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Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2011], p2011
Language
English
Description
Tragically robbed of a mother's love as a child, Rachel now feels trapped in an abusive marriage. But when her husband turns his drunken rage on her daughter Lily--the only light in her dark world--Rachel finds the courage to escape with her child, hoping to find a place of safety.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From an award-winning young author, a novel following a feisty heroine's idiosyncratic quest to reclaim her past by mining the wisdom of her literary icons-even as she navigates the murkier mysteries of love. Zebra is the last in a line of anarchists, atheists, and autodidacts. When war came, her family didn't fight; they took refuge in books. Now alone and in exile, Zebra leaves New York for Barcelona, retracing the journey she and her father made...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2012], p2012
Language
English
Description
23-year-old television writer Ruth Sanders heads to Hollywood, dragging her 70-year-old grandmother along for the ride. Ruth is thrilled when production for her sitcom finally gets underway. But Ruth's dreams of happiness are soon threatened by the demanding actors and number-crunching executives--not to mention the stress of her grandmother's upcoming wedding.
4) Decadence
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2013
Language
English
Description
Successful writer Nia struggles with her turbulent emotions and contemplates her prosepect for marriage and parenthood while immersing herself in a hedonistic role-playing resort that challenges her grasp on reality.
Author
Language
English
Description
"1938: She was one of the six sparkling Mitford sisters, known for her stinging quips, stylish dress, and bright green eyes. But Nancy Mitford's seemingly sparkling life was really one of turmoil: with a perpetually unfaithful and broke husband, two Nazi sympathizer sisters, and her hopes of motherhood dashed forever. With war imminent, Nancy finds respite by taking a job at the Heywood Hill Bookshop in Mayfair, hoping to make ends meet, and discovers...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Jodie Rattler thrived in the warmth of her extended family, and then, through a combination of hard work and serendipity, she started a singing career. Jodie comes of age in recording studios, backstage, and on tour, and she tries to hold her own in the wake of Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and Joni Mitchell. Yet it feels like something is missing. Could it be true love? Or is that not actually what Jodie is looking for?
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2015
Language
English
Description
When a shocking family secret is revealed, twentysomething journalist Cat Coombs finds herself falling into a dark spiral. Wild, glamorous nights out in London and raging hangovers the next day become her norm, leading to a terrible mistake one night while visiting family on the island of Nantucket. When she returns home, she confronts the unavoidable reality of her life and knows it's time to grow up. As the years pass, Cat is a struggling single...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2013
Language
English
Description
A high-powered CEO and mother of two, a mom who gave up a promising law career, and a struggling artist and mother with an absent husband are forced to reevaluate their sacrifices and beliefs when they confront the realities of power and family.
10) Waves of mercy
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2016
Language
English
Description
Geesje de Jonge crossed the ocean at age seventeen with her parents and a small group of immigrants from the Netherlands to settle in the Michigan wilderness. Fifty years later, in 1897, she's asked to write a memoir of her early experiences as the town celebrates its anniversary. Reluctantly at first, she soon uncovers memories and emotions hidden all these years, including the story of her one true love. At the nearby Hotel Ottawa Resort, 23-year-old...
11) Falling
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2016
Language
English
Description
When Emma Montague left the strict confines of upper-crust British life for New York, she felt sure it would make her happy. Away from her parents and expectations, she felt liberated, throwing herself into Manhattan life replete with a high-paying job, a gorgeous apartment, and a string of successful boyfriends. But the cutthroat world of finance and relentless pursuit of more began to take its toll. This wasn't the life she wanted either. On the...
12) Flight patterns
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2016
Language
English
Description
It has been thirteen years since Georgia left her family home on the coast of Florida, and nothing much has changed except that there are fewer oysters and more tourists. She finds solace in seeing her grandfather still toiling away in the apiary where she spent much of her childhood, but encountering her estranged mother and sister leaves her rattled. Seeing them after all this time makes Georgia realize that something has been missing--and unless...
Author
Series
Miss Julia volume 15
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2014
Language
English
Description
It's summer in Abbotsville, and Miss Julia has visions of enjoying a life of leisure. But before she can even sip some iced tea on her front porch, a letter from her long-lost cousin Elsie informs her that Elsie's granddaughter is on a bus headed to Abbotsville that very day. Reminding Miss Julia of an old family debt, Elsie proclaims that she is sending Trixie to Miss Julia's to learn to become a lady. The nerve of some people! When the rude and...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jane Holcomb isn't exactly a widow, though she feels like one. She divorced her unfaithful husband, Ben, ten months before he died of a heart attack at the beach house he got in the divorce settlement. He was thirty-two. Two years later, Jane returns to the house to clean it up in preparation to sell it. Much to her surprise, Ben arrives soon after her. He has finally learned his lesson, finally realized she's the love of his life and that he blew...
15) The one and only
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Centering her life on the successful Walker family, into which she plans to marry, Shea struggles to end her affair with a less-than-stellar boyfriend only to have her entire existence placed in question by the death of the family's mother.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleanor Flood is a mess. She's erratic, scattered, and constantly getting things wrong (dates, names, times). She resorts to calling everything "amazing" because the right word always seems to be just out of reach. But all that's about to change, because today, she vows, will be different. Today she will be her best self. Eleanor sets the bar at a comfortable level: low. She will put some effort into her appearance. She will play a board game with...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? ... My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Set in nineteenth-century Puerto Rican plantation society, this story follows Pola, a deeply spiritual African woman who is captured and later sold for the purpose of breeding future slaves. From the sadistic barbarity of her first experiences, she moves on to receive compassion and support from a revitalizing new community. Along the way, she learns to recognize and embrace the many faces of love, including the self-love that she must recover before...
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