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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
While deciding if she should quit working for her family's private investigation firm, Izzy Spellman copes with meddling parents, an alcoholic uncle, the disappearance of her younger sister, and her own problems with men and drinking.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Enidina Current, content with her life as a farm wife in the early 1900s, is befriended by Mary, a more worldly woman who lives on a neighboring farm in their upper Midwestern community, but the balance of their relationship is unsettled with the coming of the Great Depression, leading to heartbreak.
5) True colors
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The three Grey sisters try to keep the family together, despite their different personalities, but when a stranger comes into town loyalties are tested and secrets are revealed after a scandalous crime awakens the family and the town.
Author
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Evelyn "Button" Peters is fascinated by Winnalee and her older sister Freeda and longs to be a part of their lives, but when a devastating secret is revealed, Button realizes her new friends aren't as happy and well-adjusted as they seem.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Aspiring writer Laura Rider, having given up sleeping with her sexually enthusiastic husband Charlie after twelve years of marriage, meets Jenna Faroli, a popular radio host in Hartley, Wisconsin, and decides to promote a relationship between Jenna and Charlie, hoping their affair will give her material for a book.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Rosie lives happily with her Uncle Bert and Aunt Maggie in a small Soho neighborhood, unaware that her mother is a local prostitute, but when her aunt and uncle decide to adopt her, Rosie is forced to face the truth about her past.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Warren Ziller moves his family to California with aims to provide them a comfortable life, but when Warren's real estate investment tanks, he is forced to move his family, along with their mounting troubles and suspicions, into one of the abandoned model homes in his housing development in the middle of the desert.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Adult sisters Van and Linny Luong, temperamental opposites, find unexpected common ground when they are called home to the traditional Vietnamese community of their youth to plan a celebration in honor of their father's invention of an instrument to help short people grasp objects that are out of reach.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
Cynthia Archer, married to an English teacher with whom she is raising a daughter, continues to be haunted by the disappearance of her family when she was a teen, but her decision to go on a television show that looks at the old case leads to mayhem, danger, and revelations she could never have anticipated.
15) October song
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Contains a collection of short stories that revisit characters from other novels in the Lancaster County book series, including, "The Shunning," "The Postcard," and "Grasshopper Level."
18) Doghead
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Follows three generations of a dysfunctional Norwegian family, which includes Asger, who learns the truth behind family secrets and stories from his dying grandmother, who informs him that his grandfather, who escaped from a Nazi concentration camp, had always been a dishonorable man.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Midwesterner Mac Maciver tells the story of his life, from growing up while his parents cared for his father's first wife, who suffered mental disabilities after a bicycle accident, through his years as a husband with children of his own; and contemplates how the decisions people make influence the lives of others.
20) Beach girls
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Nell Kilvert travels with her father, Jack, to Hubbard's Point, Connecticut, determined to find her late mother's old friends Stevie and Maddie and succeeds in drawing out Stevie Moore, now a successful artist, whose failed attempts at love have driven her to live like a hermit.
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