Uegaki, Chieri
Summary: "A young girl finds a way to give the gift of a traditional Japanese garden back to her beloved grandfather and accept a difficult change."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE UGEQuan, Betty
Summary: "Grandmother lives with Grace's family. She teaches her how to measure water for rice. She tells her stories about growing up in China and together they savor the flavors of her childhood. Grandmother says goodbye when she drops Grace off at school every morning and hello when she picks her up at the end of the day. Suddenly, Grandmother stops walking Grace to and from school, and the door to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE QUABarr, Nevada
Summary: Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's Unit in a nursing home. When she overhears one of the administrators saying that she's "not making it through the week," Rose is convinced that if she's to survive, she has to get out of the nursing home. She avoids taking her medication, putting on a show for the aides,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Barr 2019Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BARDallas, Sandra
Summary: "When her granddaughter June unexpectedly arrives and announces she's calling off her wedding, Ellen tells her the story of Nell, a Kansas-born woman who goes to the High Plains of New Mexico Territory in 1898 in search of a husband and the impending marriages she ran away from before marrying the love of her life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DALArnaldur Indridason
Summary: "An elderly couple are worried about their granddaughter. They know she's been smuggling drugs, and now she's gone missing. Looking for help, they turn to Konrad, a former policeman whose reputation precedes him. Always absent-minded, he constantly ruminates on the fate of his father, who was stabbed to death decades ago. But digging into the past reveals much more than anyone set out to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNKing, Laurie R.
Summary: Maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, and with Holmes' young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didn't know she had as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M KINMonroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: "This heartwarming women's fiction series from beloved New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe centers on Marietta Colson Muir, a dowager of Charleston society who has retired to her historic summer home on Sullivan's Island called Conquest, and her three granddaughters Carson, Eudora, and Harper. It's summer once again on idyllic Sullivan's Island, but Eudora, or Dora as she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MONKing, Laurie R.
Summary: Maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, and with Holmes' young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didn't know she had as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M KINJavaherbin, Mina
Summary: "While Mina is growing up in Iran, the center of her world is her grandmother. Whether visiting friends next door, going to the mosque for midnight prayers during Ramadan, or taking an imaginary trip around the planets, Mina and her grandma are never far apart. At once deeply personal and utterly universal, Mina Javaherbin's words make up a love letter of the rarest sort: the kind that shares a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JAVCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JAVBarr, Nevada
Summary: "Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown to discover that she's been committed to a nursing home's Alzheimer's Unit. Rose has no memory of her committal and is sure that something is very wrong. She escapes but faces a challenge in proving her sanity. Her relatives committed her, the legal papers were drawn up, the authorities side with the nursing home. But when a would-be killer shows up in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BARMonroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: "It is summer's end and Sea Breeze, the family's beloved estate on Sullivan's Island, must be sold. It is an emotional time of transition as Mamaw and the three sisters each must face loss and find a new place in the world. Harper, the youngest sister, arrived at Sea Breeze intending to stay only a weekend, but a rift with her wealthy, influential mother left her without direction or a home....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONAlharthi, Jokha
Summary: Bitter Orange Tree is a profound exploration of social status, wealth, desire, and female agency by Jokha Alharthi. It presents a mosaic portrait of one young woman's attempt to understand the roots she has grown from, and to envisage an adulthood in which her own power and happiness might find the freedom necessary to bear fruit and flourish. Zuhour, an Omani student at a British university,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALHCambron, Kristy
Summary: "Broken-down walls and crumbled stones seemed to possess a secret language all their own. What stories would they tell, if she finally listened?</strong> Ellie Carver arrives at her grandmother's bedside expecting to find her silently slipping away. Instead, the beloved old woman begins speaking. Of a secret past and castle ruins forgotten by time. Of a hidden chapel that served as a rendezvous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cambron 2018Pearson, Robin W.
Summary: "To hear Beatrice Agnew tell it, she entered the world with her mouth tightly shut. Just because she finds out she's dying doesn't mean she can't keep it that way. If any of her children have questions about their daddy and the choices she made after he abandoned them, they'd best take it up with Jesus. There's no room in Granny B's house for regrets or hand-holding. Or so she thinks. Her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC PEAPearson, Robin W.
Summary: "To hear Beatrice Agnew tell it, she entered the world with her mouth tightly shut. Just because she finds out she's dying doesn't mean she can't keep it that way. If any of her children have questions about their daddy and the choices she made after he abandoned them, they'd best take it up with Jesus. There's no room in Granny B's house for regrets or hand-holding. Or so she thinks. Her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Pearson 2020Bedford, Deborah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEDFowler, Earlene.
Summary: Living a solitary life as a writer for a magazine and pondering past events that ripped her family apart, Love Mercy Johnson gets a chance at redemption when her granddaughter unexpectedly arrives and gives her the opportunity to heal old wounds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FOWMaguire, Gregory
Summary: "Ten years ago this season, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the series he began with Wicked by giving us the fourth and final volume of the Wicked Years, his elegiac Out of Oz. But "out of Oz" isn't "gone for good." Maguire's new series, Another Day, is here, twenty-five years after Wicked first flew into our lives. Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphaba's granddaughter, Rain, washing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAGStites, Jan.
Summary: Ruby convinces her busy granddaughter, Tulsa, to join her book club and they, along with three friends, begin a journey guided by romance novels and the Sweet Oak River.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC STIDallas, Sandra
Summary: "When her granddaughter June unexpectedly arrives and announces she's calling off her wedding, Ellen tells her the story of Nell, a Kansas-born woman who goes to the High Plains of New Mexico Territory in 1898 in search of a husband and the impending marriages she ran away from before marrying the love of her life"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DALChouinard, Michelle M. (Michelle Marie)
Summary: "The granddaughter of a serial killer shows readers another side of the beloved city. The chill of a San Francisco summer can be deadly. No one knows this better than Capri Sanzio, who makes her living giving serial killer tours of the city. Capri has been interested in the topic since she was a kid, when she discovered she's the granddaughter of serial killer, William 'Overkill Bill' Sanzio....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLERoberts, Nora.
Summary: Cilla, a former child star who has found more satisfying work as a restorer of old houses, has come to her grandmother's Shenandoah Valley farmhouse, tools at her side, to rescue it from ruin. In the attic, she finds a cache of unsigned letters suggesting that her grandmother was pregnant when she died and that the father was a local married man. When Cilla becomes the target of a series of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBAdler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.)
Summary: Beautiful fifty-eight-year-old Fenny Dexter lives a quiet life in California where she loves to spend time with JC and Vivi, two young women she has raised since their childhood after the death of their mother. When a blood-covered man knocks on Fenny's door, claiming to have had a car accident, it sets off a sequence of events involving serial killings and eventually the question whether Fenny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ADLAdler, Elizabeth (Elizabeth A.)
Summary: Assisting a car accident victim who was traveling to San Francisco to solve the murder of his fiancée, Fenny Dexter shares a night of passion with the man, whose identity comes into question in the wake of a series of brutal murders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013