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21) Modern lovers
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times' bestselling author of The Vacationers, a smart, highly entertaining novel about a tight-knit group of friends from college--their own kids now going to college--and what it means to finally grow up well after adulthood has set in. Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy real estate, and start businesses and families, all while trying to hold on to the identities...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Cheri Matzner, a former cop-turned-disgruntled academic, tries to come to terms with her adoptive and biological families as she struggles to become pregnant herself.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 485 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the twentieth century, psychologists came up with five markers of adulthood: finish your education, get a job, leave home, marry, and have children. Every generation since has been held to those same markers, but living in that sequence is no longer valid. Lythcott-Haims offers practical strategies for living a more authentic adulthood. Being an adult is not about any particular checklist; it is, instead, a process, one you can get progressively...
26) The Noel letters
Author
Series
Noel collection volume 4
Language
English
Description
"After nearly two decades, Noel Post, an editor for a major New York publishing house, returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one...
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
276 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Shares stories from the author's own experiences and counsels readers on how to navigate the challenges of parenting teens, outlining steps for raising happy, healthy, and responsible young adults by accepting them for who they are.
29) Buffalo lockjaw
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
31) Intervention
Author
Series
Intervention novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction: staging an intervention. But when eighteen-year-old Emily disappears on the way to drug treatment--and her interventionist is found dead at the airport where she was last seen--Barbara enters her darkest nightmare of all.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the "Become a Jetsetter" contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture capitalist who can't seem to find a bride; and Regan, a harried mother who took it all wrong when Charlotte bought her a Weight Watchers gift certificate for her birthday. Charlotte yearns for the years when her children were young and she...
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 289 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Essays by women of gifts from their mothers that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. Individually, the stories get to the heart of their mother-daughter relationship. Collectively, the pieces have a force that feels as elemental as the tides.
37) Rose petal soup
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Joss and Nico Carbury exemplify the modern adage that sixty is the new forty. If there is any cloud on the horizon, its their daughter, Elizabeth. Always reserved, she has never divulged the secrets of her love life. So when she arrives for Sunday lunch with a fiancé who is older than her parents, the shock is considerable. Then they are introduced to her new stepson, and all hell breaks loose.
39) Go ask Fannie
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Everyone has baggage. The Blaire siblings are just taking theirs home for the long weekend.
40) The accordion family: boomerang kids, anxious parents, and the private toll of global competition
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 261 pages : charts ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Why are adults in their twenties and thirties boomeranging back to or never leaving their parents' homes in the world's wealthiest countries? Acclaimed sociologist Newman addresses this phenomenon in this timely and original book that uncovers fascinating links between globalization and the failure-to-launch trend.
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