Hornbacher, Marya
Summary: In the aftermath of her husband's devastating suicide, Claire Schiller moves with their two young children into the home of her in-laws during an oppressive Minnesota winter and shares unexpected moments of comfort, healing, and humor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORMacy, Caitlin
Summary: In the well-heeled milieu of New York's Upper East Side, coolly elegant Philippa Lye is the woman no one can stop talking about. Then, into her precariously balanced life, come two women who uncover an explosive secret about Philippa's single days. When Gwen's husband stumbles over the connection between Philippa's past and the criminal investigation he is pursuing, this insulated society is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMarr, Shirley
Summary: Eleven-year-old Peijing and her family are adapting to their new life in Australia, but when cracks in her family life start to appear, she must find a way to cope with the uncertainties of her own little world and figure out where she fits in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: FIC MARWingate, Marty
Summary: England, 1957. Olive Kersey's only love never returned from World War II, and now she's alone and penniless. Then the last person she ever expected to see again returns to Southwold. Olive's childhood friend, Margery Paxton, arrives to claim her inheritance: Mersea House, a stately old home she plans to turn into the town's only lodging. Olive's life takes a sunny turn when Margery hires her to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINBray, Carys
Summary: "The six members of the Bradley family have always been close. But in the wake of a tragedy that leaves a hole in the very center of their lives, they suddenly find themselves coming apart. Claire, a convert to the Mormon faith, is so shattered by what'shappened that she can't even bring herself to get out of bed. Her husband, Ian, however is more secure in his belief that everything happens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRALewis, Caryl
Summary: Life is tough at home for Marty, but his eccentric grandad has a plan up his sleeve to give him hope that involves wishes, a pumpkin, and a trip all the way from England to Paris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEWLewis, Caryl
Summary: Marty doesn't have much, unlike his mum, who seems to hold on to everything. Life at home is tough, but Marty finds sanctuary down at the community garden with his eccentric grandad. On Marty's birthday, Grandad gifts him a seed. As it turns out, Grandad has a rather wonderful plan up his sleeve. It involves wishes, a pumpkin, and a trip all the way from England to Paris.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LEWNoblin, Annie England
Summary: Returning for the funeral of the aunt who raised them, the sisters must stay together in their childhood home, faced with a puzzle that may affect all their futures. As they rekindle the bonds they had as children they learn that the happiness that has appeared so elusive may be right here at home, just waiting to be claimed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Noblin 2019Noblin, Annie England
Summary: Returning for the funeral of the aunt who raised them, the sisters must stay together in their childhood home, faced with a puzzle that may affect all their futures. As they rekindle the bonds they had as children they learn that the happiness that has appeared so elusive may be right here at home, just waiting to be claimed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC NOBCard, Maisy
Summary: Abel and Vera Paisley are a working-class Jamaican couple, striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CARKubica, Mary
Summary: "Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold. Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUBKubica, Mary
Summary: Single mother and full-time nurse Meghan Michaels, when it is revealed her patient with a traumatic brain injury didn't jump from a bridge but was pushed, mistakenly lets herself get too close to the case, realizing she and her daughter could be the next victims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KUBMcCluskey, Mary
Summary: Kat and Scott Hamilton are dealing with the hardest of losses: the death of their only child. While Scott throws himself back into his law practice in Los Angeles, Kat is hesitant to rejoin the workplace and instead spends her days shell-shocked and confused, unable to focus. When an unwelcome face from Kat’s past in England emerges—the beautiful and imposing Sarah Cherrington—Kat’s marriage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCMonroe, Mary
Summary: Popular, generous, forty-something widow Jessie Tucker decides to make herself indispensable to recently widowed Hubert Wiggins but is disappointed when he is not everything she dreamed he would be and instead turns her attentions to a much younger man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONKubica, Mary
Summary: "Remaking her life after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica uncovers a secret that undermines her sense of self even as she navigates a world made hazy by sleeplessness. Meanwhile, the heartbreak of Eden's unmet wish to have a child brings on marital stress, emotional collapse, and, finally, some dangerous behavior."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KUBMcNear, Mary
Summary: For the lovely Billy Harper, Butternut Lake is the place she feels most at home, even though lately she feels the only one listening to her is Murphy...her faithful Labrador Retriever. Her teenage son, Luke, has gone from precious to precocious practically overnight. Her friends are wrapped up in their own lives, and Luke’s father, Wesley, disappeared before his son was even born. No wonder she...
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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 MCNKubica, Mary
Summary: Two couples are close friends until Nina's husband goes missing. Should Nina's best friend reveal having been the last one to see him? Shocking lies, betrayals, and deep secrets may soon surface.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KUBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC KUBLawson, Mary
Summary: In the rural farm country of northern Ontario, the lives of two families--the farming Pye family, and zoologist Kate Morrison and her three brothers--are brought together and torn apart by misunderstanding, resentment, family love, and tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWMonroe, Mary
Summary: "The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew her only way out was to marry someone upstanding and church-going. Someone like Hubert Wiggins, the most eligible man in Lexington, Alabama--and the son of its most revered preacher. Proper and prosperous, Hubert is glad to finally have a wife, even one with Maggie's background. For Hubert has a secret he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary
Summary: Felicia Hawkins has a successful career, money in the bank, a solid future... and is hopelessly in love with her co-worker, widower Richard Grimes. Richard has his hands full juggling pre-Christmas work demands and raising two teen daughters. He is drawn to Felicia's calm spirit and determination, and everything they have in common. With messy, well-meaning matchmaking from family and friends,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMay, Nikki
Summary: Ronke wants happily ever after and 2.2. kids. She's dating Kayode and wants him to be "the one" (perfect, like her dead father). Her friends think he's just another in a long line of dodgy Nigerian boyfriends. Boo has everything Ronke wants--a kind husband, gorgeous child. But she's frustrated, unfulfilled, plagued by guilt, and desperate to remember who she used to be. Simi is the golden one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYSarton, May
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1975
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARGordon, Mary
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GORHogan, Mary
Summary: "The third child in a family that wanted only two, Muriel Sullivant has always been the outsider. Single at twenty-three, she's living in a New York City rent-stabilized walk-up, a weaver finch nest of an apartment fitted out as much by serendipity as by intent: note the three-legged bedside table, her squat hand-painted pine dresser, a splotchy framed mirror, the spindled bathroom corner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014