Macomber, Debbie
Summary: Joan Sample is not living the life she thought she would. Now a widow and an empty nester, Joan is content being something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to get back out into the world. With her encouragement, Joan makes big strides, taking care of her overgrown lawn, making new friends through a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MACZimmerman, Vicky
Summary: "After a major life upheaval on the eve of her 40th birthday, Kate Parker finds herself volunteering at Lauderdale House for Exceptional Ladies. There she meets 97-year-old Cecily Finn. Cecily's tongue is as sharp as her mind but she has lost her spark, simply resigning herself to the Imminent End. Having no patience with Kate's plight, Cecily prescribes her a self-help book with a difference -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ZIMNagy, Estep
Summary: "Seven Island has two houses. One for Hillsingers and one for Quicks. 1964. The Hillsingers and the Quicks have shared the small Maine island of Seven for generations. But though technically family --Jim Hillsinger and Billy Quick married Park Avenue sisters Lila and Hannah Blackwell -- they do not mix. Now, on the anniversary of Hannah's death, Lila feels grief pulling her toward Billy. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAGHyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: "Never knowing his parents, eleven-year-old Stewie Little and his brother have been raised on a farm by their older sister. Stewie steadfastly tends the chickens left by his beloved late grandmother. And every day Stewie goes door to door selling fresh eggs from his wagon--a routine with a surprise just around the corner. It's his new customer, Marilyn. She's prickly and guarded, yet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2022
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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYDSteel, Danielle
Summary: From the glamorous San Francisco social scene of the 1920s, through war and the social changes of the '60s, to the rise of Silicon Valley today, this extraordinary novel takes us on a family odyssey that is both heartbreaking and inspiring, as each generation faces the challenges of their day. The Parisian design houses in 1928, the crash of 1929, the losses of war, the drug culture of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEAkhtiorskaya, Yelena.
Summary: "A dazzling debut novel about a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream. In this account of two decades in the life of an immigrant household, the fall of communism and the rise of globalization are artfully reflected in the experience of a single family. Ironies, subtle and glaring, are revealed: the Nasmertovs left Odessa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AKHDonoghue, Emma
Summary: "Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widower living on the Upper West Side, but born in the South of France. He is days away from his first visit back to Nice since he was a child, bringing with him a handful of puzzling photos he's discovered from his mother's wartime years. But he receives a call from social services: Noah is the closest available relative of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONHyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: Never knowing his parents, eleven-year-old Stewie Little and his brother have been raised on a farm by their older sister. Stewie steadfastly tends the chickens left by his beloved late grandmother. And every day Stewie goes door to door selling fresh eggs from his wagon, a routine with a surprise just around the corner. It's his new customer, Marilyn. She's prickly and guarded, yet comfortably...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2022
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Summary: "It's been sixteen years since Caretta 'Cara' Rutledge has returned home to the beautiful shores of Charleston, South Carolina. Over those years, she has weathered the tides of deaths and births, struggles and joys. And now, as Cara prepares for her second wedding, her life is about to change yet again. Meanwhile, the rest of the storied Rutledge family is also in flux. Cara's niece Linnea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMcFadden, Maryann.
Summary: Claire Noble gave up on her dreams a long time ago as a single mother, caring for her aging parents. Now its her turn, and she's fallen in love with a man who can offer her security and a life of adventure. But just as Claire is about to step into her new life, her estranged daughter shows up, very pregnant and alone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCFJohnson, Sarai
Summary: "A novel about four generations of Black women contending with motherhood and daughterhood, generational trauma and the deeply ingrained tensions and wounds that divide them as they redefine happiness and healing for themselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHBehar, Ruth
Summary: "Spanning over five hundred years, a novel telling the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BEHVardiashvili, Leo
Summary: "A devastating story of one family's border-crossing adventure to rescue one another and make peace with the past, set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, two years after the occupation of South Ossetia by Russia in 2008"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROGeorge, Alex.
Summary: A Good American is a story of immigrant hope. Set in a fictional Midwestern town and spanning more than a century, the novel tells the story of three generations of the Meisenheimer family. Beginning with an improbable love affair ignited by the power of song, the story follows an unorthodox young couple as they flee to America in search of a new life together. From prohibition to the Kennedy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEOMonroe, Mary Alice
Summary: It's been sixteen years since Caretta "Cara" Rutledge has returned home to the beautiful shores of Charleston, South Carolina. Over those years, she has weathered the tides of deaths and births, struggles and joys. And now, as Cara prepares for her second wedding, her life is about to change yet again. Meanwhile, the rest of the storied Rutledge family is also in flux. But as excitement over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MONBrown, Carolyn
Summary: Dear friends and army wives Diana, Carmen, and Joanie have been through war, rumours of war, marital problems, motherhood, fears, joy, and heartache. But none of the women are prepared when their daughters decide to enlist in the army together. Facing an empty nest won't be easy. Especially for Carmen. With emotions already high, she suffers an even greater blow: divorce papers. Diana...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BROMorgan, Sarah
Summary: Answering an advert for a driver and companion to take an epic road trip across America, Martha meets 80-year-old Kathleen who craves adventure and together these women embark on the journey of a lifetime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MorganPowner, Katie
Summary: "After he's forced to sell the family farm he's labored on his whole life, 63-year-old Gerrit Laninga doesn't know what to do with himself. He sacrificed everything for the land--his time, his health, his family--with nothing to show for it but bitterness, regret, and two grown children who want nothing to do with him. Fifteen-year-old Rae Walters has growing doubts and fears about The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWProbst, Jennifer
Summary: "Workaholic, career-obsessed Francesca is fiercely independent and successful in all areas of life except one: family. She struggles to make time for her relationship with her teenage daughter, Allegra, and the two have become practically strangers to each other. When Allegra hangs out with a new crowd and is arrested for drug possession, Francesca gives in to her mother's wish that they take...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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Summary: "Iris Maynard lost her husband in World War II, her daughter to illness and, finally, her reason to live. Walled off from the world for decades behind the towering fence surrounding her home, Iris has built anew family ... of flowers. Iris propagates her own daylilies and roses while tending to a garden filled with the heirloom starts that keep the memories of her loved ones alive. When Abby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2020