Deveraux, Jude
Summary: Gathering in Summer Hill, Virginia, three women from different generations reflect on their experiences with love and support one another through marital woes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DEVERAUXAusten, Jane
Summary: "Emma, perhaps the most technically accomplished of all of Austen's novels, is also, after Pride and Prejudice, her most popular one. Its numerous film and television adaptations testify to the world's enduring affection for the headstrong, often misguided Emma Woodhouse and her many romantic schemes. Like the previous volumes in Harvard's celebrated annotated Austen series, Emma: An Annotated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION AUSTENAndrews, Mary Kay
Summary: "When ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick summons attorney Brooke Trappnell to her 20,000 acre barrier island home, Brooke is puzzled. Everybody in the South has heard about the eccentric millionaire mistress of Talisa, but Brooke has never actually met her. Josephine's cryptic note says she wants to discuss an important legal matter, but why enlist Brooke and not the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ANDREWSMacomber, 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: LARGE PRINT FICTION MACOMBERWalker, Boo.
Summary: Maine, 1969. After losing her parents in a car accident, aspiring artist Annalisa Mancuso lives with her grandmother and their large Italian family in the stifling factory town of Payton Mills. Inspired by her mother, whose own artistic dreams disappeared in a damaged marriage, Annalisa is dedicated only to painting. Closed off to love, and driven as much by her innate talent as she is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WALKERMacomber, 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: FICTION MACOMBERMoriarty, Nicola
Summary: "Four friends ... Joni, Deb, Eden, and Trina have been best friends since high school, sharing a bond that has seen them through their teenage years and into adulthood. But now, time and circumstance is starting to pull them apart as careers, husbands, and babies get in the way. As their yearly vacation becomes less of a priority--at least for three of the women--how can Joni find a way to draw...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MORIARTYAdams, Ellery
Summary: Miracle Springs, North Carolina, is a place of healing. Strangers flock here hoping the natural hot springs, five-star cuisine, and renowned spa can cure their ills. If none of that works, they often find their way to Miracle Books, where, over a fresh-baked "comfort" scone from the Gingerbread House bakery, they exchange their stories with owner Nora Pennington in return for a carefully chosen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LARGE PRINT MYSTERY ADAMSRichards, Emilie
Summary: "When her husband was sent to prison, pampered Tracy Deloche was left with twenty-five acres of Florida Gulf Coast sand, five tumbledown beach houses and no idea how to start over. An exile in a strange country, Janya Kapur left her wealthy, close-knit Indian family for an arranged marriage to a man she barely knows. Plainspoken Wanda Gray is tired of watching her marriage fail, so she takes a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION RICHARDSMacomber, Debbie
Summary: The conclusion of the beloved Rose Harbor series, set in the picturesque town of Cedar Cove and featuring Jo Marie Rose and handyman Mark Taylor, as a new set of guests check into the Rose Harbor Inn and find happily-ever-after.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in CD, Call number: AUDIO FICTION MACOMBER 5Thayer, Nancy
Summary: A woman from Nantucket returns home to find that reunions aren't always so simple in this heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Nantucket Wedding and Secrets in Summer. Growing up, Lara always dreamed of leaving Nantucket to become a writer. Now that she's a bestselling novelist living in New York City, she realizes that success isn't what she thought it would be....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION THAYERTessaro, Kathleen
Summary: "In Depression-era Boston, a city divided by privilege and poverty, two unlikely friends are bound by a dangerous secret in this mesmerizing work of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfume Collector. Maeve Fanning is a first generation Irish immigrant, born and raised among the poor, industrious Italian families of Boston's North End by her widowed mother....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Lutz, Lisa
Summary: She's left her dead husband -- and within forty-eight hours Tanya Dubois is a fugitive. It's almost impossible to live off the grid today, but Tanya-once-Amelia-now-Debra and Blue, a bartender, have the courage, the ingenuity, and the desperation, to try. Hopscotching from city to city, Debra especially is chased by a very dark secret ... can she outrun her past?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY LUTZChiaverini, Jennifer.
Contents: The quilter's apprentice (1999) -- Round robin (2000) -- The cross-country quilters (2001).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Guild 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CHIAVERINIPatterson, James
Summary: When patients mysteriously take a turn for the worse at San Francisco Medical Center, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club must face an unspeakable menace, possibly the most terrifying situation they have encountered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PATTERSONPatterson, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PATTERSONWiggs, Susan.
Summary: Set to inherit half of Bella Vista, a one hundred-acre apple orchard in a town called Archangel, along with a half-sister she's never heard of, Tess Delaney, who makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners, discovers a world filled with the simple pleasures of food and family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Mira 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WIGGSSee, Lisa
Summary: "According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness--is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations--looking, listening, touching, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SEEAbbott, Megan
Summary: Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school echemistry class. But Diane's academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely friendship... until Diane shared a secret that changed everything between them. More than a decade later, Kit thinks she's put Diane behind her forever, and she's begun to fulfill...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ABBOTTWeiner, Jennifer
Summary: "Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial, and she has lots of acquaintances, but no real friends. Still, Daisy knows she's got it good. So why is she up all night? While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LARGE PRINT FICTION WEINERSullivan, J. Courtney
Summary: Ex-New Yorker Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new mother, is struggling to adjust to life in a small town. Alone in the house with her infant son all day, she feels uneasy, adrift. She neglects her work, losing untold hours to her Brooklyn moms' Facebook group, her "influencer" sister's Instagram feed, and text messages with the best friend she never sees anymore. She hires Sam, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SULLIVANPatterson, James
Summary: A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat burglar and in just seconds there is a nearly empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria. Before the Women's Murder Club can piece together either...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PATTERSONAndrews, Mary Kay
Summary: Ellis questions everything she believed after losing an all-consuming job, while Julia struggles with insecurities that threaten a loving relationship and Dorie confronts a maelstrom of problems after a shocking betrayal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ANDREWSBartz, Andrea
Summary: "An annual backpacking trip has deadly consequences in a chilling new novel from the bestselling author of The Lost Night and The Herd. Emily is having the time of her life--she's in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of their trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021