Rescue
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
lexile:
subjects: emergency medical technicians, life change events, family secrets [X], romance fiction, love stories, domestic fiction [X], man-woman relationships
The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox
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
lexile:
Family Tree
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
lexile:
Escape Velocity
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
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
lexile:
subjects: loss (psychology), family secrets [X], accidents, summer, high school graduates, secrecy, domestic fiction [X], domestic fiction
Casebook
"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
lexile:
subjects: secrecy, family life, eavesdropping, bildungsromans, family secrets [X], domestic fiction [X], fiction / literary, fiction / family life, fiction / coming of age, domestic fiction
Beautiful Day
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:
Little White Lies
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
year:
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: debutante balls, grandmothers, mother-daughter relationship, family life, family secrets [X], mystery fiction, domestic fiction [X], southern states, detective and mystery fiction, domestic fiction, debutantes, mothers and daughters, families
A Sin Such As This
Just when she thought her crazy life was settling down as she married handsome Dr.
FIC
year:
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: family secrets [X], dysfunctional families, married women, rich people, family life, wives, rich, domestic fiction [X], romantic suspense novels, suspense fiction
What Could Be Saved
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.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: siblings, family secrets [X], swindlers and swindling, intelligence service, adultery, domestic fiction [X], domestic fiction
The Things We Cannot Say
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.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: world war, 1939-1945, family secrets [X], grandmothers, historical fiction, domestic fiction [X], domestic fiction, historical fiction
Of Women And Salt
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
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mother-daughter relationship, cuban american women, immigrants, family secrets [X], domestic fiction [X], miami (fla.), cuba, domestic fiction
Grown Ups
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
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: brothers, dysfunctional families, family secrets [X], humorous fiction, domestic fiction [X], humorous fiction, domestic fiction
The Making Of Us
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
lexile:
subjects: sperm banks, artificial insemination, human, life change events, family secrets [X], brothers and sisters, human artificial insemination, secrecy, family life, siblings, domestic fiction [X], domestic fiction