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Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Siem Sigerius is a beloved, brilliant professor of mathematics with a promising future in politics. His family-including a loving wife, two gorgeous, intelligent stepdaughters, and a successful future son-in-law-and carefully appointed home in the bucolic countryside complete the portrait of a comfortable, morally upright household. But there are elements of Siem's past that threaten to upend the peace and stability that he has achieved, and when...
22) Chestnut Street
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"While she was writing columns for The Irish Times and her best-selling novels, Maeve Binchy also had in mind to write a book that revolved around one street with many characters coming and going. Every once in a while, she would write about one these people. She would then put it in a drawer. "For the future," she would say. The future is now. Just around the corner from St. Jarlath's Crescent (which readers will recognize from Minding Frankie)...
23) Harmony: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
""Gorgeously written and patently original."--Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Time "In this gripping, timely novel, Carolyn Parkhurst follows the Hammond family as they give up everything. and ultimately reveals the healing power of love."--Kim Edwards, the #1New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter "A fascinating tale of a family taking a crazy risk to save themselves. I read it in one giant...
24) Piggybook
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
When Mrs. Piggott unexpectedly leaves one day, her demanding family begins to realize just how much she did for them.
Author
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future.
In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters.
Her husband died years ago, as did his wife,...
In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters.
Her husband died years ago, as did his wife,...
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Language
English
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Description
“Hilarious. . . . To understand Russia, read A Terrible Country.”
—Time
"This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it."
—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
"Hilarious, heartbreaking . . . A Terrible Country may be one of the best books you'll read this year."
—Ann Levin, Associated Press
A...
—Time
"This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it."
—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
"Hilarious, heartbreaking . . . A Terrible Country may be one of the best books you'll read this year."
—Ann Levin, Associated Press
A...
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1956]
Language
English
Description
The Bostonians, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
28) Blackout
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When a busy family?s activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once.
29) Mia
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2008: Mia volume 2
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Mia grew up playing ice hockey with her brothers, but now wants to see if she has what it takes to compete as a figure skater.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A very special Heartstopper story set over a challenging holiday season... Reuniting Tori Spring, her little brother Charlie, and Charlie's boyfriend Nick, this novella sees the Spring siblings brave a particularly difficult festive season"--
33) Henry's heart
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When Henry falls in love with a puppy but his father will not buy it for him, his heart reacts strangely. Includes facts about the heart's role within the body.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2010, 1984
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Vicky Austin recounts the events of the twenty-four days before Christmas as she prepares for her role as an angel in the Christmas Pageant and prays that her mother will not be in the hospital for Christmas having a new baby.
36) I'm not a baby!
Author
Publisher
Schwartz and Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
As the years go by, the members of Leo Leotardi's family continue to think he is just a baby.
Author
Series
If I stay volume 1
Language
English
Description
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
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