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Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC WOLITZ 2012
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FIC WOLITZ 2012
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"In this tender and funny novel, award-winning author Hilma Wolitzer mines the unpredictable fallout of suddenly becoming single later in life, and the chaos and joys of falling in love the second time around. When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable...
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
LP FIC GREEN 2008
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LP FIC GREEN 2008
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Known in Nantucket as the crazy woman who lives in the rambling house atop the bluff, Nan doesn't care what people think. At sixty-five-years old, her husband died twenty years ago, her beauty has faded, and her family has flown. If her neighbors are away, why shouldn't she skinny dip in their swimming pools and help herself to their flowers? But when she discovers the money she thought would last forever is dwindling and she could lose her beloved...
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Los Alamos Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
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FIC
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC SHREVE 2007
2 available
FIC SHREVE 2007
2 available
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Santa Maria Public Library - Popular Library - Book on CD
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
LP FIC SHREVE 2007
1 available
LP FIC SHREVE 2007
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At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing once again, she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage.
But when the Edwards' two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers...
But when the Edwards' two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers...
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Barb Barrett, numb and adrift after losing custody of her children, rents an upstate New York house where Vladimir Nabokov once lived where she discovers a manuscript of possible value and finds a way to love again after the marriage she gave up everything for fails.
5) Demon Rumm
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC BROWN 1987
2 available
FIC BROWN 1987
2 available
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Widow Kirsten Rumm falls in live with Rylan North, the handsome actor assigned to play the part of her husband in a film about the late daredevil stunt pilot.
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Cisco family volume 2
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC MICHAE 2004
2 available
FIC MICHAE 2004
2 available
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A holiday novella continues the story of matriarch Loretta Cisco and her three newlywed grandchildren, who in the aftermath of a freak tornado experience a range of marital problems, including an unwanted pregnancy and fears of infidelity.
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Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
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FIC
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC STEEL 2008
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FIC STEEL 2008
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Orcutt Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FIC
1 available
FIC
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Santa Maria Public Library - Popular Library - Book on CD
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
LP FIC STEEL 2008
1 available
LP FIC STEEL 2008
1 available
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"In the days that follow a tragic accident, a woman who the whole world knows slowly awakens with no memory of who she is. Every detail must be pieced back together--from a childhood in rural Mississippi to the early days of her career, from the unintentional hurt inflicted on her daughter to a fifteen year-old secret love affair that went tragically wrong. But for this woman an extraordinary opportunity has arisen in a life-threatening crisis: a...
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Twenty-nine-year-old widower Doug Parker struggles to come to terms with grief, love, and family while dealing with a bossy twin sister who urges him to begin dating again, a younger sister planning her wedding, and a hostile teenage stepson.
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Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
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FIC
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC GORDON 2011
1 available
FIC GORDON 2011
1 available
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
LP FIC GORDON 2011
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LP FIC GORDON 2011
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This work is a novel about first lovers meeting again after more than thirty years, walking the streets of Rome and reimmersing themselves in their lost past. Miranda and Adam, high school sweethearts now in their late fifties, arrive by chance at the same time in Rome, where they once spent a summer deeply in love, blissfully living together. At an awkward reunion, the two, who parted in an atmosphere of passionate betrayal in the 1960s and haven't...
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Orcutt Library - Adult Fiction
FIC
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FIC
2 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC SIMONS 2010
2 available
FIC SIMONS 2010
2 available
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Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But will their relationship survive in a society that considers...
11) Mrs. Ted Bliss
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National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: This funny, poignant novel about the misadventures of a Miami Beach widow is “brilliant” (Los Angeles Times).
After her beloved husband dies of cancer, Dorothy Bliss is consigned to a life of tedium, waiting out her remaining years in a Miami beachside community shared precariously by its Jewish and Latino residents. When Dorothy attends a series of parties intended to lighten
12) Persuasion
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction - Classics
FIC CLA AUSTEN 1817
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FIC CLA AUSTEN 1817
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Anne Elliot passes up an opportunity for happiness when she declines a match in marriage in hopes of bettering her position. Beauty fades as seven years pass, when her former love returns a wealthier man. Anne finds herself slighted and all traces of their former intimacy gone. Mishaps and mischief mount as the pair tempt fate in this comic story of love.
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Enjoying an active but lonely rural life, seventy-year-old Percy allows a progressive preschool to move into his barn and transform his quiet home into a lively, youthful community that compels him to reexamine the choices he made after his wife's death.
14) Blue-eyed devil
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Travis family romances volume 2
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
LP FIC KLEYPA 2008
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LP FIC KLEYPA 2008
1 available
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Haven Travis is the rebellious heiress of a wealthy oil family. But as Haven marries a man the Travises disapprove of, her life is set on a new and dangerous path. Two years later, when Haven returns to town, she is determined never to fall for the wrong man again. And Hardy Cates, an enemy of her family, is the last person she needs darkening her door.
15) Family blessings
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC SPENCE 1993
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FIC SPENCE 1993
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After her husband's sudden death from a heart attack and to keep her family in their beloved Nantucket home, Carley Winsted transforms her expensive, expansive house into a bed-and-breakfast. But complications arise: Carley's mother-in-law disapproves; a friend forces Carley to keep a secret that, if revealed, will undo families and friendships; and, her late husband's former law partner keeps showing up at the most unexpected times.
17) The letters
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC RICE 2008
1 available
FIC RICE 2008
1 available
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"Sam and Hadley West are both trying in their own ways to survive after the unthinkable loss of their only son in Alaska. For Sam, a sports journalist, acceptance means an arduous trek by dogsled across the bleak and beautiful arctic wilderness to find the place where Paul died. For Hadley, it means renting a benignly haunted, salt-soaked cottage off the Maine coast where she begins to paint again. Now, at opposite ends of the country, waiting for...
18) Maybe this time
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC CRUSIE 2010
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FIC CRUSIE 2010
1 available
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Santa Maria Public Library - Popular Library - Book on CD
FIC
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FIC
1 available
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North Archer, Andie Miller's ex-husband, asks her to become the guardian of two orphans who have driven out three nannies already--and live in a haunted house! What follows is a hilarious adventure in exorcism, including a self-doubting parapsychologist, an annoyed medium, her Tarot-card reading mother, an avenging ex-mother-in-law, and, of course, her jealous fiancé. And just when Andie thinks things couldn't get more complicated, North shows up...