Ellsworth, Loretta
Summary: For the first time in decades, Lorraine Kindred has returned to the ballroom where she was swept away by the big bands during the 1940s--and by a star-crossed romance. As she takes in the magnificent energy and brassy sounds of her youth, the past comes to life, along with the fateful decision all those years ago that forced her to choose between personal conviction and social expectation,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ELLRooney, Kathleen
Summary: "Fall 2016 Library Journal Editors' Pick "In my reckless and undiscouraged youth," Lillian Boxfish writes, "I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street ..." She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy's to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. It was a job that, she says, "in some ways saved my life,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rooney 2017Ferry, Peter
Summary: "Tom Johnson has just turned eighty-five. When faced with a nursing home, he escapes to the Netherlands to find the woman he fell in love with during World War II. His children want him back, but Tom fights to stay in the Netherlands for love, family and all the remaining rights of an old man"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FERCorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: "An unforgettable family saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CORLoewinsohn, Briana
Summary: "Ephemera is a poetic and dreamlike take on a graphic memoir set in a garden, a forest, and a greenhouse. The story drifts among a grown woman, her early memories as a child, and the gossamer existence of her mother. A lyrical entry in the field of graphic medicine, Ephemera is a story about a daughter trying to relate to a parent who struggles with mental illness. Gorgeously illustrated in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOEWINSOHN, BRIA LOESummary: A young boy in a small Italian village is befriended by the projectionist at the movie theater, the Cinema Paradiso. As the boy grows up, he learns to love films, and is encouraged by his good friend to pursue his dream of one day making movies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CINRoca, Paco
Summary: "In Paco Roca's intimate and international award-winning graphic novel, The House, three adult siblings return to their family's quaint vacation home a year after their father's death with the intention to clean up the residence and put it on the market. But as garbage is hauled off and dust is wiped away, decades-old resentments quickly fill the vacant home. Through flashbacks into each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ROCRowley, Steven
Summary: "It's been five years since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, no closer to having their lives figured out. Over the years they've reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living "funerals," celebrations to remind themselves that life is worth living--and living well....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROWTyler, Anne.
Summary: "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their faithful old dog--is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2015
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TYLMiller, Derek B.
Summary: Sheldon Horowitz, 82 years old, impatient, and unreasonable, is staying with his granddaughter's family in Norway when he disappears with a stranger's child. To Norway's cops, Sheldon is just an old man who is coming undone at the end of a long and hard life. But Sheldon is clear in his own mind. He'd heard the boy's eastern European mother being murdered, and he's determined to protect the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bolinda Audio 2013
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: M3CD FIC MILShafak, Elif
Summary: Peri, a wealthy Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. Wrestling to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground-- an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor, a relic from the past. Over the evening, as Peri arrives at the party and navigates the tensions that simmer in this crossroads country...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHADean, Debra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEADorner, Marjorie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DORHolthe, Tess Uriza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLLester, Alison Jean.
Summary: "A middle-aged woman in the 1960s looks back on her life as a single woman and on the men in her life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Lester 2015Mistry, Rohinton
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MISWaldman, Ayelet.
Summary: A tale inspired by the World War II Hungarian Gold Train follows the 1945 American capture of a locomotive filled with riches and the efforts of a Jewish-American lieutenant's granddaughter to track down a mysterious woman seventy years later.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WALCoe, Jonathan.
Summary: A family saga examines the events and relationships that bind three generations of women, as the elderly Rosamund records her memories of her troubled cousin Beatrix and the tragedy that transformed all of their lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COEHenry, Patti Callahan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HENIronside, Virginia.
Summary: Approaching what she believes will be the most interesting period of her life, nearly sixty-year-old curmudgeon Marie Sharp eschews the trend-oriented activities of her peers in order to enjoy her relationship with a new grandchild and a new gentleman friend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC IronsMinot, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINPittard, Hannah.
Summary: Nora went missing on Halloween. Far more eager to imagine Nora's fate than to scrutinize their own, the neighborhood boys sleepwalk into an adulthood of jobs, marriages, families, homes, and daughters of their own, all the while pining for a girl-- and a life-- that no longer exists, except in the imagination.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PITCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Pittard 2011Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PITRitter, Josh
Summary: A sweeping novel about the last days of the lumberjacks is told by of one of the greatest lumberjacks of all who recounts tales rife with murder, mayhem, avalanches, and bootlegging in the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2021