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Silent night : a novel / by Steel, Danielle,author.;
"Paige Watts is the ultimate stage mother. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Paige channels her own acting dreams into making her daughter, Emma, a star. By the age of nine, Emma is playing a central role in a hit TV show. Then everything is shattered by unforeseeable tragedy. Now Emma is living with her aunt Whitney, who had chosen a very different path than her sister. Whitney was always the studious older sister, hating the cult of celebrity that enveloped their childhood. Instead, she is a psychiatrist who lives for her work and enjoys a no-strings-attached love affair with a wealthy venture capitalist. But at a moment's notice, Whitney drops everything to help her niece. Once famous, outgoing, and charismatic, Emma is a shadow of her former self--without speech, without memory, lost and terrified. But with her aunt Whitney's help, along with a team of caregivers and doctors, Emma begins to find her way, starting her young life all over again--and changing the lives of everyone around her"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Families; Life change events; Love stories;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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What Does It Feel Like? [electronic resource] : by Kinsella, Sophie.aut; cloudLibrary;
From #1 bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, an unforgettable story—by turns heartbreaking and life-affirming—of a renowned novelist facing a devastating diagnosis and learning to live and love anew. “The bravest book you’ll read all year.”—Jodi Picoult   “What Does It Feel Like? is fiction, but it is my most autobiographical work to date. Eve’s story is my story.”—Sophie Kinsella   Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the large, malignant tumor growing in her brain. As Eve learns to walk, talk, and write again—and as she wrestles with her diagnosis, and how and when to explain it to her beloved children—she begins to recall what’s most important to her: long walks with her husband’s hand clasped firmly around her own, family game nights, and always buying that dress when she sees it. Recounted in brief anecdotes, each one is an attempt to answer the type of impossible questions recognizable to anyone navigating the labyrinth of grief. This short, extraordinary novel is a celebration of life, shot through with warmth and humor—it will both break your heart and put it back together again. “Why did I write such a personal book? I have always processed my life through writing. Hiding behind my fictional characters, I have always turned my own life into a narrative. It is my version of therapy, maybe. Writing is my happy place, and writing this book, although tough going at times, was immensely satisfying and therapeutic for me.”—Sophie Kinsella
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Family Life; Contemporary Women;
© 2024., Random House Publishing Group,
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In Winter I Get Up at Night A Novel [electronic resource] : by Urquhart, Jane.aut; cloudLibrary;
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTELLER • Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • One of Indigo’s Most Anticipated Books • One of the CBC’s Canadian Fiction Books to Read in Fall 2024 From one of the greatest writers of our time comes a profound and moving novel of an unforgettable life. In the early morning dark, Emer McConnell rises for a day of teaching music in the schools of rural Saskatchewan. While she travels the snowy roads in the gathering light, she begins another journey, one of recollection and introspection, and one that, through the course of Jane Urquhart’s brilliant new novel, will leave the reader forever changed. Moving as effortlessly through time as the drift of memory itself, In Winter I Get Up at Night brings Emer and her singular story to life. At the age of 11, she is terribly injured in an enormous prairie storm—the “great wind” that shifts her trajectory forever. As she recovers, separated from her family in a children’s ward, Emer gets to know her fellow patients, a memorable group including a child performer who stars in a travelling theatre company, the daughter of a Dukhobor community, and the son of a leftist Jewish farm collective. The children are tended to by three nursing sisters and two doctors, whom the ever-imaginative Emer comes to call Doctor Angel and Doctor Carpenter. Emer’s tale grows outwards from that ward, reaching through time and space in a dreamlike fashion, recounting the stories of her mother’s entanglement with a powerful yet mysterious teacher; her brother’s dawning spirituality, which eventually leads him to the priesthood; the remarkable lives of the nuns who care for her; and the passionate yet distant love affair of Emer and an enigmatic man she calls Harp—a brilliant scientist whose great discovery has forever altered millions of lives around the world. In luminous prose, and with exhilarating nuance and depth, Jane Urquhart charts an unforgettable life, while also exploring some of the grandest themes of the twentieth century—colonial expansion, scientific progress, and the sinister forces that seek to divide societies along racial and cultural lines. In Winter I Get Up at Night is a major work of imagination and self-exploration from one of the greatest writers of our time.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Family Life; Contemporary Women;
© 2024., McClelland & Stewart,
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Fancy Nancy : every day is Earth Day / by O'Connor, Jane.; Preiss-Glasser, Robin; Ivanov, A.(Aleksey),; Ivanov, O.(Olga);
When Nancy, the girl who loves to use fancy words, learns about Earth Day and "being green," her enthusiasm causes problems at home.
Subjects: Environmental protection; Earth Day; Schools; Family life; Vocabulary;
© c2010., HarperCollins,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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We All Live Here [text (large print)] : A Novel. by Moyes, Jojo.;
Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. So when her real dad - a man who ran off 35 years ago - suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you about love, and what it actually means to be family.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce; FICTION / Romance / General; FICTION / Women;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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We All Live Here : A Novel. by Moyes, Jojo.;
Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. So when her real dad - a man who ran off 35 years ago - suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you about love, and what it actually means to be family.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce; FICTION / Romance / General; FICTION / Women;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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We All Live Here [sound recording] : A Novel. by Moyes, Jojo.;
Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. So when her real dad - a man who ran off 35 years ago - suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you about love, and what it actually means to be family.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Romance fiction.; FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce; FICTION / Romance / General; FICTION / Women;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Girl unknown [sound recording] : a novel / by Perry, Karen,1974-author.; Keating, Tracy,narrator.; Maloney, Conor,narrator.; Flood, Richard,1982-narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Tracy Keating, Conor Maloney, and Richard Flood.David and Caroline are enjoying a peaceful marriage when a beautiful young woman appears and claims to be David's daughter. What will happen to the family they've worked so hard to build?
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Life change events; Brothers; Families; Secrecy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Diary of a wimpy kid : Cabin fever / by Kinney, Jeff.;
Subjects: Diaries; Family life; Humorous stories.; Middle schools; Schools;
© c2011., Amulet Books,
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 4
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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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