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Women's Fiction & Chick Lit October 2023 |
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Grown-Up Game Night: Spooky Trivia
Friday, October 20, 6:30 pm
Community Room
Enjoy a trivia night for adults with the library! In time for Halloween, play six rounds of ten questions each on a variety of spooky topics.Snacks will be provided. Open to ages 16 and older.Registration is required. If registering as a group, please note the number of members participating, but do not register each individual member.
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New and Upcoming Releases
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Absolution
by Alice McDermott
Sixty years after they lived as wives of American servicemen in early 1960s Vietnam, two women reconnect and relieve their shared experiences in Saigon in the new novel by the author of The Ninth Hour.
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Better Hate than Never
by Chloe Liese
Making a rare visit home, Katerina Wilmot finds her and Christopher Petruchio's fiery animosity rekindled into a raging inferno until a drunken night leads to a confession and an impassioned kiss, forcing them to decide if it's truly better to hate than to never risk their hearts. Original.
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The Berry Pickers
by Amanda Peters
Growing up as the only child of affluent and overprotective parents, Norma, troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination, searches for the truth, leading her to the blueberry fields of Maine, where a family secret is finally revealed.
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The Burnout
by Sophie Kinsella
Retreating to the British seaside resort she loved as a child, burned out professional Sasha meets Finn, who's just as stressed a she is, and forced together by curious messages addressed to them, talk about everything, including the simmering attraction between them.
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Company
by Shannon Sanders
Told in 13 stories, this multigenerational saga follows an African-American family and their friends as they navigate the challenges and joys of life—from the 1960s to the 2000s, from Atlantic City to Washington D.C.
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Death Valley
by Melissa Broder
Seeking respite from her father and husband suffering simultaneous illnesses, a young woman visits the California high desert and encounters a strange, towering cactus with a door in it, in the new novel by the author of Milk Fed.
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Maybe Once, Maybe Twice
by Alison Rose Greenberg
In this novel of second chances and finding your own way, 35-year-old aspiring singer Maggie Vine, when her first boyfriend from summer camp turned heartthrob actor offers her a career-changing opportunity, it feels like everything is falling into place, but her past won't let her move on without a fight.
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My Darling Girl
by Jennifer McMahon
Taking in her estranged mother who only has weeks to live, Alison, with memories of her violent abuse coming back to haunt her, discovers her mother is not quite who she seems as strange things start happening, forcing her to decide how far she's willing to go to protect her family.
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The Intern
by Michele Campbell
When her brother Danny goes missing after accusing Judge Kathryn Conroy of corruption, young Harvard law student Madison Rivera is drawn into her mentor's glamorous world where they engage in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game that could leave one of them dead.
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The Leftover Woman
by Jean Kwok
Arriving in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, Jasmine Young, on the run from her abusive husband, desperately searches for the daughter taken away from her at birth, which forces her to make increasingly risky decisions.
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The List
by Yomi Adegoke
A celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, Ola Olajide is set to marry the love of her life in one month's time until she finds his name on“The List,” an anonymous account posting allegations on social media, in this razor sharp exploration of the real-world impact of online life.
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The Predictable Heartbreaks of Imogen Finch
by Jacqueline Firkins
After her sixteenth breakup, Imogen Finch, believing she's cursed and destined to remain in second place forever, is ready to give up altogether until Eliot Swift returns to their small coastal town and shows her all she needs is one win to believe in love—and in herself again.
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The Premonition
by Banana Yoshimoto
Moving in with her eccentric aunt due to a premonition that grows stronger day by day, 19-year-old Yayoi, feeling she has forgotten something important from her childhood, is drawn into a strange, chaotic world where she is consumed by inescapable bitterness that inevitably comes from learning the truth.
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The Prospectors
by Ariel Djanikian
One hundred years after her family was transformed by greed during the Klondike Gold Rush, Anna Bush grapples with moral conflict and questions of justice as she travels to the Klondike to bequeath her would-be inheritance to the First Nations peoples who paid the price for its creation.
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Second Act
by Danielle Steel
Out of a job and humiliated, Andy Westfield, the head of a prestigious movie studio, flees to a tiny, forgotten coastal town in England where he hires a former journalist to help get his affairs in order and in a surprising turn of events, finds a miracle that could change both their lives. Simultaneous.
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The Sun Sets in Singapore
by Kehinde Fadipe
In Singapore, three very different women—Dara, a workaholic lawyer from the UK; Amaka, a sharp-tongued banker from Nigeria; and Lillian, a pianist turned“trailing spouse” from the US—find their lives inexplicably intertwined upon the arrival of a handsome and mysterious man from Geneva who brings their worlds crashing down.
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The Unmaking of June Farrow
by Adrienne Young
Determined to end the curse that has plagued their family line, June Farrow, after her grandmother's death reveals clues to her mother's decades-old disappearance, embarks on a journey that will not only change both the past and the future, but also entangle her heart in an epic star-crossed love.
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What Wild Women Do
by Karma Brown
While staying at an isolated cabin in the Adironacks, aspiring Hollywood screenwriter Rowan is drawn into the unsettling story of a socialite-turned-feminist crusader bent of helping women unleash their inner “wildness” who vanished in these same woods the summer of 1975 and is determined to solve the mystery of her disappearance.
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What We Kept to Ourselves
by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
In 1999, the Kim family, struggling to move on after their mother, Sunny, vanished a year ago find their lives further upended when the body of a stranger is found in the backyard, carrying a letter to Sunny and leaving them with more questions than answers about their mother's disappearance.
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Christmas at Corgi Cove
by Annie England Noblin
Rosie Reynolds had come to lakeside Corgi Cove as a lost, lonely girl abandoned by her own mother, but there she discovered a true place to call home.
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Christmas Presents
by Lisa Unger
The only surviving victim of a killer suspected in the disappearance of two sisters, bookstore owner Madeline Martin, when a true-crime podcaster opens up the cold case, must return to a past she hoped was dead to expose the terrifying truth when more young women go missing.
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Christmas at the Shelter Inn: A Holiday Romance
by RaeAnne Thayne
Pregnant and on bed rest, McKenna calls her sister Natalie, who fled Shelter Springs, Idaho, after family tragedies took their toll, pleading for help running the Shelter Inn during the busy upcoming Christmas season.
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A Holly Jolly Ever After
by Julie Murphy
A washed-up former member of a boy band agrees to star in a sexy Santa biopic that also stars his ex, in the second novel of the series following A Merry Little Meet Cute.
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One Christmas Morning
by Rachel Greenlaw
Reliving Christmas Day over and over through the perspectives of her friends, Eva, unable to forget the heartbreaking events of the Christmas that ripped her world apart, gains an insight into the secrets and struggles they've been hiding and must find a way to forget the past and fix the future.
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A Winter in New York
by Josie Silver
Moving to New York, young chef Iris offers her services to save a struggling gelato shop in Little Italy where she finds herself falling for the owner's nephew Gio and his family until all the secrets she's been keeping threaten to ruin the new life—and new love—she's been building.
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Wreck the Halls
by Tessa Bailey
Stepping out of her comfort zone with her former best friend to convince their mothers to perform one last concert on Christmas Eve, Melody, the daughter of music royalty, discovers a decades-old scandal threatens to wreck everything—the reunion, their relationships with their mothers and their newfound love.
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