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Rescue

author: Shreve, Anita
A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox

author: O'farrell, Maggie
Iris Lockhart is shocked when she receives a phone call informing her that her great-aunt Esme, whom Iris never knew about, is being released from the mental hospital where she has spent the last sixty-one years, and wonders what long-buried family secrets the woman will bring with her when Iris takes her in.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: family secrets [X], secrecy, domestic fiction [X], psychological fiction

Family Tree

author: Delinsky, Barbara
Wealthy Caucasians Dana and Hugh Clarke give birth to a child that has distinctly African-American traits; and while searching their lineage for answers, they uncover secrets about both of their families.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: racially mixed people, family secrets [X], secrecy, domestic fiction [X]

Escape Velocity

author: Stevenson, Robin
After her father suffers a stroke, fifteen-year-old Lou must relocate from Alberta to Victoria to live with her mother Zoe, a successful novelist who abandoned Lou at birth and showed no interest in her until she was twelve.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: teenage girls, families, family secrets [X], mothers and daughters, canada, teenagers, girls, secrecy, domestic fiction [X]

Summerland

author: Hilderbrand, Elin
Penny Alistair dies and her twin brother Hobby is left in a coma from a terrible car crash on the evening of Nantucket High's traditional graduation bonfire on the beach, and Zoe, the twins' mother, is forced to face the truth about what happened to them and her role in the accident.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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Casebook

author: Simpson, Mona
"A novel about an eavesdropping boy working to discover the obscure mysteries of his unraveling family.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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Beautiful Day

author: Hilderbrand, Elin
Gathering on Nantucket for a wedding planned to the letter by the bride's late mother, the Carmichaels and the Grahams hide their scandal-ridden, crumbling lives from the blissfully unaware, happy couple.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: weddings, family secrets [X], secrecy, domestic fiction [X], nantucket (mass.)

Little White Lies

author: Barnes, Jennifer
Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft accepts her estranged grandmother's six-figure bribe to live with her for a year and to participate in the debutante season and ball, in order to possibly meet the father she has never known.
FIC
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copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
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A Sin Such As This

author: Hopkins, Ellen
Just when she thought her crazy life was settling down as she married handsome Dr.
FIC
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copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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What Could Be Saved

author: Schwarz, Liese O'halloran
A Washington D.C. artist named Laura returns to Thailand to search for her brother Philip who disappeared more than forty years ago when her family was stationed there during the Vietnam War.
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copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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The Things We Cannot Say

author: Rimmer, Kelly
Told through alternating voices of Alice in present day and Alice's grandmother Alina in Nazi-occupied Poland, the story tells of Alina's struggle to survive the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II and years later her granddaughter Alice's journey to uncover the secrets of Alice's past that still affect their family in the present.
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copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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Of Women And Salt

author: Garcia, Gabriela
After agreeing to to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE, Jeanette is motivated to learn about her family history from her secretive mother, Carmen, a Cuban immigrant.
FIC
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copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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Grown Ups

author: Keyes, Marian
The upper-crust Casey family, Johnny, Ed, and Liam and their wives and children stay in touch through regular family celebrations, organized and fostered by Johnny's wife Jessie, who insists everyone is happy.
FIC
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copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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The Making Of Us

author: Jewell, Lisa
Lives are turned upside down when three adult siblings meet for the first time after they each discover their biological father was a sperm donor.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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