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Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Library edition.
Language
English
Description
Hale Dunbar, former owner of the Piggly Wiggly, runs for mayor in his hometown of Second Creek, Mississippi with the help of Laurie Lepanto and her new husband, Powell Hampton who teach the "Waltzing at the Piggly Wiggly" dance sessions.
5702) The displacements
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"An adrenaline-fueled story of lives upended and transformed by an unprecedented catastrophe. To all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everything: healthy children, a stable marriage, a lucrative career for Brantley, and the means for Daphne to pursue her art full-time. Their deluxe new Miami life has just clicked into place when Luna-the world's first category 6 hurricane-upends everything they have taken for granted. When the storm makes landfall,...
5703) An unwanted inheritance
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When their father dies unexpectedly, siblings Max, Ellie and Nathan can't even contemplate emptying his house; not least, because he spent his last decade curating what feels like a museum to his polished public image. So it is Max's wife, Caroline, who finds the suitcase under a bed. A suitcase stuffed full of an awful lot of cash. The source of the money is a mystery to them all, and each has a strong opinion about what to do with it. Ellie and...
5704) Like water for chocolate
Author
Language
English
Description
Romantic and poignant tale of family life and cultural traditions in turn-of-the-century Mexico.
5705) Together for Christmas
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the town of Cape Light, the holiday season finds one treasured relationship about to be torn apart ... while another is just coming together"--
As Christmas approaches, business partners Molly Harding and Betty Bowman at Willoughby's Fine Food and Catering know the business is on shaky financial ground. When Betty must step back from work to care for her injured husband, Molly can't bring herself to burden her friend with her own bad news. Meanwhile...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From an internationally acclaimed novelist, the suspenseful and heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart by secrets and driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences. Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, an invitation from a mentor in America has allowed her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong...
5708) Run
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with single parenthood and a scandal that cost him his political career, Bernard Doyle fights his disappointment with his adopted sons' career choices before a violent event forces the members of his family to reconsider their priorities.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
It's been seventeen years since the tragic summer the McAvoy sisters fell apart. Lindy, the wild one, left home, carved out a new life in the city and never looked back. Delia, the sister who stayed, became a mother herself, raising her daughters and running the family shop in their small Ohio hometown on the shores of Lake Erie. But now, with their mother's ailing health and a rebellious teenager to rein in, Delia has no choice but to welcome Lindy...
5711) Book Group Bag: Pachinko
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
5712) Eden in winte
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of his father on the island of Martha's Vineyard, it is taking all of Adam Blaine's will to suture the deep wounds the tragedy has inflicted upon his family and himself. As the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's death casts suspicions on those closest to him, Adam struggles to protect them from those who still suspect that his father was murdered by one of his kin.
5713) Punky Brewster
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Punky Brewster, a bright eight-year-old girl, has been abandoned by her mother and lives on the streets of Chicago with her puppy sidekick Brandon. Punky thinks she doesn't need help, but after getting picked up by the police, she enters a foster home and starts to search for a family. Punky meets Henry, a long-lost relative, and decides he's the adoptive dad for her. All she has to do is convince the foster home, adoption judges and lawyers, and...
5714) In one person
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Unabridged, [Recorded Books edition].
Language
English
Description
An elderly bisexual man looks back upon his life and romances, reflecting on his unfulfilled loves and broken dreams.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
English edition.
Language
English
Description
Márcia, who lives in a Brazilian favela and works in a hospital, cares deeply about her partients and her family, so when her troubled adult daughter, Jacqueline, is arrested, she turns Jacqeline's gangster boyfriend in, in order to protect her daughter.
5718) Precious
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Abridged.
Language
English
Description
In this harrowing tale, sixteen-year-old Precious Jones has endured a broken home under the most horrific circumstances. Impregnated by her rapist father, Precious prepares for the birth of her second child as she runs away from home and befriends a counter-culture teacher who whisks her away on a soul-searching journey.
5719) Pride & prejudice
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the original by Jane Austen that tells of Lizzy Bennet and her loveable, eccentric family as they navigate through tricky British social circles.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
[Navy baby:]"It was a night she'd never forget...two strangers coming together in a moment of intense desire. But now sheltered Hannah Raymond is expecting the child of a rugged naval seaman she thought she'd never see again. Riley Murdock has been searching for Hannah for months-ever since that soul-shaking night of passion. Now fate has reunited them. Determined to give his child the chance he never had, Riley marries Hannah. They've created the...
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