Trigiani, Adriana
Summary: "Set in the lush Big Band era of the 1940s and World War II, this spellbinding saga from beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani tells the story of two talented working class kids who marry and become a successful singing act, until time, temptation, and the responsibilities of home and family derail their dreams. Shortly before World War II, Chi Chi Donatelli and Saverio...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION TRIHendricks, Jaime Lynn
Summary: "When Jace Montgomery comes home late from entertaining clients, he discovers that his wife Tessa is missing. There's broken glass at the back door. Clumps of her hair. Blood. The cops in their small New Jersey town have him pegged as a suspect, especially after he explodes at a reporter during a press conference. Jace maintains his innocence despite the mounting evidence against him, but when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scarlet 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENSummary: In the final season, Doug and Carrie decide that they are through, but race each other to the airport to get their newly adopted Chinese daughter. Meanwhile Arthur decides to get married to Ava, but she is only marrying him because she thinks he's gay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD KINCoben, Harlan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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Summary: Years after being released from jail, Matt Hunter's hopes of moving on with his pregnant wife are shattered when he becomes the focus of a serial murder investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS COBLeavitt, Caroline.
Summary: A medical emergency leaves newlywed Gary with a very sick wife, a new baby, a mountain of bills, and no job, but he will struggle to climb out from under his sufferings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEASmith, Betty
Summary: "Set in Brooklyn in the 1920's Tomorrow will be better tells the story of Margy Shannon, a shy, joyfully optimistic young woman just out of school who lives with her parents and witnesses how a lifetime of hard work and poverty has worn them down. Determined not to end up like them, Margy takes refuge in her dreams of a better life. Her goals are simple: to find a husband she loves, have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SMIKnopf, Chris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNOAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "CAMINO RIOS lives for the summers, when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this year, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. ... In New York City, YAHAIRA RIOS is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACEMirren, Lilly
Summary: "After her grandmother's death, Reeda Summer decides to try to solve a family mystery and run from her troubled marriage; following the clues in her grandmother's journals to Italy. Under the Italian sky, Reeda discovers that the joy she was searching for was hidden inside her all along. And instead of running from her problems, she embraces the healing she needs to face them."--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Lab Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MIRHiggins, Kristan.
Summary: Letting go of her ex-husband is harder than wedding-dress designer Jenny Tate expected--especially since his new wife wants to be Jenny's new best friend. Sensing this isn't exactly helping her achieve closure, Jenny trades the Manhattan skyline for her hometown up the Hudson, where she'll start her own business and bask in her sister Rachel's picture-perfect family life--and maybe even find a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIGQuindlen, Anna
Summary: Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life--except when there's a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their twins at college. And why not? New York City was once Nora's dream destination, and her clannish dead-end block has become a safe harbor, a tranquil village amid the urban craziness. Then one morning she returns from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Quindlen 2018Summary: Doug is the king, but his wife Carrie really rules the roost. Doug is the ultimate guy's guy from Queens, New York. A blue-collar husband who loves his wife so much he is willing to sacrifice his rec room so her father, Arthur can move in, a decision he's been regretting ever since. Doug's free time is split between quality time with his wife and play time with his buddies. This king proves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KINRogers, Morgan (Morgan A.)
Summary: After completing her Ph.D. in astronomy, a young, straightlaced, Type A personality black woman goes on a girls' weekend to Vegas to celebrate and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn't even know.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ROGQuindlen, Anna
Summary: Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life--except when there's a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their twins at college. And why not? New York City was once Nora's dream destination, and her clannish dead-end block has become a safe harbor, a tranquil village amid the urban craziness. Then one morning she returns from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC QUIDawson, Maddie
Summary: "Marnie McGraw is marrying the man of her dreams when she meets Blix Holliday, her fiancé's irascible matchmaking great-aunt who's dying. When her marriage ends after two miserable weeks, Marnie is shocked. She's even more astonished to find that she's inherited Blix's Brooklyn brownstone and all of Blix's unfinished 'projects' to follow in Blix's matchmaker footsteps"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DAWEmmich, Val
Summary: At school, Tegan Everly is known simply as the girl with the hand. She's usually only her outspoken self with her friend Neel, and right now they're not exactly talking. When Tegan is ambushed by her mom with a truth she can't face, she flees home in a snowstorm, finding refuge at a forgotten local attraction: the tiny Thomas Edison museum. In walks Mac Durant, a gifted athlete, is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EMMLapeña, Shari
Summary: In upstate New York, Stephanie and Patrick are adjusting to life with their colicky twin babies. But when a woman from Patrick's past drops in on them unexpectedly, everything changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAPStewart, Amy.
Summary: Deputy sheriff Constance Kopp is outraged to see young women brought into the Hackensack jail over dubious charges of waywardness, incorrigibility, and moral depravity. The strong-willed, patriotic Edna Heustis, who left home to work in a munitions factory, certainly doesn't belong behind bars. And sixteen-year-old runaway Minnie Davis, with few prospects and fewer friends, shouldn't be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEMichaels, Fern.
Summary: Lorrie Ryan looks forward to taking her young nephew on a camping trip, even though it has been arranged for the sole purpose of keeping him out of harm's way while his father testifies for the prosecution in a big drug trial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICMichaels, Fern.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICTarshis, Lauren
Summary: In July, 1916, Chet Roscow is fascinated by news accounts of the great white shark said to be attacking people along the New Jersey shore not far from his home, but when he goes swimming in Matawan Creek he discovers the truth of the stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2016
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Summary: One of literature's keenest social critics, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton weaves a tragic small-town tale of epic proportions in this masterful novella. Physically disfigured and trapped in a loveless marriage to a sickly older woman, Ethan Frome is a broken man. He lives a desolate, impoverished life in the town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, bound by an unassailable sense of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wharton 2015Moser, Nancy
Summary: "The American Dream thrives in 1912 New York City Annie Wood, the housemaid-turned-pattern designer in The Pattern Artist, jumps at the chance to design her own clothing line when a wealthy New York couple offers to finance her endeavor. Joining the project is Annie's new husband, Sean Culver, her best friend at Butterick, Maude Nascato, and a mother figure, Edna Holmquist. Annie and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shiloh Run Press 2018