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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
164 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The American master's first novel since Winter's Bone (2006) tells of a deadly dance hall fire and its impact over several generations.
Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters from...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Language
English
Description
In this heartwarming story of love, family and baked goods, bakery owner Hope McKenna-Smith, the divorced mother of a surly preteen girl, is summoned by her aging grandmother who, ready to reveal the secret she has kept for 70 years, sends her on a journey across the world that will forever change her life.
8) After Tex
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 compact discs (10 hr. 25 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author behind the hit Sweet Magnolias Netflix series
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods sweeps readers away to the quiet plains of Whispering Wind ranch, where one woman's conflict between family, career, and the promise of rekindled love threatens to change her life forever.
Megan O'Rourke's beloved grandfather, Tex, had always been determined to lure her out of New York and back to their ranch in Whispering...
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books/Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1970s Mississippi, the lives of three generations of women are thrown into upheaval and dark family secrets exposed when sixteen-year-old Cissy Pickering deliberately shoots and kills her father.
11) A week in winter
Author
Language
English
Description
When Maudie Todhunter, the elderly owner of a charming farmhouse in Cornwall, decides to sell the family homestead, a family drama unfolds, with old secrets bubbling to the surface.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Raised in seclusion by fundamentalist grandparents who claim she is an evil product of her mother's sinful mistake, teenager Elle Edwards finally learns the truth about her conception and struggles with profound feelings of insecurity while pursuing a relationship with a vacationing boy.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a far fetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st Amer. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[28] p.: col. ill.; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Old Bob gets a teddy bear for his birthday because he never had one as a child, but his grandaughter, thinking the bear deserves better than to be stuck between dusty books, wants to take him home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Finn tells his grandmother a fib, his lies continue to build up which makes Finn feel horrible until he builds up the courage to come clean.
18) The flamingo
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
141 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a nearly wordless novel, a little girl, while on a beachy vacation with her Lao Lao, finds a beautiful flamingo feather in her grandmother's house that turns her visit into something wonderful and magical.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nothing brings an estranged family together like a murder next door. High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate empire she's built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack, Lana is stuck counting otters instead of square footage - and hoping...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A grandmother-granddaughter duo are eager to spend their summer together on peaceful Nantucket, but the season that unfolds brings about unforgettable surprises in New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer's magical, multigenerational novel. Eleanor Sunderland loves living on the Nantucket cliffside, in a charming home that has been in her family for decades. Now widowed, she looks forward to the arrival of her children and grandchildren for...