Lipman, Elinor
Summary: "In a delightful new romantic comedy from Elinor Lipman, one woman's trash becomes another woman's treasure, with deliriously entertaining results. Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held this relic dear. Too dear. The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of '69 had dedicated its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LIPDev, Sonali
Summary: Dr. Trisha Raje is San Francisco's most acclaimed neurosurgeon. But that's not enough for the Rajes, her influential immigrant family who achieved power by making its own non-negotiable rules: never trust an outsider, never do anything to jeopardize your brother's political aspirations, and never, ever, defy your family. Trisha has been guilty of breaking all the rules, but finally has a chance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dev 2019Cao, Xueqin
Summary: Beloved by generations of Chinese readers, The Dream of the Red Chamber is China's touching equivalent of the Romeo & Juliet story. In addition to being a tale of star-crossed lovers, this epic novel also follows the story of five generations of one Chinese family giving modern readers a multi-layered dramatic plot to get lost in at the same time as it offers up key insights into Chinese culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAOCarr, Robyn.
Summary: Four high school friends spend a summer in northern California to sort out their love lives. Cassie, unlucky in love, falls for a biker. Julie, who married her high school sweetheart too young, wonders if the spark is gone from her marriage. Marty feels trapped in a loveless marriage and is contemplating an affair. Beth, a successful doctor, struggles with health problems and her attraction to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARLewis, David (David Gerald)
Summary: "Desperately clinging to the hope of finding her long-lost daughter, will Kelly miss out on the chance to find love--and a family--once more?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lewis 2014Ryan, Jennifer
Summary: When an at-home DNA test reveals the truth about her father, Summer Sutherland, meeting him for the first time, settles into his Carmel home, ready to get to know her instant family--and pursue a romance with his business partner, which could tear their lives apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYAMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: "The Palmer sisters couldn't be more different. Karen, the eldest, is the responsible one the one who got the grades, married the perfect guy, and has two wonderful, high-achieving children. Cassie is the rebellious one, who got pregnant right after high school and married the wrong man, despite her family's misgivings. And Nicole is a free, creative spirit, who's always been indulged and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Macomber 2015Roberts, Nora
Summary: Cordina's crown jewel: "On the run from the palace, Her Royal Highness Camilla de Cordina wants to be just plain Camilla MacGee, even if it's only for a few precious weeks. Working in rural Vermont for the devastatingly handsome and utterly cantankerous archaeologist Delaney Caine is the perfect refuse. But Camilla's irritation with the man soon turns into fascination, then desire, and soon the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silhouette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBWaxman, Abbi
Summary: "Young widow Lilian Girvan can't see the garden for the weeds... It's been three years since her husband was killed in a car accident and Lilian is still getting used to being sane--after that one early breakdown. She's happy just being able to get her two girls to school every morning, keep her illustrating job, and catch up on her favorite TV shows with her sister. She's not exactly in a rut;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WAXCarlson, Melody.
Summary: "Emma Burcelli has given up on romance. Not just because she's suffered over a decade of dating disasters. Not because her parents' marriage ended on New Year's Eve. No, Emma concludes that love is officially dead when her grandfather Poppi passes away, leaving the last true romantic's other half, Nona Burcelli, devastated. Emma helps by working in the family's bookstore, which Nona insists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Holiday Fiction, Call number: FICTION CARDonohue, Meg
Summary: To find her way, she must abandon everything she loves... As a child, Merrow Shawe believes she is born of the sea: strong, joyous, and wild. Her beloved home is Horseshoe Cliff, a small farm on the coast of Northern California where she spends her days exploring fog-cloaked bluffs, swimming in the cove, and basking in the light of golden sunsets as her father entertains her with fantastical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Donohue 2019Roberts, Nora.
Summary: "Iona Sheehan grew up craving devotion and acceptance. From her maternal grandmother, she learned where to find both: County Mao, Ireland. Iona arrives in Ireland with nothing but her Nan's directions, an unfailingly optimistic attitude, and an innate talent with horses. There she finds her cousins, Branna and Connor O'Dwyer, and they invite her into their lives. When Iona lands a job at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROBWaldman, Ayelet.
Summary: After John Tetherly and Becca Copaken die in a freak car accident an hour after their wedding, their families are left to bridge stark class and cultural divides, and eventually forge deep-rooted bonds thanks to the twin deities of love and music. Becca's family is well off, from New York, and summers in Red Hook, Maine, a small coastal town where John's blue-collar single mother, Jane, cleans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALGould, Leslie
Summary: "When an English and an Amish family become neighbors in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, their lives are linked in unexpected ways through conflict, then friendship, and finally, love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GOUMoyes, Jojo
Summary: " One single mom. One chaotic family. One quirky stranger. One irresistible love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You American audiences have fallen in love with Jojo Moyes. Ever since she debuted Stateside she has captivated readers and reviewers alike, and hit the New York Times bestseller list with the word-of-mouth sensation Me Before You. Now, with One Plus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Moyes 2014Thayne, RaeAnne
Summary: Offered her dream job at an exclusive restaurant, Alexandra McKnight, who prefers work to play, gets involved with construction foreman Sam Delgado, who seems like the perfect man until he wants more than she is willing to give.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THANichols, Peter
Summary: Set against dramatic Mediterranean Sea views and lush olive groves, "The Rocks" opens with a confrontation and a secret: What was the mysterious, catastrophic event that drove two honeymooners apart so suddenly and absolutely in 1948 that they never spoke again despite living on the same island for sixty more years? And how did their history shape the Romeo and Juliet like romance of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, A member of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NICSparks, Nicholas
Summary: Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future. Tru Walls has never visited North...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Sparks 2018Macomber, Debbie
Summary: First, drop in at 5-B Poppy Lane, where you'll get a chance to visit with Helen Shelton, her granddaughter Ruth and Ruth's husband, Paul. They'll offer you a cup of mulled cider and the story of how they met--and they'll share Helen's breathtaking adventures during the Second World War. Then drive out to Grace and Cliff Harding's place. They have a small horse ranch not far from Cedar Cove....
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACBrontë, Anne
Summary: The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall is a strong-minded woman who keeps her own counsel. Helen 'Graham' - exiled with her child to the desolate moorland mansion, adopting an assumed name and earning her living as a painter - has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage. Narrated by her neighbour Gilbert Markham, and in the pages of her own diary, the novel portrays...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsworth Classics 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROHiggins, Kristan
Summary: "Lark Smith has always had a plan for her life: find a fantastic guy, create a marriage as blissful as her parents , pop out a couple of kids and build a rewarding career as an oncologist. Things aren't going so well. For one, the guy didn't work out. Theoretically, she'd love to find someone else, but it hasn't happened. Two, she's just been transferred out of oncology for being too emotional....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction HigginsNaigle, Nancy
Summary: Sydney Ragsdale is looking for a fresh start far away from her controlling ex-husband and the self-doubt that has plagued her since the divorce. Returning to her childhood home in Hopewell, North Carolina is just what her soul needs. Praying some Christmas magic will follow her she moves with her daughter to a farmhouse that once belonged to her grandparents. While there Sydney finds solace...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAITorres, Justin
Summary: "An exquisite, blistering debut novel. Three brothers tear their way through childhood-- smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn--he's Puerto Rican, she's white--and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TORRoberts, Sheila
Summary: Following a heated argument with her husband, Joy Robertson decides to give him the quiet Christmas he claims to want and go on strike for the holidays--no shopping, baking, decorating, wrapping, or entertaining--and when the members of her knitting group hear her plan, they decide to join in, attracting the attention of the local news media and sparking a war of the sexes in the small town of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2007