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"To each of the men and women in 'The last time I saw you', this reunion means something different. A last opportunity to say something long left unsaid, an escape from the bleaker realities of everyday life, a means to save a marriage on the rocks, or an opportunity to bond with a slightly estranged daughter, if only over what her mother should wear"--BOT website.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Sequel to Trainspotting, a story about a young heroin addict in Edinburgh who tries to kick the habit but his junkie friends don't make it easy for him. Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud, Sick Boy, and Begbie. Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear,...
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Frank Goode's grown children cancel a family reunion, the recent widower sets off on a cross-country journey to reconnect with each of them. A family separated by physical and emotional distance finds a way to come together.
5) The farewell
Publisher
Lionsgate
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Description
Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds...
Author
Series
Village mystery volume 4
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
149 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
The Colonel attends a weekend RAF reunion event in the village of Buckby that includes a reunited Lancaster bomber crew, and when one of the crew turns up dead, he soon finds himself reluctantly drawn into the investigation.
Author
Series
Winter Street Inn novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
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A family Christmas gathering at Kelley Quinn's Nantucket inn is thrown into turmoil by his four adult children's personal dramas and the discovery of his second wife's infidelity.
8) Dig
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Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
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"Whisking you back to the shores of her bestselling Beach House series, Mary Alice Monroe weaves together a tale of the struggles and triumphs of the historic Rutledge family of Charleston, South Carolina. Beautifully wrought and rich with keen insight, this is an illuminating tale of new beginnings, resilience, and one family's enduring love. Cara Rutledge returns to her Southern home on the idyllic Isle of Palms. Everything is comfortingly the...
Author
Series
Finfarran Peninsula volume 6
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
341, 18 pages ; 24 cm
Description
On Ireland's west coast, Hannah Casey finds her summer plans with her boyfriend changing when a chance encounter with a former flatmate leads her to London, where she's offered a new opportunity that forces her to decide what her heart truly wants.
11) Joe quiere jugar
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017].
Physical Desc
30 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Joe the frog wants to be on the go, but even at a family reunion he is out of luck, as everyone says they are too busy, or he is too fast, too slow, too big, or too small to go with them, until Grandma invites him to go with her on a special outing.
"¡Joe quiere jugar, jugar y jugar! ¡Pero todos los parientes que están en el picnic le dicen que no, no y no! ¿Será posible que Joe tenga un buen día gracias a su abuela?" - Back cover.
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"In the Portland suburb of West Knoll, Delta and her friends were the pretty, popular elite of the high school. That was fifteen years and a whole lifetime ago. Even then, backstabbing and betrayal erupted among the women in the group, a trio of which are now gathered around a hospital bed. And most of it revolved around the man lying close to death before them. To Delta, it feels as if a nightmare unfolds every time they get together. It started...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
162 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Michael Ondaatje, Every Day Is for the Thief is a wholly original work of fiction by Teju Cole, whose critically acclaimed debut, Open City, was the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was named one of the best books of the year by more than twenty publications. Fifteen years is a long time to be away from home. It feels longer still because I...
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