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Brookline - Adult
FIC Flournoy, Angela
1 available
FIC Flournoy, Angela
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Flournoy, Angela
1 available
FIC Flournoy, Angela
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Flournoy, Angela
1 available
FIC Flournoy, Angela
1 available
eBook
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"A powerful, timely debut, The Turner House marks a major new contribution to the story of the American family. The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house has seen thirteen children grown and gone--and some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's East Side, and the loss of a father. The house still stands despite abandoned lots, an embattled city, and the inevitable shift outward to...
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Brookline - Adult
FIC Shteyngart, Gary
3 available
FIC Shteyngart, Gary
3 available
Brookline - Adult
SECOND WIND FIC Shteyngart, Gary
3 available
SECOND WIND FIC Shteyngart, Gary
3 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Shteyngart, Gary
2 available
FIC Shteyngart, Gary
2 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
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Brookline - Large Print
LGTYPE FIC Shteyngart, Gary
2 available
LGTYPE FIC Shteyngart, Gary
2 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Large Print
LGTYPE FIC Shteyngart, Gary
1 available
LGTYPE FIC Shteyngart, Gary
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Large Print
LGTYPE FIC Shteyngart, Gary
1 available
LGTYPE FIC Shteyngart, Gary
1 available
Description
"It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next few months new bonds of friendship and love will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge among this unlikely cast of characters, each richly drawn and achingly human: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American...
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1 copy on order.
Brookline - Adult
FIC Acevedo, Elizabeth
4 available
FIC Acevedo, Elizabeth
4 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Acevedo, Elizabeth
2 available
FIC Acevedo, Elizabeth
2 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Acevedo, Elizabeth
2 available
FIC Acevedo, Elizabeth
2 available
eAudiobook
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9 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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Brookline Coolidge Corner - AV/New
BkOnCD Acevedo, Elizabeth
1 available
BkOnCD Acevedo, Elizabeth
1 available
Description
"Sisters Matilde, Pastora, Camila, and Flor thought they knew each other well, until Flor--inspired by a documentary her daughter Ona made her watch--decides she wants a living wake, a party to bring her family and community together and celebrate the long life she's led, while she's still around to enjoy it. She's not ill, as far as anybody knows, but Flor does have a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. Has she foreseen her...
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1 copy, 12 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 12 people are on the wait list.
Description
Portrays life in Grover's Corner, New Hampshire, in the early 1900's through the routine daily events and the major moments in the lives of George Gibbs, Emily Webb, and their families; and how their lives, although mundane, are touched by the universal forces of love, despair, apathy, nature, and death.
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Brookline - Adult
FIC Straub, Emma
2 available
FIC Straub, Emma
2 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Straub, Emma
1 available
FIC Straub, Emma
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Straub, Emma
1 available
FIC Straub, Emma
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Description
"When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days, decades years earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give...
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Brookline - Adult
FIC Serle, Rebecca
3 available
FIC Serle, Rebecca
3 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Serle, Rebecca
3 available
FIC Serle, Rebecca
3 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Serle, Rebecca
1 available
FIC Serle, Rebecca
1 available
Checked Out
10 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
10 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
Description
"When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano, the magical town Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy's father. Katy has been waiting years for Carol to take her, and now she is faced with embarking...
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1 copy on order.
Brookline - Adult
FIC Thai, Thao
1 available
FIC Thai, Thao
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Thai, Thao
1 available
FIC Thai, Thao
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Thai, Thao
1 available
FIC Thai, Thao
1 available
eAudiobook
Checked Out
12 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
eBook
Description
"Three Vietnamese American women mourning the death of the family matriarch recount their lives and childhoods at a crumbling, gothic manor called Banyan House, where the secrets of her grandmother's past come to light"--
When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she's last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life: a beautiful lake house,...
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Brookline - Adult
FIC Tan, Amy
1 available
FIC Tan, Amy
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Adult
FIC Tan, Amy
1 available
FIC Tan, Amy
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
A mother and daughter find what they share in their bones in this compelling novel from the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird Chronicles.
Ruth Young and her widowed mother have always had a difficult relationship. But when she discovers writings that vividly describe her mother’s tumultuous life growing up in China, Ruth discovers a side of LuLing that she never knew existed.
Transported...
Ruth Young and her widowed mother have always had a difficult relationship. But when she discovers writings that vividly describe her mother’s tumultuous life growing up in China, Ruth discovers a side of LuLing that she never knew existed.
Transported...
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eAudiobook
eBook
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9 copies, 52 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
9 copies, 52 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Large Print
LGTYPE FIC Patchett, Ann
1 available
LGTYPE FIC Patchett, Ann
1 available
Brookline Putterham - Large Print
FIC LGTYPE Patchett, Ann
1 available
FIC LGTYPE Patchett, Ann
1 available
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Brookline - Audiovisual
BkOnCD Patchett, Ann
1 available
BkOnCD Patchett, Ann
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Audiovisual
BkOnCD Patchett, Ann
2 available
BkOnCD Patchett, Ann
2 available
Description
"The acclaimed, bestselling author--winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize--tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining...
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Brookline - Adult
FIC Wilkerson, Charmaine
2 available
FIC Wilkerson, Charmaine
2 available
Brookline - Adult
QUICK PICK FIC Wilkerson, Charmaine
1 available
QUICK PICK FIC Wilkerson, Charmaine
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Wilkerson, Charmaine
1 available
FIC Wilkerson, Charmaine
1 available
Checked Out
10 copies, 111 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Large Print
LGTYPE FIC Wilkerson, Charmaine
1 available
LGTYPE FIC Wilkerson, Charmaine
1 available
Description
"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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On Shelf
1 copy on order.
Brookline - Adult
FIC Patchett, Ann
1 available
FIC Patchett, Ann
1 available
Brookline - New Books
FIC Patchett, Ann
1 available
FIC Patchett, Ann
1 available
Brookline Coolidge Corner - Adult
FIC Patchett, Ann
1 available
FIC Patchett, Ann
1 available
eAudiobook
eBook
Checked Out
135 copies, 256 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
135 copies, 256 people are on the wait list.
Description
Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.