiting in the wings to make their mark. When Martha Wallace leaves her home in America to search for her birth mother in Dublin, she never imagines that she will completely lose her heart to the impossibly charming JP Deverill. But more surprises are in store for her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONIslam, Tanwi Nandini.
Summary: A Bangladeshi orphan haunted by her parents' murders moves in with family members in Brooklyn until a fateful coming-of-age summer when her Islamic runaway cousin and she confront painful family secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ISLAnaya, Rudolfo A.
Summary: Six-year-old Antonio embarks upon a spiritual journey under the watchful guidance of Ultima, a healing woman, that leads him to question his faith and beliefs in family, religion, and other aspects of his Chicano culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1999
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ANAMallery, Susan
Summary: Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she's raising is loved and wanted. Finley reacted to her chaotic childhood by walking the straight and narrow. Her sister Sloan went the other way. Now Sloane is back, and she says that she wants a relationship with her daughter. She says she's changed, but Finley's heart has been burned once too often for her to trust easily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MALMallery, Susan
Summary: Mackenzie Dienes seems to have it all. But really, it's her husband who does. So when their marriage is over, she's on the brink of losing everything. But if she can let go, she might discover something more beautiful waiting for her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MALNoga, Cari
Summary: At forty-five, Jane McArdle has experienced her share of life's twists and turns. Yet she's shaken by the sudden death of her estranged half sister and the news that she's now the guardian of her orphaned niece, Lucy. Still nurturing unresolved grief from a marriage bookended by loss, as well as her guilt over her adult son's imperfect upbringing, Jane is her own worst enemy, content to focus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC NOGHoover, Colleen
Summary: Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike. Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesn't want to follow in her mother's footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn't have a spontaneous bone in her body....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOOMallery, Susan
Summary: Life is meant to be savored, but that's not easy with no family, limited prospects, and a past. Still, Callie Smith doesn't know how to feel when she discovers she has a brother and a sister--Malcolm, who grew up with wealth and privilege, and Keira, a streetwise twelve-year-old.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MALMallery, Susan.
Summary: Nicole's husband quit his job and won't help take care of their son, leaving Nicole to run the house and work full-time. Can she say enough is enough without losing the man she loves? Sacrificing a personal life for her career is how Shannon Rigg rose to become vice president in her firm, but she wonders now whether she made the right choice. Although Pam Eiland has a beautiful house and a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Mallery 2014Thayer, Nancy
Summary: A grandmother-granddaughter duo are eager to spend their summer together on peaceful Nantucket, but the season that unfolds brings about unforgettable surprises in New York Times best selling author Nancy Thayer's magical, multigenerational novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC THABrunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: A collection of short stories from Amish Country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shiloh Run Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUBrunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: Meet businessman Joel Byler who has gotten himself into a financial bind and his eccentric, wealthy Amish father who is done bailing out his spoiled son. When will Joel learn he most pay for his own mistakes and at what cost to his business, his fiancee, and his Amish siblings?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shiloh Run Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BruBrunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: Doretta Schwartz used to be so happy and passed her positive attitude along to friends in several letters she wrote each month. But that all changed the day she learned of her fiancé's death and a heavy weight of depression fell upon her. Feeling empty, she puts away her letter writing and won't even respond to calls from friends. William's twin brother, Warren, is also grieving his loss, while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUBrunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: Ruth finds her dream to marry Martin Gingerich and raise a family about to be realized when her life is shattered and her faith is put to the test.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BrunsBrunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: Join authors Wanda E. Brunstetter and Jean Brunstetter in Holmes County for a dramatic new 6-part serial novel set in Holmes County, Ohio. In Part 2, The Stubborn Father, feel the pain of widower Eustace Byler who stands out in his Amish community for his eccentricity and his wealth and mourns both his deceased wife and living son. Can father and son come to an understanding about their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shiloh Run Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BruQuindlen, Anna
Summary: Nora Nolan always felt she lived a ideal life. But one day tensions in her tight-knit neighborhood--and her seemingly happy marriage--are exposed by an unexpected act of violence.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUIQuindlen, Anna.
Summary: Life will never be the same for Meghan, the star of Rise and shine, after she mutters words of profanity into the open mike, as they cut for a commercial break.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006