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Summary: Popular, generous, forty-something widow Jessie Tucker decides to make herself indispensable to recently widowed Hubert Wiggins but is disappointed when he is not everything she dreamed he would be and instead turns her attentions to a much younger man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary
Summary: "With mysterious serial murders putting peaceful Lexington, Alabama, on edge, Jessie and Hubert Wiggins' steadfast calm and devotion to each other reassures everyone that faith will see them through. But Jessie and Hubert have paid a terrible hidden cost to maintain their devout facade and respectable standing. Nothing can allay the guilt they feel--or stop the growing distrust between them ..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary
Summary: Bootlegging was Milton and Yvonne Hamilton's ticket out of poverty, prison time, and plain bad luck. Now they've moved on--to a bigger, richer pool of clientele--right in their own respectable new middle-class backyard. And their growing friendship with seemingly-perfect couple Joyce and Odell Watson is proving golden in more ways than one. As Milton soon learns, Odell is hiding an outside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina Books, Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MONMonroe, Mary
Summary: "The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew her only way out was to marry someone upstanding and church-going. Someone like Hubert Wiggins, the most eligible man in Lexington, Alabama--and the son of its most revered preacher. Proper and prosperous, Hubert is glad to finally have a wife, even one with Maggie's background. For Hubert has a secret he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary
Summary: A solid marriage, a thriving business, and the esteem of their close-knit Alabama community--Joyce and Odell Watson have every reason to count their blessings. Their marriage has given well-off Joyce a chance at the family she's always wanted--and granted Odell a once-in-a-lifetime shot to escape grinding poverty. But all that respectability and status comes at a cost. Just once, Joyce and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina Books, Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONRussell, Mary Doria
Summary: In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risked their lives for meager salaries and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their men deep underground each day, dreading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction RusBonert, Kenneth.
Summary: Are you a stupid or a clever? Such is the refrain in Isaac Helger's mind as he makes his way from redheaded hooligan to searching adolescent to striving young man on the make. His mother's question haunts every choice. Are you a stupid or a clever? Will you find a way to lift your family out of Johannesburg's poor inner city, to buy a house in the suburbs, to bring your aunts and cousins from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BONLark, Sarah
Summary: "In the chaos of World War II, Polish teenagers Helena and Luzyna Grabowski have lost everything. Without parents or a home, they are shipped to a refugee camp in Persia, where the days ahead hold only darkness. When they hear that orphans are being selected for relocation to New Zealand, Helena is filled with hope--until the officials say they have a place only for her younger sister. On the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LARMones, Nicole.
Summary: ""Nicole Mones conjures up the jazz-filled, complex, turbulent world of Shanghai just before World War II. A rich and thoroughly captivating read."--Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Samurai's Garden Sailing to Shanghai in 1936 to lead a black jazz orchestra, Thomas Greene goes from being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own, and from the classical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONDark, Alice Elliott
Summary: The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century. Celebrated children's book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy--to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books/Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DARCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DARMoser, 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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSRockliff, Mara
Summary: "In April 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York City in a little yellow car, embarking on a bumpy, muddy, unmapped journey ten thousand miles long. They took with them a teeny typewriter, a tiny sewing machine, a wee black kitten, and a message for Americans all across the country: Votes for Women! The women's suffrage movement was in full swing, and Nell and Alice would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 ROCCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J324.6 ROCDare, Tessa.
Summary: "Ever the bold adventuress, Lucy Waltham has decided to go hunting for a husband. But first she needs some target practice. So she turns to her brother's best friend, Jeremy Trescott, the Earl of Kendall, to hone her seductive wiles on him before setting her sights on another man. But her practice kisses spark a smoldering passion--one that could send all her plans up in smoke. Jeremy has an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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Summary: Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army, struggles with difficult moral questions when he is ordered to murder his own uncle, who has been plotting an assassination attempt against President Lincoln.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORMoreno-Garcia, Silvia
Summary: From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. Carlota Moreau: A young woman growing up on a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula. The only daughter of a researcher who is either a genius or a madman....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Moreno-GarciaPark, Jacqueline.
Summary: Set against the backdrop of the religious persecution and papal politics of the Italian Renaissance, the story of Grazia dei Rosi, heiress to a Jewish banking dynasty and lover of a Christian lord, unfolds through her secret diary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARMoreno-Garcia, Silvia
Summary: "Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she's been in love with him since childhood. Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORPeacock, Caro
Summary: A series of anonymous letters leads to a case of cold-blooded murder for 19th-century private investigator Liberty Lane. September, 1841. A new arrival has taken London society by storm. Lord Byron's handsome illegitimate son, George, recently arrived from the exotic island of Cephalonia in the company of his guardian, the mysterious Mr Vickery, has been setting female hearts aflutter. But not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAPeacock, Caro.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creme De La Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEABeauregard, Mark
Summary: "In the summer of 1850, Herman Melville finds himself hounded by creditors and afraid his writing career might be coming to an end. In despair, Melville takes his family for a vacation to his cousin's farm in the Berkshires, where he meets Nathaniel Hawthorne at a picnic--and his life turns upside down"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEABeauregard, Mark.
Summary: "A rich and captivating novel set amid the witty, high-spirited literary society of 1850s New England, offering a new window on Herman Melville's emotionally charged relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne and how it transformed his masterpiece, Moby-Dick In the summer of 1850, Herman Melville finds himself hounded by creditors and afraid his writing career might be coming to an end--his last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEACecil, Mark
Summary: "A large-hearted reimagining of beloved all-American legends, this epic debut novel brings men of myth Paul Bunyan and John Henry alive like never before, teaming up for an adventure quest with deeper interrogations of race, class, and industrialization. When we first meet Paul Bunyan-legendary larger-than-life lumberjack and classic figure from American mythology-he is still just a man, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CECHelprin, Mark
Summary: "One winter night, Peter Lake--master mechanic and second-story man--attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks it is empty , the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the affair between a middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl dying of consumption. It is a love so powerful that Peter Lake, a simple and uneducated man, will be driven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HELTwain, Mark
Summary: Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick. Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008