Winman, Sarah
Summary: "This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that. Ellis and Michael are twelve-year-old boys when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of overbearing fathers. And then one day this closest of friendships grows into something more. But then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Winman 2018Lü, 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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Waxman, Abbi
Summary: "Nina Hill's life may not seem like much, but for a person battling anxiety, it's more than enough. She enjoys her job at a bookstore and her small circle of friends. Until a visit from a lawyer changes everything ... The father that Nina never knew existed has died, leaving behind an enormous extended family. Nina now has innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews, and cousins all living...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAXWiseman, Beth
Summary: Brad and Darlene Henderson move from Houston to the small town of Round Top, Texas, to provide a safe environment for their children. Their marriage has had its rocky periods, but when Darlene begins working outside the home, the problems intensify. When the widowed father of one of her special needs students begins to pay inappropriate attention to her, she is torn between her marriage and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2012
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Summary: Leaving behind her family and her suburban home when her world implodes, forty-five-year-old Donna Koczynski sets off on a road trip to rebuild her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILWiseman, Beth
Summary: "Charlotte has made a home for herself in Amish Country with Daniel. But unforeseen events rock their fragile world and may move them even further away from the life they long for...Charlotte, an Englisher, is living in Amish Country, and she has formed strong and lasting bonds with the people in her new community. She has even fallen in love with an Amish man. But just when she is considering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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Summary: "The third and final installment in the critically-acclaimed Amish Secrets series by bestselling author Beth Wiseman -- Charlotte has made a home for herself in Amish Country with Daniel. But unforeseen events rock their fragile world and may move them even further away from the life they long for...Charlotte, an Englisher, is living in Amish Country, and she has formed strong and lasting bonds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WISHaywood, Sarah
Summary: "For Susan Green, messy emotions don't fit into the equation of her perfectly ordered life. She has a flat that is ideal for one, a job that suits her passion for logic and an 'interpersonal arrangement' that provides cultural and other, more intimate, benefits. But suddenly confronted with the loss of her mother and the news that she is about to become a mother herself, Susan's greatest fear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYJio, Sarah.
Summary: In a mystical place where violets bloom out of season and the air is salt drenched, a heartbroken woman stumbles upon a diary and steps into the life of its anonymous author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEKBraunstein, Sarah
Summary: A Maine librarian is fired after a teen accuses her of spying on her romantic romps in the bathroom and reaches out to her favorite author to speak at their library and help her clear her name. A novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation through the eyes of a disgraced small-town librarian. Now that her brilliant botanist daughter is off at college, buttoned-up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: "In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fianc,̌ she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JIOPekkanen, Sarah.
Summary: What would you do if your husband suddenly wanted to rewrite the rules of your relationship?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEKRayner, Sarah.
Summary: "Three people, each crying out for help.There's Karen, about to lose her father; Abby, whose son has autism and needs constant care, and Michael, a family man on the verge of bankruptcy. As each sinks under the strain, they're brought together at Moreland's Clinic. Here, behind closed doors, they reveal their deepest secrets, confront and console one another, and share plenty of laughs. But how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RAYPekkanen, Sarah.
Summary: Kira Danner gives up her stressful life as a lawyer to run a bed-and-breakfast with the help of her sister-in-law, Alyssa, but when they hire a woman, Dawn Zuboski, for help with their first wedding, she appears to have a mysterious past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEKScotch, Allison Winn.
Summary: Tilly Farmer is thirty-two years old and has the perfect life she always dreamed of, married to her high school sweetheart, working as a guidance counselor in her hometown, trying for a baby. At seventeen, Tilly lost her mother to cancer, her father drowned his grief in alcohol, and she played parent to her two younger sisters more often than being a kid herself. Then one sweltering afternoon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOAllen, Sarah Addison.
Summary: Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter is her favorite season, she's a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her closet. For while Josey has settled into an uneventful life in her mother's house, her one consolation is the sugary treats and paperback romances she escapes to each night. Until she finds her closet harboring Della Lee Baker, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALLBunn, T. Davis
Summary: An executive in the family business, Buddy Helms lives and works under the thumb of his powerful father. Seeking a retreat from his disillusionment, frustration, and rage, he grabs at the solitude of Moondust Lake, where he meets psychotherapist Kimberly Sturgiss and learns to search for the things in life that matter, embrace them, and never let go.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point 2008
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Summary: The tale of a young woman whose family secrets--and secret passions--are about to change her life forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AllThomas, Sarah Loudin
Summary: "Judd Markley is a hardworking coal miner who rarely thinks much past tomorrow until he loses his brother--and nearly his own life--in a mine cave-in. Vowing never to enter the darkness of a mine again, he leaves all he knows in West Virginia to escape to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It's 1954, the seaside community is thriving, and Judd soon hires on with a timber company. Larkin Heyward's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION THOScotch, Allison Winn.
Summary: Tilly Farmer is thirty-two years old and has the perfect life she always dreamed of, married to her high school sweetheart, working as a guidance counselor in her hometown, trying for a baby. At seventeen, Tilly lost her mother to cancer, her father drowned his grief in alcohol, and she played parent to her two younger sisters more often than being a kid herself. Then one sweltering afternoon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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Summary: Waking up in the hospital as one of two survivors of a horrifying plane crash, Nell struggles to recover from her ensuing amnesia with the help of family, friends, and memory-jogging music before realizing that the stories she is being told do not feel accurate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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Summary: Five people--former housemates at Penn who split up after the death of the sixth, Bea--come together and must confront their pasts, on what would have been Bea's fortieth birthday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2016