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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Fiction - Adult Fiction
F MONTIMORE
1 available
F MONTIMORE
1 available
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"Time Traveler's Wife meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in a wondrous novel exploring the burdens of time, the endurance of love, and the timelessness of family. Just because life might be out of order, doesn't mean it's broken. It's New Year's Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study...
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Fiction - Adult Fiction
F WILKERSON
1 available
F WILKERSON
1 available
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6 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with...
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9 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation despite their nation's recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers at the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their nascent hopes for a brighter future are tested when they are chosen...
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Vera Wong mysteries volume 1
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6 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
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Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady--ah, lady of a certain age--who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of oolong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her college-aged son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing--a dead man in the middle of her...
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Large Print Books - Large Print Area
F HAIG LT
1 available
F HAIG LT
1 available
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Audiobooks - Audiobook Shelves
AB/CD Hai
1 available
AB/CD Hai
1 available
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14 copies, 83 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 90 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 90 people are on the wait list.
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"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another...
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"Forty-four-year-old Alice Holtzman is stuck in a dead-end job, bereft of family, and now reeling from the unexpected death of her husband. Alice has begun having panic attacks whenever she thinks about how her life hasn't turned out the way she dreamed. Even the beloved honeybees she raises in her spare time aren't helping her feel better these days. In the grip of a panic attack, she nearly collides with Jake--a troubled, paraplegic teenager with...
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15 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 103 people are on the wait list.
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27 copies, 80 people are on the wait list.
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27 copies, 80 people are on the wait list.
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"A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years. July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at...
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Large Print Books - Large Print Area
F HOLMES LT
1 available
F HOLMES LT
1 available
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"In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former major-league pitcher and Andy's childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the "yips": he can't throw straight anymore, and he can't figure out why. An invitation from Andy to stay in Maine for a few months...
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Fiction - Adult Fiction
F FOLEY
1 available
F FOLEY
1 available
eAudiobook
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19 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
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On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It's a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has...
10) Weyward: a novel
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Fiction - Adult Fiction
F HART
1 available
F HART
1 available
eAudiobook
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12 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
eBooks
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12 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
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"2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. 1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder...
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Fiction - Adult Fiction
F JACKSON
1 available
F JACKSON
1 available
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8 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"A deliciously funny, sharply observed novel of family, wealth, love and tennis, this zeitgeisty debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one, the millennial conscience of the family, who wants to give it all away. Darley, the eldest daughter in the Stockton family, has never worried about money. The product of generational wealth and capitalist success, Darley renounced her...
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Fiction - Adult Fiction
F FORD
1 available
F FORD
1 available
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3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food. Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren--which Jenny never had--Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. Whisked into...
