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Grainger, Jean

Summary: "Three sisters, the three men that love them, and a house that could consume them all. Assuming their roles as the new Lord and Lady Kenefick and returning to Robinswood with the plan to drag it back from the brink of dereliction, is taking its toll on Kate and Sam. With a young family to raise, a very limited budget and only Kate's parents to help, the task seems insurmountable. Kate's eldest...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grainger

Wiseman, Ellen Marie

Summary: "Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary -- awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears -- seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WIS

Hilderbrand, Elin

3 holds on 5 copies

Summary: Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

Wiseman, Ellen Marie

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary--awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears--seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wiseman

Hilderbrand, Elin

Summary: "Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, this year nothing is the same: Blair, the eldest sister, is stranded in Boston, pregnant with twins and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019

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Hilderbrand, Elin

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Summary: Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HIL

Stirling, Jessica.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STI

Riley, Lucinda.

Summary: "The story of Merope, the missing sister, is waiting to be told ... Following Georg Hoffman's revelation that he may have found The Missing Sister, Maia and Ally discover that all they have to go on is an address of a vineyard in New Zealand, plus a drawing of an unusual star-shaped emerald ring. Deciding that CeCe, who lives in Australia, is the closest, they send her to investigate with her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Box Press, an imprint of Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Riley 2020

McDermott, Alice.

Summary: Story of an Irish-Catholic family on Long Island told through the eyes of two sisters and their brother.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCD

Kingsolver, Barbara

Summary: How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KIN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KIN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KIN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kingsolver 2018

Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson

Summary: At home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. Thanks to the rigorous direction of their mother, Vivian, they've become a bona fide girl group whose shows are the talk of the Jazz-era Fillmore. Now Vivian has scored a once-in-a-lifetime offer from a talent manager, who promises to...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SEX

Grainger, Jean

Summary: Robinswood, Co Waterford, 1939. The once grand house is home to two very different families.Despite delusions of grandeur, Lord and Lady Kenefick and their adult children, live a life of decayed opulence as the money needed to keep such a large house and grounds ever dwindles. Meanwhile, the Murphy family, Dermot, Isabella and their three almost grown up girls, live and work on the estate and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grainger

Grainger, Jean

Summary: "Queenstown, County Cork. 1920. For twenty-year-old Harp Deveraux, life should be idyllic. At university, she feels for the first time in her life that she belongs, her mother Rose is running the Cliff House as a successful business, and her childhood sweetheart JohnJoe is by her side, but the storm clouds of war grow ever darker. For eight hundred years Ireland had made numerous bids for her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grainger

Kingsolver, Barbara

Summary: How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KIN

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KIN

Kingsolver, Barbara.

Summary: The story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum, as they navigate the challenges of surviving a world in the throes of major cultural shifts. In this mesmerizing story told in alternating chapters, Willa and Thatcher come to realize that though the future is uncertain, even unnerving, shelter can be found in the bonds of kindred, whether family or friends,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KIN

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KIN

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Kin

Grainger, Jean

Summary: "Queenstown, County Cork, Ireland. April 1912. Twelve-year-old Harp Delaney is an unusual child, quiet and intelligent far beyond her years. She would rather spend her days in the library of the grand Georgian house that she sees as her home than playing on the streets with other children. Her mother, Rose, is the reserved and ladylike housekeeper at the Cliff House. The local women envy her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grainger

Steel, Danielle

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STE

Keith, Ellen

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Summary: "When the Nazis invade Amsterdam, singer Johanna Vos watches in horror as the vibrant music scene she loves is all but erased, her Jewish friends forbidden from performing with her onstage. Alongside her friend Jakob, Johanna helps organize the Artists' Resistance, an underground network allowing Jews to perform at house concerts hosted by their allies. When Johanna hears of a Jewish orphan...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEI

Kyles, Cedric

Summary: "Cedric The Entertainer's debut novel Flipping Boxcars is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities during the Depression and World War II. The story is also an homage to Cedric's grandfather, who in this tale emerges as Babe. He is a charismatic and widely loved man. He is also a gambler, whose gift of gab often gets him out of tricky situations, which is often....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CED

Montefiore, Santa

Summary: Ireland. 1925. The war is over. But life will never be the same... In the green hills of West Cork, Ireland, Castle Deverill has burned to the ground. But young Celia Deverill is determined to see her ruined ancestral home restored to its former glory — to the years when Celia ran through its vast halls with her cousin Kitty and their childhood friend Bridie Doyle. Kitty herself is raising a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MON

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MON

Montefiore, Santa

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: 1939: Peace has flourished since the Great War ended, but much has changed for the Deverill family as now a new generation is waiting in the wings to make their mark. When Martha Wallace leaves her home in America to search for her birth mother in Dublin, she never imagines that she will completely lose her heart to the impossibly charming JP Deverill. But more surprises are in store for her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MON

Thoene, Bodie

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson Publishers 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Collins, Olive

Summary: Betty O’Fogarty is proud and clever. Spurred on by her belief in her husband Seamus’s talent as a violin-maker and her desire to escape rural life, they elope to Dublin. She expects life there to fulfil all her dreams. To her horror, she discovers that they can only afford to live in the notorious poverty-stricken tenements. Seamus becomes obsessed with republican politics, neglecting his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Collins 2019

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McCartney, Jenny

Summary: A powerful debut set in Belfast and London in the latter years of the twentieth century. The Troubles turned Northern Ireland into a ghost factory: as the manufacturing industry withered, the death business boomed. In trying to come to terms with his father's sudden death, and the attack on his harmless best friend Titch, Jacky is forced to face the bullies who still menace a city scarred by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 4th Estate 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCC

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