Hepinstall, Kathy
Summary: "The laugh-out-loud story of a girl determined to keep up with her aging, crazy-as-a-fox mother and learn the truth of her mother's long-secret past...Willow Havens is ten years old and obsessed with the fear that her mother will die. Her mother, Polly, is a cantankerous, take-no-prisoners Southern woman who lives to shoot varmints, drink margaritas, and antagonize the neighbors--and she sticks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEPFisher, Tarryn
Summary: Juno was wrong about the Crouch family. She thought that they had the perfect life. But after overhearing a chilling conversation, she knows this could be her chance to make a few things right.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FISTrollope, Joanna
Summary: Why on earth, after all you've been through, all you've survived, all you've achieved, why do you want to get married?' Rose Woodrowe has just got engaged to Tyler Masson - a wonderful, sensitive man who is head-over-heels in love with her. The only problem? This isn't the first time for either of them, and their five grown-up children have strong opinions on the matter . . . Like Rose's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mantle 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Trollope 2018Berg, Elizabeth
Summary: "Nola McCollum is the most desirable girl in Arthur's class, and he is thrilled when they become friends. But Arthur wants far more than friendship. Unfortunately, Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses, Arthur's older brother, Frank, who is busy pursuing his own love interest and avoiding the boys father, a veteran with a drinking problem and a penchant for starting fights. When a sudden tragedy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BERWalsh, M. O. (Milton O'Neal)
Summary: A man reflects on the summer of his fourteenth year, where in Baton Rouge he fell in love with a golden-haired girl across the street before an unspeakable crime shattered illusions in his seemingly idyllic neighborhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WALMallery, Susan
Summary: Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she's raising is loved and wanted. Finley reacted to her chaotic childhood by walking the straight and narrow. Her sister Sloan went the other way. Now Sloane is back, and she says that she wants a relationship with her daughter. She says she's changed, but Finley's heart has been burned once too often for her to trust easily.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MALMcMillan, Terry.
Summary: "Family ties are tested and transformed in the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back With her wise, wry, and poignant novels of families and friendships-Waiting to Exhale, Getting to Happy, and A Day Late and a Dollar Short among them-Terry McMillan has touched millions of readers. Now, in her eighth novel, McMillan gives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mcmillan 2013McCauley, Stephen
Summary: "After a lifetime of kindly taking care of his irresistible but impossible sister and her wonderful daughter, Tom is finally ready to put himself first. Naturally, that's when his phone rings. His niece, Cecily—the real love of Tom’s life, as his boyfriend reminded him when moving out—is embroiled in a Title IX investigation at the college where she teaches that threatens her career and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCHyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: "An unforgettable novel about the power of friendship and kindness by the New York Times bestselling author of Pay It Forward. In the summer of 1969, fourteen-year-old Lucas Painter carries a huge weight on his shoulders. His brother is fighting in Vietnam. His embattled parents are locked in a never-ending war. And his best friend, Connor, is struggling with his own family issues. To find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HYDEverhart, Donna
Summary: "In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION EVECrandell, Bethany
Summary: Handsome, successful husband. Adorable daughter. Chairwoman of the PTA. Security for her ailing mom. Jane's got everything life has to offer. Including the lie that could destroy it all. See Jane smile. Thirty-nine-year-old Jane Osborne appears to the world like she has a charmed life. Her daughter attends private school. Jane chairs the PTA. Even her marriage to Dan, the handsome, prominent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CRAPatchett, Ann
Summary: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC PATHyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: In the summer of 1969, fourteen-year-old Lucas Painter carries a huge weight on his shoulders. His brother is fighting in Vietnam. His embattled parents are locked in a never-ending war. And his best friend, Connor, is struggling with his own family issues. To find relief from the chaos, Lucas takes long, meandering walks, and one day he veers into the woods. There he discovers an isolated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYDPatchett, Ann
Summary: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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4 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction PatchettSahota, Sunjeev
Summary: "A transfixing novel about two unforgettable characters seeking to free themselves-one from the expectations of women in early 20th century Punjab, and the other from the weight of life in the contemporary Indian diaspora Mehar, a young bride in rural 1929 Punjab, is trying to discover the identity of her new husband. Married to three brothers in a single ceremony, she and her now-sisters spend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAHPatchett, Ann
Summary: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Some of the stormy weather of the past few seasons seems to have finally lifted for the Quinns. After a year away, and an ill-fated affair with the Winter Street Inn's old Santa Claus, Mitzi has returned to rule the roost; Patrick is about to be released from prison; Kevin has a successful new business and is finally ready to tie the knot with Isabelle; and best of all, there's hopeful news...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HILWatson, Larry
Summary: "Calvin Sidey is a cowboy of the old-school, no-guff sort--steely, hardened, with his own personal code. It's the 1960s, and he's living off the grid in a stifling trailer on the prairie when his adult son, Bill, seeks his help. A mostly absentee father, and a virtual no-show as a grandfather, Calvin nevertheless reluctantly agrees to stay with his grandchildren for a week. He decamps for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: "Caroline has endured immeasurable loss, isolation, and cruelty in her young life. With her mother deceased and her father remarried, Caroline finds herself under the thumb of her controlling grandfather once again. Determined not to allow her suffering to have been in vain, Caroline embarks on a campaign to reclaim her own power and win over the most powerful person in her family. She will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ANDToews, Miriam
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOEHill, Nathan
Summary: When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicagos thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HILAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: "When former teacher Paula Eden adopts Faith and Trevor, she is astounded by their natural intelligence and decides to homeschool them to nurture their brilliance. But as the years go on, Faith and Trevor itch for more independence. When Faith sets her sights on a handsome young man visiting from out of town, Paula grows increasingly desperate to preserve her small family and her plans for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ANDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ANDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction AndrewsSmith, Laura Lee
Summary: "The Ice House follows the beleaguered MacKinnons as they weather the possible loss of the family business, a serious medical diagnosis, and the slings and arrows of familial discord. Johnny MacKinnon might be on the verge of losing it all. The ice factory he married into, which he's run for decades, is facing devastating OSHA fines following a mysterious accident and may have to close. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIEverhart, Donna
Summary: "In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016