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401) That summer
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"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 ... While [she] tries to identify the root of her dissatisfaction, she's also receiving misdirected emails meant for a woman named Diana Starling, whose email address is just one punctuation mark away from her own ... Diana's glamorous, sophisticated, single-lady life is miles away...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Stella and Violet are best friends, and from the moment they met in college, they knew their roles. Beautiful, privileged, and reckless Stella lives in the spotlight. Hardworking, laser-focused Violet stays behind the scenes, always ready to clean up the mess that Stella inevitable leaves in her wake. After graduation, Violet lands a job in cable news and works her way up from intern to producer. Stella, envious of Violet's new life, gets hired at...
403) The girls of August
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
"Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the...
404) China dolls: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2014.
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony In Love, Shanghai Girls, and Dreams of Joy returns with her highly anticipated new novel. A bold and bittersweet story of secrets and sacrifice, love and betrayal, prejudice and passion, China Dolls reveals a rich portrait of female friendship, as three young women navigate the "Chop Suey Circuit"--America's extravagant all-Asian revues of the 1930s and '40s--and endure...
406) Puddin'
Author
Series
Dumplin' volume 2
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Description
"Millie Michalchuk has gone to fat camp every year since she was a little girl. Not this year. This year she has new plans to chase her secret dream of being a newscaster--and to kiss the boy she's crushing on. Callie Reyes is the pretty girl who is next in line for dance team captain and has the popular boyfriend. But when it comes to other girls, she's more frenemy than friend. When circumstances bring the girls together over the course of a semester,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"A YA coming-of-age novel about a first-year, first-generation Blacack student at Dartmouth College." -- There are many watchers and they are always white. That is the first thing Echo notices as she settles into Dartmouth College. Despite graduating high school in Cleveland as valedictorian, she is struggling to keep up in demanding classes. The campus is not the promised rainbow-colored utopia where education lifts every voice. Nor is it a paradise...
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Description
Godmothers to one another's children, four women who married into a prosperous Italian family must come together, despite secrets and betrayals, when their husbands are forced to leave them during World War II, pitting them against notorious gangsters who run the streets of New York City.
Author
Series
Giant days volume 13
Publisher
Boom! Box
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Everything going fine for Esther--she's only dealing with a past break up, facing her own mortality and the pressure of an essay contest that could change her life. Don't worry, she's got everything figured out--except for the getting everything figured out part ... But for McGraw, the tough realities of life hit hard as he learns about the loss of someone close to him and has to find a way to process this shocking news"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived to the village of Chilbury, emboldens the women of the town to defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to shutter the church's choir in the absence of men and instead carry on singing.
Author
Series
Wildstone volume 6
Description
"When Maze returns to Wildstone for the wedding of her estranged bff and the sister of her heart, it's also a reunion of a once ragtag team of teenagers who had only each other until a tragedy tore them apart and scattered them wide. Now as adults together again in the lake house, there are secrets and resentments mixed up in all the amazing childhood memories. Unexpectedly, they instantly fall back into their roles: Maze their reckless leader, Cat...
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"May 1946. As the residents of Winthrop Island open their doors for the summer season, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop, daughter of Summerly's year-round caretaker, Olive Rainsford opens a window into a world of daring possibility. While Emilia spent the war years caring for her incapacitated mother, Olive traveled the world and fought for...
Author
Series
Octopus pie volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Follow the adventures of two Brooklynites--Eve, a nerdy acerbic twentysomething, and her room-mate Hanna, a long-lost friend who's blossomed into happy-go-lucky stoner. Crazed childhood rivals, art world hipsters, Eve's meddlesome mom, and romances past and present crowd their odd yet ordinary lives"--Page 4 of cover.
415) Kiss and tell
Author
Series
Sisterhood volume 23
Description
"Life comes in stages. Even the Sisterhood has been content to let their gold shields gather a little dust while they enjoy their friends and family. But when a string of anonymous emails arrives at Pinewood, suggesting shady dealings at a local assisted-living facility, Myra Rutledge and her best friend Annie de Silva are more than ready to out-hustle a master con-artist at his own game. They'l need to enlist some new and untested allies in order...
Author
Series
Giant days volume 11
Publisher
Boom! Box
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"The end of university is upon BFFs Daisy, Esther, and Susan. Between Halloween run-ins with Daisy's dreaded (dreadful) ex, part-time gigs at a shady pop-up Christmas market, Esther dating a tech-bro, and Susan attempting to be--romantic, there's still plenty to learn and more than enough misadventure to squeeze in before it's time to don caps and gowns"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Series
Octopus pie volume 2
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"The Brooklyn stories of love, madness, nostalgia, and displeasing music continue in this second collection. Eve and Hanna have each other's back as they navigate the emotional pitfalls of twenty-something life."--Cover, p. [4]
Author
Series
Octopus pie volume 3
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"The chaotic magic of Brooklyn continues to complicate Eve and her friends' lives. But while they explore new realms of adulthood--and evaluate their own happiness--the stakes are beginning to rise."--Cover, p. [4]
420) Honor: a novel
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
"Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. As she follows the case of Meena--a Hindu woman attacked by members of her own village and her own family for marrying a Muslim man--Smita comes face to face with a society where tradition carries more weight than one's own heart, and a story that threatens to unearth the painful...
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