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Author
Series
Marta's legacy volume 2
Language
English
Description
In a saga set from the 1950s to the present, the rift between mother and daughter is examined.
Author
Publisher
Nathan Monk
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge" follows a rag-tag group of millennial friends who, following collective traumas ranging from the Columbine Massacre to 9/11 to the COVID-19 pandemic, are simply trying to survive a world that doesn't seem built for them. Who will survive the unprecedented events that unfold? No amount of cutting back on avocado toast and caramel lattes can save them from the dangers ahead! In this tale full of betrayal,...
85) Sugar Creek
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Farris returned to her childhood home with one mission in mind: get Mike Romo out of her family's apple orchard business and out of their lives. But hard-nosed and totally hot Mike, who happens to be the law in Destiny, is convinced the Farris clan stole the land from his family fifty years ago and he's not backing down. Even when shapely trouble shows up in a pair of designer blue jeans. However, neither the hunky cop nor the sexy prodigal...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First Anchor Book edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1920, at their country home in County Cork, Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra, and their friends maintain a skeptical attitude toward the events going on around them, but behind the facade of tennis parties and army camp dances, all know that the end is approaching-- the end of British rule in the south of Ireland and, with it, the demise of a way of life that had survived for centuries. Their ward, Lois Farquar, attempts to live her...
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
390 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a child living in his family's apple orchard, Ahmad Torkash-Vand treasures his great-great-great-great grandfather's every mesmerizing word. On the day of his father's death, Ahmad listens closely as the seemingly immortal elder tells him the tale of a centuries-old family curse and the boy's own fated role in the story. Ahmad grows up to suspect that something unseen must be interfering with his family, as he struggles to hold them together through...
88) Into the valley
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ruth Galm's spare, poetic debut novel, set in the American West of early Joan Didion, traces the drifting path of a young woman caught between generations as she skirts the law and her own oppressive anxiety. Into the Valley opens on the day in July 1967 when B. decides to pass her first counterfeit check and flee San Francisco for the Central Valley. B. is caught between generations. She's unmarried at 30 and doesn't understand the new counterculture...
Author
Series
Publisher
Everyman's Library/Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
The only complete edition.
Physical Desc
xl, 784 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, has lost both his vivacious wife, Lady Glencora, and his position as prime minister of Great Britain. The bereft duke is left to try to manage his three grown children, whose rebellions take the various forms of gambling debts, university pranks, and unsuitable romantic attachments. But though he fails to understand his offspring, Palliser truly cares for them, and he navigates the clash of generations with...
90) Shampoo planet
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Shampoo Planet is the rich and dazzling point where two worlds collide -- those of 1960s parents and their 1990s offspring, "Global Teens." Raised in a hippie commune, Tyler Johnson is an ambitious twenty-year-old Reagan youth, living in a decaying northwest city and aspiring to a career with the corporation whose offices his mother once firebombed. This six-month chronicle of Tyler's life takes us to Paris and the ongoing party beside Jim Morrison's...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Palazzo Colombina is home to the Uccello family: three generations of men, trapped together in the dusty palace on Venice's Grand Canal. Awkward fifteen-year-old Nico. His distant, business-focused father. And his beloved grandfather, Paolo. Paolo is dying. But before he passes, he has secrets he's waited his whole life to share. When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, Nico just watches - earning him a week's suspension and a typed, yellowing...
92) Mum & Dad
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's been 25 years since Gus and Monica left England to start a new life in Spain, building a vineyard and wine business from the ground up. However, when Gus suffers a stroke and their idyllic Mediterranean life is thrown into upheaval, it's left to their three grown-up children in London to step in . . . Sebastian is busy running his company with his wife, Anna, who's never quite seen eye-to-eye with her mother-in-law. Katie, a successful solicitor...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Sri Lanka erupted into violence in the 1980s, with people identifying themselves as Tamil or Sinhalese, Hindu or Buddhist, Burgher or Muslim--the conflicts brewed over language policies, territories and curfews. Against this backdrop of sociopolitical unrest, Freeman sets her second novel. The inhabitants of Sal Mal Lane, like a constellation of stars, orbit around the Herath family, whose house is in the middle of the street and whose matriarch embraces...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve Gates to the City is the much-anticipated sequel to Black's acclaimed debut, They Tell Me of a Home. In this novel, Sister assumes the voice of the narrator, speaking from the spirit realm, telling her brother TL things he could have never known about their family. She constructs the story as a series of spiritual revelations, exposing to readers both who she was in the years of TL's absence and how every event in his life was an orchestration...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Arizona Territory, summer, 1907. Mary Pearl Prine and her sister Esther take their minds off the heat by sneaking banned Jane Austen novels from Aunt Sarah Elliot's bookshelf. Whispered read-alouds and reveries of getting hitched to their own Mr. Darcy swirl through their day dreams. In walks Aubrey Hanna, who whisks Mary Pearl off her feet with a forbidden kiss and hasty engagement. The lustful courtship quickly creates petty tension among the three...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dark, fantastical, multi-generational tale about a family whose patriarch is consumed by the hunt for the mythical, elusive sasquatch he encountered in his youth. Eli Roebuck was nine years old when his mother walked off into the woods with "Mr. Krantz, " a large, strange, hairy man who may or may not be a sasquatch. What Eli knows for certain is that his mother went willingly, leaving her only son behind. For the rest of his life, Eli is obsessed...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine's debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, home and belonging, and more. In Dearborn, a father teaches his son how to cheat the IRS and hide their cash earnings inside of frozen chickens. Tensions...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arthur Alter is in trouble. A middling professor at a Midwestern college, he can't afford his mortgage, he's exasperated his much-younger girlfriend, and his kids won't speak to him. And then there's the money--the small fortune his late wife Francine kept secret, which she bequeathed directly to his children. Those children are Ethan, an anxious recluse living off his mother's money on a choice plot of Brooklyn real estate; and Maggie, a would-be...
Author
Series
Clown in a cornfield volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Quinn Maybrook just wants to make it to graduation. She might not make it to morning. When Quinn and her father move to a tiny town with a weird clown for a mascot, they're looking for a fresh start. But ever since the town's only factory shut down, Kettle Springs has been cracked in half. Most of the town believes that the kids are to blame. After all, the juniors and seniors at Kettle Springs High are the ones who threw the party where Arthur Hill's...
100) The kings of cool
Author
Series
Savages volume prequel
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Published to coincide with the release of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone's major film of Savages from Universal Pictures in September 2012--starring John Travolta, Blake Lively, Benecio Del Toro, Uma Thurman, Emile Hirsch, Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, and Salma Hayek--this is the much-anticipated prequel to Don Winslow's acclaimed New York Times bestseller.In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twentysomething best friends...
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