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9561) Whatever it takes
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Sienna has no memory of her late mother, yet every significant day of her life has been marked by a letter written during her last weeks of life. Sienna knows her father feels grateful to be able to offer up these connections to the loving, talented woman his daughter never got a chance to know. Yet for Sienna herself, the letters have become a dreaded burden, a reminder that every milestone is less than it would be if both parents were still living....
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A late-in-life coming-of-age escapade told with humor and heart, Don't Think Twice is a moving and irreverent account of grief, growing up, and the healing power of adventure. Within six months, Barbara Schoichet lost everything: her job, her girlfriend of six years, and her mother to pancreatic cancer. Her life stripped bare, and armed with nothing but a death wish and a ton of attitude, Barbara pursues an unlikely method of coping. At the age of...
9564) The verdict
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
An alcoholic, failed attorney is reduced to ambulance chasing. A friend gives him a supposedly easy malpractice case which turns out to be a last chance at redeeming himself and his career.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
This is a bold personal manifesto on our contemporary understanding of romantic love and how the contradictions of inherited traditions and technology affect the way we build relationships. Born and raised in an Orthodox Jewish community in Buenos Aires, Tamara Tenenbaum approaches the sexual and affective habits of the secular world like an anthropologist exploring an unknown civilization. In this book, she draws on philosophy and militant feminism,...
9566) Girl gone mad
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Part of a group of six girls called the Harpies bullied a girl to her breaking point years ago. Now therapist Emily Bennett finds the past catching up to her as members of the Harpies start dying one by one, causing her to question her sanity and reality.
9568) Twice born
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Longing to show her son the country where she fell passionately in love with his father, an Italian professor heads off on a summer vacation to the battle-scarred city of Sarajevo. There she discovered a long-hidden secret, which reveals a past more haunted that even her memories can disclose.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"America's preeminent law firms, investment banks, and management consultant firms are known for being difficult workplaces. Between long, stressful hours on the job, low odds of promotions, often-unrewarding work assignments, and "up-or-out" personnel practices, most people who begin their careers in these institutions leave within several years of starting. But life in these firms is especially difficult for Black professionals, who leave elite...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"The community along Oregon's Deschutes River is one of successful careers and perfect families. For years, Liz and Owen have admired their good friends and neighbors, Carole and David, who appear to have it all--security, happiness, and a beautiful young son, Charlie. Then Charlie vanishes without a trace, and all that seemed safe is shattered"--
Pub. Date
©2005, ©2002.
Language
Arabic
Description
This film concerns a Palestinian named E.S. (played in utter silence with Keatonesque melancholy by director Suleiman) who observes the petty, hilariously repetitive neighbor-to-neighbor grievances of a community of middle-class Nazarenes. His father drives through the mostly Arab Israeli city, smiling and waving to his neighbors as he curses them under his breath. The Jerusalem dwelling son meets his Ramallah-based lover in an empty lot near an Israeli...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Documents the rape of a fourteen-year-old Iraqi girl and the execution of her family by members of the 502nd Infantry Regiment, citing contributing factors while examining the event's relevance in shaping future military initiatives.
9574) Escrito en el agua
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Pocos días antes de morir, Nel Abbott estuvo llamando a su hermana, pero Jules no cogió el teléfono, ignoró sus súplicas de ayuda. Ahora Nel está muerta. Dicen que saltó al río. Y Jules se ve arrastrada al pequeño pueblo de los veranos de su infancia, un lugar del que creía haber escapado, para cuidar de la adolescente que su hermana deja atrás. Pero Jules tiene miedo. Mucho miedo. Miedo al agua, miedo de sus recuerdos enterrados...
9575) Portrait of addiction
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
(Producer) Nine men and women, all recovering from drug and/or alcohol addiction, tell their stories. This testimony from people who have been there leaves no doubt that addiction can happen to anyone and so can recovery.
9576) The reservior
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print.
Language
English
Description
"The Reservoir follows an unexceptional man in an exceptional time. We see our present-day pandemic world and New York City through the eyes of a former Wall Street veteran, Ridley, as he looks back upon his life in his enforced quarantine solitude, wondering what it all means and who he really is. Sitting and brooding night after night, gazing out his huge picture window high above the Central Park Reservoir, Ridley spots a flashing light in an apartment...
9577) We believe in you
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Animals inspire their little ones to chase their dreams and reach for the stars"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the segregated South of the early twentieth century, unwritten rules guided every aspect of individual behavior, from how blacks and whites stood, sat, ate, drank, walked, and talked to whether they made eye contact with one another. Jennifer Ritterhouse asks how children learned this racial "etiquette," which was sustained by coercion and the threat of violence. More broadly, she asks how individuals developed racial self-consciousness. Parental...
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