Ridker, Andrew
Summary: "A hilarious and heartfelt novel about a seemingly-perfect family in an era of waning American optimism, from the acclaimed author of The Altruists. The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and idealistic) suburb west of Boston. Scott Greenspan is a successful physician with his own cardiology practice. His wife, Deb, is a pillar of the community...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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Summary: A powerful nineteenth-century French classic depicting the moral degeneration of a weak-willed woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Heritage Press 1978
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLAIles, Greg.
Summary: Laurel Shields, thirty-five and mother of two, is married to Warren, a prominent local physician under investigation for suspected fraud. But Laurel has problems of her own. She's pregnant, and the father may not be her husband. When Warren finds evidence of her affair, her day becomes a terrifying ordeal and her home the vortex of a nerve-wracking siege.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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Summary: "According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness--is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations--looking, listening, touching, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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Summary: Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm in North Carolina, he spontaneously takes a gig playing at a bar in St. Pete Beach, Florida, seeking a rare break from his duties at home. But when he meets Morgan Lee, his world is turned upside-down, making him wonder if the responsibilities he has shouldered need...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm in North Carolina, he spontaneously takes a gig playing at a bar in St. Pete Beach, Florida, seeking a rare break from his duties at home. But when he meets Morgan Lee, his world is turned upside-down, making him wonder if the responsibilities he has shouldered need...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SPAFrank, Michael
Summary: Costanza Ansaldo, a half-Italian and half-American translator, is convinced that she has made peace with her childlessness. A year after the death of her husband, an eminent writer, she returns to the pensione in Florence where she spent many happy times in her youth, and there she meets, first, Andrew Weissman, an acutely sensitive seventeen-year-old, and, soon afterward, his father, Henry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAHiggins, Kristan
Summary: "The Tufts scholarship that put Nora Stuart on the path to becoming a Boston medical specialist was a step forward. Being hit by a car and then overhearing her boyfriend hit on another doctor when she thought she was dying? Two major steps back. Injured in more ways than one, Nora feels her carefully built life cracking at the edges. There's only one place to land: home. But the tiny Maine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "Blaine Grayson returns to Three Sisters Island with a grand plan--to take Camp Kicking Moose to the next level. Her dream starts to unravel when she discovers Moose Manor's kitchen has been badly remodeled by her sister, Cam, who doesn't know how to cook. Added to that blow is the cold shoulder given by her best friend, Artie Lotosky, now a doctor to the unbridged Maine islands. As old wounds...
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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 FISFreudenberger, Nell
Summary: "Helen Clapp's breakthrough work on five-dimensional spacetime landed her a tenured professorship at MIT; her popular books explain physics in plain terms. Helen disdains notions of the supernatural in favor of rational thought and proven ideas. So it's perhaps especially vexing for her when, on an otherwise unremarkable Wednesday in June, she gets a phone call from a friend who has just died....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Freudenburger 2019Higgins, Kristan
Summary: "After being hit by a van and breaking up with her boyfriend, Nora Stuart returns home to the tiny Maine community on Scupper Island, but after fifteen years it seems she's not really wanted there. Balancing loss and opportunity, Nora will discover that tackling old pain makes room for promise and the chance to begin again"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Higgins 2018Hyde, Elisabeth.
Summary: Diana Duprey, a doctor in a small town who also performs abortions, is found murdered. She had many enemies, thus, many of the townspeople are implicated in the murder, including her husband and daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2006
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Summary: Learning about a mysterious inheritance in Tuscany, New York doctor Gemma, accompanied by her troublesome teen daughter and interfering mother, find themselves in a crumbling Italian villa in the midst of a disturbing culture clash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADLHyde, Elisabeth.
Summary: When Diana Duprey, a female doctor and director of the Center of Reproductive Choice, is found murdered two weeks before Christmas, the crime threatens to reveal the small Colorado town's long-buried secrets and animosities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HYDObreht, Téa.
Summary: In a Balkan country mending from years of conflict, Natalia, a young doctor, arrives on a mission of mercy at an orphanage by the sea. By the time she and her lifelong friend Zóra begin to inoculate the children there, she feels age-old superstitions and secrets gathering everywhere around her. Secrets her outwardly cheerful hosts have chosen not to tell her. Secrets involving the strange...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OBRVerghese, A. (Abraham)
Summary: Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between an Indian nun and a British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, they are bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine. Marion flees his homeland fresh out of medical school when he and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2000
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Summary: When an accident claims her husband of eighteen years, Liz Sutherland must grieve, console her five children, and learn to get on with her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEMichaels, Fern.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. Corp. 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MICWolitzer, Hilma.
Summary: Alice Brill struggles to come to terms with the hidden truths of her life--her unrealized aspirations as a writer, her lackadaisical marriage, her troubled younger son, and her father, who is slipping into senility in a nursing home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: When aspiring artist Deena's anxiety reaches a breaking point, both she and her mother learn the importance of asking for help, and that, with the right support, she can create something truly beautiful.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KHAHyde, Elisabeth.
Summary: When Diana Duprey, a female doctor and director of the Center of Reproductive Choice, is found murdered two weeks before Christmas, the crime threatens to reveal the small Colorado town's long-buried secrets and animosities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HYDTsukiyama, Gail
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Women of the Silk and The Samurai's Garden comes a gorgeous and evocative historical novel about a Japanese-American family set against the backdrop of Hawai'i's sugar plantations. Daniel Abe, a young doctorin Chicago, is finally coming back to Hawai'i. He has his own reason for returning to his childhood home, but it is not to revisit the past,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tsukiyama 2020Yanagihara, Hanya
Summary: When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015