Hummel, Maria
Summary: "Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. Former best friends, Lacey and Edith haven't spoken to one another in over four decades. As young adults meeting at summer camp in Maine, and later making their way in the glitzy spotlight of postwar Hollywood, Edith and Lacey share a deep-rooted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUMCobb, May K.
Summary: "Three lifelong friends plus a dangerous, sexy new stranger in town add up to a scorching summer of manipulation, obsession, and murder, from the acclaimed author of The Hunting Wives. A woman in the forest thinks she's going to die. I know he's coming back for me. Jen Miller, Kittie Spears, and Cynthia Nichols have been friends since childhood. Now approaching forty, their lives have changed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COBPearson, Allison
Summary: In 1970s South Wales, Petra and Sharon live for David Cassidy and take the ultimate David Cassidy quiz thinking that David's letters are all his own work. Over two decades later, bruised by grief, Petra is living with her thirteen-year-old daughter and meets the reluctant pop journalist who compiled the quiz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Downtown Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELDrabble, Margaret
Summary: Divorced and estranged from her grown daughters, Candida Wilton moves to a rundown flat well below her means and finds exhilaration in her self-imposed poverty, during which she confides her thoughts to a computer and makes friends with new peers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRAWells, Rebecca
Summary: Looks back to the years of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood's origins in Thornton, Louisiana, during which Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie endure crises of faith, lapses in parenting, brushes with alcoholism, and glimpses into racial bigotry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION WellsKing, Cassandra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINBattle, Lois.
Summary: Hilly Pruitt and the other women of Florabama, Alabama, wonder what course their lives are going to take after the factory where they have worked for years closes down, leaving them all with no jobs and very little hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BATSmith, Haywood
Summary: When Pru, the black sheep of the Red Hat Club, falls of the wagon, "the girls" stage a hilarious kidnapping in Vegas to help their childhood friend clean up her act.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIShipman, Viola
Summary: Arriving in the lakeside town of Good Hart, Michigan, Becky Thatcher--just turned forty years old with little to show for it--encounters eighty-year-old Mary Jackson, who has almost given up hope that someone will come along to carry on her legacy as the owner of The Very Cherry General Store. For most of her eighty years, Mary Jackson has endured the steady invasion of tourists, influencers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHIMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Best friends Maggie and Connie, both sixty-years-old, dub voices and sounds for B-rated movies in Los Angeles. Both eager to escape aspects of their lives, the two pack up a van and commence a road trip to Connie's Aunt's Texas chicken farm. During their travels, they encounter a slew of colorful characters, amusing tourist traps, and beautiful scenery, all of which help create a life-changing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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Summary: When Noreen takes a buyout and gets dumped by a boyfriend in one fell swoop, she finds herself with nothing but time to notice everything that's missing in her life. Tess is the teacher next door who thought she'd be spending the summer with her college-bound daughter, but now that daughter isn't speaking to her. The Wildwater Walking Club is complete when they meet Rosie, the dutiful daughter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COORadish, Kris.
Summary: Lucky and Addy Lipton are planning a trip to Paradise (Costa Rica) and hoping to get their marriage back on track. But while loading the bags, Lucky throws out his back. While a maimed Lucky roots himself to the couch, Addy makes a big decision. It's time for things to change--even if that means making drastic choices that involve all the women of Parker, Pennsylvania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2005
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Summary: The author of Must Love Dogs presents the tale of three women neighbors who share struggles with unfaithful men, rebellious children, and parental expectations while taking long walks near their homes on Wildwater Way, a friendship marked by a Seattle road trip, a lavender festival, and a clothesline controversy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voice/Hyperion 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CooWeiner, Jennifer
Summary: "Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial, and she has lots of acquaintances, but no real friends. Still, Daisy knows she's got it good. So why is she up all night? While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Weiner 2021Hilderbrand, Elin
Summary: "Hollis Shaw's life seems picture-perfect. She's the star of the popular food blog, Hungry with Hollis, and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, Matthew leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis's perfect life--her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial, and she has lots of acquaintances, but no real friends. Still, Daisy knows she's got it good. So why is she up all night? While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Weiner 2021Clayton, Meg Waite.
Summary: Thirty years ago, Laney, Mia, Betts, and Ginger were roommates and best friends in law school. Collectively nicknamed the Ms. Bradwells by a professor their relationship has weathered marriage, divorce, children, and death, but when Betts's Supreme Court nomination is threatened by questions about the death of a young man at a party they attended decades ago, the women retreat to the scene of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAThayer, Nancy
Summary: When four women meet in a hot tub at a spa, they realize they share a common problem: toxic relatives. Polly, 60, has to nurse a haughty, ailing mother-in-law. Beth's fiance's two-faced mother is plotting to sabotage their wedding plans. Julia, 30, has a sweet, traumatized little stepdaughter whose terror of a grandmother is undermining her best efforts. Carolyn, 37, suspects her wealthy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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Summary: "For most of her eighty years, Mary Jackson has endured the steady invasion of tourists, influencers and real estate developers who have discovered the lakeside charm of Good Hart, Michigan, waiting patiently for the arrival of a stranger she's believed since childhood would one day carry on her legacy -- the Very Cherry General Store. Like generations of Jackson women before her, Cherry Mary,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHIGaitskill, Mary
Summary: The friendship between Alison, a young woman struggling with her ruined career as a fashion model, and Veronica, an older eccentric and proofreader, survives Alison's return to the world of fashion and Veronica's battle with AIDS.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAIMcMurtry, Larry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2005
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1 available in Adult- Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction McMurtryMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: McMurtry with his miraculously sure touch at creating recognizable women characters, and his equally miraculous sharp eye for the absurdities of everyday life in the modern West, writes about two women, old friends, who set off on an adventure-with unpredictable and sometimes hilarious results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004