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Guess who's coming to Santa's for dinner? / by De Paola, Tomie;
A houseful of relatives turns "Mrs. C." and Santa's Christmas into a string of surprises, from the arrival of a pet polar bear to Cousin James B.'s flaming plum pudding.
Subjects: Christmas; Santa Claus; Hospitality; Family life; Humorous stories;
© c2004., Putnam's,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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I Know How This Ends : A Novel. by Smale, Holly.;
'I Know How This Ends' is a new novel from Holly Smale about a woman who begins seeing visions of heartbreak in her future and has to decide how to live in the moment knowing what's to come. From the author of 'Cassandra in Reverse' (a RADD pick), which was a Reese's Book Club Pick, a BBC Radio2 Book Club Pick, and an NPR Book of the Year. Book Club.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Family Life / General; FICTION / Multiple Timelines; FICTION / Romance / Contemporary; FICTION / Women;
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After life / by Forman, Gayle,author.;
"One spring afternoon after school, Amber arrives home on her bike. It's just another perfectly normal day. But when Amber's mom sees her, she screams. Because Amber died seven years ago, hit by a car while on the very same bicycle she's inexplicably riding now. This mysterious return doesn't impact only Amber. Her sister, Melissa, now seven years older, must be a new kind of sibling to Amber. Amber's now-estranged parents are battling over her. And the changes ripple further and further out: Amber's friends, boyfriend, and even people she met only once have been deeply affected by her life and death. In the midst of everyone's turmoil, amber is struggling with herself. What kind of person was she? Why was she given this second chance? This magnificent tour de force by acclaimed author Gayle Forman brilliantly explores the porous veil between life and death, examines the impact that one person can have on the world, and celebrates life in all its beautiful complexity."--Jacket flap.Ages 14 up.Grades 10-12.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Families; Future life; Teenagers; Family life; Families; Future life; Teenagers;
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The brothers Hawthorne / by Barnes, Jennifer Lynn,author.;
"Jameson and Grayson Hawthorne are each pulled into a different high-stakes game, where they must decide who they want to be and what they will sacrifice to win"--012+.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Novels.; Brothers; Families; Wealth; Brothers; Family life; Families; Wealth;
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For Richer or For Poorer : A Novel. by Steel, Danielle.;
'For Richer or For Poorer' follows a loving mother and successful fashion designer who struggles to keep her family together and her business afloat. It is the portrait of a strong and determined woman who rises to meet lifes challenges with fortitude, creativity, and love.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Family Life / General; FICTION / Romance / Contemporary; FICTION / Women;
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For Richer or For Poorer [text (large print)] : A Novel. by Steel, Danielle.;
'For Richer or For Poorer' follows a loving mother and successful fashion designer who struggles to keep her family together and her business afloat. It is the portrait of a strong and determined woman who rises to meet lifes challenges with fortitude, creativity, and love.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Family Life / General; FICTION / Romance / Contemporary; FICTION / Women;
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These summer storms : a novel. by MacLean, Sarah.;
"Alice Storm hasn't been welcome at her family's magnificent private island off the Rhode Island coast in five years -- not since she was cast out and built her life beyond the Storm name, influence, and untold billions. But the shocking death of her larger-than-life father changes everything. Alice plans to keep her head down, pay her final respects (such as they are), and leave the minute the funeral is over. Unfortunately, her father had other plans. The eccentric, manipulative patriarch left his family a final challenge -- an inheritance game designed to upend their world. The rules are clear: spend one week on the island, complete their assigned tasks, and receive the inheritance. But a whole week on Storm Island is no easy task for Alice. Every corner of the sprawling old house is bursting with chaos: Her older sister's secret love affair. Her brother's unyielding arrogance. Her younger sister's constant analysis of the vibes. Her mother's cold judgment. And all under the stern, watchful gaze of Jack Dean, her father's intriguing and too-handsome second-in-command. It will be a miracle if Alice manages to escape unscathed."--Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Family Life / General; FICTION / Romance / Contemporary; FICTION / Women;
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Vera, or Faith A Novel [electronic resource] : by Shteyngart, Gary.aut; CloudLibrary;
A poignant, sharp-eyed, and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart, told through the eyes of their wondrous ten-year-old daughter, by the bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Our Country Friends “Pull up a beach chair: The book of the summer is here. . . . A poignant Harriet the Spy–esque delight.”—People (Book of the Week) “Genius . . . [a] miracle.”—The Washington Post “A novel you can read in one sitting that will stay with you forever.”—Karen Russell “Very funny, very sad, very sharp, and completely delightful.”—Elif Batuman “A brilliant fable about childhood, and so much more, in our broken country.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A must-read.”—The Los Angeles Times “Shteyngart is one of the best comedians in literature today.”—BookPage (starred review) A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: The New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Bustle, Vulture, Town & Country, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Book Riot, Publishers Weekly, Literary Hub, AV Club, Hey Alma The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds. There's Daddy, a struggling, cash-thirsty editor whose Russian heritage gives him a surprising new currency in the upside-down world of twenty-first-century geopolitics; his wife, Anne Mom, a progressive, underfunded blue blood from Boston who's barely holding the household together; their son, Dylan, whose blond hair and Mayflower lineage provide him pride of place in the newly forming American political order; and, above all, the young Vera, half-Jewish, half-Korean, and wholly original. Observant, sensitive, and always writing down new vocabulary words, Vera wants only three things in life: to make a friend at school; Daddy and Anne Mom to stay together; and to meet her birth mother, Mom Mom, who will at last tell Vera the secret of who she really is and how to ensure love's survival in this great, mad, imploding world. Both biting and deeply moving, Vera, or Faith is a boldly imagined story of family and country told through the clear and tender eyes of a child. With a nod to What Maisie Knew, Henry James's classic story of parents, children, and the dark ironies of a rapidly transforming society, Vera, or Faith demonstrates why Shteyngart is, in the words of The New York Times, "one of his generation's most exhilarating writers."
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Coming of Age; Family Life;
© 2025., Random House Publishing Group,
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Diary of a wimpy kid : The ugly truth / by Kinney, Jeff.;
While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
Subjects: Diaries; Family life; Friendship; Humorous stories.; Maturation (Psychology);
© 2010., Amulet Books,
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The Takedown [electronic resource] : by Chu, Lily.aut; cloudLibrary;
DEE KWAN'S FIVE EASY STEPS TO WIN THE DAY AND GET THE GUY: STEP ONE: Meet Mr. Perfect. Flirt. Daydream. Hope. STEP TWO: Discover he's secretly the son of your uber-problematic new fashion industry boss. STEP THREE: Realize your uber-problematic new boss is seriously, actually a problem. STEP FOUR: Team up with Mr. Perfect in a dizzying corporate coup like something out of a glamorous Old Hollywood movie. (Costume changes! Impulsive Parisian jaunts! Mr. Perfect being, well, perfect!) STEP FIVE: Win at everything and take over the whole dang world. "Hilarious and relatable." —TALIA HIBBERT, USA Today bestselling author for The Stand-In For Dee Kwan, every day is the perfect day. No, really. She has a house she loves, a job she adores, and a ridiculously attractive "nemesis" who never seems to mind when she wins their favorite online game. How can life possibly get better? (It can't, obviously. It can only get much, much worse.) Soon Dee is forced to share her adorably cozy home with her parents and prickly estranged grandmother. Then she's tossed into the deep end, tasked with cleaning up a scandal for intimidatingly chic luxury fashion firm Celeste. If that weren't enough, she discovers her hot-nemesis works there, too…and Teddy is nothing like the man she thought she knew. Before she can cry foul, Teddy comes clean about his double life: he's the heir to the CEO and he needs her help to make Celeste a better place—for everyone. But that means taking down the old guard—including his father—intent on standing in their way. Now in the center of a dizzying corporate coup, Dee is forced to decide whether she's ready to stop watching the world through rose-colored glasses and instead face the truth: about herself, about her feelings for Teddy, and about what she's willing to do to truly make a difference. MORE BOOKS BY LILY CHU: The Stand-In The Comeback
Subjects: Electronic books.; Romantic Comedy; Asian American; Family Life; Contemporary Women;
© 2024., Sourcebooks,
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