Kate Mulgrew
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"They say you can't go home again. But when her father is diagnosed with aggressive lung cancer and her mother with atypical Alzheimer's, New York-based actress Kate Mulgrew returns to her hometown in Iowa to spend time with her parents and care for them in the time they have left. The months Kate spends with her parents in Dubuque--by turns turbulent, tragic, and joyful--lead her to reflect on each of their lives and how they shaped her own. Those...
3) The son
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part
unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, this is
a novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American
West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious
family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim.
Spring, 1849. Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a
marauding band of Comanches takes him captive. Brave and clever,...
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
6 compact discs [7 hrs.]
Language
English
Description
Now a fragile ninety-two, Anna Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her 'logical family' in San Francisco. Some of them are bound for Burning Man, the art community in Nevada. Anna has another Nevada destination in mind: the town which holds the whorehouse and home that the sixteen-year-old boy she used to be ran away from. She journeys into the troubled heart of her Depression childhood, where she will unearth secrets and dreams and attend to...
5) Lovespell
Publisher
Shanachie
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Celtic tale of the love between the warrior Tristan and Isolt, the wife of King Mark of Cornwall.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 9
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows ninety-two-year-old Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, as she joins her former tenant Brian on a road trip to Nevada where she attends to unfinished business she has long avoided.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
692 p. : ill. ;
Language
English
Description
Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photography, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it's across Massachusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2...
Author
Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Language
English
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"Lyrics to seventy-five songs from the children's television programs Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and The Children's Corner, collected and presented as an illustrated treasury of poems. Lyrics explore topics such as feelings, new siblings, everyday life, and imagination"--
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Language
English
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Description
As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier's eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined, until now. But the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town's bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing and too earth-shattering in its implications, to be forgotten. Because if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. We must accept that...