Shortall, Eithne
Summary: "The Husband's Secret meets Big Little Lies in this story of three women looking for a fresh start, and the love affairs, rivalries, and scandals found on the other side of the white picket fence."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOHepworth, Sally
Summary: Small, perfect towns often hold the deepest secrets. Such is the case for Essie and her family. When a new woman moves next door to Essie, she is an immediate object of curiosity in this neighbourhood. As the two women grow closer and Essie's friends disapprove, it starts to become clear that Isabelle's choice of neighbourhood was no accident. And that her presence might bring even more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hepworth 2018Cha, Frances
Summary: "Kyuri is a heartbreakingly beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a 'room salon', an exclusive bar where she entertains businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistake with a client may come to threaten her livelihood. Her roommate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHALapeña, Shari
Summary: ""I read this novel at one sitting, absolutely riveted by the storyline. The suspense was beautifully rendered and unrelenting!"--Sue Grafton, New York Times bestselling author of X "Meticulously crafted and razor-sharp. THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR lingers long after you turn the final page."--Harlan Coben, #1New York Times bestselling author of Fool Me Once "Provocative and shocking."--Lisa Gardner,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY LAPSerling, Joanne
Summary: "A searing portrait of suburbia, friendship, and family strained by a devotion to false appearances. In an idyllic suburb, four young families quickly form a neighborhood clique, their friendships based on little more than the ages of their children and a shared sense of camaraderie. When one of the couples, Paige and Gene Edwards, adopt a four-year-old girl from Russia, the group's loyalty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SERMonroe, Mary Alice
Summary: "The coming of Spring usually means renewal, but for Linnea Rutledge, Spring 2020 threatens stagnation. Linnea faces another layoff, this time from the aquarium she adores. For her - and her family - finances, emotions, and health teeter at the brink. To complicate matters, her new love interest, Gordon, struggles to return to the Isle of Palms from England. Meanwhile, her old flame, John,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MONDickson, Allison M.
Summary: "Two women are watching each other. Phoebe Miller isn't sure when the rusty car started showing up in the cul-de-sac she calls home, or why its driver would be spying on her. What could be interesting about an unhappy housewife who drowns her sorrows in ice cream and wine and barely leaves her house? Only one knows why. When a new family moves in across the street--the exuberant Vicki, who just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DicksonHyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: Lewis Madigan is young, gay, out of work, and getting antsy when he's roped into providing end-of-life care for his insufferable homophobic neighbor, Chester Wheeler. Lewis doesn't need the aggravation, just the money. The only requirements: run errands, be on call and put up with a miserable old churl no one else in Buffalo can bear. After exchanging barbs, bickering, baiting, and pushing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HYDMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "In the microcosm of 44 Scotland Street, all of life's richness is found in the glorious goings-on of its residents. There s Domenica, whose anthropological training has honed her observations of her neighbors; Matthew, whose growing triplets are more than a handful; Bruce, whose challenge as ever is thinking of anything but himself; and Big Lou, who may just have found her shot at romance. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction McCall-Smith 2022McCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "It's the most anticipated event of the decade -- Big Lou and Fat Bob's wedding -- and everyone is invited! But the relative peace and tranquillity of 44 Scotland Street is about to be disrupted. Domineering Irene is set to return for a two-month stay, consigning young Bertie to a summer camp. Not content with that, she somehow manages to come between the enigmatic nun, Sister Maria-Fiore dei...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction McCall SmithPoeppel, Amy
Summary: In the heart of Greenwich Village, three women form an accidental sorority when a baby--belonging to exactly none of them--lands on their collective doorstep. Lauren and her family--lucky bastards--have been granted the use of a spectacular brownstone, teeming with history and dizzyingly unattractive '70s wallpaper. Adding to the home's bohemian, grungy splendor is the bar occupying the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POELipman, Elinor
Summary: "In a delightful new romantic comedy from Elinor Lipman, one woman's trash becomes another woman's treasure, with deliriously entertaining results. Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held this relic dear. Too dear. The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of '69 had dedicated its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LIPDickson, Allison M.
Summary: "Two women are watching each other. Phoebe Miller isn't sure when the rusty car started showing up in the cul-de-sac she calls home, or why its driver would be spying on her. What could be interesting about an unhappy housewife who drowns her sorrows in ice cream and wine and barely leaves her house? When a new family moves in across the street--the exuberant Vicki, who just might become the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dickson 2019Brenner, Jamie
Summary: Ruth Cooperman arrives in beautiful beachside Provincetown for her retirement, renting the perfect waterfront cottage while she searches for her forever home. After years of hard work and making peace with life's disappointments, Ruth is looking forward to a carefree summer of solitude. But when she finds a baby girl abandoned on her doorstep, Ruth turns to her new neighbors for help and is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BREMonroe, Mary Alice
Summary: "The coming of Spring usually means renewal, but for Linnea Rutledge, Spring 2020 threatens stagnation. Linnea faces another layoff, this time from the aquarium she adores. For her - and her family - finances, emotions, and health teeter at the brink. To complicate matters, her new love interest, Gordon, struggles to return to the Isle of Palms from England. Meanwhile, her old flame, John,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONAudrain, Ashley
Summary: "The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night; his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone. Back home, their friends and neighbors are left in shock, each confronting their own role in the events that led up to what happened that terrible night: the warm, altruistic Parks who are the Loverlys' best...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2023
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Summary: "After a childhood filled with poverty and neglect, Beyah Grim finally has her hard-earned ticket out of Kentucky with a full ride to Penn State. But two months before she's finally free to change her life for the better, an unexpected death leaves her homeless and forced to spend the remainder of her summer in Texas with a father she barely knows. Devastated and anxious for the summer to go by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2023
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Summary: "Meredith White was one of Hollywood's most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her acting career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years, Meredith has been living alone in San Francisco with two trusted caretakers. Then, on a muggy late summer day, a massive earthquake strikes Northern California, plunging the Bay Area into chaos. Without a moment's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STEFowler, Therese
Summary: In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son. Xavier is headed to college in the fall, and after years of single parenting, Valerie is facing the prospect of an empty nest. All is well until the Whitmans move in next door - an apparently traditional family with new money,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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Summary: "A reclusive woman opens up her home to her neighbors in the wake of a devastating earthquake, setting off events that reveal secrets, break relationships apart, and bring strangers together to forge powerful new bonds"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STELyons, Annie
Summary: Wanting to organize an assisted death on her own terms, world-weary octogenarian Eudora Honeysett forges an unexpected bond with exuberant ten-year-old Rose, who drags her to tea parties, shopping sprees, and other social excursions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Lyons 2020Shipman, Viola
Summary: "Iris Maynard lost her husband in World War II, her daughter to illness and, finally, her reason to live. Walled off from the world for decades behind the towering fence surrounding her home, Iris has built anew family ... of flowers. Iris propagates her own daylilies and roses while tending to a garden filled with the heirloom starts that keep the memories of her loved ones alive. When Abby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Shipman 2020McCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: The winds of change are blowing through Scotland Street. Though Bertie is getting older, he can't resist an adventure to escape his domineering mother, and Bruce, ever the navel-gazer, will have to bring his best self to navigate the complexities of the pas de deux. While Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully warm and witty comedy takes some surprising turns, the improbable adventures of this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "In the microcosm of 44 Scotland Street, all of life's richness is found in the glorious goings-on of its residents. There's Domenica, whose anthropological training has honed her observations of her neighbors; Matthew, whose growing triplets are more than a handful; Bruce, whose challenge as ever is thinking of anything but himself; and Big Lou, who may just have found her shot at romance. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polygon 2021