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Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn't know her mother?
From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes Kristin Hannah's powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between the present and the past
Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children
2) Granny Dan
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English
Description
In my eyes she had always been old, always been mine, always been Granny Dan. But in another time, another place, there had been dancing, people, laughter, love. . . . She had had another life before she came to us, long before she came to me. . . .
She was the cherished grandmother who sang songs in Russian, loved to roller-skate, and spoke little of her past. But when Granny Dan died, all that remained was a box wrapped in brown paper,...
She was the cherished grandmother who sang songs in Russian, loved to roller-skate, and spoke little of her past. But when Granny Dan died, all that remained was a box wrapped in brown paper,...
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English
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"When Andrei Kaplan's older brother insists he return to Moscow to care for their ailing grandmother, he must take stock of his life in New York. His girlfriend has stopped returning his texts. His dissertation adviser is dubious about his job prospects. His bank balance is dangerously low. So Andrei packs up his hockey stuff and moves in with a woman who has outlived her husband and most of her friends. She survived the dark days of communism and...
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English
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When Oksana's family begins their new American life in Florida after emigrating from Ukraine, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her depressed mother sits home all day worrying, and her flamboyant grandmother relishes the attention she gets when she walks Oksana to school, not realizing that the street they're walking down is known as Prostitute Street. Oksana just wants to have friends and lead a normal life -- and though...
Author
Series
Sowers trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Broadman & Holman
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
viii, 309 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Sowers trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Broadman & Holman Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
viii, 310 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Livingston Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This ... comic debut tells the story of the Molochniks, Russian-Jewish immigrants in suburban Connecticut. Daughters wed, houses flood, cultures clash--and the past has a way of emerging at the most inconvenient moments"--Jacket flap.
15) Forty rooms
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of a woman born in Moscow who leaves for the United States, where she finds happiness and love but must also deal with the ghosts of her youth.
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Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years—and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times • The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • The Seattle Times • O: The Oprah Magazine • Maureen Corrigan, NPR • Salon...
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times • The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • The Seattle Times • O: The Oprah Magazine • Maureen Corrigan, NPR • Salon...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
vi, 246 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the 1920s, Zoya Andropova, a refugee from the Soviet Union, finds herself in the alien landscape of an elite all-girls New Jersey boarding school. Having lost her family, her home, and her sense of purpose, Zoya struggles to belong--a task made more difficult by the malice her peers heap on scholarship students and by her new country's paranoia about Russian spies. When she meets visiting writer and fellow Russian émigré Leo Orlov, her luck seems...
19) Brooklyn Bridge
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Language
English
Description
In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Alexei Lebedev finally comes out to his conservative community, it does not go well. That's how he ended up on the rugged Pacific Crest Trail, hoping he can figure out a new life plan in the thousands of miles it'll take to walk the famed hike. He's prepared for rattlesnakes, blisters, and months of solitude. What he's not prepared for is the ray of sunshine named Ben Caravalho. Charismatic and outgoing, Ben's personality and infectious laughter...
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