Hopkins, Ellen
Summary: Tara is gorgeous, affluent, and forty. She lives in an impeccably restored Russian Hill mansion in San Francisco. Once a widow, twice divorced, she's a woman with a past she prefers keeping to herself. Enter Cavin Lattimore. He's handsome, kind, charming, and the surgeon assigned to Tara following a ski accident in Lake Tahoe. In the weeks it takes her to recover, Cavin sweeps her off her feet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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Summary: "Two women -- a century apart -- embark on a journey to healing, faith, forgiveness, and romance. In 2012, art historian Gwen Morris travels to England's Lake District to appraise the paintings and antiques of an old family friend, hoping to prove herself to her prestigious grandfather. While at Longdale Manor, she meets David Bradford -- the owner's handsome grandson -- who is desperate to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: "You've been held captive in one room, mentally and physically abused every day, since you were sixteen years old. Then, one night, you realize your captor has left the door to your cell unlocked. For the first time in eight years, you're free. This is about what happens next ... Lily knows that she must bring the man who nearly ruined her life to justice. But she never imagined that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXHansen, Dörte
Summary: "All her life Vera has felt like a stranger in the old and drafty farmhouse she arrived in as a five-year-old refugee from East Prussia in 1945, and yet she can't seem to let it go. 60 years later, her niece Anne suddenly shows up at her door with her small son -- Anne has fled the trendy Hamburg neighborhood she never fit into when her relationship implodes. Vera and Anne are strangers to each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANHannaham, James
Summary: After more than twenty years in prison, a trans woman newly released on parole spends a whirlwind Fourth of July weekend in Brooklyn trying to reconcile with the son she left behind and to reunite with a family reluctant to accept her true identity. Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she'd grown up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANGabhart, Ann H.
Summary: An expectant young woman turned away by her family at Christmas is taken in by the Shakers at Harmony Hill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GABMcKenzie, Elizabeth
Summary: "From the National Book Award longlisted author of The Portable Veblen. Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she's quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction McKenzieMcKenzie, Elizabeth
Summary: "Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she's quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother, Dr. Pincer, keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what's possible when all else fails. There will be a road trip in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MCKThayer, Nancy
Summary: Three women forge a unique bond one sun-drenched summer on New England's Dragonfly Lake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAFDelinsky, Barbara
Summary: Mackenzie Cooper took her eyes off the road for just a moment but the resulting collision was enough to rob her not only of her beloved daughter but ultimately of her marriage, family, and friends--and thanks to the nonstop media coverage, even her privacy. Now she lives in Vermont under the name Maggie Reid, in a small house with her cats and dog. She's thankful for the new friends she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Delinski 2018Pulkkinen, Riikka
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PULSullivan, J. Courtney.
Summary: By turns wickedly funny and achingly sad, Maine unveils the sibling rivalry, alcoholism, social climbing and Catholic guilt at the center of one family, along with the abiding, often irrational love that keeps them coming back to the cottage every summer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2004
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Summary: Initiating small changes that she hopes will reverse negative patterns in her life, Eleanor Flood is derailed by her family members' unethical practices before an encounter with a former colleague triggers dramas that reveal a buried secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: 43-year-old Emma Gilford has always been an obedient daughter and sister. But when a voice from the past comes calling, Emma wonders if it's time to stop thinking of others--and start chasing her own desires.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RADAdelman, Michelle.
Summary: Unable to relate to people or hold a job after suffering a head injury in early childhood, talented artist Lucy is forced out of her protective Jewish home and into a New York City studio apartment with her college-age brother, where she struggles to adapt to life without a safety net.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADEMonroe, Mary Alice
Summary: "Wedding season has arrived in New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe's next novel in the "distinct, complex, and endearing" (Charleston Magazine) Lowcountry Summer series, set against the romantic, charming Charleston Lowcountry. Nothing could be more enchanting than a summer wedding--or two!--in Charleston's fabled lowcountry. A centuries-old plantation, an avenue of ancient oaks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P MONGarcia, Gabriela
Summary: "In present-day Miami. Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: "When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother's diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn't her grandmother's. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law. Johanna inherited Vincent van Gogh's paintings. They were all she had, and they weren't worth anything. She was a 28...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marta Molnar 2022
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Summary: Jane Howard is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo, and she becomes pregnant. Motherhood turns out to be a great welcome surprise--but when a devastating turn of events tears her existence apart she has no choice but to flee all she knows and leave the world. Just when she has renounced life itself, the disappearance of a young girl pulls her back from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENGarcia, Gabriela
Summary: "A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cubanimmigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Garcia 2021Garcia, Gabriela
Summary: The daughter of a Cuban immigrant battles addiction and the fallout of her decision to take in the child of an ICE detainee, while her mother wrestles with displacement trauma and complicated family ties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021