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Adult children Family relationships Fiction African American teenagers Fiction California, Southern Fiction Choice (Psychology) Fiction Family secrets Fiction Fathers Death Fiction New York (State) Fiction Teenage pregnancy Fiction Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction United States History 20th century FictionMayquist, Kit
Summary: "Med school dropout Lena is desperate for a job, any job, to help her parents, who are approaching bankruptcy after her father was injured and laid off nearly simultaneously. So, when she is offered a position, against all odds, working for one of Boston's most elite families, the illustrious and secretive Verdeaus, she knows she must accept it-no matter how bizarre the interview or how vague...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYMartin, Kat
Summary: "Eve St. Clair desperately needs help sorting reality from her fearful imaginings when ghostly voices seem to haunt the Victorian house in Sunderland, England, that she inherited from her uncle. Online research leads to a group that claims to offer just the aid she's seeking. But can Ransom King's handpicked team of investigators truly banish Eve's night terrors? Since the deaths of his wife...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARBennett, Brit.
Summary: "A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENKumarasamy, Akil
Summary: "Alternating between the protagonist's present life and passages of a manuscript in translation, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea is a genre-bending exploration of memory, war, technology, friendship, love, consciousness, and the challenges of caring for others in an age where we are so often lost in our own minds"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUMAvit, Clélie
Summary: Elsa has been in a coma for five months. With all hope of reviving her gone, her family and doctors are having to face the devastating fact that it might be time to turn off her life support... They don't realise that in the past few weeks Elsa has regained partial consciousness; she knows where she is and can hear everyone talking around her bed, but she has no way of telling them she's there....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Avit 2016Bennett, Brit
Summary: "The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Bennett 2020Edwards, Kim
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDWEdwards, Kim
Summary: In this book, the author tells the story of a woman's homecoming, a family secret, and the old house that holds the key to the true legacy of a family. At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate first love,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDWHooper, Kim
Summary: "Emily Morris got her happily-ever-after earlier than most. Married at a young age to a man she loves passionately, she is building the life she always wanted. But when her mother-in-law becomes chronically ill, enormous stress threatens her marriage. Emily watches helplessly as the devotion Drew once showed her is transferred to his ailing mother. When she's thrust into an enforced caretaker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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Summary: In this book, the author tells the story of a woman's homecoming, a family secret, and the old house that holds the key to the true legacy of a family. At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate first love,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EDWBennett, Brit
Summary: "A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENBennett, Brit
Summary: "The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC BENBennett, Brit
Summary: "A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016