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"The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping...
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Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F CLEGG
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 1 available
F CLEGG
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available
F CLEGG
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First Scout Press hardcover edition.
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Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F CLEGG
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 1 available
F CLEGG
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available
F CLEGG
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"A retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn't seen in forty-nine years. An older man who has traveled from Manhattan to meet his newborn granddaughter collapses in a hotel lobby in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A sixty-seven-year-old taxi driver in Kauai receives a phone call from the mainland that jars her back to a traumatic past. Seemingly disconnected lives come together as half-century...
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Unabridged.
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Cherrydale - Adult Audiobooks 1 available
CD F BLUME
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In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life -- when a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving her community reeling.
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First edition.
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Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available
F PHILL
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A rich, many-layered novel from one of our major writers, her first in nine years.
Set in the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, it is a story of the power of loss and love, the echoing ramifications of war, family secrets, dreams and ghosts, and the unseen, almost magical bonds that unite and sustain us.
At its center: Lark and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk but full of radiance; their mother, Lola; their aunt,...
Set in the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, it is a story of the power of loss and love, the echoing ramifications of war, family secrets, dreams and ghosts, and the unseen, almost magical bonds that unite and sustain us.
At its center: Lark and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk but full of radiance; their mother, Lola; their aunt,...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available
F SCHWA
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F SCHWA
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First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available
F SCHWA
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F SCHWA
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Large print edition.
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Central - Adult Large Type 1 available
LT F SCHWA
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"Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister Bea as their elegant, formidable mother slowly slides into dementia. When a stranger contacts Laura claiming to be her brother who disappeared forty years earlier when the family lived in Bangkok, Laura ignores Bea's warnings of a scam and flies to Thailand to see if it can be true. But meeting him in person leads to more questions than answers. Bangkok, 1972:...
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Unabridged.
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Central - Adult Large Type 2 available
LT F TYLER
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"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family -- their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their faithful old dog -- is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different too: Abby and Red are growing older, and...