Center, Katherine
Summary: "A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CENBrown, 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
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brown 2016Macomber, Debbie
Summary: Joan Sample is not living the life she thought she would. Now a widow and an empty nester, Joan is content being something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to get back out into the world. With her encouragement, Joan makes big strides, taking care of her overgrown lawn, making new friends through a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MACOwens, 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 OWESteel, Danielle.
Summary: "Power Play takes readers into the boardrooms and playgrounds of top tier corporate America, exploring the costs of great power through the intersecting stories of three indelible women: a high-powered CEO, a long-time 'corporate wife,' and an aspiring artist struggling to raise a family with an absentee father. The lives of three women are linked in ways that none could have imagined. Fiona...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEChevalier, Tracy
Summary: 1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chevalier 2019Macomber, Debbie
Summary: Joan Sample is not living the life she expected. Now a widow and an empty-nester, she has become by her own admission something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to reengage with the world. With her support, Joan gathers the courage to take some long-awaited steps: hiring someone to tame her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MACChevalier, Tracy
Summary: 1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHEEssbaum, Jill Alexander.
Summary: "Anna Benz, an American woman in her thirties, lives in comfort and affluence with her Swiss banker husband and their three young children in a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Despite the tranquility and order of her domestic existence, Anna is fallingapart inside. Isolated in a foreign country and a faltering marriage, Anna begins three adventures to restart her life: Jungian analysis,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESSConfino, Sara Goodman
Summary: When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi's son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to her great-aunt Ada for the summer. If anyone can save their daughter’s reputation, it's Philadelphia’s strict premier matchmaker. Either that or Marilyn can kiss college goodbye. To Marilyn's surprise, Ada's not the humorless septuagenarian her mother described. Not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CONCasale, Jana
Summary: A college student's procrastination over reading a Noam Chomsky work becomes a metaphor throughout subsequent decades of milestones that reflect the disparity between the carefully planned life she wants and the person she is really meant to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAS1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Picoult, Jodi
Summary: "Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She's not engaged just yet, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PICHurley, Blair
Summary: "Nicole has become sexually and emotionally entangled with her mentor. To break free, she must retrace her entire life's journey--from her strict Irish Catholic upbringing to her drug-fueled year as a teenage runaway. Even as she reinvents herself in New York City, her master's intoxicating voice pursues her, whispering dangerously in her ear. Somehow, he knows everything. A hypnotic and daring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HURRedfearn, Suzanne
Summary: "Needing to escape her abusive marriage, Hadley flees with her two kids, knowing it might be her only chance. A woman who can't even kill a spider, Hadley soon finds herself pushed to the limits as she fights to protect her family. Grace, new mother of baby Miles, desperately wants to put her rough past behind her for good, but she finds it impossible when her path crosses with Hadley's, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC REDMaynard, Frances
Summary: "Elvira Carr believes in crisp schedules, clear guidelines, and taking people at face value. She lives at home with her overbearing mother, who has deemed her unfit to interact with the rest of society. But when her mother has a stroke, Ellie is suddenly forced to look after herself. She quickly comes up with an ingenious way of coping with the world: the seven social rules spreadsheet....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYSteel, Danielle.
Summary: A chubby little girl with blond hair, blue eyes, and ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious Los Angeles. Her parents are disappointed by their daughter's looks. Later in life, the one thing Victoria knows is that she has to get as far away from home as possible and, after college in Chicago (which her parents disapprove of), she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEWeiner, Jennifer.
Summary: Struggling with the demands of her job, distant husband, spoiled daughter and Alzheimer's patient father, Allison becomes addicted to painkillers and lands in rehab, where amid fellow inpatients she confronts incompatible recovery techniques, barely trained counselors and her own denial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WEIMacomber, Debbie
Summary: "Joan Sample is not living the life she expected. Now a widow and an empty-nester, she has become by her own admission something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to reengage with the world. With her support, Joan gathers the courage to take some long-awaited steps: hiring someone to tame her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACLevine, Sara.
Summary: "When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper; gift wrapper; laziest ever part-time clerk at the Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. ... Convinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its core values: boldness, resolution,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVSteel, Danielle.
Summary: In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEGerard, Sarah
Summary: "One of today's most provocative literary writers--the author of the critically-acclaimed Sunshine State and the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Binary Star--captures the confused state of modern romance and the egos that inflate it in a dark comedy about a woman's search for acceptance, identity, and financial security in the rise of Trump. Nina is a struggling writer, a college...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GERJohnson, Sadeqa
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising her daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed onto her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrived in Washington, DC with ambition and secrets. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHBurdette, Lucy
Summary: Thirty-two-year-old 'happiness guru' Dr Cooper Hunziker has it all - a dream job as assistant psychology professor at Yale University, a soon-to-be published self-help book, The Happiness Connection, and the perfect man. But there's a problem. Cooper isn't happy. Of course, it doesn't help that she's facing cut-throat competition for her tenure at Yale, an accusation of plagiarism that could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BURSteel, Danielle
Summary: Nicole Coco Martin is destined to have it all. But when her beloved parents are killed in a terrorist attack, Coco must find a way to make her way in the world without the family she loved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020