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"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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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"From the author of the internationally bestselling A Man Called Ove, a charming, warmhearted novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending her on a journey that brings to life the world of her grandmother's fairy tales"--
Elsa is seven years old; her grandmother is seventy-seven years old. She is Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land of...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 272 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"Larissa is a stubborn, brutally honest woman in her eighties, tired of her home in Kiev, Ukraine, tired of everything in life, really, except for her beloved granddaughter, Natasha. Natasha is tired as well, but that's because she has just had a baby, and she's struggling to balance her roles as a new mother, a wife, an actress (or she used to be, anyway), and a host to her husband's greasy-haired, useless best friend, Stas, who has been staying...
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"Calvin Sidey is a cowboy of the old-school, no-guff sort--steely, hardened, with his own personal code. It's the 1960s, and he's living off the grid in a stifling trailer on the prairie when his adult son, Bill, seeks his help. A mostly absentee father, and a virtual no-show as a grandfather, Calvin nevertheless reluctantly agrees to stay with his grandchildren for a week. He decamps for his son's dark and musty basement, to the small town where...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[c1994]
Physical Desc
126p illus
Language
English
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An observer of today's energetic and demanding grandparenting offers a hilarious collection of wit, wisdom, anecdotes, lessons, and truths that capture the delights and hazards of a special time of life
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
164 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
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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...
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"Hooray for Grandparents celebrates the special role grandparents play in children's lives and collects 50 ways to build a strong relationship between grandparent and grandchild. Through fun activities to do together, ways to create your own special traditions, advice on how to be their support in difficult times, and ideas for building a legacy that goes on throughout their own lives, this is full of useful, fun, and meaningful ways for grandparents...
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Publisher
Blue Apple Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Presents a list of ways in which grandmothers can be special, using directive verbs, such as enjoying the outdoors by going camping and grilling hotdogs, or feeding their brains with books and chess.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
535 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Janelle Marshall's life is finally going according to plan--her future is as secure and predictable as her childhood never was. But just when she should be happiest, she gets a distressing call: Little Bill, the grandfather who raised her, has gone missing. This vibrant, heartfelt, and uplifting novel is about gaining the courage to take chances, learning to let go, and rediscovering yourself"--Provided by the publisher.
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Gallery Books
Language
English
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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.
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English
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"The greatest writer of his time."-Edmund Wilson
"One of the great poets of the novel, a genius of his art"-Edgar Johnson
"His characters are marvelous, his insights wonderful…you don't expect reality but you get something bigger and better."-Ruth Rendell
The Old Curiosity Shop was initially published in a weekly serial, "Master Humphrey's Clock", between 1840 and 1841. Charles Dickens' story of the frail and innocent orphan had become such...
19) Forgiveness road
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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.