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The wonder boy of Whistle Stop [sound recording] : a novel / by Flagg, Fannie,author,narrator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
Read by the author."Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, with his mother Ruth, church going and proper, and the fun-loving hell-raiser, his Aunt Idgie. Together they ran the town's popular Whistle Stop Café, known far and wide for its famous 'Fried Green Tomatoes.' And as Bud often said of his childhood, 'How lucky can you get?' But sadly, the railroad yards began to shut down and the town became a ghost town, with nothing left but boarded-up buildings and memories of a happier time. Then one day, Bud decides to take one last trip, just to see where his beloved Whistle Stop used to be. In so doing, he discovers new surprises about Idgie's life and about other beloved Fried Green Tomatoes characters, and about the town itself. He also sets off a series of events, both touching and inspiring, which change his life and the lives of his daughter and others. Could these events all be just coincidences? Or something else? And can you go home again?"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; City and town life; Fathers and daughters; Retirees; Small cities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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May it have a happy ending : a memoir of finding my voice as my mother lost hers / by Mahtani, Minelle,1971-author.;
"For readers of Crying in H Mart and In the Dream House, a searing, intimate memoir about mothers and daughters, grief and healing, and finding your voice when you thought it lost. Keep quiet when you experience racism -- to protect yourself, and the people you love. This was the very first lesson Minelle Mahtani learned about staying silent. She was six years old. Other lessons would come in time: Take up less space. Ask fewer questions. Try harder to fit in. And from her Hindu, Indian father and Muslim, Iranian mother: Be excellent. Strive for greatness. In her forties, Minelle's left hand began to shake. Then, her left leg went numb. Her body was trying to tell her something -- screaming what she could not say. And then, in the midst of this crisis, a lifeline in the form of a job offer: the chance to speak, to develop her voice, as a radio host. If she only had the courage to try. But as Minelle took tentative steps toward finding herself, she received devastating news: her beloved mother had tongue cancer. Just as Minelle was finding her voice, her mother was losing hers. This is a story about what it means to mourn and heal. It is about the tender yet fragile relationships between mothers and daughters -- relationships weighed down by histories more complex than we can ever know. It is about the myriad ways our voices take flight as people of colour, and about how our ancestors speak to us through the intimate moments in our lives. In exquisite, lyrical prose, May It Have a Happy Ending meditates on the ways grief, race, love and self-expression intersect, and introduces an important new literary voice."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Mahtani, Minelle, 1971-; Mahtani, Minelle, 1971-; Mahtani, Minelle, 1971-; Mothers and daughters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The whale [videorecording] / by Aronofsky, Darren,film director,film producer.; Chau, Hong,1979-actor.; Fraser, Brendan,1968-actor.; Hunter, Samuel D.,screenwriter.; Morton, Samantha,actor.; Simpkins, Ty,actor.; Sink, Sadie,actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Hunter, Samuel D.Plays.Selections.; Elevation Pictures,publisher.;
Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Ty Simpkins, Samantha Morton.A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; full screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Dysfunctional families; English teachers; Fathers and daughters; Overweight persons; Recluses;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Chasing eternity / by Noël, Alyson,author.;
I'm about to break one of the biggest rules of all. But I need to find my dad. And if that means going back to New York City in 1998 to find him -- before I'm even born -- then that's what I have to do. Because I need someone I trust to teach me what it means to be a Timekeeper. Now I'm in the land of post-grunge, low-rise jeans, baby doll tees, chunky boots ... and risking my own existence in the process. Awesome. This is no ordinary trip. Just about anything can go wrong, and if I get found out, I'll lose not only my home and school ... but Braxton, too. Because there might not be enough forgiveness in the world for what I've done -- and what I am about to do. Because the secrets are more terrible than I thought. The reality is even more horrifying. And I'll do whatever it takes to find out the truth about Gray Wolf Academy, the strange billionaire who runs it, and not only why he's so invested in traveling -- or "Tripping" -- through time, but what his real plans are. And time's almost up.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Time-travel fiction.; Novels.; Billionaires; Fate and fatalism; Fathers and daughters; High school students; Private schools; Time travel; Billionaires; Fate and fatalism; Fathers and daughters; High school students; Private schools; Time travel;
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Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel / by Semple, Maria.;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Mystery Fiction.; Missing persons; Mothers and daughters; Phobias; Women architects;
© 2012., Little, Brown and Company,
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Forever Birchwood / by Daniel, Danielle.;
Wolf lives in a northern mining town where she spends her days exploring with her three best friends: Penny, Ann, and Brandi. The girls's treehouse hideaway, Birchwood, is Wolf's favourite place on earth. As summer arrives, Wolf and her friends find plastic orange bands wrapped around the trees near their cherished hangout spot, and their once stable friendship starts to unravel. Can the girls stay together long enough to save their special place?LSC
Subjects: Tree houses; Mothers and daughters; Grandmothers; Friendship; Environmentalists; Logging;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Knife River : a novel / by Champine, Justine,author.;
"When Jess was thirteen, her mother went for a walk and never returned. Jess and her older sister never found out what happened. Instead, they did what they hoped their mother might be doing: survive. As soon as she was old enough, Jess fled the small town of Knife River, wandering from girlfriend to girlfriend like a ghost in her own life, adrift and aimless in her attempts to outrun grief and confusion. But one morning, fifteen years later, she gets the call she's been bracing for her entire adult life: her mother's remains have been found. Jess returns to the home she'd abandoned to find Knife River - and her sister - frozen in time. The town is as claustrophobic and conservative as ever. Her sister still lives in their childhood home and has become obsessed with unsolved missing persons cases. Jess plans to stay only until they get some answers, but their mother's bones, exposed to the elements for so long, only leave them with more questions. Jess lingers in Knife River, caught up in the case and, unexpectedly, falling back into an entanglement with her high school girlfriend. As days turn into weeks, Jess's understanding of the past, her sister, and herself become more and more complicated - and the list of suspects more and more ominous"--
Subjects: Lesbian fiction.; Queer fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Homecoming; Lesbians; Missing persons; Mothers and daughters; Murder; Sisters; Small cities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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With my little eye : a novel / by Jackson, Joshilyn,author.;
"The hair-raising story of a mother who moves herself and her daughter across the country to lose a dangerous stalker--only to discover that it will take more than distance to escape him"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Actresses; Man-woman relationships; Mothers and daughters; Stalkers; Stalking victims;
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Yoko learns to read / by Wells, Rosemary.;
Despite the doubts of some classmates and her native-born Japanese mother's inability to read English, Yoko finds the key to reading and catches up with the other students in putting new leaves on the classroom's book tree."Ages 3-6"--P. [2] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Cats; Japanese Americans; Mothers and daughters; Books and reading; Libraries;
© c2012., Disney/Hyperion Books,
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Possessed / by Bydlowska, Jowita,author.;
Josephine is obsessed. Or possessed -- by unrequited love for a younger man who doesn't promise anything, but who gives her a taste of intimacy that puts her on the brink of losing her mind. Oscillating between her elusive lover and her older former partner, stuck in the hell that is working in a cubicle, and obliged to tend to her destructive, senile mother, Josephine is trapped. After a work assignment promises to deliver distraction, Josephine makes a decision to visit a former quarantine island in the Adriatic Sea, where she meets an enigmatic, beautiful man with a haunting story. Intimate and erotic, Possessed is a dark and funny story exploring sexual obsession, mental illness, and the supernatural.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships; Mothers and daughters; Sex addiction; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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