Gibbons, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBLamb, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMMorgan, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORBohjalian, Christopher A.
Summary: In the pastoral community of Reddington, Vermont, during the harsh winter of 1981, Sibyl Danforth makes a life-or-death decision based on fifteen years of experience as a respected midwife--a decision intended to save a child, a decision that will change her life forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOHFitch, Janet
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FITShreve, Anita.
Summary: After a pilot dies in the crash of an airliner, his wife discovers he was a bigamist. A face-to-face follows between the legal wife, Kathryn of Boston by whom he had one child, and the other woman, Muire, who lives in England with their two children. By the author of The Weight of Water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRBinchy, Maeve.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BDD Audio 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BINMitchard, Jacquelyn.
Summary: "Watch your brother," Beth Cappadora tells Vincent, 7. Five minutes later she returns, "Where is Ben?" It is the moment every parent fears and it arrives to a mother of three in Chicago. The novel follows the family as year after year the hope of finding Ben recedes. Nine years later a boy knocks on their door looking for lawn work. It can't be. It is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MITO'Dell, Tawni.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ODEQuindlen, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUIBerg, Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC Berg,Bohjalian, Christopher A.
Summary: The trial of a midwife in 1980s Vermont. Sybil Danforth, with several hundred deliveries to her name, claims the mother was dead when she opened her to save the baby. The prosecution claims the mother was alive and the operation was illegal. The story is narrated by Sybil's daughter, portraying the trial as another round in the persecution of midwives by the New England medical profession.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BOHDickens, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICDubus, Andre
Summary: Kathy, a recovering alcoholic, separated from her husband, fails to open a series of letters from the tax office. The State seizes her house and it is sold to Behrani, a former Iranian Air Force officer. For him, the house comes to represent a passport to the American dream, but not for Kathy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBHaynes, Melinda.
Summary: In a small Mississippi town during the late 1950s, Even Grade, a twenty-eight-year-old black man who grew up as an orphan, and Valuable Korner, the teenage white daughter of the local prostitute, search for love, family, and commitment as their lives intersect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYNapolitano, 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
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NAPClarke, Breena.
Summary: The impact of a child's drowning on a black family in 1925 Washington, especially on the 12-year-old sister who was baby-sitting the girl. Told against the background of the lot of blacks at the time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAHegi, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEGHoffman, Alice.
Summary: March breaks up with her boyfriend, Hollis, and marries another. Twenty years later she visits her hometown, Hollis is a widower, and the romance resumes. But March forgot how violent he is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFMiller, 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 MilleMorris, Mary McGarry.
Summary: A boy sees a man commit a murder, then later that day the murderer calls on his mother with flowers. So begins the tense tale of a con man exploiting a love-starved woman, with an alcoholic husband and three children, and a boy who keeps a murder secret to avoid ruining his mother's happiness. The setting is a small town in Vermont, the time the 1960s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORSchwarz, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHMorrison, Toni.
Summary: Macon Dead, Jr., known as Milkman, grows up in "his father's money-haunted, death-haunted house with his silent sisters and strangely passive mother" and with his friend Guitar who is connected to the secret avengers called the Seven Days, falls in love with his cousin Hagar, learns from bootlegging Aunt Pilate, and then heads south, lured by the promise of buried gold and the mysteries of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995