Adler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.)
Summary: Singer, actress, and celebrity Bibi Fortunata fled Hollywood Hills and headed for Barcelona two years ago after being arrested for murder--then set free. But when Bibi's daughter comes to private investigators Mac Reilly and Sunny Alvarez for help, they can't resist the temptation to solve the cold case once and for all. Who really killed Bibi's lover? Who would want to frame Bibi? And who is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York 2011
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Summary: Newly-single mother Caroline Evans dreams of restoring an old barn into a restaurant, but her chance at happiness suddenly hangs in the balance as whispers of murder and vengeance find their way to her and her daughter Issy, hovering in that limbo between girl and young woman, begins to make some dangerous choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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Summary: Newly-single mother Caroline Evans dreams of restoring an old barn into a restaurant, but her chance at happiness suddenly hangs in the balance as whispers of murder and vengeance find their way to her and her daughter Issy, hovering in that limbo between girl and young woman, begins to make some dangerous choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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Summary: Learning about a mysterious inheritance in Tuscany, New York doctor Gemma, accompanied by her troublesome teen daughter and interfering mother, find themselves in a crumbling Italian villa in the midst of a disturbing culture clash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2002
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Summary: Having received letters and a journal from their mother written at the end of her life, four sisters struggle through their first year without her, a time marked by their bereavement and efforts to achieve joy and passion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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Summary: "Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her and a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all--the one between mother and daughter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: "Hannah Bond has always been a bookworm, which is why she fled Florida - and her unstable, alcoholic mother - for a quiet life leading Jane Austen-themed tours through the British countryside. But on New Year's Eve, everything comes crashing down when she arrives back at her London flat to find her mother, Marla, waiting for her. Marla's brought two things with her: a black eye from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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Summary: Beloved author Elizabeth Berg tells the story of the recently widowed Helen Ames and of her twenty-seven-year-old daughter Tessa. Helen is shocked to discover that her mild-mannered and loyal husband had been leading a double life. The Ames's had saved money for a happy retirement, planned in minute detail, but that money has disappeared in several big withdrawals spent by Helen's husband...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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Summary: "Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Strout 2016Strout, Elizabeth
Summary: "Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: one trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "When a yellowed deed to an apartment in Paris turns up in an old attic trunk, an estranged mother and daughter must unite to reveal the secret life of a family matriarch in this debut novel tracing one family's lineage from the Roaring Twenties to 2020"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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Summary: Over the course of a career that spanned six decades, the southern novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Spencer established herself as one of the finest literary artists of a generation that included Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. This definitive volume brings together three remarkable novels: The Voice at the Back Door, her powerful masterpiece about racial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPEStrout, Elizabeth
Summary: A collection of stories tell of two sisters: one trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother's happiness in a foreign country;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC STROUTStrout, Elizabeth
Summary: "Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Strout 2017Barbieri, Gladys Elizabeth.
Summary: Gladys Elizabeth is very disappointed with the new shoes her mother picks out for her. After trying unsuccessfully to get rid of the shoes, she is taught a lesson in gratitude that changes her feelings about them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Big Tent Books 2011
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: JE Spanish BarbieriParman, Elizabeth Bass
Summary: "Posey Jarvis knows she's the rightful Empress of Cooke County . . . she just needs to make everyone else realize it too"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STUClark, Kristin Elizabeth
Summary: A male-to-female trans teen, Jess, and her male best friend, Chunk, take a road trip across country to attend Jess's father's wedding to her mother's former best friend.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CLAMcCaffrey, Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EOS 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCGrimes, Nikki.
Summary: A young girl learns much about her mother as she reads a collection of poems written before she was born that capture her mother's memories of living around the world and growing up as a child of an Air Force serviceperson. Includes author's note, list ofAir Force bases, and explanation of the free verse and tanka poetry forms used.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Grimes 2015McCaffrey, Anne.
Summary: The continuing saga of the Acorna children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eos 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCC AC #9McCaffrey, Anne.
Summary: Acorna's rebellious daughter risks everything in order to protect the universe from a mysterious plague-spreading enemy, an effort that is compromised by threats closer to home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eos 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCNorebäck, Elisabeth
Summary: A successful therapist believes she's found her lost daughter when a young woman enters her clinic, while the woman's mother fears that her daughter's new therapist is planting dangerous thoughts in her head.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's sons 2018