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2023., Adult, Henry Holt and Company Call No: FIC LIT Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink--who finally pushes back. Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal. and stalled-the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she's really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. Grace sets off across London, armed with a £200 cake, to win back her estranged teenage daughter on her sixteenth birthday. Because today is the day she'll remind her daughter that no matter how far we fall, we can always get back up again. Because Grace Adams used to be amazing. Her husband thought so. Her daughter thought so. Even Grace thought so. But everyone seems to have forgotten. Grace is about to remind them...and, most important, remind herself"--
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2024., Ages 8-12, Candlewick Press Call No: G DIC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "It’s the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium: Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley and, to Ferris’s mother’s chagrin, is holed up in the Wilkey basement to paint a history of the world. And Charisse, Ferris’s grandmother, has started seeing a ghost at the threshold of her room, which seems like an alarming omen given that she is also feeling unwell. But the ghost is not there to usher Charisse to the Great Beyond. Rather, she has other plans—wild, impractical, illuminating plans. How can Ferris satisfy a specter with Pinky terrorizing the town, Uncle Ted sending Ferris to spy on her aunt, and her father battling an invasion of raccoons?" --publisher's website.
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2005., Adult, Pocket Books Call No: FIC MIC Edition: Pocket Books hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Despite owning her own successful business, Rosie has lived for the approval of her husband, Kent. After winning the lottery she decides that it is time to make some changes.
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2001., Adult, Bantam Books Call No: FIC BRO Edition: Bantam hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Television producer Brin Cassidy's estranged husband, Jon Riley, interrupts a party she has thrown for a network executive who could provide her big break in the business, demands to know why Brin left him, and refuses to leave until she reveals her secret.