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Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2011
Description
To college freshman Julie Seagle the emotionally scrambled members of the Watkins family of Boston add up to something that ... well ... doesn't quite add up. Only the funny, gorgeous, smart oldest brother Finn is emotionally available--but only online? Not until Julie forces a buried secret to the surface, eliciting a dramatic confrontation that threatens to tear the fragile Watkins family apart, does she get her answer.
2) Roots
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1976
Description
This poignant and powerful narrative tells the dramatic story of Kunta Kinte, snatched from freedom in Africa and brought by ship to America and slavery, and his descendants. Drawing on the oral traditions handed down in his family for generations, the author traces his origins back to the seventeen-year-old Kunta Kinte, who was abducted from his home in Gambia and transported as a slave to colonial America. In this account Haley provides an imaginative...
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A memoir by the author of The Prince of Tides about his father--the inspiration for The Great Santini--and a reaffirmation that love can conquer even the meanest of men.
While the publication of The Great Santini brought Conroy much acclaim, the rift it caused with his father brought even more attention. Their long-simmering conflict burst into the open, fracturing an already battered family. But in the final days of Don Conroy's life, the Santini...
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This poignant and powerful narrative tells the dramatic story of Kunta Kinte, snatched from freedom in Africa and brought by ship to America and slavery, and his descendants. Drawing on the oral traditions handed down in his family for generations, the author traces his origins back to the seventeen-year-old Kunta Kinte, who was abducted from his home in Gambia and transported as a slave to colonial America. In this account Haley provides an imaginative...
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Series
Publisher
[Scipioni Enterprises LLC]
Pub. Date
[2015] 2015
Description
The Capostosti desire to evade reality, abandon conventions, and strive for something better keeps resurfacing, leading Iris and Lily down perilous paths from which there can be no return. After discovering her aptitude for the hospitality business, where she becomes acquainted with the finer pleasures of life she had only read about in novels, Iris carves out a career for herself in the luxury hotels of the Italian Riviera. But the more successful...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
July 4, 2005. The Frankel family is descending upon their beloved summer home in the Berkshires. The family has gathered to memorialize Leo, the youngest of the four siblings, an intrepid journalist and adventurer who was killed on that day in 2004, while on assignment in Iraq.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Jessica Russo knows nothing about her mother's family or Cuban culture. Every time she's asked about it, her mother has shut down. But when the Cuban grandmother she's never met sends her right-hand man, Luis, to offer Jessica the chance to come to Miami and meet her estranged family, she can't help but say yes, even as she knows it will pain her mother. The woman that Jessica meets is nothing like what she expected. Her grandmother is successful,...
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Series
Cairo trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1991
Description
Continuing the story of al-Sayyid Ahmad and his family, this is a fascinating look at Egypt in the 1920s. Increased personal freedoms mix tenuously with traditions of family control, as two of Ahmad's sons court alluring women.
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Series
FGTeeV volume 2
Publisher
HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"The FGTeeV family gamers really, really love playing games! But for Duddy, one game is by far best: Super Realistic (And Totally Not Made Up) Zombie Battles from the War of 1812. That is until the game freezes! The family heads to the Shady Acres Mall to fix their controller, but while at the game store, one wrong click causes all the characters from the Zombie Battles game to explode into the real world. Now Duddy, Moomy, Lexi, Mike, Chase, and...
12) Snow
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewich Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
"Learn about animal families in the snow--and lift the flaps to find the babies!"--Back cover.
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Series
Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 10
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"With crime rates down, Lafferton has been quiet, until one night when a couple opens their front door to a distressing scene. Serrailler makes a serious error in judgment when handling the incident, and the stress of this, combined with the ongoing trauma of losing his arm, takes its toll. Meanwhile, Serrailler's sister, Cat, has begun a new role as a private GP, and terrible and unexpected events at the homes of two of her patients test her medical...
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Perilous miles volume 2
Publisher
Glaspy Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018] 2018
Description
They said it wasn't possible. It shouldn't have happened. Yet it did. The world as they knew it was gone. Technology all but disappeared. Everything that defined their modern lives dead in one big flash. No more luxuries, only survival. Now if they can just figure out how to do that. With a president hell bent on taking their supplies and their liberties for his own agenda, the people of this once flourishing land will have to fight on all fronts...
16) Another 20 miles
Author
Series
Perilous miles volume 3
Publisher
Glaspy Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018] 2018
Description
The Chambers family has come to grips with the world as they knew it being gone. They know the city is the last place they want to be. With no modern vehicles working, they need another way to get out. They just have to figure out what that is. Major Sorley has to acquire the president-elect in New York City and get him back to Washington before President Olstein can destroy what remains of the Republic. This is not a one-man job. He's going to need...
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Series
Perilous miles volume 4
Publisher
Glaspy Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Description
"An EMP attack by North Korea has left most of the United States dark, cold, and in chaos.Major Damon Sorley is on a mission to bring the president-elect to Washington as quickly as possible. The road is full of peril, as people realize this wont be fixed anytime soon. But hes not alone. He and his fellow soldiers will have to make some tough decisions. Their lives will depend on it.Having lived in blissful ignorance of the darker side of human nature,...
18) 300 miles
Author
Series
Perilous miles volume 1
Publisher
Glaspy Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018] 2018
Description
Carly Marshall is a twenty-first-century single mom. She works hard and lives modern with take-out food, the latest technology, and all the modern conveniences of the time. She doesn't have to worry about feeding her family or think twice about water coming out of the faucets. But how would everything change if there was a nuclear warhead attack on the United States?
19) Sailing lessons
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Wrenn Bailey has lived all her life on Cape Cod with her mother Lindy, older sister Shannon, and younger sister Piper. Growing up, life was dictated by the seasons with sleepy gray winters where only the locals stayed on, followed by the sharp influx and colorful bustle of summer tourists who swept up the elbow of the Cape and infiltrated their small paradise. But it wasn't just the tourists who interrupted Wrenn's formative years; her father--brilliant...
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Series
Women of War volume 2
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023
Description
"Auschwitz, 1943: I stroke my beautiful baby's hair. It's a miracle it's blonde because it will keep her alive, it will keep her safe. Soon they will come and take Pippa out of Auschwitz-Birkenau - and out of my arms. But while there's life, there's hope I might find my daughter again... An incredible story of one woman's courage and determination to reunite her family in the aftermath of surviving Auschwitz. 1945, Ester Pasternak walked out of the...
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