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FICTION / African American / Contemporary Women FICTION / Contemporary Women FICTION / Family Life FICTION / Literary FICTION / Romance / Contemporary FICTION / Sagas Life change events Fiction Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Fiction Nantucket Island (Mass.) FictionMcMillan, Terry.
Summary: "Family ties are tested and transformed in the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back With her wise, wry, and poignant novels of families and friendships-Waiting to Exhale, Getting to Happy, and A Day Late and a Dollar Short among them-Terry McMillan has touched millions of readers. Now, in her eighth novel, McMillan gives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mcmillan 2013Roby, Kimberla Lawson
Summary: "It's been four years since twenty-eight-year old Alicia Black, daughter of Reverend Curtis Black, divorced her second husband, the most womanizing and corrupt man she has ever known. Since then, Alicia has been dating her first husband, Phillip Sullivan, a wonderfully kind and true man of God whom she'd hurt terribly by cheating on him. Alicia has worked hard to prove herself worthy of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBRoby, Kimberla Lawson.
Summary: "Things are falling apart in the Richardson household. Angry arguments between Celine and her husband, Keith, have become routine. She resents that he's working long hours and staying out all night, and he accuses her of not giving him the attention he deserves. Their marriage is at a cross-roads and Celine worries how her 10-year-old daughter, Kassie, will be affected. But the situation turns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBBaszile, Natalie.
Summary: " A mother-daughter story of reinvention-about an African American woman who unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana Why exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous. Recognizing this as a chance to start over, Charley and her eleven-year-old daughter, Micah, say good-bye to Los...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BASSteel, Danielle
Summary: Winona Farmington had dreams-- but real life got in the way, and she left college to return to her small Michigan hometown to care for her mother. Stuck in a dead-end job, she consoles herself with binge-watching the British television series that she loves, Beauchamp Hall, enthralled by the sumptuous period drama set on a great Norfolk estate in the 1920s. Passed over for a promotion and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steel 2018Praag, Menna van.
Summary: "Etta Sparks's cozy dress shop, tucked away at the end of a winding Cambridge road, is a magical place - anyone who steps inside the little blue door to glimpse the glorious silks and jewel-hued velvets can see they are someplace special. But only Etta knows the dresses she sells are actually magic - a few stitches from her needle and each gown imbues the wearer with the confidence to achieve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRAFlagg, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Flagg 2013Thayer, Nancy
Summary: Memorial Day weekend means that seasonal visitors have descended on the glamorous island of Nantucket. For year-round resident Darcy Cotterill, it means late-night stargazing in the backyard of the beautiful house she grew up in and inherited from her beloved grandmother. It's also Darcy's chance to hit the beach and meet her new summertime neighbors. But the last person the thirty-year-old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC THAThayer, Nancy
Summary: Every summer since college, twenty-nine-year-old Jenny has traded the familiarity of the Midwest for the allure of Nantucket. Now an established university professor in Kansas City, she finds herself caught between two lifestyles and two very different men. She chooses Nantucket and the glamorous life she associates with it, unaware that the summer will take an unexpected turn, and she will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC THAVan Allen, Lisa
Summary: "In the Pennywort [farm], there is a garden of edible flowers, a garden meant for touching, and one in which the flowers only bloom at night ... Since her mother's death 5 years ago, Olivia has been carrying on her legacy, caring for Pennywort Gardens and running an informal program that provides safe haven to women in exchange for their help with the lush gardens. The townspeople hate having...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANThayer, Nancy
Summary: "Soak up the sun with this delightful novel from New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer! Every summer since college, twenty-nine-year-old Courtney has traded the familiarity of the Midwest for the allure of Nantucket. Now an established universityprofessor, she finds herself caught between two lifestyles and two very different men. Because this summer has taken an unexpected turn and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC THACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION THAKnoll, Jessica.
Summary: "In a riveting debut novel that reads like Prep meets Gone Girl, a young woman is determined to create the perfect life--husband, home, and career--until a violent incident from her past threatens to unravel everything and expose her most shocking secretof all. Twenty-eight-year-old New Yorker Ani FaNelli seems to have it all: she's a rising star at The Women's Magazine, impossibly fit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KNOSteel, Danielle
Summary: A young woman discovers a cache of heirlooms in an abandoned safe deposit box: bundles of handwritten letters, photographs, expired passports, both American and Italian, and twenty-two leather boxes, each holding a priceless piece of jewelry. Drawn to the mysterious woman in the photographs, Jane digs deeper into the woman's luxurious, golden life and the older, dashing man who occupies her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Steel 2016Erdrich, Louise
Summary: The world as we know it is ending. As Cedar Hawk Songmaker goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ERDThayer, Nancy
Summary: "When Maggie and Emily meet as girls on the Nantucket beach, they are instant best friends--even though Emily's mother would much prefer she play with the daughters of senators and statesmen than a seamstress's kid like Maggie. But after many golden summers spent building sandcastles and sharing their dreams for the future, Emily and Maggie grow apart. In her twenties, beautiful and spirited...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THAMoyes, Jojo
Summary: Louisa Clark heads for New York and finds herself torn between her old life and her new one. As she tries to keep the two sides of her world together, Lou finds herself carrying secrets--not all her own--that cause a catastrophic change in her circumstances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOYOwens, Lisa
Summary: "In the tradition of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary and Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It comes a wise and laugh-out-loud debut novel that captures a young generation trying not to have it all, but to figure out what it all means. Claire has just resigned from her job without a plan for her next move. As she struggles to explain herself to friends and family, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OWEWiggs, Susan
Summary: An accomplished photographer, widow, and mother, Camille Palmer is content with the blessings she's enjoyed. When her aging father asks her to go with him to his native France, she has no idea that she's embarking on an adventure that will shake her complacency and utterly transform her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WIGBrown, Eleanor
Summary: "Madeleine is trapped-- by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears-- in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside, it looks like she has everything, but on the inside, she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine's memories, her grandmother Margie is the kind of woman she should have been-- elegant, reserved, perfect. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brown 2016Hearth, Amy Hill
Summary: "In this sequel to Hearth's debut novel, MISS DREAMSVILLE AND THE COLLIER COUNTY WOMEN'S LITERARY SOCIETY, the characters reunite one year later (late summer 1964) to fight a large development along the tidal river where book club member Robbie-Lee grew up and where his mother, Dolores Simpson, a former stripper turned alligator hunter, still lives in a fishing shack. The developer is Darryl...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEAWhite, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: "With her extended maternity leave at its end, Melanie Trenholm is less than thrilled to leave her new husband and beautiful twins to return to work, especially when she's awakened by a phone call with no voice on the other end--and the uneasy feeling that the ghostly apparitions that have stayed silent for more than a year are about to invade her life once more. But her return to the realty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHISteel, Danielle
Summary: "A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent. The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel's gripping new novel--a heart-stopping thriller that engagesordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco. On a beautiful May morning at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, two planes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steel 2018Rieger, Susan
Summary: "The story of a high-profile, messy divorce, and the endearingly cynical young lawyer dragooned into handling it, told solely via personal correspondence, office memos, emails, articles, and legal papers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIEKnoll, Jessica
Summary: When tensions escalate on the set of a reality television program featuring young, ambitious female entrepreneurs, including Brett and Kelly Courtney, two sisters who are no strangers to sibling rivalry, one of them ends up dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018