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Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
As Caroline, Clea, and Skye Renwick gathered at Firefly Hill, their childhood home, Caroline hoped the events of their past would be behind them until Joe Conner returned with the truth to his father's death and the key to either healing or destruction.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A fierce debut novel about mothers and daughters, haves and have-nots, and the stark realities behind the American Dream. A waitress at the Betsy Ross Diner, Elsie hopes her nickel-and-dime tips will add up to a new life. Then she meets Bashkim, who is at once both worldly and naive, a married man who left Albania to chase his dreams--and wound up working as a line cook in Waterbury, Connecticut. Back when the brass mills were still open, this bustling...
Author
Language
English
Description
As a way of making up to them for time lost, Olivia spends months every year planning a lavish holiday that everyone in her family will enjoy. This summer she has arranged a dream trip in the Mediterranean on a luxurious yacht, which she hopes will be the most memorable vacation of all. Her lavish gesture every year expresses her love for them, and regret at all the important times she missed during her children?s younger years. Her younger daughter,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in a West Country farming village, The House of Broken Bricks lays bare the complexities of day-to-day life for a mixed-race family. Jess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in a city where she easily blends in into a creaking house on a floodplain where predatory birds hover over fields, eels coil in the river mud, buses run twice a day, neighbors barter honey for cider and no one looks like...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Iris Lockhart is shocked when she receives a phone call informing her that her great-aunt Esme, whom Iris never knew about, is being released from the mental hospital where she has spent the last sixty-one years, and wonders what long-buried family secrets the woman will bring with her when Iris takes her in.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping, unforgettable novel fromThe New York Timesbest-selling author ofMaine, about the hope, sacrifice, and love between two sisters and the secret that drives them apart. Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by their...
8) Astonish me
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The story of Joan, a ballerina whose life has been shaped by her relationship with the world-famous dancer Arslan Ruskov, whom she helps defect from the Soviet Union to the U.S. While Arslan's career takes off in New York, Joan's slowly declines, ending when she becomes pregnant and decides to marry her longtime admirer, a PhD student named Jacob. As the years pass, Joan settles into her new life in California, teaching dance and watching her son,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Mary Bliss McGowan is stunned when her husband Palmer leaves her and takes the family fortune with him, but her troubles really begin when she embarks on a plan to have Palmer declared dead in order to collect the much-needed insurance money.
10) October song
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Presents three intertwining stories that provide updates on the lives of characters who appear in previous novels of Amish life by Beverly Lewis, visiting newlyweds Katie and Dan, expectant parents Rachel and Philip, courting couple Lydia and Levi, and wife and mother Sarah.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"An evocative novel in the vein of Kate Morton and Daphne Du Maurier, in which the thrill of first love clashes with the bonds of sisterhood, and all will be tested by the dark secret at the heart of Applecote Manor. Sisters. Survivors. When fifteen-year-old Margot and her three sisters arrive at Applecote Manor in June 1959, they expect a quiet English country summer. Instead, they find their aunt and uncle still reeling from the disappearance of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Few things are as lasting as the bond between sisters. In her poignant debut, Elizabeth Bass explores the lengths one cobbled-together family will go to for each other, and the power of a connection that never fades. . .Sassy Spinster Farm is a place to find solace. At least, that's what it's become since Rue Anderson and her sister Laura transformed their childhood Texas homestead into a successful tourist destination. It's where guests flock to...
14) The awkward age
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him so much. Uniting two households is never easy, but when Gwen turns for comfort to James's seventeen-year-old son, Nathan, the consequences will test her mother's loyalty and threaten all their fragile new happiness.
15) The other woman
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
As her upcoming marriage to Dan approaches, Ellie finds herself coping with the intrusive attentions of Dan's mother, Linda, as her wedding plans are disrupted by Linda's interference and by her overpowering presence in Dan's life.
16) Between sisters
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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Description
Meghann Dontess is a woman haunted by heartbreak. Twenty-seven years ago she was forced to make a terrible choice, one that cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire. Now, Meghann is a hotshot divorce attorney who doesn't believe in intimacy, until she meets the one man who can change her mind. Claire Cavenaugh has fallen in love for the first time in her life. As her wedding day approaches, she prepares to face her harsh, judgmental...
17) Family pictures
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living on opposite coasts and preparing to see their children depart for school, two women, the wives of frequently traveling husbands, are shattered by a devastating secret that brings them together and tests their beliefs about forgiveness.
19) Song of Solomon
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After meeting his mysterious aunt Pilate, whom his father warns is a bad influence, a young African-American man named Macon "Milkman" Dead III leaves his rich, cold home in 1950s Michigan in search of his roots.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence.
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