Spindler, Erica
Summary: Following her mother's suicide, Alexandra Owens decided to visit the last person known to have talked to her mother, Detective Daniel Reed. She's shocked to learn that her mother had once been married to a wealthy vintner and an infant son had disappeared. When the marriage ended, Alex's mother left with Alex and moved to San Francisco. Now the bones of an infant had been unearthed in a Sonoma...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPILief, Katia
Summary: "In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between estranged best friends rises to the surface, and a long marriage comes apart with devastating consequences. Joni Ackerman's decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came at a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2024
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Summary: When Maggie and Piper meet as girls on the Nantucket beach, they are instant best friends - even though Piper's mother would much prefer she play with the daughters of senators and statesmen than a seamstress's kid like Maggie. But after many golden summers spent building sandcastles and sharing their dreams for the future, Piper and Maggie grow apart. In her twenties, beautiful and spirited...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC THAJain, Vibhuti
Summary: Babur "Bobby" Singh, single parent and owner of fledging Uber business "Move with Bobby," remains ever hopeful about ascending the ladder of American success. He lives in an affluent suburb of New York with his daughter Angie, an introverted teenager who is uncomfortable in her own skin unless she's swimming. During summer break, Angie is walking home after training at the high school pool when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Hill, Nathan
Summary: When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicagos thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HILWilliams, Ian
Summary: "Felicia, a nineteen-year-old student from a Caribbean family, and Edgar, the lazy-minded and impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet by chance when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. After the death of Felicia's mother and the recovery of Edgar's, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as caregiver to Edgar's mother. The odd-couple relationship between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILHyde, 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 HYDCollins, Jackie.
Summary: Engaged to a powerful real estate tycoon, New York heiress Amy Scott-Simon has a one-night fling with male model and former drug addict Jett and is horrified to discover that Jett is her fiancé's younger brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COLHyde, 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 HYDAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: "The March sisters have grown from little women to young adults. Now that the Civil War has ended, Meg is getting married, Beth still struggles to regain her health, and Jo and Amy are pursing their dreams, encountering love and heartbreak along the way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALCHyde, 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: "When Eve Duncan gave birth to Bonnie, she experienced a love she never knew existed. Eve's entire life came into focus (delete reference to forensics--that happened later, right?--) and nothing was going to stand in the way of giving her daughter a wonderful life--the kind of life she herself never experienced. And then, the unthinkable happened. On an ordinary class trip to a local park,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHJohansen, Iris.
Summary: When Eve Duncan gave birth to her daughter, she experienced a love she never knew existed. Nothing would stand in the way of giving Bonnie a wonderful life, until the unthinkable happened and the seven-year-old vanished into thin air. Eve found herself in the throes of a nightmare from which there was no escape. But a new Eve emerged: a woman who would use her remarkable talent as a forensic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHWilhelm, Kate.
Summary: A small Oregon town is rocked by a wheels-within-wheels case of art, fraud, and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WILNyhan, Loretta
Summary: Paige Moresco found her true love in eighth grade and lost him two years ago. Since Jesse's death, she's been sleepwalking through life, barely holding on for the sake of her teenage son, Trey. As Paige stares at her neglected lawn, she knows she's hit rock bottom. So she does something entirely unexpected: she begins to dig. As the hole gets bigger, Paige decides to turn her entire yard into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Nyhan 2018Yorke, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YORSteel, Danielle
Summary: Spencer Brooke always knew she was destined to be CEO of her grandfather's business-the most respected and luxurious department store in New York City. Brooke's has been at the center of every happy memory she has, but it hasn't been an easy journey. Seven years after her father's death, her life is very different from the days when she walked through the store with her grandfather as a young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEGreen, 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: Penguin Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRELü, Wenyan
Summary: "The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and underappreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of breakup. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, she takes a leap of faith--and in so doing, things start to take a surprising turn for the better"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2024
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Summary: "Winter Island, off the coast of Southern California. Evangeline grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island's world-famous strain of marijuana, Winter Wonderland. Tomorrow Evie is getting married-- but on the eve of the wedding a dead whale becomes lodged in the bay; the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother shows up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANYagisawa, Satoshi
Summary: Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence, until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man she expected to wed, casually announces he's been cheating on her and is marrying the other woman. Suddenly, Takako's life is in freefall. She loses her job, her friends, and her acquaintances, and spirals into a deep depression. In the depths of her despair, she receives a call...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAGHunter, Denise
Summary: "From the bestselling author of The Convenient Groom (now a beloved Hallmark Original movie) comes a heartfelt story of family secrets, forgiveness, and unexpected romance. Following a painful betrayal, Maddy Monroe's love life is a wreck, and her restaurant career is in shambles. When her grandmother goes missing, she and her estranged sisters converge at the family beach house in Sea Haven,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNPelecanos, George P.
Summary: Thirty-five years after a devastating accident that irrevocably shapes the lives of six people, a pair of redemption-seeking survivors reaches out to one another in an effort that is compromised by a fellow survivor's release from prison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELMorgan, Sarah
Summary: When Flora Donovan falls for widower Jack Parker, little does she realize how complicated stepping into the shoes of Jack's late wife will be with his moody teenage daughter, and his wife's BFF Clare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2020