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7661) The hurricane sisters
Author
Series
Lowcountry tales (Dorothea Benton Frank) volume 11
Language
English
Description
"Best friends since the first day of classes at The College of Charleston, Ashley Anne Waters and Mary Beth Smythe, now 23 years old, live in Ashley's parents' beach house rent-free. Ashley is a gallery assistant who aspires to become an artist. Mary Beth, a gifted cook from Tennessee, works for a caterer while searching for a good teaching job. Though they both know what they want out of life, their parents barely support their dreams and worry for...
Author
Publisher
Clipper Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A woman's peaceful life in a clifftop French villa is threatened by the past: "Threaded with mystery and menace . . . the story kept me gripped." -Dinah Jefferies, bestselling author
As an adventurous teenager, Grace came to France amid the student protests and upheavals of 1968-and became involved in relationships with two men, one tempestuous, the other gentle and supportive. But the romantic triangle came to an end when one of the men died...
7663) River Boy
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Language
English
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She didn't know how fast the current was moving her. It could take many more hours yet, perhaps more hours than she had the strength for. But she must not stop. She must keep going. She must try to catch the river boy, even though she was frightened at the thought of what he was.
Jess's beloved grandfather has just had a serious heart attack, but he insists that the family travel as planned to his boyhood home on the river so that...
Jess's beloved grandfather has just had a serious heart attack, but he insists that the family travel as planned to his boyhood home on the river so that...
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Language
English
Description
From popular humor writer and social media sensation Anna Lind Thomas comes a second book of charming and uproarious essays that capture our universal need for life to just slow down and give us as minute-we weren't ready for this!
Anna Lind Thomas wants everyone to just calm down and give her a minute, okay? She's not ready for this! In fact, through her latest collection of laugh out loud essays, she'll prove she's never been ready for anything...
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Language
English
Description
Whether she's coping with the "hysteria bandwagon" that permeates social media; recounting the time her epidural worked a little too well; or sharing about the night she and her husband panicked over a suspected intruder, what do we do with our hands? Only to discover the loud noise that had pierced the night came from their kids' toys falling in the bathtub, Anna Lind Thomas is deft at telling the truth as she sees it, even if it later proves to...
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Language
English
Description
A collection of refreshingly honest and hilarious essays from Southern Living columnist Elizabeth Passarella about navigating change, whether emotional or logistical, and staying sane during life's unexpected twists and turns.
After Elizabeth Passarella and her husband finally decided that it was time to sell their two-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, she found herself wondering, Is there a proper technique for skinning a couch? The couch in question...
7667) Call Me Sunflower
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Language
English
Description
Sunny Beringer hates her first name-her real first name-Sunflower. And she hates that her mom has suddenly left behind her dad and uprooted their family miles away from New Jersey to North Carolina just so she can pursue some fancy degree. Sunny has to live with a grandmother she barely knows, and she's had to leave her beloved cat and all her friends behind. And no one else seems to think anything is wrong. So she creates "Sunny Beringer's Totally...
7668) Dance Me, Daddy
Author
Language
English
Description
Dance me, Daddy. Dance me around. Don't let my feet ever touch down. There's nothing better than being your girl. If I am your princess, then you are king of the world. This picture book by singer and songwriter Cindy Morgan sparkles with the joy of childhood and the blessings of families.
Author
Series
Olav Audunsson volume 2
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Olav settles in at his ancestral estate and soon brings Ingunn home as his wife. Both hope to put their troubles behind them, but the crimes and shameful secrets of the past have a long reach and tenacious hold. The consequences of sin, suspicion, and familial obligations may prove a greater threat to the pair's happiness than even their long years of separation"--
Author
Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the third book in the New York Times bestselling series by Chris Colfer, the Brothers Grimm have a warning for the Land of Stories.
Conner Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adventures are behind him—until he discovers a mysterious clue left by the famous Brothers Grimm. With help from his classmate Bree and the outlandish Mother Goose, Conner sets off on a mission across Europe to crack a two-hundred-year-old code.
Meanwhile,...
Conner Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adventures are behind him—until he discovers a mysterious clue left by the famous Brothers Grimm. With help from his classmate Bree and the outlandish Mother Goose, Conner sets off on a mission across Europe to crack a two-hundred-year-old code.
Meanwhile,...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Life is messy for each of us. But Jen Hatmaker reminds us that it's okay to admit that we're all in the same boat. Join New York Times bestselling author and honorary big sister Jen as she shares hilarious tales, shameless honesty, and unconditional hope for the woman who's forgotten her moxie.
We will endure discouragement, heartbreak, failure, and suffering. All of us. And more than once. But we are the very same folks who can experience triumph,...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
At Blueberry Bay Bed and breakfast in Maine, Louise Bessire and her daughter, Isobel, are both anticipating an exciting summer. Louise is hosting an important wedding that could make her business. Isobel is looking forward to writing her style and fashion blog and getting to know charming nineteen-year-old Jeff Otten. As the wedding draws closer, Louise has little time to focus on her daughter. Feeling isolated, especially when her father cancels...
7673) My German brother
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"An uproarious novel about a Brazilian man's often sordid, lifelong search for a possibly imaginary half-brother, born in Germany just before the Second World War" --
"In 1960s São Paulo, teenage car thief and budding lothario Ciccio comes home each day to a house stuffed with books. His father, a scholar, cold and aloof, has spent his life acquiring them; his mother, by necessity, has spent her life organizing them. Ciccio himself feels like an...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A psychologist tasked with removing children from dangerous homes begins to question methodology and her own mothering skills when her son becomes a victim of the opioid crisis. Psychologist and expert witness Sharon Lamb takes children away from theirparents. A trained forensic evaluator for child welfare services, she is as qualified as anybody could be to do so. But when her son's struggle with opioid addiction comes to light, she starts to doubt...
Author
Publisher
Free Spirit Publishing, an imprint of Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Gentle and reassuring, What Does Grief Feel Like? shares the many ways people can grieve when a loved one dies and validates children's unique grief experiences. Open-ended questions throughout the book invite children to share what they are thinking, feeling, and going through: What did you feel after your special person died? What happens when your grief gets too big? What do you do in your family and community to help your grief? Dr. Korie Leigh...
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Language
English
Description
"Maggie is fine. She’s doing really good, actually. Sure, she’s broke, her graduate thesis on something obscure is going nowhere, and her marriage only lasted 608 days, but at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new life as a Surprisingly Young Divorc�e™. Now she has time to take up nine hobbies, eat hamburgers at 4 am, and 'get back out there' sex-wise. With the support of her tough-loving academic advisor,...
7678) All the money in the world: the outrageous fortune and misfortunes of the heirs of J. Paul Getty
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on the column of the same name that appeared in The Toast, Hey Ladies! is a laugh-out-loud read that follows a fictitious group of eight 20-and-30-something female friends for one year of holidays, summer house rentals, dates, brunches, breakups, and, of course, the planning of a disastrous wedding. This instantly relatable story is told entirely through emails, texts, DMs, and every other form of communication known to man.The women in the...
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Series
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In today's uncertain world, many families are leaving their home countries and seeking a better life in the United States. Immigrants from Somalia and Other African Countries explores the stories of two families who left their home countries to find a better life in the United States. Follow their journeys to find out why they left their homelands and understand the challenges they faced in moving to a new country.
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