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The Summer Book Club / by Mallery, Susan,author.;
Besties Laurel and Paris are excited to welcome Cassie to the group. This year, the book club is all about fill-your-heart reads, an escape from the chaos of the everyday--running a business, raising a family, juggling a hundred to-dos. Even the dog is demanding (but the bestest boy). Since Laurel's divorce, she feels like the Worst Mom Ever. Her skepticism of men may have scarred her vulnerable daughters. Cassie has an unfortunate habit of falling for ridiculous man-boys who dump her once she fixes them. Paris knows good men exist. She's still reeling after chasing off the only one brave enough--and foolish enough--to marry her. Inspired by the heroines who risk everything for fulfillment, Laurel, Paris and Cassie begin to take chances--big chances--in life, in love. Facing an unwritten chapter can be terrifying. But it can be exhilarating, too, if only they can find the courage to change.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Recipes.; Novels.; Book clubs (Discussion groups); Divorced women; Female friendship; Man-woman relationships; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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A happier life : a novel / by Harvey, Kristy Woodson,author.;
"A young woman discovers the love and family she has always longed for when she spends a life-changing summer at her grandparents' old house in North Carolina"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Recipes.; Novels.; Family secrets; Grandparents; Man-woman relationships; Missing persons; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Goddess complex : a novel / by Sathian, Sanjena,author.;
"A biting examination of millennial adulthood, the often fraught conversations around fertility and reproduction, and the painful quest to forge an identity"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Divorce; Families; Fertility; Generation Y; Identity (Psychology); Life change events; Married people; Missing persons; Mistaken identity; Motherhood; Secrecy; Separation (Psychology); Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The summer seekers / by Morgan, Sarah,1948-author.;
Answering an advert for a driver and companion to take an epic road trip across America, Martha meets 80-year-old Kathleen who craves adventure and together these women embark on the journey of a lifetime.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Road fiction.; Automobile travel; Female friendship; Intergenerational relations; Mothers and daughters;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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By any other name [text (large print)] : a novel / by Picoult, Jodi,1966-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A captivating novel about two women, centuries apart, fighting to be heard -- one of whom may be the real author of Shakespeare's plays -- from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here. As an undergraduate, Melina Green had a rare opportunity to have one of her first plays judged by famous theater critic Jasper Tolle, only to be publicly humiliated by a harsh and biased critique. Ten years later, her confidence as a playwright has never recovered, although she has just completed a work that she thinks is her best yet. It is based on the life of her ancestor Emilia Bassano, the first published female poet in England -- and rumored to be the "Dark Lady" of Shakespeare's sonnets -- but whom some scholars suspect may be the real author of a number of his plays. Melina wonders if she dares risk failure again, and then her best friend takes the decision out of her hands and submits it to a festival under a male pseudonym. In 1581, the young orphan Emilia Bassano is being raised in the ways of English aristocracy by the Baron Willoughby and his sister. Her lessons on languages, reading, and writing have endowed her with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling. But like most women of her day, she has no control over her fate, and is ripped from her old life and forced to become a courtesan to Lord Hunsdon, a man knighted by Queen Elizabeth as the Lord Chamberlain in charge of all theater in London. Though she has no other freedoms, and inspired by the work of the most brilliant playwrights of the time, she pseudonymously sets her own pen to paper to tell a story. Told in dual intertwining timelines, this sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire centers two women who are determined to create something beautiful despite the prejudices they face. As Emilia alters the course of her life and therefore the course of the world, she blazes a trail. Centuries later, will Melina face the same terrible fate -- to have her work celebrated, but only at the price of letting another take credit?"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Lanyer, Aemilia; Women dramatists; Women;
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The confession club : a novel / by Berg, Elizabeth,author.;
In the next captivating novel from Elizabeth Berg, author of 'The Story of Arthur Truluv', a group of women in Mason, Missouri discover that best friends are made by sharing secrets. Book Club.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; City and town life; Clubs; Dinners and dining; Female friendship; Interpersonal relations; Secrecy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Small world : a novel / by Zigman, Laura,author.;
One year after her divorce, Joyce invites her older sister Lydia, who is also divorced, to live with her until she finds a place of her own, but their relationship begins to fray as new revelations from their family's history come to light, forcing them to finally reckon with their childhood.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Divorced women; Family secrets; Sisters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The other March sisters / by Epstein, Linda,author.; Malinenko, Ally,author.; Parker, Liz,author.; based on (work):Alcott, Louisa May,1832-1888.Little women.;
Four sisters, each as different as can be. Through the eyes and words of Jo, their characters and destinies became known to millions. Meg, pretty and conventional. Jo, stubborn, tomboyish, and ambitious. Beth, shy and good-natured, a mortal angel readily accepting her fate. And Amy, elegant, frivolous, and shallow. But Jo, for all her insight, could not always know what was in her sisters' thoughts, or in their hearts. With Jo away in New York to pursue her literary ambitions, Meg, Beth, and Amy follow their own paths. Meg, newly married with young twins, struggles to find the contentment that Marmee assured her would come with domesticity. Unhappy and unfulfilled, she turns to her garden, finding there not just a hobby but a calling that will allow her to help other women in turn. Beth knows her time is limited. Still, part of her longs to break out of her suffocating cocoon at home, however briefly. A new acquaintance turns into something more, offering unexpected, quiet joy. Amy, traveling in Europe while she pursues her goal of becoming an artist, is keenly aware of the expectation that she will save the family by marrying well. Through the course of her journey, she discovers how she can remain true to herself, true to her art, and true to the love that was always meant to be. Purposefully leaving Jo off the page, authors Liz Parker, Ally Malinenko, and Linda Epstein draw inspiration from Alcott's real-life sisters, giving the other March women room to reveal themselves through conversations, private correspondence, and intimate moments--coming alive in ways that might surprise even daring, unconventional Jo.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Interpersonal relations; March family (Fictitious characters); Married women; Sisters; Women artists; Young women;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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In winter I get up at night / by Urquhart, Jane,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.In the early morning dark, Emer McConnell rises for a day of teaching music in the schools of rural Saskatchewan. While she travels the snowy roads in the gathering light, she begins another journey, one of recollection and introspection, and one that, through the course of Jane Urquhart's brilliant new novel, will leave the reader forever changed. Moving as effortlessly through time as the drift of memory itself, In Winter I Get Up at Night brings Emer and her singular story to life. At the age of 11, she is terribly injured in an enormous prairie storm--the "great wind" that shifts her trajectory forever. As she recovers, separated from her family in a children's ward, Emer gets to know her fellow patients, a memorable group including a child performer who stars in a travelling theatre company, the daughter of a Dukhobor community, and the son of a leftist Jewish farm collective. The children are tended to by three nursing sisters and two doctors, whom the ever-imaginative Emer comes to call Doctor Angel and Doctor Carpenter. Emer's tale grows outwards from that ward, reaching through time and space in a dreamlike fashion, recounting the stories of her mother's entanglement with a powerful yet mysterious teacher; her brother's dawning spirituality, which eventually leads him to the priesthood; the remarkable lives of the nuns who care for her; and the passionate yet distant love affair of Emer and an enigmatic man she calls Harp--a brilliant scientist whose great discovery has forever altered millions of lives around the world. In luminous prose, and with exhilarating nuance and depth, Jane Urquhart charts an unforgettable life, while also exploring some of the grandest themes of the twentieth century--colonial expansion, scientific progress, and the sinister forces that seek to divide societies along racial and cultural lines. In Winter I Get Up at Night is a major work of imagination and self-exploration from one of the greatest writers of our time.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Country life; Families; Interpersonal relations; Life change events; Recollection (Psychology); Women teachers; Women;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Absolution [sound recording] / by McDermott, Alice,author.; Vilinsky, Jesse,1985-narrator.; Kenney, Rachel,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Jesse Vilinsky, Rachel Kenney."A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships; Military spouses; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Wives;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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