Orem Library

At the end of her life, Penelope Keeling's prized possession is The shell seekers, painted by her father. When her grown children learn the painting is worth a fortune, each has an idea as to what Penelope should do.

Returning to Gilead to care for her dying father, Glory Boughton is joined by her long-absent brother, with whom she bonds throughout his struggles with alcoholism, unemployment, and their father's traditionalist values.

"From present day Viareggio to Glasgow during World War II, a multigenerational sweeping tale of love lost, family secrets, and reconciliation over decades from New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani"--

During Black History Month, Ryan learns more about her ancestors and local Black pioneers, and their hopes for her generation.

In 1962, ten-year-old Winna Cole discovers a pair of magical spectacles that reveal both the friendly ghosts of her African American ancestors and a dangerous family curse.

Follows the courtship and marriage of Bryan and Tzippy, the former of whom astonishes his family by rejecting their way of life in favor of a strict Orthodox lifestyle, and the latter, who longs to escape the expectations of familial obligation.

Olympia Crawford Rubinstein finds her life unraveling when her twin daughters, who are just finishing high school, are invited to attend New York's most exclusive coming-out ball, an event that brings chaos, and new choices into her world.

When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave--only to discover that the...

Misogynist and martinet Adam Jones went on a trip with his sons and all hell broke loose. Old Adam Jones showed his sons no love, no mercy. All he wanted from them was absolute obedience. Ruthless, domineering, fast with his guns, the hard-nosed old rancher hated two things more than anything else, back talk and women. Nobody talked back to Adam Jones, at least not for long, and no woman had set foot on the ranch for years. Then Adam Jones went on...

"The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping...