Porter, Jane
Summary: "In the wake of a tragedy that tore her life down to the foundations, Dr. Alison McAdams has lost her way. So when she's summoned to Napa to care for her ailing father, she's not sure she has anything to offer him--or anyone else. What Ali finds in Northern California wine country is a gift--an opportunity to rest, and distance from her painful memories. Most unexpectedly, she finds people who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORMacomber, Debbie
Summary: Joan Sample is not living the life she thought she would. Now a widow and an empty nester, Joan is content being something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to get back out into the world. With her encouragement, Joan makes big strides, taking care of her overgrown lawn, making new friends through a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023
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Summary: Emma decided long ago that she was going to marry Isaac Stoltzfus. Since she was ten, she's dreamt of being Isaac's wife, of fixing up a small farmhouse, of raising boppli together. But Isaac's Rumschpringe has introduced him to new ways and, much to Emma's dismay, Isaac seems to be enjoying them. Is the man Emma now sees in Isaac the same man she fell in love with all those years ago? He seems...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2014
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Summary: Now on her own, Maggie decides to face her fears, setting off on a whirlwind trip from San Francisco to Monaco. But a chance encounter reconnects her with a thrill-seeking man she's tried to forget.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Steel 2021Hadlow, Janice
Summary: "What if Mary Bennet's life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the fulfillment enjoyed by her prettier, more confident sisters? This is the plot of The Other Bennet Sister, a debut novel with exactly the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HADMallery, Susan.
Summary: "After nearly a decade as a sous-chef in a trendy eatery, Jenna is desperate for a change. She's supported her ex-husband's dreams for so long that she can't even remember her own. Until she sees a for-lease sign near her parents' home and envisions her very own cooking store Her crash course in business is aided by a streetwise store manager and Jenna's adoptive mother. But just as she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2011
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Summary: "Lauren Gabriel spent many years of her childhood in foster homes, wishing her mother would come back for her and be the family she needs. Now twenty-years-old, she still longs for a place that she can truly call home. Her work as a cashier is unfulfilling, and at Christmas it's unbearable with the songs and carols and chatter of Christmas that she hears throughout the day. When Lauren ends her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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Summary: Sadie Montgomery suddenly went from being a finalist in an art competition to being diagnosed with a "face blindness." Struggling to cope, she falls in love with not one man but two. The timing couldn't be worse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FICTION CENGreen, Jane
Summary: "Eight years ago, Emma Montague left behind the strict confines--and rather dull boyfriend--of her upper-crust English life and moved to New York City, where she immediately found success in finance. But her soulless, cutthroat, all-consuming job was another life she didn't want. Answering an ad on Craigslist, Emma finds a tiny beach cottage in the small town of Westport, Connecticut. It needs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Green 2016Monroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: A tale set in the 1970s American South shares the story of Lovie Rutledge, who reflects on a summer during which a beach vacation to escape her unfaithful, disdainful husband culminates in a fateful romance with a handsome biologist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MONHarbison, Elizabeth M.
Summary: After the sudden death of her husband, Ben, Willa's grief made her an absentee mother to her young son, Jamie. Years later it's time to put their Ocean City, Maryland beach house on the market. But the house is in worse shape than she could have imagined, and the memories of her time with Ben are overwhelming. She sees him around every corner-- literally. Ben's ghost keeps trying to start...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Harbison 2018Harrison, Chris
Summary: Leigh Merrill, a successful young editor at a New York publishing house, returns to her home state of Texas for a writers' conference, where her plans for a quiet retreat are disrupted when she discovers a stack of deeply personal letters from her past in her hotel room.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Harrison 2015Garlock, Dorothy
Summary: "Buckton, Indiana, 1956. As post-war America brims with new opportunities, a young woman discovers the courage to follow her dreams-and her heart. Gwendolyn Foster's life seems like a dream come true. A bright future in front of her, the successful, traditional man her parents wanted at her side. What more could a girl ask for? But Gwen has a different dream altogether-to be a writer-and she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GARKleypas, Lisa.
Summary: Lucy Marinn is a glass artist living in mystical, beautiful, Friday Harbor, Washington. She is stunned when her fiance Kevin leaves her for her own sister. Facing the severe disapproval of Lucy's parents, Kevin asks his friend Sam Nolan to 'romance' Lucy and hopefully loosen her up and get her over her anger. Complications ensue when Sam and Lucy begin to fall in love, Kevin has second...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2012
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Summary: Struggling to provide a good life for her daughter in spite of her own unhappy marriage and a culture that grants no rights to women, Soo-Ja Choi of 1960s Korea navigates the pitfalls of her conniving in-laws while longing for her true love, Doctor Yul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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Summary: The hilarious story of a struggling young actress trying to get ahead--and keep it together--in New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: In the weeks following her mother's death, Ellie Calvin is surprised to learn of her mother's involvement in the civil rights movement during the summer of 1961, and as she tries to piece together a decades-old unrequited-love story between her mother and another young man involved in the movement, Ellie finds herself reunited with her own first love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENFforde, Katie.
Summary: Sophie Apperly has been supporting herself since she left school, but as far as her academic family are concerned she's never had a 'proper' job. And because she's currently in between work she's despatched to look after Uncle Eric while his housekeeper is away. Here, whilst tidying his papers, she discovers a document relating to family business in America. Driven mad by her family and wanting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOFraser, Jackie
Summary: "An utterly heartwarming debut novel filled with fresh starts, unexpected love, and Scottish charm, perfect for readers of Evvie Drake Starts Over. Thea Mottram is having a bad month. Her husband of nearly twenty years has just left her for one of her friends, and to top it off, she is let go from her office job--on Valentine's Day, of all days. Bewildered and completely lost, Thea doesn't know...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAHuston, Allegra
Summary: This is the time to run away, she thinks, to call it a mistake, to race back to home and safety. If I don't go home I will never feel safe again. On meeting Micajah Burnett, the son of an old school friend, Eve Armanton is faced with a choice. Years of a miserable marriage means she's as broken as the beautiful antique violin she's just found, and Micajah offers a spark of life, an opportunity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSLinden, Rachel
Summary: "At 26, idealistic baker Mia West has her entire life planned out: a Craftsman cottage in Seattle, baking at The Butter Emporium, and the love of her life, her boyfriend Ethan, by her side. But when Ethan breaks up with her instead of proposing on their sixth dating anniversary (with the Tiffany blue box in his pocket), Mia's carefully planned future crumbles. Adrift and devastated, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINMonroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: In this tale that explores the themes of class, women's rights and domestic abuse in the 1970s American South, the author returns to her classic Southern setting in the Isle of Palms with the sequel to her novel The Beach House. She weaves together issues of class, women's rights, and domestic abuse set in the tumultuous South during the 1970s as she tells the story of Olivia, "Lovie" Rutledge,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONBoast, Will
Summary: Born with a rare condition that causes her to suffer degrees of paralysis when experiencing intense emotion, Daphne endures a virtually solitary existence before meeting a shy, charming man who compels her to chose between safe isolation and true intimacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOAHubscher, Libby
Summary: "Ever since her journalist mother died on assignment, Marin has played it safe, refusing to set foot outside the state of Tennessee. Her wild-child younger sister, Sadie, has trotted the globe as a photographer, living off of art and adrenaline. When Sadie returns from a tough assignment abroad and looks a little worse for wear, Marin reluctantly agrees to a sisters' spa weekend on the tropical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2021