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41) Flower children
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
211 p. ; 19 cm.
Description
Follows the experiences of four siblings as they grow up in rural Pennsylvania under the guidance of devoutly hippie parents who believe in life without limits, a situation that involves innocence-compromising freedoms.
42) Shoot the moon
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
367 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Description
Two decades after the tragic accident that killed their father, Theodora, Josh, and Claire return to their childhood home to confront painful realities about their incapable mother and the devoted aunt who raised them.
Author
Description
In this book, the author tells the story of a woman's homecoming, a family secret, and the old house that holds the key to the true legacy of a family. At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate first love, lead her into the unexpected. Late one night, as she paces...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2012
Description
House-sitting her aunt's lake cottage in the Berkshires while mending a broken heart, Manhattanite Natalie bonds with a smitten shopkeeper who is caring for an aging parent and a reluctant stay-at-home mom with whom she commiserates over romantic complications.
50) Lost: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
242 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Terror stricken when her husband, an Alzheimer's patient, disappears into the snow on a frigid January morning, Susan launches a search with Jeff, a social worker, and a mute eleven-year-old who has been abandoned by his family.
Author
Description
"Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A collection of illuminating essays by the best-selling author of Enchantments explores such topics as the loss of a beloved in-law, her struggles with telling her children the truth about Santa and the Tooth Fairy and her painful experiences with incest.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
"In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of...
55) The middle place
Author
Publisher
Voice/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
266 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
"At 36, Kelly had a good marriage, a couple of kids, and a weekly newspaper column. But she still saw herself as George Corrigan's daughter. A garrulous Irish-American charmer from Baltimore, George was the center of the ebullient, raucous Corrigan clan. Kelly's was a colorful childhood, just the sort a girl could get attached to. She lives deep within what she calls the Middle Place--'that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap'--but...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Hired by the eccentric aunt of New Mexico's multimillionaire Governor Quintrell to research their family, genealogist Carolina May stumbles into a dark and dangerous secret about the Quintrell family that threatens her life.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 22 cm
Description
""Incredibly poignant ... Rachel Khong's first novel sneaks up on you -- just like life ... and heartbreak. And love."--Miranda July A few days after Christmas in a small suburb outside of L.A., pairs of a man's pants hang from the trees. The pants belong to Howard Young, a prominent history professor, recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Howard's wife, Annie, summons their daughter, Ruth. Freshly disengaged from her fiance and still broken...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
What are the effects of children on their parents? Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question, isolating and analyzing the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives, whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships or their internal senses of self.
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