Trollope, Joanna
Summary: Why on earth, after all you've been through, all you've survived, all you've achieved, why do you want to get married?' Rose Woodrowe has just got engaged to Tyler Masson - a wonderful, sensitive man who is head-over-heels in love with her. The only problem? This isn't the first time for either of them, and their five grown-up children have strong opinions on the matter . . . Like Rose's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mantle 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Trollope 2018Creech, Sharon
Summary: "One day a young couple wakes to find a boy asleep on their porch. Unable to speak, the boy cannot explain his history. What kind of people would leave their child with strangers? All John and Marta know is that they have been chosen to care for this boy. As their connection to him grows, they embrace his exuberant spirit and talents. The three of them blossom into an unlikely family, but how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Creech 2013Johnston, Tony
Summary: "Hands wave hello, hands hold, hands heal. Hands say, I am here for you always. In simple, stirring rhymes, author Tony Johnston pens a timeless ode to parenthood. The small moments and quiet scenes that make up childhood-- learning to clap, planting a garden, waving good-bye on the first day of school-- fill the pages of this gentle tale, capturing the reassurance and love that parents hand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOHPerks, Heidi
Summary: "What should have been a fun-filled, carefree day takes a tragic turn for the worse for one mother when her best friend's child goes missing in this suspenseful, compulsively readable, and darkly twisted psychological thriller. It all started at the school fair... Charlotte was supposed to be looking after the children, and she swears she was. She only took her eyes off of them for one second....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC PERSummary: Better Things is the story of Sam Fox (Pamela Adlon), a single mother and working actor with no filter, raising her three daughters, Max (Mikey Madison), Frankie (Hannah Alligood) and Duke (Olivia Edward) in Los Angeles. She also looks after her mother, Phil (Celia Imrie), an English expatriate with questionable faculties who lives across the street. Whether she's struggling to keep her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BETSummary: Joanna is in a touring girl's choir and Mark is a struggling architect when they first meet on the road in Europe. The film follows their life together - through courtship and marriage, infidelity and parenthood - all on the road.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TWONovak, Chase.
Summary: A couple obsessed with their infertility travels to Slovenia to have an unusual and painful procedure that results in horrible consequences they manage to hide until their twins, Adam and Alice, turn ten years old and start asking questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVSummary: Now that Mac and Kelly Radner have a second baby on the way, they are ready to make the final move into adulthood, the suburbs. Just as they thought they'd reclaimed the neighborhood and were safe to sell, they learn that the new occupants next door are a sorority even more out of control than Teddy and his brothers. Now forced to turn to the one ex-neighbor with the skills to bring down the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NEI RATED RGreen, Evie
Summary: "A suspenseful, cutting-edge novel about two parents who finally get the daughter they've always wanted-it's too bad she isn't real. From the author of We Hear Voices. For Tamsyn and Ed, life is tough. They both work long hours for very little money and come home to their moody, rebellious daughter, Scarlett. After a tragic accident leaves Scarlett comatose and with little chance of recovery,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREGreen, Jane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GREHua, Vanessa
Summary: "In a powerful debut novel about motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream. Holed up with other moms-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where she worked in a factory job and fell in love with the owner, Boss Yeung. Now she's carrying his baby....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HUAMackintosh, Clare
Summary: Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. They're best friends, lovers--unshakable. But then their son gets sick and the doctors put the question of his survival into their hands. For the first time, Max and Pip can't agree. They each want a different future for their son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACSummary: When civilization is destroyed by a worldwide pandemic, hardened survivor Joel is hired to take fourteen-year-old Ellie out of an oppressive quaratine zone. What should have been a quick job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey across a post-apocalypic United States, where no one can protect Joel or Ellie except each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LASGaige, Amity
Summary: "Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids - Sybil, age seven, and George, age two - Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GaigeSteel, Danielle.
Summary: Diana Goode and Andrew Douglas are a California couple who seem to have it all: glamorous careers, good looks, good times, and lives full of friends and family. After their wedding, Diana teases that she will make a baby on their honeymoon. But long afterward, she is still not pregnant. Diana enviously watches her sisters effortlessly conceive as she shuttles between doctors' offices and Andrew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STESummary: New parents Mac and Kelly are living the American Dream, complete with a baby girl and a new home in the suburbs. Still, they want to believe that they are still cool, so when they discover that their new next-door neighbors are dozens of fraternity brothers-led by charismatic Teddy-they try to play along. But when the parties grow increasingly more epic, both sides begin to fend for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2014
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NEICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NEI RATED RSummary: Sexual content, crude humor, pervavsive language and some drug material.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THI RATED RNeal, Toby (Toby Wilson)
Summary: "Lieutenant Michael Stevens investigates a murder in a fine dining restaurant on Maui that's a feast of possible motives, with jealousy, passion and revenge topping the menu. A host of familiar characters, from Jared Stevens to Dr. Wilson, chime in from their perspectives, each contributing essential information to one of the most complex cases Stevens has encountered--but that's nothing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Toby Neal 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NEAAbdou, Angie
Summary: The lives of two women burdened with secrets : a novel on the complexities of class, race, gender, parenthood, and desire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABDMacy, William H.
Summary: Follows the lives of the Gallagher family, six children who live with their alcoholic father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHAFforde, Katie.
Summary: Juggling widowed parenthood with her career and numerous Cotswolds events, Nel Innes struggles to rally the community after the death of an old friend threatens regional lands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FFOSummary: Abby Johnson becomes the youngest clinic director in the history of Planned Parenthood, then a life-changing experience turns her into an anti-abortion activist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UnAusubel, Ramona
Summary: An inventive story collection explores themes of love, identity, coming of age, and parenthood as they are shaped by mythology and universal experiences in different world regions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018