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Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1989
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
This adaptation of the original story follows the activities of seven in children nineteenth-century New England as they prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday while Mother is away caring for Grandmother.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The new novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies, and What Alice Forgot, about how sometimes we don't appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it's too late. "What a wonderful writer--smart, wise, funny." --Anne Lamott Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It's just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong? In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty...
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 2
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
"In this evocative first novel, a young woman returns to her rural Vermont hometown in the wake of a heavy storm to search for her missing mother and unravel a powerful family secret"--
August 2011. Tropical Storm Irene wreaked havoc on Vermont, flooding rivers and destroying homes. New Orleans bartender Vale receives a call and is told that her mother, Bonnie, has disappeared. Beginning her search in the hometown she left eight years earlier, Vale...
Author
Series
Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Language
English
Description
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
46) The Moffats
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut.
47) Be mine
Author
Series
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway....
48) Alice Adams
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Alice had charm, looks and ambition, but lacked the money to keep up with the town's society. With her parents' help, she tries until a young man forces her to face facts.
Author
Series
The Palliser novels volume 6
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Plantagenet Palliser must face new challenges and a changing world if he is to hold his family together in the final installment of the Palliser Novels. After losing his devoted wife, Glencora, Duke Plantagenet Palliser takes on a task he has never had the time or skills to bother with before: dealing with his children. Palliser has never been a doting father, what with the responsibilities of title and duty constantly beckoning him away, but now...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1992
Edition
Newly illustrated ed.
Physical Desc
[31] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the new addition to the family, no one pays much attention to Frances anymore, so Frances decides to run away. Not too far, though -- just far enough so she can hear how much she'll be missed, even by baby Gloria!
51) Home fire
Author
Language
English
Formats
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...
52) State of wonder
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Marina Singh, a research scientist with a Minnesota-based pharmaceutical company, is sent to Brazil after the death of her friend and colleague, to take up his mission of finding Dr.Annick Swenson, a ruthless woman, now in her seventies, who has been conducting research among the Lakashi tribe on a reputed miracle drug, and refuses to let anything stand in her way.
53) Celine: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter, a luminous, spine-tingling novel of suspense--the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past"--
54) Sounder
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1969]
Physical Desc
116 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young Negro boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die but become part of other things brings the youngster new hope.
55) Fancy Nancy
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young girl who loves fancy things helps her family to be fancy for one special night.
57) Purity
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
""A huge-canvased novel about identity, the internet, sexual politics, and love from the author of Freedom and The Corrections""--
""A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is...
58) The good son
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her son is released from prison after serving time for the negligent homicide of his girlfriend, Thea is committed to helping him make amends until attempts on their lives are made, leading her to believe that those who are threatening them have something to hide.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
286 p.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of The Mistress of Nothing comes a compelling novel that explores the complexity of modern life and the tenuous, often unexpected ties that bind us together. Spring 2010. Harriet works in local radio in London, England. When a volcano erupts in Iceland and airspace shuts down over Europe, stranding most of her colleagues abroad, she seizes the opportunity to take on a larger role at the station. Her husband, Michael,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Tappleton gets up early to prepare the turkey. Mr. Tappleton sets off to buy the pies. Kenny makes the salad, and Jenny mashes the potatoes. Then all the relatives arrive for an enormous Thanksgiving dinner. But this year nothing sees to go right. First the turkey slides down the icy hill and into the pond--PLOP! PLOP! Then the bakery sells out of pies. f It looks like it's going to be a pretty bleak holiday...until Grandmother reminds everyone...
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