Novak, Brenda
Summary: "When Serenity Alston swabbed her cheek for 23andMe, she joked about uncovering some dark ancestral scandal. The last thing she expected was to discover two half sisters she didn't know existed. Suddenly, everything about her loving family is drawn into question. And meeting these newfound sisters might be the only way to get answers. The women decide to dig into the mystery together at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira/Harlequin Enterprises, Limited 2020
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Summary: Five-year-old Sloane McBride couldn't sleep that night. Her parents were arguing again, their harsh words heating the cool autumn air. And then there was that other sound--the ominous thump before all went quiet. In the morning, her mother was gone. The official story was that she left. Her loving, devoted mother! That hadn't sat any better at the time than it did when Sloane moved out at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2018
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Summary: After a painful divorce, Maisey Lazarow returns to the small island off the North Carolina coast where she grew up. Upon finding a box of old photographs, Maisey and her brother Keith begin to uncover distant memories of a little girl who they believe was their sister. Their mother claims there was no sister, but Maisey is convinced there was. So where is she now?
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2015
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Summary: A traumatic loss makes Sloane McBride decide to find out the truth behind her mother's mysterious disappearance when she was five. But as Sloane starts digging, the question isn't whether she can uncover what really happened, it's what will remain of her family if she does?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2018
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Summary: When Autumn returns to her hometown, she runs into a previous boyfriend and old feelings resurface. But should she hold out hope for the return of her missing husband?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "When Serenity Alston swabbed her cheek for 23andMe, she joked about uncovering some dark ancestral scandal. The last thing she expected was to discover two half sisters she didn't know existed. Suddenly, everything about her loving family is drawn into question. And meeting these newfound sisters might be the only way to get answers. The women decide to dig into the mystery together at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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Summary: After the death of her US senator father, Marlow Madsen travels to the small island off the coast of Florida where she spent summers growing up to help her mother settle the family estate. For Marlow, the trip is a chance to reconnect after too long apart. It's also the perfect escape to help her feel grounded again, one she's happy to share with friends Aida and Claire, who are hoping to hit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
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Summary: A heartbroken Maisey Lazarow returns home to help her brother Keith, and discovers the truth about a sister who may or may not have existed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media Inc. 2015
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Summary: "It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants"--ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Summary: When Serenity Alston discovers she has two half sisters through 23andMe, everything about her loving family is drawn into question. Meeting these newfound sisters might be the only way to get answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: When their late mother's long-lost eleven-carat ring, which looks just like the diamond Richard Burton gifted Liz Taylor, unexpectedly resurfaces decades later, three siblings discover a secret that challenges everything they thought they knew about their parents' epic love story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2022
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Summary: When Emma Jansen discovers that the grand Long Island estate where she grew up is set to be demolished, she can't help but return for one last visit. After all, it was a place filled with firsts: learning to ride a bike, sneaking a glass of champagne, falling in love. But once Emma arrives at the storied mansion, she can't ignore the more complicated memories. Because that's not exactly where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2023
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Summary: "Paris, 1958: Rose, a seamstress at a fashionable atelier, has been entrusted with sewing a Grace Kelly-look-alike gown for a wealthy bride-to-be. But when, against better judgment, she finds herself falling in love with the bride's handsome brother, Rose must make an impossible choice, one that could put all she's worked for at risk: love, security and of course, the dress. Sixty years later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JANNoblin, Annie England
Summary: The Hemingway Sisters of Cold River, Missouri are local legends. Raised by a mother obsessed with Ernest Hemingway, they were named after the author's four wives--Hadley, Pfeiffer, Martha, and Mary. The sisters couldn't be more different--or more alike. Now they're back in town, reunited to repair their fractured relationships. Hadley is the poised, polished wife of a senator. Pfeiffer is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: After being expelled from their ancestral home, Silvia and her mother finally settle at the Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower in Island City where Silvia's aunt Ena serves as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about their family's past. Silvia knows almost nothing about the place where she was born and spent her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "As a young man, Gigi Paulo arrives in New York and is immediately drawn to a girl he sees in a bar near Penn Station. Before he can approach her, she is gone. He returns to the bar for weeks, hoping to see her again, dreams of her at night and searches the crowds for her face. Quiet and careful, he is not the type to become obsessed by a stranger. But obsessed he is. Two years later he meets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Permanent Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVHogan, Mary
Summary: "The third child in a family that wanted only two, Muriel Sullivant has always been the outsider. Single at twenty-three, she's living in a New York City rent-stabilized walk-up, a weaver finch nest of an apartment fitted out as much by serendipity as by intent: note the three-legged bedside table, her squat hand-painted pine dresser, a splotchy framed mirror, the spindled bathroom corner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOGColin, Beatrice
Summary: "From the author of To Capture What We Cannot Keep, Beatrice Colin's The Glass House is a novel set on a remote Scottish estate, about the heiress and the mysterious woman from India who shows up on her doorstep ..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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Summary: Olivia McAfee left her husband and moved with her son, Asher, to a small town. When tragedy occurs and Asher becomes a suspect, Olivia must face whether he is revealing the same dark side as his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2022
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Summary: "Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022