Kleypas, Lisa
Summary: Four young ladies enter London society with one common goal: they must use their feminine wit and wiles to find a husband. So a daring husband-hunting scheme is born. Annabelle Peyton, determined to save her family from disaster, decides to use her beauty and wit to tempt a suitable nobleman into making an offer of marriage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLEAndersen, Sarah (Sarah C.)
Summary: Containing illustrated personal essays on the author's real-life experiences with anxiety, career, relationships and other adulthood challenges, this collection of the hugely popular, world-famous Sarah's Scribbles comics are perfect for those of us who boast bookstore-ready bodies and Netflix-ready hair.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ANDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Comics AndersonShinkai, Makoto
Summary: "This is the story of Miyu, a woman who lives alone with her cat, Chobi. As Miyu navigates the world of adulthood, she discovers both the freedom and loneliness that come with living independently, and Chobi learns of the outside world through her actions. Time drifts slowly for Miyu and her cat, but the harsh realities of the world soon catch up"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SHISummary: Celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the classic--and, back in the day--controversial book, today's leading feminist thinkers and writers pay homage to Brown's original work and reinterpret it for a new generation, validating women's sexual lives and individual eras of singlehood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.81 SEXAnderson, Catherine (Adeline Catherine)
Summary: After a career on the rodeo circuit, Ben Sterling longs to settle down on his farm and start a family like his brothers. He's searched all over for the woman of his dreams. Yet the only one to spark his interest is the new owner of the local cafe. Getting her attention, however, won't be easy. Sissy Sue Bentley has worked hard to make it on her own, and she doesn't need another man in her life....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ANDHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Reluctantly agreeing to organize a children's benefit at which a rock-star ex-lover is performing, Claire Danner Crispin finds her efforts complicated by her clashes with a fellow organizer, her best friend's catering mishaps, and a new relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HILSummary: Neurotic Donna, boozy slag Karen, and sex-starved Louise deal with day-to-day lives of creepy exes, bad birthdays, disastrous dates, stolen kebabs, binge drinking, shoplifting, unplanned pregnancy, and more selfish acts of sisterly love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Media Group 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Grimes, Martha.
Summary: Presents two novellas, including "Hotel Paradise," an exploration of the emotional isolation and identity quest of adolescence, and "The Train Now Departing," in which the female protagonist is embroiled in darkness by the man in her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRISummary: In the fourth season the girls are tentatively edging toward maturity as they take on new personas in new worlds. As the season begins, Hannah leaves New York to attend the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop in the hopes of becoming a more serious writer, while confronting uncertainty in her relationship with Adam. Meanwhile, back in New York, Marnie pursues a music career while balancing her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GIRGabhart, Ann H.
Summary: 1933, Louisville, Kentucky. Piper Danson's parents came through the market crash with their fortune intact, and they've picked out the perfect suitor for their daughter. The only problem? Braxton Crandall is not the man-- or the life-- she really wants. Volunteering as a horseback Frontier Nursing courier in the Appalachian Mountains for the summer, Piper find the work taxing, the scenery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABSummary: During her disastrous bachelorette party, Donna decides to ditch her dull fiance. After she moves in with her two best friends, she plunges headfirst into the singles scene, hoping for the possibilities of new love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PULMontgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Summary: Controlled by a domineering mother and an over-opinionated family, Valency Stirling awakens on her twenty-ninth birthday resigned to dull existence. Her only escape is the Blue Castle of her imagination. But when an unexpected letter changes everything, Valency breaks the bonds of fear and finds purpose in a whole new life that turns the Blue Castle of her dreams into a reality.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MONSummary: Freewheeling to San Francisco, Mary Ann Singleton quickly realizes just how far from Cleveland she really is. Moving into a funky house at Twenty-eight Barbary Lane where her landlord welcomes her with a joint, Mary Ann befriends the other residents and finds a good-natured home amid the drugs, drama, and debauchery. Based on Armistead Maupin's beloved novel, the Peabody Award-winning PBS...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TALGreen, Jane
Summary: "Eight years ago, Emma Montague left behind the strict confines--and rather dull boyfriend--of her upper-crust English life and moved to New York City, where she immediately found success in finance. But her soulless, cutthroat, all-consuming job was another life she didn't want. Answering an ad on Craigslist, Emma finds a tiny beach cottage in the small town of Westport, Connecticut. It needs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Green 2016Fagan, Chelsea
Summary: "Lea Mortimer has everything under control. As a highly sought-after consultant specializing in transforming dilapidated French country estates into boutique hotels, she relishes her freedom as a single, childfree woman. And her life is full, occupied as much by her impeccable historic renovations as by the aristocratic--and often exhausting--French families she works for. But after the heated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orsay Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAGNyhan, Loretta
Summary: Paige Moresco found her true love in eighth grade and lost him two years ago. Since Jesse's death, she's been sleepwalking through life, barely holding on for the sake of her teenage son, Trey. As Paige stares at her neglected lawn, she knows she's hit rock bottom. So she does something entirely unexpected: she begins to dig. As the hole gets bigger, Paige decides to turn her entire yard into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Nyhan 2018Crigger, C. K.
Summary: "Shay Billings was pleasantly surprised at discovering a new bridge over the river, as it cut several miles from his trip into town. After being ambushed and left for dead, he has even more cause to be grateful when the bridge-builder saves his life. Shay's savior turns out to be a mysterious young woman with extraordinary skills. More importantly, she's a strong ally when he and a few other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CRIHigashimura, Akiko
Summary: "While just starting to rekindle an old flame with Hayasaka-san, Rinko is mortified to have their first date crashed by Key. Will what he has to say condemn Rinko to another angry, drunken night with her friends...or will it strengthen her resolve to make this new relationship work? There's only one thing Rinko is sure of--she's running out of time."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOKHigashimura, Akiko
Summary: "Rinko has done everything right. She hustled her way through her 20s to make it as a screenwriter, renting her own office in a trendy Tokyo neighborhood. Everything should have gone according to plan. So at 33, she can't help but lament the fact that her career's plateaued, she's still painfully single, and she spends most of her nights drinking with her two best friends in their favorite pub....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOKGreen, Jane
Summary: Eight years ago, Emma Montague left behind the strict confines, and rather dull boyfriend, of her upper-crust English life and moved to New York City, where she immediately found success in finance. But her soulless, cutthroat, all-consuming job was another life she didn't want. Answering an ad on Craigslist, Emma finds a tiny beach cottage in the small town of Westport, Connecticut. It needs...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREThayer, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC THAHartman, Saidiya V.
Summary: "A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009