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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
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Description
The story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected. When illness prevents Shoko from traveling to Japan, she asks Sue to go in her place. The trip reveals family secrets that change their lives in dramatic and unforeseen ways.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Called a 'magnificently crafted story ... brimming with wisdom' by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, it is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into...
43) Fragile: a novel
Author
Series
Hollows novels (Lisa Unger) volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Edition
First Vintage Crime/Black Lizard mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
470, 16 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her rebellious teenage son's girlfriend goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Maggie becomes increasingly fearful about unsettling ties between the investigation and an unsolved missing-person case from twenty years earlier that involved her police officer husband.
44) Run
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Language
English
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Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard Doyle cares about is his ability to keep his children-all his children-safe....
45) Fates and furies
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes,...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has taken care of her psychotic mother, Camille, for years, but when tragedy strikes, CeeCee is rescued by her great-aunt, Tootie Caldwell, who moves CeeCee to Savannah and introduces her to an exotic, unknown world filled with eccentric women who change CeeCee's life.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Recently widowed Helen Ames and her twenty-seven-year-old daughter Tessa discover that money has disappeared in several big withdrawals from the Ames' retirement savings. What Helen's husband did with all their money turns out to be provocative, revelatory--and leads Helen and her daughter to embark on new adventures, and change.
48) Vanishing acts
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved, widowed father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall...until a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret about herself that changes the world as she knows it -- and threatens to...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kwan moves from China to live with her family in San Francisco and develops a relationship with her half sister Olivia. She confides in Olivia about the ghosts she hears telling her about love. Years later Kwan and her ghosts advise Olivia about her marriage.
Author
Series
Quinn Colson novels volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
358 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A year after becoming sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, Quinn Colson is faced with a pardoned killer’s return to Jericho. Jamey Dixon now preaches redemption and forgiveness, but the family of the woman he was convicted of killing isn’t buying it. They warn Quinn that his sister’s relationship with Dixon could be fatal. Others don’t think the new preacher is a changed man, either—a couple of dangerous convicts who confided in Dixon...
Author
Series
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
2006,1848
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 459 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Helen Graham and her young son move into Wildefell Hall, her neighbor Gilbert Markham finds himself drawn to the woman, but when gossip about Helen's reclusive behavior circles the village, Gilbert begins to wonder if his trust in her is misplaced.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Description
"At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti--to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence. In her stunning literary...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. She discovers that her mother tastes of despair, as she uncovers family secrets.
54) Sin killer
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Beautiful, determined Tasmin Berrybender, daughter of a wealthy, aristocratic Englishman who has brought his family to America in 1830 on an adventure of exploration in the just-opening West, meets and falls in love with frontiersman Jim Snow, an Indian-fighter and part-time preacher known as "the Sin Killer."
Author
Language
English
Description
"The new novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies, and What Alice Forgot, about how sometimes we don't appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it's too late. "What a wonderful writer--smart, wise, funny." --Anne Lamott Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It's just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong? In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
After seven-year-old Lavinia is orphaned on the journey from Ireland to the United States, she begins work in the kitchen house of a tobacco plantation and bonds with the slaves who become her adopted family, but when Lavinia is accepted into the big house, her loyalties are challenged.
57) Come home
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jill Farrow is a typical suburban mom who has finally gotten her and her daughter's lives back on track after a divorce. She is about to remarry, her job as a pediatrician fulfills her--though it is stressful--and her daughter, Megan, is a happily over-scheduled thirteen-year-old juggling homework and the swim team. But Jill's life is turned upside down when her ex-stepdaughter, Abby, shows up on her doorstep late one night and delivers shocking news:...
58) The Gathering
Author
Publisher
Black Cat ;Distributed by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
260 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The death of Liam Hegarty, found drowned in the sea at Brighton, England, sparks a crisis in the life of his middle sister Veronica, who goes to retrieve the body and bring Liam home to Dublin where the Hegarty clan is gathering to mourn and remember.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mothers and daughters, sisters and cousins--they lived for summers at the lake house until a tragic accident changed everything. The Summer That Made Us is an unforgettable story about a family learning to accept the past, to forgive and to love each other again. That was then ... For the Hempsteads, two sisters who married two brothers and had three daughters each, summers were idyllic. The women would escape the city the moment school was out to...
60) The love season
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Renata Knox contacts her godmother, Marguerite Beale, whom she hasn't seen in more than ten years, in the hopes of learning the truth about her mother's life and death, but the meeting spirals out of control and changes both women's lives forever.
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