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Wreck [text (large print)] : a novel / by Newman, Catherine,1968-author.;
"The acclaimed bestselling author of Sandwich is back with a wonderful novel, full of laughter and heart, about marriage, family, and what happens when life doesn't go as planned. If you loved Rocky and her family on vacation on Cape Cod, wait until you join them at home two years later. (And if this is your first meeting with this crew, get ready to laugh and cry-and relate.) Rocky, still anxious, nostalgic, and funny, is living in Western Massachusetts with her husband Nick and their daughter Willa, who's back home after college. Their son, Jamie, has taken a new job in New York, and Mort, Rocky's widowed father, has moved in. It all couldn't be more ridiculously normal ... until Rocky finds herself obsessed with a local accident that only tangentially affects them-and with a medical condition that, she hopes, won't affect them at all. With her signature wit and wisdom, Catherine Newman explores the hidden rules of family, the heavy weight of uncertainty, and the gnarly fact that people-no matter how much you love them-are not always exactly who you want them to be"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Families; Intergenerational relations; Middle-aged women; Women authors;
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The scandalous life of Ruby Devereaux / by Robotham, Mandy,author.;
"Everyone knows Ruby Devereaux's books. But no one knows her story ... until now. From a teenager in wartime England to a veteran of modern-day London - via 1950's New York, the Swinging Sixties, Cold War Berlin, Venice and Vietnam - Ruby Devereaux has lived one hell of a life: parties, scandals and conflict zones, meeting men and adventure along the way. In a writing career spanning seven decades and more than twenty books, she's distilled everything into her work. Or has she? Now beyond her 90th year, Ruby's energy is ebbing and her beloved typewriter put away. Until a call from her publisher presents Ruby with an ultimatum, and the impetus to embark on one last book - "warts and all", as she says. Even in her dotage, Ruby M Devereaux has the power to surprise, because whatever this author does, she does on her own terms. Always. Is Ruby finally about to reveal the secrets of her infamous life?"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Authors; Conduct of life; Man-woman relationships; Secrecy; Women authors;
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Wait softly brother : a novel / by Kuitenbrouwer, Kathryn,1965-author.;
"From lost siblings to the horrors of war to tales of selkie wives, Wait Softly Brother is filled with questions about memory, reality and the truths hidden in family lore. After twenty years of looping frustrations Kathryn walks out of her marriage and washes up in her childhood home determined to write her way to a new life. There she is put to work by her aging parents sorting generations of memories and mementos as biblical rains fall steadily and the house is slowly cut off from the rest of the world. Lured away from the story she is determined to write - that of her stillborn brother, Wulf - by her mother's gift of crumbling letters, Kathryn instead begins to piece together the strange tale of an earlier ancestor, Russell Boyt, who fought as a substitute soldier in the American Civil War. As the water rises, and more truths come to the surface, the two stories begin to mingle in unexpected and beautiful ways. In this elegantly written novel Kuitenbrouwer deftly unravels the stories we are told to believe by society and shows the reader how to weave new tales of hope and possibility."--
Subjects: Autobiographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Archives; Brothers; Families; Genealogy; Women authors;
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Agatha and the truth of murder [videorecording] / by Loane, Terry,television director.; Wilson, Brett,television producer.; Dalton, Tom,screenwriter.; Bradley, Ruth,actor.; Haywood, Pippa,actor.; McInnerny, Tim,actor.; Vision Films (Marina del Rey, Calif.),distributor.;
Ruth Bradley, Pippa Haywood, Tim McInnerny.Agatha Christie (Ruth Bradley), a young mystery novel writer sets out to help solve a real-life murder case when a wealthy woman is found bludgeoned to death. With the help of the murdered woman's lover (Pippa Haywood), she assumes a disguise and a trap is set for the suspects. But she soon discovers that real-life cases are harder to solve, and this killer is far more cunning and dangerous than her fictional creations.PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; 2.0 stereo.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Television programs.; Made-for-TV movies.; Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976; Murder; Murder; Women authors;
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Python's Kiss [text (large print)] : Stories. by Erdrich, Louise.;
From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-wining author Louise Erdrich comes a powerful and haunting short story collection shot through with love and grief, disappointment and redemption.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Short Stories (single author); FICTION / Women;
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Brawler : Stories. by Groff, Lauren.;
Read alone, each story in 'Brawler' is an individual triumph. Read together, they hum in exhilarating resonance. Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class, and region - from New England to Florida to California - these nine stories reflect and expand upon a shared theme: the ceaseless battle between humans dark and light angels.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Romance fiction.; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Short Stories (single author); FICTION / Women;
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Brawler [text (large print)] : Stories. by Groff, Lauren.;
Read alone, each story in 'Brawler' is an individual triumph. Read together, they hum in exhilarating resonance. Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class, and region - from New England to Florida to California - these nine stories reflect and expand upon a shared theme: the ceaseless battle between humans dark and light angels.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Romance fiction.; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Short Stories (single author); FICTION / Women;
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Python's Kiss : Stories. by Erdrich, Louise.;
"As usual when closing a book by Louise Erdrich, I'm left wondering, how can a novel be so funny and so moving? How can life?" -- Ron Charles, Washington Post, on The Mighty Red "Erdrich should be a major contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature." -- Boston Globe "A new novel from Louise Erdrich....is always a literary event, and her latest continues one of American literature's most remarkable winning streaks." -- The Guardian, on The Mighty RedLibrary Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Short Stories (single author); FICTION / Women;
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Great big beautiful life / by Henry, Emily,author.;
"Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry. Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they're both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years-or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century. When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she'll choose the person who'll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice's head in the game. One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice-and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over. Two: She's ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication. Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition. But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can't swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they're in the same room. And it's becoming abundantly clear that their story-just like the tale Margaret's spinning-could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad ... depending on who's telling it"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Authors; Heiresses; Islands; Man-woman relationships; Recluses; Women authors;
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Great big beautiful life [text (large print)] / by Henry, Emily,author.;
"Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry. Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they're both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years-or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century. When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she'll choose the person who'll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice's head in the game. One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice-and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over. Two: She's ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication. Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition. But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can't swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they're in the same room. And it's becoming abundantly clear that their story-just like the tale Margaret's spinning-could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad ... depending on who's telling it"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Authors; Heiresses; Islands; Man-woman relationships; Recluses; Women authors;
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