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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In searing, beautiful prose, Sam Shepard's extraordinary narrative leaps off the page with its immediacy and power. It tells in a brilliant braid of voices the story of an unnamed narrator who traces, before our rapt eyes, his memories of work, adventure, and travel as he undergoes medical tests and treatments for a condition that is rendering him more and more dependent on the loved ones who are caring for him. The narrator's memories and preoccupations...
64) Freedom
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Neighbors wonder what is going on when Patty and Walter Berglund, once an ideal couple and perfect parents, begin to unravel, with their son moving in with the Republicans next door, Walter, an environmental lawyer, taking a job in the coal industry, and Patty becoming unhinged.
65) The tree of life
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
The impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950's that follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Bonus features included.
67) Blended
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a disastrous blind date, single parents Lauren and Jim agree on only one thing: they never want to see each other again. But when they each sign up separately for a fabulous family vacation with their kids, they are all stuck sharing a suite at a luxurious African safari resort for a week.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This rollicking book has it all: sex, lies, and scenery. Grant Ginder weaves a wonderful, engrossing multi-generational family story, with the Greek isles as a backdrop so beautiful that the reader will want to dive in"--Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and Modern Lovers. An irresistible, deftly observed novel about family, regret, and vacation by the author of The People We Hate at the Wedding. The Wright family...
69) Daybreak
Author
Series
Days of redemption volume 1
Publisher
Avon Inspire
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Viola Keim starts working at a Mennonite retirement home and soon finds herself torn between her attraction to Ed, missionary son of a resident, and her Amish values that require her to remain near home to care for her needy family members. Can she leave them behind to begin a new life abroad with Ed?
70) The cousins
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After receiving an invitation to spend the summer with their estranged grandmother, the Story cousins arrive at her house only to discover that she is not there, and the longer they stay on the island, the more they realize their mysterious family history has some deadly secrets.
71) Black Irish
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Although a good kid and gifted pitcher, sixteen-year-old Cole McKay's imploding South Boston Irish Catholic family threatens to drag him down until, while at a crossroads, a life and death situation makes him choose his path.
72) Mother Land
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Jay, one of seven living children, contemplates his mother's influence on the family and his life, as he struggles with her disappointment in him and suspects she may have sabotaged a budding relationship
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Some of the stormy weather of the past few seasons seems to have finally lifted for the Quinns. Kevin is about to tie the knot with Isabelle, and there's hopeful news about Bart, who has been captured by enemy forces in Afghanistan. That doesn't mean there aren't a few dark clouds on the horizon as the family juggle health scares and love triangles. But if there's one holiday that brings the Quinn family together, it's Christmas. And this year promises...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nicole "Coco" Martin is destined to have it all. As the only child of doting and successful parents, she has been given every opportunity in life. Having inherited her mother's stunning beauty and creativity, along with her father's work ethic and diligence, she has the world at her feet. Her graduation from Columbia is fast approaching, and with it the summer job of her dreams working at a magazine. Between work, leisurely weekends at her family's...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
An informative and compelling guide for families to enrich their home life in our age of distraction. Like millions of parents, bestselling author and New York Times family columnist Bruce Feiler felt squeezed between the needs of aging parents and rapidly growing children. Over three years, he traveled across the United States, seeking out the smartest people and the most effective families to assemble a collection of best practices for families...
77) Magical Monty
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
First-grader Monty Morris includes his new baby sister in a school project, gives his mother a surprising gift, gets a little more than he can handle with his friend Joey's dogs, and learns that sometimes a day filled with excitement is not the best thing.
Author
Series
Cookie chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight-year-old Ben takes a fortune cookie literally, and believing he has only one day left to live, tries to do everything he has always wanted to before nightfall
Author
Language
English
Description
Do you have a narcissist, sociopath, or psychopath in your life, or think that you might?
Do you continually feel anxious around someone in your life, but can't pinpoint why?
Do conversations seem to go off track, leaving you feeling knocked off balance and confused?
Does it feel like they are making your life a living hell, but they insist that you are too sensitive, crazy, or to blame?
Perhaps you know you are being manipulated or abused, but...
Author
Publisher
eLectio Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Christina likes to keep her distance from others. Life has other plans. Events from Christina’s childhood make her fearfully reluctant to get too close to others--even her family. Except, that is, for the one person who has admired her entire life: her adoring father. After her father’s death, the estrangement from her remaining family burns within her tattered heart. When called upon to care for her ailing mother, memories resurface fueling her...
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