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Sternberg, Julie

Summary: "Ten-year-old Celie's grandmother has moved in with her family, and Granny's forgetfulness is starting to worry Celie. In the meantime, she can tell her parents are keeping secrets, but she can't talk to her best friend Lula or her sister Jo, because they're both keeping secrets, too! Why is Lula not sharing with Celie? Who is Jo texting all the time? And what is Celie supposed to do when...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STE

Hornak, Francesca

Summary: "A warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel about what happens when a family is forced to spend a week together in quarantine over the holidays... It's Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even Emma and Andrew's elder daughter--who is usually off saving the world--will be joining them at Weyfield Hall, their aging country estate. But Olivia,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017

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Jean, Emiko

Summary: At thirty-five, Mika Suzuki's life is a mess. Her last relationship ended in flames. Her roommate-slash-best friend might be a hoarder. She's a perpetual disappointment to her traditional Japanese parents. And, most recently, she's been fired from her latest dead-end job. Mika is at her lowest point when she receives a phone call from Penny--the daughter she placed for adoption sixteen years...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JEA

Flagg, Fannie.

Summary: Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, this is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Mrs. Sookie Poole of Point Clear, Alabama, has just married off the last of her three daughters and is looking forward to relaxing and perhaps traveling with her husband, Earle. The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2013

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FLA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FLA

Mayne, Kerryn

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns thirty-six copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she has to a friendship is playing Scrabble against an imaginary Monica Gellar while watching Friends reruns. And Lenny Marks is very, very good at not...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024

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Mendelson, Charlotte

Summary: "Charlotte Mendelson's The Exhibitionist is a "furiously funny" novel (Sunday Express, UK) about a marriage between two artists, Lucia and Ray, which begins to unravel over the course of one weekend. Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for a momentous weekend as famous artist and notorious egoist Ray Hanrahan prepares for a new exhibition of his art--the first in many decades--and one he is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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Kinsella, Sophie

Summary: "After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have all the trimmings of a happy life and marriage; they have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly, they finish each other's sentences. However, a trip to the doctor projects they will live another 68 years together and panic sets in. They never expected "until death do us part" to mean...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KIN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kinsella 2018

Flagg, Fannie.

Summary: "Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Like Fannie Flagg's classic Fried Green Tomatoes, this is a riveting, fun story of two families, set in present day America and during World War...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2013

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FLA

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Fla

Jalaluddin, Uzma

Summary: "Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal restaurant in the close-knit Golden Crescent neighborhood of Toronto. Hana waitresses there part time, but what she really wants is to tell stories on the radio. If she can just outshine her fellow intern at the city radio station, she may have a chance at landing a job. In the meantime, Hana pours her thoughts and dreams into a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JAL

Brown, Helen

Summary: "The windows rattle. The roof leaks. Every surface cries out to be stripped, painted, or polished. But for writer Lisa Trumperton, the dilapidated manor house that once belonged to her great-grandfather is far more than the sum of its battered parts. It's the chance for a new start on her own terms. The fact that it's in the Melbourne countryside of her Australian homeland, far from the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2016

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brown 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: P BRO

Lipman, Elinor

Summary: "Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high-school yearbook she inherits from her mother. The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of '69 had dedicated its yearbook, and she, in turn, went on to attend every reunion. Each year, she scribbled notes and observations after each one -- not always charitably -- and noted who overstepped...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LIP

Waugh, Daisy

Summary: Sir Ecgbert Tode of Tode Hall has survived to a grand old age - much to the despair of his younger wife, Emma. But at ninety-three he has, at last, shuffled off the mortal coil. Emma, Lady Tode, thoroughly fed up with being a dutiful Lady of the Manor, wants to leave the country to spend her remaining years in Capri. Unfortunately her three tiresome children are either unwilling or unable (too...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAU

Kinsella, Sophie

Summary: "After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have all the trimmings of a happy life and marriage; they have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly, they finish each other's sentences. However, a trip to the doctor projects they will live another 68 years together and panic sets in. They never expected "until death do us part" to mean...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KIN

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KIN

Haig, Matt

Summary: The Radleys are vampires, but they confront many of the same challenges any human family faces--a husband pining for his youthful exploits, a wife dwelling on her first "love," and children grasping for their place in the family and the world. But when one child makes a mistake that can't be undone, family life is thrown into chaos as everyone tries to help with damage control.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HAI

Semple, Maria

Summary: Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action--life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEM

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEM

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SEM

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Semple 2016

Attenberg, Jami

Summary: "If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am," says Alex Tuchman of her parents. Now that her father is on his deathbed, Alex--a strong-headed lawyer, devoted mother, and loving sister--feels she can finally unearth the secrets of who Victor is and what he did over the course of his life and career. (A power-hungry real estate developer, he is, by all...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019

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Wells, Tina

Summary: Eleven-year-old June must juggle friendship, first love, and the fallout from a newly discovered family secret involving the entire town--all while under a truth-telling spell.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WEL

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