Newman, Catherine
Summary: While on her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod, Rocky, sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, relives the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers, coming face-to-face with her family's history and future and accepting she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisher 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEShipman, Viola
Summary: To gain viewers as a local meteorologist, Sonny throws herself into all the holiday shenanigans hosted by a widowed father and Chamber director whose genuine love for the town, winter, and Sonny may just thaw her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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Summary: "When Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteorologist whose job is all sunshine and seventy-two-degree days, is replaced by a virtual meteorologist that will never age, gain weight or renegotiate its contract, the only station willing to give the fifty-year-old another shot is the very place Sonny's been avoiding since the day she left for college -- her northern Michigan hometown. Sonny grudgingly returns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: Workaholic Henrietta Wegner can feel her edge beginning to dull in middle age. Once the company's hottest mergers and acquisitions executive, Henri can see the ambitious and impossibly young up-and-comers gunning for her job. When her boss makes it clear she'll be starting the New Year unemployed unless she can close a big deal before the holidays, Henri impulsively tells him that she can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHIDell'Antonia, K. J.
Summary: Rhett Gallagher's adventurous life is imploding. Just as she turns the big 4-0, her long-term relationship collapses and her gran's death draws her back to the family farm. The only silver lining is that Rhett's inspirational book, The Modern Pioneer Girl's Guide to Life--written under a pseudonym--has become a wild success, so much so that when her big publicity moment comes, self-doubting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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Summary: "A hopeful novel of sacrifice, two lost souls, and enduring love ... It's 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice a year after his brother died in a tragic accident, Anton is still wounded--physically and emotionally. Alone for the holidays, he catches a glimpse of his neighbor Edith across the street one evening and realizes that she's in danger. Anton is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020
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Summary: A woman falls in love with a much younger man, igniting a storm of disapproval and dismay among the inhabitants of their unique California valley in which families have deep and tangled roots and hide dangerous secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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Summary: After twenty-four years of marriage and two daughters, Elizabeth and Jackson Shore have drifted apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANWells, Rebecca
Summary: Looks back to the years of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood's origins in Thornton, Louisiana, during which Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie endure crises of faith, lapses in parenting, brushes with alcoholism, and glimpses into racial bigotry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Best friends Maggie and Connie, both sixty-years-old, dub voices and sounds for B-rated movies in Los Angeles. Both eager to escape aspects of their lives, the two pack up a van and commence a road trip to Connie's Aunt's Texas chicken farm. During their travels, they encounter a slew of colorful characters, amusing tourist traps, and beautiful scenery, all of which help create a life-changing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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Summary: Lucky and Addy Lipton are planning a trip to Paradise (Costa Rica) and hoping to get their marriage back on track. But while loading the bags, Lucky throws out his back. While a maimed Lucky roots himself to the couch, Addy makes a big decision. It's time for things to change--even if that means making drastic choices that involve all the women of Parker, Pennsylvania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2005
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Summary: The author of Must Love Dogs presents the tale of three women neighbors who share struggles with unfaithful men, rebellious children, and parental expectations while taking long walks near their homes on Wildwater Way, a friendship marked by a Seattle road trip, a lavender festival, and a clothesline controversy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voice/Hyperion 2009
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Summary: Celebrating the achievement of a successful career only to be abandoned by her failed sculptor husband, Eve Adams struggles to raise her children alone while balancing conflicting demands, the realities of midlife, and her evolving views on forgiveness and letting go.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANMorrissey, Di.
Summary: When Sydney corporate wife Holly Jamieson turns forty-five she shocks her husband by buying an old house in The Bay with plans to transform it into a charming B & B. What began as a gesture of independence changes her life. Holly soon discovers that beneath its tranquil surface, The Bay is a whirlpool of passions and conflict. It was once a whaling town, then a sleepy resort that became trendy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bolinda Audio 2002
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Summary: Forty-two, divorced, and responsible for an aging aunt and uncle, florist Emily Lucretia, deciding to put herself out there, starts dating the owner of the local barbecue joint until her meddling small town gets involved in her relationship, with hilarious and unexpected results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canary Street Press 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSWeiner, Jennifer
Summary: "Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial, and she has lots of acquaintances, but no real friends. Still, Daisy knows she's got it good. So why is she up all night? While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Weiner 2021McBride, Eimear
Summary: "By the award-winning author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, Strange Hotel is a book about grief, travel, and female loneliness narrated by an unnamed middle-aged woman from a series of hotel rooms around the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCBHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: "Hollis Shaw's life seems picture-perfect. She's the star of the popular food blog, Hungry with Hollis, and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, Matthew leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis's perfect life--her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILThayer, Nancy
Summary: "Heather Willette has a good life in Concord, Massachusetts -- complete with a husband who runs his own business and a son to take up his mantle one day. But now that her marriage has fizzled out and Ross, her only child, is graduating from college and getting serious with his girlfriend, Heather wonders if that life is the one she really wants. Ready to seek out her own happiness and discover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction ThayerHershon, Joanna
Summary: "Over the course of a weekend, two couples reckon with the long-hidden secrets that have shaped their families in Joanna Hershon's charged, poignant novel of motherhood and friendship. It's the end of summer when we meet Sarah, the end of summer and the middle of her life, the middle of her career (she hopes it's not the end), the middle of her marriage (recently repaired). And despite the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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Summary: "Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial, and she has lots of acquaintances, but no real friends. Still, Daisy knows she's got it good. So why is she up all night? While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Weiner 2021Newman, Catherine
Summary: A story of a family summer vacation full of secrets, lunch, and learning to let go. For the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod. Their humble beach-town rental has been the site of sweet memories, sunny days, great meals, and messes of all kinds: emotional, marital, and thanks to the cottage's ancient plumbing septic too. This year's vacation,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024