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The Satisfaction Café
by Kathy Wang
An engrossing and original story about a woman who moves from Taiwan to California and builds an unexpected life there.
Scheduled release date: July 1, 2025 - place holds on Libby now.
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Same as It Ever Was
by Claire Lombardo
Finally at age 57, Julie Ames feels she has a firm handle on things, but a surprise announcement from her straight-arrow son, an impending separation from her teenaged daughter and a seductive resurgence of the past threaten to draw her back into the patterns that had previously kept her on a razor's edge.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Home or Away
by Kathleen West
Twenty years after she failed to make the final roster on her hockey team that went for Olympic gold, Leigh returns to her Minnesota home town so that her daughter, a hockey prodigy, can have the chance she missed.
Physical copy available only.
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Welcome Home, Caroline Kline
by Courtney Preiss
Moving back to the Jersey Shore to replace her injured father as third baseman in his local men's softball league, Caroline is faced with a few challenges, including an encounter with her hometown crush, as she struggles to reconcile the life she thought she'd have with the life she might want.
Available on Libby.
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We All Live Here
by Jojo Moyes
Lila Kennedy juggles a broken marriage, rebellious daughters, a crumbling house, and an elderly stepfather when her estranged father unexpectedly shows up after thirty-five years, forcing her to confront unresolved feelings and discover unexpected lessons about love and family amidst her chaotic life.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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All the Right Mistakes
by Laura Jamison
When the most successful of five women who have been friends since college publishes an advice book detailing the key life "mistakes" of the others-opting out, ramping off, giving half effort, and forgetting your fertility-they spend their fortieth year considering their lives against the backdrop of their outspoken friend's cruel words.
Available on Hoopla.
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Temper
by Layne Fargo
Ambitious Chicago theater actress Kira Rascher finally lands the role of a lifetime, but if she takes it, she must work with Malcolm Mercer, a mercurial director known for pushing his performers past their limits--onstage and off.
Available on Hoopla.
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The Complicities
by Stacey D'Erasmo
An award-winning author tells a haunting and emotionally affecting story about a woman trying to rebuild her life after her husband's arrest, and what she knew—or pretended not to know— about where their family's money came from.
Physical copy available. Also available on Hoopla.
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In the Quick
by Kate Hope Day
A young and ambitious woman astronaut's life is upended by a fiery love affair that threatens the rescue of a 12-years-lost spacecraft and its crew of survivors. By the author of If, Then.
Available on Libby.
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Flying Solo
by Linda Holmes
Returning to her Maine hometown to handle her grandmother's estate, Laurie investigates a love letter and a mysterious wooden duck she found at the bottom of a cedar chest and is swept up in a journey of self-discovery and antiques.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Shoot the Moon
by Isa Arsén
When physics graduate Annie Fisk, a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, identifies an engineer's miscalculations, she is propelled into a new position where she's torn between her ambitions, her heart and a mysterious discovery that upends everything she knows to be scientifically true.
Physical copy available only.
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Trophy Son
by Douglas Brunt
A tennis prodigy struggles with stardom and family as he seeks to find balance and wholeness in a life dominated by his athletic talents. By the best-selling author of Ghosts of Manhattan.
Available on Hoopla.
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Right after the Weather
by Carol Anshaw
The author of the New York Times bestseller Carry the One presents a novel exploring what happens when untested people are put to a difficult time, and in its aftermath, find themselves in a newly uncertain world.
Available on Hoopla.
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The Six : The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
by Loren Grush
Tells extraordinary true story America's first women astronauts who made history in 1978 when they were selected to go into orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle, each of them making their mark as they helped build the tools that made the space program run. Illustrations.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Astonish Me
by Maggie Shipstead
Helping a world-famous dancer to defect from the Soviet Union to the United States, ballerina Joan watches her friend's career soar while her own declines in the wake of her pregnancy and marriage, a situation that eventually exposes difficult secrets.
Available on Libby.
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The Calculating Stars
by Mary Robinette Kowal
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York's experience as a WASP pilot and mathematician earns her a place in the International Aerospace Coalition's attempts to put man on the moon, as a calculator. But with so many skilled and experienced women pilots and scientists involved with the program, it doesn't take long before Elma begins to wonder why they can't go into space, too. Elma's drive to become the first Lady Astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her.
Physical copy available only.
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The F Word
by Liza Palmer
A celebrity publicist in Los Angeles is forced to confront the staggering truth that her glittering, high profile success hasn't brought her happiness when her former high school crush and arch nemesis suddenly reenters her life.
Available on Hoopla.
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Vessel
by Lisa A. Nichols
After surviving a deadly incident in deep space, astronaut Catherine Wells is believed to be dead, but miraculous returns to earth years later to find the life she left behind drastically changed.
Physical copy available. Also available on Hoopla.
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Slow Burn Summer
by Josie Silver
When grieving author Hugh Hudson secretly pens a romance novel, talent agent Charlie Francisco hires struggling actress Kate Elliot to pose as the writer, but her anonymous correspondence with Hugh and deepening intimacy with Charlie threatens to unravel their deception.
Waitlist - place holds on physical copy or on Libby now.
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The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
by Kristin Harmel
A new historical novel features two jewel thieves, a priceless bracelet that disappears in 1940s Paris and a quest for answers in a decades-old murder.
Waitlist - place holds on physical copy or on Libby now.
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