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Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min., 124 min., 133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Marvin's room: Seventeen years ago, fiercely independent Lee left home and left behind her kindhearted sister Bessie to care for their father, Marvin. But now Lee is returning with her teenage son for a homecoming that's sure to turn the entire household upside down.
Music of the heart: A single mother with little more than talent and the determination to make a difference, Roberta Guaspari overcame the skepticism of everyone who didn't think she...
Author
Series
Monster High diaries volume 5
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
120 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having babies, The Trouble With You is the story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant. Raised never to step out of bounds, educated in one of the Sister Seven Colleges for a career as a wife and mother, torn between her cousin Mimi who is determined to keep her a "nice girl" -...
5364) Novels, 1970-1982
Author
Series
Library of America volume 209
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1,064 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The third volume of the Library of America's edition of Saul Bellow's complete novels collects three essential works: Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970), Humboldt's Gift (1975) -- and The Dean's December (1982). In each, Bellow shows himself a master of biting social commentary and bold characterization--above all through a trio of unforgettable protagonists. These novels, written in the period of Bellow's greatest literary and popular acclaim--he was awarded...
5365) Victoria's daughters
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
xiv, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
viii, 287 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of M.F.K. Fisher and Peter Mayle, this enchantingly warm and witty memoir follows American-born Katherine Wilson on her adventures abroad, where a three-month rite of passage in Naples turns into a permanent embrace of this boisterous city on the Mediterranean. It is all thanks to a surprising romance, a new passion for food, and a spirited woman who will become her mother-in-law--and teach her to laugh, to seize joy, and to love"--
"When...
5367) The great unknowable end
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Galliard and seventeen-year-old Stella cross paths and realize they must determine their own futures as strange events occur in Slater, Kansas, and its neighboring commune in 1977.--
Slater, Kansas, 1977. Stella dreams of being a space engineer, but after her mom dies by suicide and her brother runs off to Red Sun, the local hippie commune, she is forced to bring her dreams down to earth to care for her sister,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
viii, 260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Christine O'Brien remembers growing up in NYC's famous Dakota apartment with her powerful father, her beautiful mother, and a food obsessesion that consumed her. Hunger comes in many forms. A person can crave a steak in the same way that she can crave a perfect family life. In her memoir, Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing, Christine O'Brien tells the story of her own cravings. It's a story of growing up in a family with a successful, but explosive...
5369) Turning
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Before the "accident" Genie was an aspiring ballerina, a star pupil at her exclusive New York dance school, now she is a bitter teenager, permanently confined to a wheelchair, shutting herself off from her friends, her beloved teacher, and even her mother; but at physical therapy she meets Kyle, a gymnast whose traumatic brain injury has landed him in therapy--and through their growing friendship Genie realizes that she has to confront the things...
Author
Pub. Date
August 2012.
Physical Desc
xx, 219 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Focusing on the first family in science, this biography explores Marie Curie's relationship with her two daughters. Marie Curie was the first person to be honored by two Nobel Prizes and she pioneered the use of radiation therapy for cancer patients. But she was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two extraordinary daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic...
Series
The Pacific Northwest K-9 Unit Miniseries volume Book 4-6
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
15 audio discs (18 hr., 19 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Olympic Mountain Pursuit: Four years ago, former US Marshal Jackson Dean left his job after falling for a witness who's suddenly the target of an assassin. Now it's up to Jackson and his K-9 partner to protect single mom Everly Lopez and her young daughter when Everly's identity is blown. But with hired killers looking for a payday, Jackson must use all his resources to stop them.
Threat Detection: When someone shoots at volcanologist Aubrey Smith...
5372) Nipêhon =: I wait
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
A young child, her grandmother and mother are going out to pick wild yarrow. As Grandmother gets ready, the child and her mom wait. Grandmother leads the way to the field of blossoms, where they can finally start to pick ... only now they have to wait for Mom! The simple story, written in Cree and English and accompanied by rich acrylic illustrations, shows the patience, love and humor involved as three generations accommodate one another on a family...
Author
Series
How to kiss a Hawthorne brother volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
407 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Perry Hawthorne is my boss. Only my boss. And I do NOT have a crush. When one of THE Hawthorne brothers -- known by their chiseled jawlines and their family-run farm and event center -- hires me to be his virtual assistant, I do everything I can to keep him firmly in the work zone. His grumpy demeanor helps. His smoking hot profile picture does not. But even if I do have a crush (a very tiny one), I can't catch real feelings for a million different...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Little John is proud of his mother's work as a stonecutter for a cathedral called "Big John," but struggles to understand the importance of spending so much time on one stone that no one will know Momma cut. Includes a history of New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school senior Harriet is still grabbling with her mother's death when an unwanted property sale causes her to join forces with her new neighbor to stop Belle Grove Plantation from turning into a wedding venue.
Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old plantation in Louisiana, which they have transformed into one of the South's few enslaved people's museums. Mother and daughter duo Claudia and Layla Hartwell plan to turn the...
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