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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize: An “extraordinary” novel “lit by a moral intelligence at once fierce and tender” (The New York Times Book Review).
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered old judge wants only to retire in peace. But his life is upended when his sixteen-year-old orphaned granddaughter,...
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered old judge wants only to retire in peace. But his life is upended when his sixteen-year-old orphaned granddaughter,...
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 8
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A young woman realizes that her wilderness home with her grandfather is not all she longs for as she grows older.
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Read James King's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.
A magnificent debut about a man's odyssey toward family redemption- with his granddaughter along for the ride
Bill Warrington realizes he has Alzheimer's and his lucid days are numbered. Determined to repair a lifetime of damage to his estranged adult children, Bill takes off with his fifteen-year-old granddaughter April on a cross-country drive, bound for...
A magnificent debut about a man's odyssey toward family redemption- with his granddaughter along for the ride
Bill Warrington realizes he has Alzheimer's and his lucid days are numbered. Determined to repair a lifetime of damage to his estranged adult children, Bill takes off with his fifteen-year-old granddaughter April on a cross-country drive, bound for...
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Treasures of Nome volume 1
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English
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"When her grandfather's health begins to decline, Havyn is determined to keep her family together. But everyone has secrets - including John, the hired stranger who recently arrived on their farm. To help out Havyn starts singing at a local roadhouse - but dangerous eyes grow jealous as she and John grow closer. Will they realize the peril before it is too late?"--Publisher description.
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2020.
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Online Halle is Kels, the enigmatically cool creator of One True Pastry, a YA book blog that pairs epic custom cupcakes with covers and reviews. When she arrives at her Gramp's small town to spend senior year, she find herself face-to-face with her online best friend, Nash. Halle is sure that if she tells him she's actually Kels, it will ruin their digital friendship. Is it still a love triangle if there are only two people in it? -- adapted from...
10) Six sweets under
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2023.
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Former actress-turned-chocolatier Becca Ransom, while testing new flavors in preparation for the annual Gondola Races, must prove the innocence of her grandfather, the event's organizer, in the murder of local curmudgeon Archie Smith, who was stirring up trouble in an attempt to keep tourists away from Larch Haven.
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Sheldon Horowitz novels volume 1
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2013.
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English
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After witnessing a murder in Olso, elderly former Marine sniper and watch repairman, Sheldon Horrowitz, flees to safety with the newly orphaned son of the victim and becomes haunted by memories of his own son who died in Vietnam.
12) Fatal code
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Snap Agency volume 2
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English
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"In the global race for space domination, a cryptologist must overcome his greatest mistake to help the granddaughter of a nuclear physicist decipher the clues to a top secret nuclear project before it falls into the hands of America's enemies"--
13) Grumpy New Year
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Daisy, a young Chinese American girl, is excited to be celebrating the Lunar New Year with her Yeh-Yeh in China, but at first she is too grumpy from lack of sleep to enjoy the activities he has planned. Includes recipes for fried Jiao Zi (dumplings) and Eight Treasure Rice.
14) Tamar
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Candlewick Press
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In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family.
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Old grudges, tribal traditions, and outside influences collide for a Kiowa woman as forces threaten her family, her tribe, and the land of her ancestors. A cryptic voice message from her grandfather, James Sawpole, telling her to come home sounds so wrong that she catches the next plane to Oklahoma. When Mud and her cousin Denny discover her grandfather missing--and stumble across a body in his work room--Mud has no choice but to search for answers....
18) Stand by me
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Family Is forever volume 3
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English
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Kym Knicely has been a caregiver, but now she is focused on her career and earning her doctorate in education. When she meets Charles "Chaz" Banks and his four-year-old granddaughter, Chauncy, who is autistic, Kym is attracted to the older man. Chaz is ready to take a second chance on love, but is needed in his granddaughter's life. When your faith is strong, love will find a way. -- adapted from back cover
19) Abbeville
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Unbridled Books
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[2008]
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257 pages ; 24 cm
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English
20) Wild spaces
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2023.
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"An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog Teach. But when the boy's eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain. The longer his grandfather outstays his welcome and the greater the tension between the adults grows, the more the boy feels...
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