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Expiration Dates
by Rebecca Serle
Every time she meets a new man, Daphne Bell receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it—the exact amount of time they will be together; usually she is right, but when she meets Jake, her whole system is thrown for a loop.
Scheduled release date: March 19, 2024 - place holds on physical copy or Libby now.
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Canary Girls
by Jennifer Chiaverini
During World War I, April Tipton, a 19-year-old former maid takes a job at Thornshire Arsenal filling shells, where she befriends the wife of a star footballer and the decides to join the ladies' football club.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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The Friendship Club
by Robyn Carr
After a series of terrible dates, Marni McGuire, the host of a popular TV cooking show, forms an unbreakable bond with her best friend Ellen as well as a young intern on the show and her pregnant daughter Bella as they navigate the challenges and celebrate the joys of life.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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The Last House on the Street
by Diane Chamberlain
Recently widowed, architect Kayla Carter moves into her new home in Round Hill where she is faced with threatening notes and a neighbor who is harboring long-buried secrets about the dark history of the land on which her house was built.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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Mad Honey
by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
Her life upended when her husband revealed a darker side, Olivia MacAfee and her teenage son Asher move back to her New Hampshire hometown for a new beginning until Asher is implicated in the death of his girlfriend and she realizes he has hidden more than he has shared with her.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Dreamland
by Nicholas Sparks
After his own musical career was tragically roadblocked, Colby Mills meets and falls for a graduate of a prestigious college music program looking to become a star in Nashville, in the new novel from the best-selling author of The Wish.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Today We Go Home
by Kelli Estes
Struggling to heal from a devastating loss while serving in Afghanistan, Larkin Bennett finds the diary of a young woman who disguised herself as a man to fight for the Union during the Civil War and begins to heal.
Available on Libby and Hoopla.
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New to Liberty
by DeMisty D. Bellinger
Depicting the strength and resolve of three unforgettable women growing up in a society that refuses to evolve, this novel, told in three parts—in 1933, 1947, and 1966—offers a snapshot of mid-century America during which these women's actions have consequences for generations to come.
Available on Hoopla.
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Go As a River
by Shelley Read
A 1940s teenager running her family's peach farm in Colorado meets a young man with a mysterious past and feels an instant connection but must flee to a small shack in the wilderness after tragedy strikes.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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Winterland
by Rae Meadows
Tapped to represent the Soviet Union as a gymnast in the Olympics, Anya, a motherless young girl, turns to her neighbor Vera, an older woman who survived ten years in a Gulag camp, for support as she grows to become a more serious Soviet contender in gymnastics.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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Golden Girl
by Elin Hilderbrand
Entering the afterlife due to a hit and run accident, a successful author learns she can observe the earthly lives of her nearly grown children and is also permitted three “nudges” to alter the outcome of events.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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A Week at the Shore
by Barbara Delinsky
Returning to her family’s Rhode Island beach home after a 20-year estrangement, a real estate photographer navigates painful family secrets that test her bonds with her sisters, while her 13-year-old daughter pursues desperately wanted family ties.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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Promise
by Minrose Gwin
Barely surviving an F5 tornado that rips through her 1936 Mississippi hometown, an African-American laundress and great-grandmother searches for her family among the catastrophe's survivors while bonding with the traumatized teen daughter of a despised white judge. By the author of The Queen of Palmyra.
Available on Libby and Hoopla.
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The Fourteenth of September
by Rita Dragonette
On September 14, 1969, Private First Class Judy Talton celebrates her nineteenth birthday by secretly joining the campus anti-Vietnam War movement. In doing so, she jeopardizes both the army scholarship that will secure her future and her relationship with her military family. But Judy's doubts have escalated with the travesties of the war. Who is she if she stays in the army? What is she if she leaves?
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The Last Ballad
by Wiley Cash
Inspired by actual events, a tale set in the Appalachian foothills of 1929 North Carolina follows the struggles of an ordinary woman to reclaim her dignity and rights in a labor mill, where she earns a paltry salary before risking her family and future to join a union.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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Miller's Valley
by Anna Quindlen
Coming of age in a dwindling 1960s farming community in eastern Pennsylvania, Mimi struggles with profound family secrets and the pain of falling in love with the wrong person against a backdrop of dynamic historical periods. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Object Lessons.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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The Richest Season
by Maryann McFadden
Having raised her children in a dozen different towns in order to support her husband's frequent corporate relocations, Joanna leaves her husband to return to the coastal South Carolina community she loves, while Paul, distraught by Joanna's abandonment, leaves his job and endeavors to win her back.
Available on Hoopla.
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The Lemon Orchard
by Luanne Rice
House-sitting a family home in Malibu where she hopes for peace and healing in the aftermath of her daughter's death, Julia is unexpectedly drawn to a handsome man who oversees a lemon orchard, sends his earnings to an extended family in Mexico and hides the pain of his own daughter's loss.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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The Lotus Eaters
by Tatjana Soli
Helen Adams, an American combat photographer during the Vietnam War, captures the wrenching chaos of battle on film and finds herself torn between the love of two men, one an American war correspondent and the other his Vietnamese underling.
Available on Libby.
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Prospect Heights Public Library District
12 N. Elm St. Prospect Heights, Illinois 60070 847-259-3500
www.phpl.info
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