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Please join us for a delightful evening with Martha Hall Kelly, author of Lilac Girls, Lost Roses and the new title Sunflower Sisters, released this year. Ms. Kelly will speak about her writing process and the inspiration for her stories. Discussion and Q & A will be moderated by Library staff. Tuesday, June 1 at 7pm For more information and to register, click here.
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Early Morning Riser
by Katherine Heiny
A wise, bighearted, boundlessly joyful novel of love, disaster, and unconventional family.
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Good Company
by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
In this bighearted story of the lifelong relationships that both wound and heal us, Flora Mancini finds everything she thought she knew about her husband, her marriage and her relationship with her best friend upended when she makes a startling discovery.
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The Four Winds
by Kristin Hannah
A Depression-era woman confronts a wrenching choice between fighting for the Dust Bowl-ravaged land she loves in Texas or pursuing an uncertain future in California.
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The Most Fun We Ever Had
by Claire Lombardo
The four adult daughters of two Chicago parents who have been madly in love for decades recklessly ignite old rivalries, until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they built.
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A Long Petal of the Sea
by Isabel Allende
Sponsored by the poet Pablo Neruda to flee the violence of the Spanish Civil War, a pregnant widow and an army doctor unite in an arranged marriage only to be swept up by the early days of World War II.
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The Green Road
by Anne Enright
When Christmas day reunites the Madigan children under one roof in County Clare, Ireland, years after leaving their mother Rosaleen behind to follow their dreams, they each must confront the terrible weight of family ties and the journey that brought them home.
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This Is Where I Leave You
by Jonathan Tropper
Simultaneously mourning the loss of his father and his marriage, Judd Foxman must sit shiva with his dysfunctional family under the same roof for seven days and nights, a situation that spins out of control, especially when Judd's cheating wife reveals that she is pregnant.
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The Nest
by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Gathering to confront an older sibling who has been recently released from rehab after a drunk driving accident, the Plum siblings watch as the trust fund left by their father rises and falls according to self-inflicted problems.
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The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
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Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett
A five-decade saga tracing the impact of an act of infidelity on the parents and children of two Southern California families traces their shared summers in Virginia and the disillusionment that shapes their lasting bond.
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