Fitch, Janet
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FITLamb, Wally.
Summary: Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMSchwarz, Christina.
Summary: Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and young niece, Ruth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHQuindlen, Anna
Summary: A nurse escapes her abusive husband, a New York policeman, taking their son with her to Florida. She assumes a new identity and even finds romance, but there is a price, the 10-year-old boy misses his father and she lives in constant fear the father will find them, which he does. The novel analyzes why abused women wait so long to make their break.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC QUICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUIBerg, Elizabeth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC Berg,O'Dell, Tawni.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ODEGibbons, Kaye
Summary: Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBMiller, Sue
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House AudioBooks 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MilleDickens, Charles
Summary: Two of Dicken's novels are republished. The first follows a group from the tranquil roads of London to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror. The second follows the life of the orphaned Pip from the wild Kent marshes through a series of events as he abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICMorgan, Robert
Summary: A novel on the harsh life in the Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the century. The heroine is Julie Harmon whose work load includes hauling water, butchering a hog, rendering lard, plucking a turkey, baking and preserving--all described in detail.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORHegi, Ursula.
Summary: Set in a small German town and spanning both world wars, this novel tells the story of ordinary people living in extraordinary times.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEGNapolitano, Ann
Summary: William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him, so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it's as if the world has lit up around him. With Julia comes her family, as she and her three sisters are inseparable: Sylvie, the family's dreamer, is happiest with her nose in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023