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-- Ten twenty-two Evergreen Placec2010., Adult, MIRA Call No: ROM MAC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Cedar Cove booksSummary Note: Mary Jo Wyse is falling in love with her next door neighbor Mack McAfee but is wary of their relationship and worried that if her baby's father, David Rhodes, learns of such a relationship, he might sue for custody of their daughter, Noelle. Meanwhile, Mary Jo and Mack are trying to learn what happened to the soldier who wrote the World War II letters she recently discovered.
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[2014]., Adults, New American Library Accent Call No: FIC SCO Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Jean Vison never expected to run a book club, but then her life took an unexpected turn. Now, with Jean's husband gone, what began as an off-the-cuff idea has grown into a group of six women who meet the second Tuesday of every month for a potluck supper, for wine and laughter--and for books. There's Loretta, who deals with the lack of intimacy in her marriage by diving into erotic novels. Dorothy, whose ruffian sons are a never-ending source of stress. May entertains the group with her outrageous dating stories, while Mitzi finds something political to rant about in every book--including Loretta's trashy romances. Even Janet, with her mousy shyness and constant blush, has helped Jean rediscover the joy in life. So when Jean's family starts unraveling again--her daughter forced into rehab and her troubled teen granddaughter, Bailey, coming to live with her in the interim--she turns to the book club for comfort and support. And together, they all, even Bailey, discover that family is what you make of it, especially the family you choose..."--
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c1993., 5.1; Ages 3-6, Pleasant Co. Call No: YS POR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The American girls collectionSummary Note: Addy and her mother forgo their Christmas plans to help the newly freed slaves arriving in Philadelphia during the Civil War.
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-- Alice by accidentc2000., 5.2; Ages 3-6, HarperCollins Call No: Y BAN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Nine-year-old Alice must write about herself for an assignment in her London school, and in doing so, she sorts out her feelings about her somewhat prickly single mother, the father she has never met, her flamboyant paternal grandmother, and the rest of her sometimes confusing life.
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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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c2003., Ages 3-6, Putnam's Call No: G DAN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Fourth-grader Amber Brown must make some important decisions when her mother and Max move their wedding date up and prepare to buy a house together, while her father makes some bad choices of his own.
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[2017]., Adults, Random House Call No: FIC STR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother's happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton (the heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton, the author's celebrated New York Times bestseller) returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence. Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything Is Possible again underscores Elizabeth Strout's place as one of America's most respected and cherished authors"--Amazon.com.
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2018., Adults, Berkley Call No: FIC MEI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the darkest hours rises life in all its glory...From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and A Bridge Across the Ocean comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love. In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Great War, there were opportunities for a fresh start on its cobblestone streets. Into this bustling town, came Pauline Bright and her husband, filled with hope that they could now give their three daughters--Evelyn, Maggie, and Willa--a chance at a better life. Their dreams are short-lived. Just months after they arrive, the Spanish Flu reaches the shores of America. As the pandemic claims more than twelve thousand victims in their adopted city, they find their lives left with a world that looks nothing like the one they knew. But even as they lose loved ones, they take in a baby orphaned by the disease who becomes their single source of hope. Amidst the tragedy and challenges that surround them, they learn what they cannot live without--and what they are willing to do about it. Under the Canopy of Heaven is the compelling story of a mother and her daughters who find themselves in a harsh world not of their making, which will either crush their resolve to survive or purify it"--
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By Battle, Lois1996., Adult, Viking Call No: FIC BAT Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Josie, a military widow in her seventies, decides to invite her daughters home to South Carolina for the holidays, but the three grown women, already estranged, immediately fall to quarreling again and it takes another year before Josie is able to establish a relationship of love and understanding with her girls.
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-- Between the lines2013., Young Adult, Simon Pulse/Emily Bestler Books/Atria Call No: YA PIC Edition: First Simon Pulse/E Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Between the Lines Volume: #1Summary Note: Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy-tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.
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c1993., Ages 4-8, HarperCollins Call No: E RAN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A little girl fills the pocketbook she carries with mementos of the places she and her mother visit when they go to town.
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-- Juana & Lucas.2019., Age 7-10, Candlewick Press Call No: G MED Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Juana & Lucas Volume: #2Summary Note: "Juana's life is just about perfect. She lives in the beautiful city of Bogotá with her two most favorite people in the world: her mami and her dog, Lucas. Lately, though, things have become a little less perfect. Mami has a new hairdo and a new amigo named Luis with whom she has been spending a LOT of time. He is kind and teaches Juana about things like photography and jazz music, but sometimes Juana can't help wishing things would go back to the way they were before. When Mami announces that she and Luis are getting married and that they will all be moving to a new casa, Juana is quite distraught. Lucky for her, though, some things will never change -- like how much Mami loves her."--Amazon.com.
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[2020], Adults, 170000., Harlequin Audio Call No: AUD ROB Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A celebrated singer in WWII occupied France joins the Resistance to save her family from being killed in a Nazi prison. Familial love lasts forever, and Genevieve is willing to risk everything for it.
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2015], Adults, St. Martin's Press Call No: FIC DEL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work- and what to do when they break. Caroline MacAfee is a skilled carpenter, her daughter Jamie, a talented architect. Together they are the face of Gut It!, a home renovation series on local public television. Caroline takes pride in her work, and in the way she connects with the show's audience. But when she is told the network wants her daughter to replace her as host-the day after Caoline's fifty-sixth birthday- she is devastated. The fallout couldn't come at a worse time. For Jamie, life changes overnight when, soon after learning of the host shift, her father and his new wife die in a car accident that orphans their two-year-old son. Accustomed to organization and planning, she is now grappling with a toddler who misses his parents, a fiance who doesn't want the child, a staggering new attraction, and a work challenge that, if botched, could undermine the future of both MacAfee Homes and Gut It! For Caroline, hosting Gut It! is part of her identity. Facing its loss, she feels betrayed by her daughter and old in the eyes of the world. Her ex-husband's death thrusts her into the role of caregiver to his aging father. And then there's Dean, an long-time friend, whose efforts to seduce her awaken desires that have been dormant for so long that she feels foreign to herself. Who am I? Both women ask, as the blueprints they've built their lives around suddenly need revising. While loyalties shift, decisions hover, and new relationships tempt, their challenge comes not only in remaking themselves, but in rebuilding their relationship with each other" -- Provided by publisher.
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By Tan, Amyc2001., Adult, G.P. Putnam's Call No: FIC TAN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads Luling's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China--where LuLing's mute, disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient hominid Peking Man.
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2021., Adults, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC HOF Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Practical Magic Volume: #2Summary Note: "The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger--the curse is already at work"--
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[1993], c1992., Ages 3-6, Pocket Call No: Y WAL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Amanda's refined life in early twentieth-century San Francisco is disrupted when she grudgingly accompanies her mother to the Oklahoma Territory on a crusade to save the buffalo.
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-- Cannot live without you.By Hanlon, Abby2023., Ages 6-8 years, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: G HAN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Dory Fantasmagory Volume: 6.Summary Note: Dory's separation anxiety from her mother turns into a ghostly, goofy escapade.
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c2012., Ages 3-6, American Girl Call No: YS AME Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Caroline's father heads off to battle in the War of 1812, she and her mother must guard her father's shipyard from the enemy.