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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
The story of Constantine Stassos, a Greek immigrant. He marries an Italian girl, they have three children and he becomes a rich construction boss. After which it's downhill all the way: drugs, sex and the generation gap. The parents divorce, a son becomes a homosexual, the daughter has an illegitimate black baby. By the author of A Home at the End of the World.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A sweeping, unforgettable novel fromThe New York Timesbest-selling author ofMaine, about the hope, sacrifice, and love between two sisters and the secret that drives them apart. Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by their...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Maddie Baxter West is shaken to the core when she finds out everything she believed about her life was a lie. Her parents had always planned to tell her the truth about her past: that she was adopted as an embryo. But somehow the right moment never happened. Then a total stranger confronts Maddie with the truth and tells her something else that rocks her world - Maddie had a sister she never knew about. Betrayed, angry, and confused, Maddie leaves...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
The story of two sisters, one brought up in the U.S., the other in China. The American sister is contemptuous of the other's belief in ghosts until events cause her to understand what they can do. A tale of two cultures by the author of The Kitchen God's Wife.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A compelling debut that glows with bittersweet heart and touching emotion, deeply interrogating questions of family, redemption, and unconditional love in the sweltering summer heat of Savannah, as two people discover what it means to truly forgive. It's been eight years since Sara Lancaster left her home in Savannah, Georgia. Eight years since her daughter, Alana, came into this world, following a terrifying sexual assault that left deep emotional...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Wildlife biologist Deanna is caught off guard by an intrusive young hunter, while bookish city wife Lusa finds herself facing a difficult identity choice, and elderly neighbors find attraction at the height of a long-standing feud.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized autobiography, covering his youth in Algeria. It is filled with details of the white working class to which he belonged and there is the undercurrent of a boy's search for a father figure, his own killed in World War I. He describes the intervention of a school teacher who obtained for him a scholarship, first step on the road to the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
"Dr. June Hudson, who has managed to keep her passionate relationship with DEA agent Jim Post a secret from the townspeople of Grace Valley, finds her life thrown into turmoil when an old lover returns to town, a murder occurs, and human bones are discovered in her Aunt Myrna's backyard"--NoveList.
11) See now then
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In this novel, a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. A mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New England move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future, constrained by the world, the characters despairing in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear. This is a piercing examination of the manifold ways in which...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
An Irish woman's account of marriage to a drinker and a sadist. The novel follows Paula Spencer, housewife and mother, as she struggles to reclaim her dignity. By the author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
A family saga reflecting the troubled state of India. The protagonists are four generations of the da Gama, who became wealthy in the spice trade before declining into gangsterism. Their tale is narrated by the family's last descendant and he attributes their fall to bickering, a reflection of Hindu-Moslem strife plaguing India today. Peopled with odd characters--the narrator is the product of a Jewish father and a Christian mother--the novel is a...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A woman must look after her mother's son when the mother is killed. The child is the product of an extramarital affair, something no one tells him and complications arise when he finds out. A family drama by the author of Certain Women.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. It is an odyssey that will bring her to... The Horse Whisperer He is the stuff of legend. His voice can calm wild horses and his touch heals broken spirits. For secrets uttered softly into pricked...
17) Winter garden
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The dying wish of a loving father ignites a family drama that brings two sisters and their acid-tongued, Russian-born mother together in a story that reaches back to WWII Leningrad.
18) Eve's daughters
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
A novel of a family, this is the compelling story of four generations of women and the secret that has changed their lives. As a granddaughter's marriage unravels, only eighty-year-old Emma can free them from a legacy of wrong choices.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Kate--whose care for her terminally ill mother coincides with the birth of her first child and the early months of a young marriage--must in a single year come to terms with the pairing of radiant beginnings and profound loss.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
"Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself ... Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side...
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