Escandón, María Amparo
Summary: "FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza's Box of Saints L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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Summary: "Paulette and Fred Baldwin find themselves wading through a new season of life in Hickory Grove, North Carolina. Their only son, McKinley, now works hundreds of miles away, and the distance between the husband and wife feels even farther. When their son returns home, his visit dredges up even more conflict between Fred and Paulette. McKinley makes it no secret that he doesn't intend to follow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction PearsonTrollope, Joanna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROTrollope, Anthony
Summary: "Newly restored from the original manuscript and more than a quarter longer than the existing editions: one of the finest novels from one of the greatest English novelists is finally available in the form he intended. Trollope wrote The Duke's Children,his final Palliser novel, as a four-volume work but was required by his publisher to reduce it to three, necessitating the loss of nearly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman's Library 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROGreen, Jane
Summary: The personal lives of sisters Callie and Steff, their friend, and their divorced parents are irrevocably changed throughout the course of an extraordinary summer in Maine that forces them to reevaluate their relationships and roles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRELamb, Wally.
Summary: Anna Oh, a middle-age wife, mother and artist, divorces her husband after 27 years of marriage to marry Vivica, the Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LAMFrank, Dorothea Benton.
Summary: "Best friends since the first day of classes at The College of Charleston, Ashley Anne Waters and Mary Beth Smythe, now 23 years old, live in Ashley's parents' beach house rent-free. Ashley is a gallery assistant who aspires to become an artist. Mary Beth, a gifted cook from Tennessee, works for a caterer while searching for a good teaching job. Though they both know what they want out of life,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co. 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAWolitzer, Meg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLStraub, Emma
Summary: Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy real estate, and start businesses and families, all while trying to hold on to the identities of their youth. But nothing ages them like having to suddenly pass the torch (of sexuality, independence, and the ineffable alchemy of cool) to their own offspring. Back in the band's heyday, Elizabeth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: "From the New York Times' bestselling author of The Vacationers, a smart, highly entertaining novel about a tight-knit group of friends from college--their own kids now going to college--and what it means to finally grow up well after adulthood has set in. Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy real estate, and start businesses and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Straub 2016Ray, Jeanne.
Summary: Ruth draws on her talent for concocting delectable cakes and desserts when her family begins to disintegrate around her--her husband loses his job, her mother moves in, and her long-estranged father shows up at the door with no place to go.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RAYMistry, Rohinton
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MISBailey, Tom
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAIMistry, Rohinton
Summary: Rohinton Mistry's enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson's disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal, have a spacious apartment (in the inaptly named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MISCussler, Clive.
Summary: "At the end of Valhalla Rising, Dirk Pitt discovered, to his shock, that he had two grown children he had never known about, twenty-three-year-old fraternal twins born to a woman he thought had died in an underwater earthquake. Both have inherited his love of the sea: the girl, Summer, is a marine biologist; the boy, himself named Dirk, is a marine engineer. And now they are about to help their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2002
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Summary: Enid Lambert begins to worry about her husband when he begins to withdraw and lose himself in negativity and depression as he faces Parkinson's disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRASchine, Cathleen.
Summary: Greta finds her life turned upside down by the arrival of her grown daughter, Elizabeth, by the increasingly eccentric behavior of her widowed mother, and by unexpectedly falling in love with someone other than her devoted husband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2002
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Summary: A skilled carpenter and a talented architect are the faces of a local television show called 'Gut It' are faced with a challenge to remaking themselves as well as rebuilding their relationship with each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DELSaunders, Kate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2006