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[2019]., Adults, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: FIC JON Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Oprah's Book Club.Summary Note: Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy's time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy's conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together.
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2013., Adult, Riverhead Books Call No: FIC HOS Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In 1952 Afghanistan, Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters"--Provided by OCLC.
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2007., Wheeler Pub. Call No: LP VAN Edition: Large print ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Wheeler Publishing large print hardcover
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2018., Adults, HQN Call No: FIC MOR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the snowy Highlands of Scotland, Suzanne McBride is dreaming of the perfect cozy Christmas. Her three adopted daughters are coming home for the holidays and she can't wait to see them. But tensions are running high ... Workaholic Hannah knows she can't avoid spending the holidays with her family two years in a row. But it's not the weight of their expectations that's panicking her--it's the life-changing secret she's hiding. Stay-at-home mom Beth is having a personal crisis. All she wants for Christmas is time to decide if she's ready to return to work--seeing everyone was supposed to help her stress levels, not increase them! Posy isn't sure she's living her best life, but with her parents depending on her, making a change seems risky. But not as risky as falling for gorgeous new neighbor Luke ... As Suzanne's dreams of the perfect McBride Christmas unravel, she must rely on the magic of the season to bring her daughters together. But will this new togetherness teach the sisters that their close-knit bond is strong enough to withstand anything--including a family Christmas?"--
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[2019], Adults, Random House Call No: FIC BER Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Mason novels Volume: #3.Summary Note: When a group of friends in Mason, Missouri decide to start a monthly supper club, they get more than they bargained for. Instead of sharing recipes, they begin sharing secrets.
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c2011., Adult, HQN Call No: ROM MIL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Attorney Steven Creed, having been appointed guardianship over an orphaned five-year-old boy and moved from the city to a ranch in Stone Creek, Arizona, meets prosecutor Melissa O'Ballivan while representing a local teen and begins to see his life changing in many ways.
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By Holmes, Ginac2011., Adult, Tyndale House Publishers Call No: FIC HOL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Kyra suffers from a loss of memory after a car accident and does not remember being seperated from Eric, her husband who cheated on her.
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-- Earth is the right place for love.[2023]., Adults, Random House Call No: FIC BER Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "This beautiful novel tells the love story of young Arthur Moses and Nola, and how a young man grew up to become the wise old man known as Arthur Trulove. Set in the 1950s in the warm community of Mason, Missouri, Arthur is a shy, unathletic teenage boy, in love with the most beautiful girl in his class. He is thrilled when they become friends, but he wants more than friendship. Alas, he learns that Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses--Arthur's older brother, Frank. Meanwhile, Frank is busy pursuing his own passion, and avoiding their father, a war veteran with a drinking problem and a penchant for starting fights. When a sudden tragedy rocks Arthur's world, Arthur is force to grow up, and to learn how to create a life that involves the kinds of relationships that are the most important to him"--
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c2002., Adult, Kensington Books Call No: FIC DAI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jessy Calder finally has everything she's ever longed for, the strong bonds of family, a thriving ranch, and the promise of a child, but when her husband's ex-wife returns, her entire world comes crashing down around her.
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2018., Adults, Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: FIC MAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A debut novel that pulses with humor and empathy and explores the heart's capacity for forgiveness ... Zadie Anson and Emma Colley have been best friends since their early twenties, when they first began navigating serious romantic relationships amid the intensity of medical school. Now they're happily married wives and mothers with successful careers--Zadie as a pediatric cardiologist and Emma as a trauma surgeon. Their lives in Charlotte, North Carolina are chaotic but fulfilling, until the return of a former colleague unearths a secret one of them has been harboring for years. As chief resident, Nick Xenokostas was the center of Zadie's life--both professionally and personally--during a tragic chain of events during her third year of medical school that she has long since put behind her. Nick's unexpected reappearance during a time of new professional crisis shocks both women into a deeper look at the difficult choices they made at the beginning of their careers. As it becomes evident that Emma must have known more than she revealed about circumstances that nearly derailed both their lives, Zadie begins to question everything she thought she knew about her closest friend"--
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c1986., Reader's Digest Association Call No: YA ELI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: World's best reading
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2020., Adults, 110000., Harlequin Audio Call No: AUD MAL Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Blackberry Island Series. Volume: #4Summary Note: Sophie Lane returns to Blackberry Island, determined to rebuild, until small-town life reveals a big problem: she can't grow unless she learns to let go. As much as she adores her husband and sons, Kristine wants something for herself, but she never imagined she might have to choose between her marriage and her dreams. Like the mainland on the horizon, Heather's goals seem beyond her grasp. Can she break free, or will she be trapped in this tiny life forever?
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c2010., Adult, Harlequin Call No: MYS GRA Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Blackpool mysterySummary Note: Molly and Michael are drawn to the English seaside town of Blackpool, despite its mysterious past, but when a woman is murdered, the couple discovers a link to a seventy-year-old train wreck, a missing child, a cache of valuable paintings smuggled out of London during World War II, and more secrets that someone would kill to keep buried.
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By Alam, Rumaan[2018]., Adults, Ecco Call No: FIC ALA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "That Kind of Mother dives deep into big questions about parenthood, adoption, and race: Is mothering something learned, or that you're born to? How far can good intentions stretch? And most of all, can love can really overcome the boundaries of race andclass? With his unerring eye for nuance and unsparing sense of irony, Rumaan Alam's second novel is both heartfelt and thought-provoking."--Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere...From the celebrated author of Rich and Pretty, a novel about the families we fight to build and those we fight to keep...Like many first-time mothers, Rebecca Stone finds herself both deeply in love with her newborn son and deeply overwhelmed. Struggling to juggle the demands of motherhood with her own aspirations and feeling utterly alone in the process, she reaches out to the only person at the hospital who offers her any real help--Priscilla Johnson--and begs her to come home with them as her son's nanny. Priscilla's presence quickly does as much to shake up Rebecca'sperception of the world as it does to stabilize her life. Rebecca is white, and Priscilla is black, and through their relationship, Rebecca finds herself confronting, for the first time, the blind spots of her own privilege. She feels profoundly connected to the woman who essentially taught her what it means to be a mother. When Priscilla dies unexpectedly in childbirth, Rebecca steps forward to adopt the baby. But she is unprepared for what it means to be a white mother with a black son. As she soon learns, navigating motherhood for her is a matter of learning how to raise two children whom she loves with equal ferocity, but whom the world is determined to treat differently. Written with the warmth and psychological acuity that defined his debut, RumaanAlam has crafted a remarkable novel about the lives we choose, and the lives that are chosen for us"--
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2001., Adult, St. Martin's Press Call No: FIC PRA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Twin brothers from Depression-era Oklahoma fall in love with the same girl, and one of them marries her, creating an unbridgeable rift between them--a rift that is widened further yet by their experiences as prisoners of war in the Pacific.
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By Lee, Harper[1982], c1960., Young Adult, Warner Call No: YA LEE Edition: Warner Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Eight-year-old "Scout" Finch tells of life in a small Alabama town where her father is a lawyer.
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2006., Adults, 120000., HarperCollins Publishers/Caedmon Call No: AUD LEE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer Atticus, has just started school; but her carefree days come to an end when a black man in town is accused of raping a white woman, and her father is the only man willing to defend him.
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2019., Adults, Crooked Lane Books Call No: FIC HOG Edition: First North American edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "They say friends make life worth living... Once a spirited, independent woman with a rebellious streak, Masha's life was forever changed by a tragic event twelve years ago. Unable to let go of her grief, she finds comfort in her faithful canine companion Haizum, and peace in the quiet lanes of her town's swimming pool. Almost without her realizing it, her life has shuddered to a halt. It's only when Masha begins an unlikely friendship with the mysterious Sally Red Shoes, a bag lady with a prodigious voice and a penchant for saying just what she means, that a new world of possibilities opens up: new friendships, new opportunities, and even a chance for new love. For the first time in years, Masha has the chance to start living again. But just as Masha dares to imagine the future, her past comes roaring back... Like her beloved debut, The Keeper of Lost Things, Ruth Hogan's second novel introduces a cast of wonderful characters, both ordinary and charmingly eccentric, who lead us through a moving exploration of the simple human connections that unite us all."--provided by Amazon.com.
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[2004]., Adult, Signet Classic Call No: YA BRO Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Forced by a storm to spend the night at the home of the somber Heathcliff, Mr. Lockwood uncovers a tale of terror and hatred on the Yorkshire moors.