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1561) The children's Bach
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 160 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels embodied Australia's tumultuous 70s and 80s, and her incisive nonfiction evokes the keen eye of the New Journalists. The Atlantic dubbed her "the Joan Didion of Australia." Now, The Children's Bach, the beloved work that solidified her place among the masters of modern international letters, is available in a new US edition. The Children's Bach follows...
1562) Pizza my heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Maya Reynolds has practically grown up in her family's Brooklyn pizza shop, Soul Slice, and is a true city girl. When her family moves to a small town in Pennsylvania to open another pizza place, everything changes. Being the new girl is hard enough. At Soul Slice 2.0, Maya is assigned delivery duty. And her first delivery is a disaster. Can you make a worse impression than tripping ... and falling face-first into a rude boy's pizza order? When that...
1563) Motherthing
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law. Abby Lamb has done it. She's found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph's mother, Laura, whose depression has made it impossible for her to live on her own. She's...
1564) Something to live for
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Andrew works with death for a living. Searching for people's next of kin and attending the funerals if they don't have anyone, he's desperate to avoid the same fate for himself. Which is fine, because he has the perfect wife and 2.4 children waiting at home for him after a long day. At least, that's what he's told people. The truth is, his life isn't exactly as people think, and the little white lie he once told is about to catch up with him. Because...
1565) Extinctions
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Professor Frederick Lothian, retired engineer, has quarantined himself in a place he hates: a retirement village. His headstrong wife Martha, adored by all, is dead. His adopted daughter Caroline has cut ties, and his son Callum is lost to him in his own way. And though Frederick knows, logically, that a structural engineer can devise a bridge for any situation, somehow his own troubled family--fractured by years of secrets and lies--is always just...
1566) Remembrance
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Volunteering at a soup kitchen during the Christmas season to navigate midlife doubts, Beatrice Powell finds unexpected comfort in a relationship with a homeless man, Charles Davenport, who was driven to a life on the streets after the devastating loss of his family.
1567) The favorite daughter
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
On her wedding day ten years ago, Lena Donohue experienced a betrayal so painful that she fled the small town of Watersend, South Carolina, and reinvented herself in New York City. Though now a freelance travel writer, the one place she rarely goes is home - until she learns of her dads failing health. Returning to Watersend means seeing the sister she has avoided for a decade and the brother who runs their familys Irish pub - and who has borne the...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great-aunt's secrets in this sweeping debut, a family saga confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage. In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family's ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin turns a vibrant, permanent cobalt blue. On the same day, the Rummanis' centuries-old soap factory in Nablus is destroyed...
1569) Red thread of fate
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of a tragedy and fueled by guilt from a secret she's kept for years, a woman discovers how delicate the thread that binds family is in this powerful novel by Lyn Liao Butler. Two days before Tam and Tony Kwan receive their letter of acceptance for the son they are adopting, Tony and his estranged cousin Mia are killed in an accident. A shellshocked Tam learns she is named the guardian to Mia's five-year-old daughter, Angela. Tam has no...
1570) Right beside you
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Felicia Hawkins has a successful career, money in the bank, a solid future and is hopelessly in love with her co-worker, widower Richard Grimes. Richard has his hands full juggling pre-Christmas work demands and raising two teen daughters. He is drawn to Felicia's calm spirit and determination, and everything they have in common. With messy, well-meaning matchmaking from family and friends, and a long-distance transfer Richard can't refuse, it will...
1571) The wishing hill
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
379 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When artist Juliet Clark's dream is wiped clean by a shattered marriage, the artist reluctantly returns home to care for her grandmother. The family secrets waiting for pregnant Juliet may surprise her.
1572) How it all blew up
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Fleeing to Rome in the wake of coming out to his Muslim family, a failed relationship, and blackmail, eighteen-year-old Amir Azadi embarks on a more authentic life with new friends and dates in the Sistine Chapel before an encounter with a U.S. Customs officer places his hard-won freedom at risk." --
Fleeing to Rome in the wake of coming out to his Muslim-American family, a failed relationship, and blackmail, eighteen-year-old Amir Azadi embarks...
1573) Ædnan: an epic
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"The winner of Sweden's most prestigious literary award makes her American debut with an epic, multigenerational poem about a Sámi family's quest to stay together across a century of migration, violence, and colonial schooling"--
1574) Hedge: a novel
Author
Publisher
Zibby Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maud is a talented garden historian and devoted mother to daughters Ella and Louise. Motivated to reinvigorate her career and escape her troubled marriage, she accepts a summer job restoring the garden of a lush, nineteenth-century Hudson Valley estate. While waiting for her daughters to join her at the end of their school year, Maud meets coworker and archaelogist Gabriel Crews, whose passion for landscape history matches her own. When their immediate...
1575) Ways to build dreams
Author
Series
Ryan Hart novels volume 4
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
147 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Middle school is just around the corner for Ryan Hart, which means it's time to start thinking about the future--and not just how to prank her brother, Ray! During Black History Month, Ryan learns more about her ancestors and local Black pioneers, and their hopes for the future, for her generation. She wonders who she wants to be and what kind of person her family hopes she becomes. Drawing on the ambitions of those who came before her and her own...
1576) No matter the distance
Author
Language
English
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Description
The unexpected appearance of a dolphin in her backyard creek helps a sixth-grader with cystic fibrosis learn to write her own story.
Penny Rooney has cystic fibrosis, which means she has to do breathing treatments to help her lungs work. Some days, it seems like her CF is the only thing Penny knows about herself for sure. From her point of view, everyone around her can make sense of their place in the world. So why can't Penny even begin to write...
1577) Season of wonder
Author
Series
Haven Point volume 9
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dani and her daughters need to get out of New York. So when the retiring Haven Point veterinarian offers her a chance to take over his practice in the small Idaho town, she takes it. Adjusting to the charming mountain community isn't easy, but their next-door-neighbor, Deputy Sheriff Ruben Morales, is everything Dani's secretly wanted"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
""Florida, we got it all. Motorsports, ribs, beer. You can drive on the sand right on up to the ocean. Fireworks every night." That's how twelve-year-old CC's father, who named her after his beloved Canadian Club whiskey, describes the appeal of their new home. The man is a born grifter, a used-car salesman who burned down his dealership in southern Ohio for enough insurance money to set up a life for himself, his wife, and his two young daughters...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A small, declining town in Ohio. A family bereaved by terrible loss. A searing narrative about how American lives touch each other across divides both real and imagined... Set in failing small town in central Ohio, The Heart of It All asks how one manages, in an America of increasing division, to find a sense of family and community. Focusing on the members of three families: the Baileys, a white family who have put down deep roots in the community;...
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