Tropper, Jonathan.
Summary: Judd Foxman is thrown together with his dysfunctional family when his father dies, while at the same time coping with his wife's infidelity and the end of his marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2010
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Summary: "Just before Henry Aster's birth, his father -- outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow -- reluctantly returns to the small Appalachian town in which he was raised and installs his young family in an immense house of iron and glass perched high on the side of a mountain. There, Henry grows up under the writing desk of this fiercely brilliant man. But when tragedy tips his father...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lewis 2017Dicks, Matthew
Summary: "From Matthew Dicks, the beloved author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, comes The Other Mother, a novel about a teenage boy coping with the rupture of his family by viewing his mother in an unusual light. The one he loves most, is the one he knows least. Thirteen-year-old Michael Parsons is dealing with a lot. His father's sudden death; his mother's new husband, Glen, who he loathes; his two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DICOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: This novel provides an examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, it's an exploration of psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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Summary: "When the patriarch of a famed hotel empire dies under suspicious circumstances, his daughter and her estranged brother join forces to find out what happened, unraveling a larger mystery about who their father really was. Liam Noone was many things to many people. To the public, he was an exacting, self-made hotel magnate fleeing his past. To his three ex-wives, he was a loving albeit distant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print
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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 1985
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Summary: Her carefully constructed life falling to pieces upon the murder of her father, Lucy Schaffer is forced to delve into her painful past, which has been overshadowed by her mother's insanity, her brother's drowning, and the loss of her own son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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Summary: "After abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Hannah--a photographer whose way of seeing the world shows him the possibility of finding not only love but family. Now, five years later, with his marriage to Hannah on the verge of collapse, he returns to the close-knit immigrant Ethiopian community of Washington, DC, that defined his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: When the patriarch of a famed hotel empire dies under suspicious circumstances, his daughter and her estranged brother join forces to find out what happened, unraveling a larger mystery about who their father really was.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2024
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Summary: Growing up in a house filled with silence and devoid of emotion, siblings Julian, a scientist who lives a life of seclusion, and Paula, a talented opera singer, must confront and overcome the past when dark secrets resurface.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2001
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Summary: In this book, the author tells the story of a woman's homecoming, a family secret, and the old house that holds the key to the true legacy of a family. At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate first love,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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Summary: In this book, the author tells the story of a woman's homecoming, a family secret, and the old house that holds the key to the true legacy of a family. At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate first love,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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Summary: When a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: "Reclusive Sally Diamond causes outrage by trying to incinerate her dead father. Now she's the center of attention, not only from the hungry media and police detectives, but also a sinister voice from a past she does not remember. As she begins to discover the horrors of her early childhood, Sally steps into the world for the first time, making new friends, big decisions, and learning that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2000
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Summary: "Set in Iran and New York City, Man of My Time tells the story of Hamid Mozaffarian, who is as alienated from himself as he is from the world around him. After decades of ambivalent work as an interrogator with the Iranian regime, Hamid travels on a diplomatic mission to New York, where he encounters his estranged family and retrieves the ashes of his father, whose dying wish was to be buried...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Tropper 2009Chamberlain, Diane
Summary: "Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new identity. But why exactly was she on the run all those years ago, and what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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Summary: Jason Bennett is a suburban dad and an elite court reporter, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving with his family home after his daughter's field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them on a dark stretch or road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. He complies, getting his family and their dog out of the car....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2022
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Summary: "Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter's field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A flash of violence changes his life forever. Later that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2022
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Summary: Samuel Xavier Adams is stunned to learn that his long-absent father, a shadowy employee of the U.S. government, had been seen coming out of his mother's hospital room shortly before she died, and embarks on a quest to uncover his father's secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2002