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- Silver alert / by Smith, Lee,1944-author.;
"The story of an elderly man who, rather than give up his independence, heads off on a joyride with a new young friend"--
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Road fiction.; Novels.; Automobile travel; Cancer; Caregivers; Intergenerational relations; Older men;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The queen of Dirt Island / by Ryan, Donal,1977-author.;
"You'll never truly understand love until you've read Donal Ryan: a searing, jubilant story about four generations of women and the fierce devotion that binds them together. The Aylward women of Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, are mad about each other, but you wouldn't always think it. You'd have to know them to know that-in spite of what the neighbors might say about raised voices and dramatic scenes-their house is a place of peace, filled with love, a refuge from the sadness and cruelty of the world. Their story begins at an end and ends at a beginning. It involves wives and widows, gunrunners and gougers, sinners and saints. It's a story of terrible betrayals and fierce loyalties, of isolation and togetherness, of transgression, forgiveness, desire, and love. Of all the things family can be and all the things it sometimes isn't. The Queen of Dirt Island is an uplifting celebration of fierce, loyal love and the powerful stories that bind generations together"--
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Intergenerational relations; Interpersonal relations; Women;
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- Hard by a great forest / by Vardiashvili, Leo,author.;
"A devastating story of one family's border-crossing adventure to rescue one another and make peace with the past, set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, two years after the occupation of South Ossetia by Russia in 2008"--
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Fathers and sons; Intergenerational relations; Refugees;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The perennials : the megatrends creating a postgenerational society / by Guillén, Mauro F.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In today's world, the acceleration of megatrends--increasing longevity and the explosion of technology among many others--are transforming life as we now know it. In The Perennials, bestselling author of 2030 Mauro Guillén unpacks a sweeping societal shift triggered by demographic and technological transformation. Guillén argues that outmoded terms like Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z have long been used to pigeonhole us into rigid categories and life stages, artificially preventing people from reaching their full potential. A new postgenerational workforce known as "perennials"--individuals who are not pitted against each other either by their age or experience--makes it possible to liberate scores of people from the constraints of the sequential model of life and level the playing field so that everyone has a chance at living a rewarding life. Guillén unveils how this generational revolution will impact young people just entering the workforce as well as those who are living and working longer. This multigenerational revolution is already happening and Mauro Guillén identifies the specific cultural, organizational and policy changes that need to be made in order to switch to a new template and usher in a new era of innovation powered bythe perennials"--
- Subjects: Aging; Generations.; Intergenerational relations.; Technological innovations; Aging; Technological innovations;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Wolf at the table : a novel / by Rapp, Adam,author.;
"As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half a century. As the siblings leave home and fan across the country, each pursues a shard of the American dream. Myra serves as a prison nurse while raising her son, Ronan. Her middle sisters, Lexy and Fiona, find themselves on opposite sides of class and power. Alec, once an altar boy, is banished from the house and drifts into oblivion. As he becomes an increasingly alienated loner, his mother begins to receive postcards full of ominous portent. What they reveal, and what they require, will shatter a family and lead to devastating reckoning"--
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Conflict of generations; Families; Intergenerational relations; Mental illness; Serial murderers; Siblings;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The miraculous / by Redman, Jess,1986-;
After losing his faith in miracles after the death of his newborn sister, 11-year-old Wunder Ellis meets a mysterious old woman who needs his help to reconnect the living and the dead, bringing himself and his town face-to-face with miracles.LSC
- Subjects: Families; Miracles; Grief in children; Death; Intergenerational relations; Friendship;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Crossroads / by Franzen, Jonathan,author.;
"It's December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless--unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion, breaks free of it first. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college afire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has veered into the era's counterculture, while their younger brother Perry, fed up with selling pot to support his drug habit, has firmly resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate."--
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Families; Intergenerational communication; Intergenerational relations;
- Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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- Your first million : why you don't have to be born into a legacy of wealth to leave one behind : an entrepreneur's guide / by Hamilton, Arlan,author.; Nelson, Rachel L.,author.;
"Having lived nearly her entire life below the poverty line before going on to attain wealth and success as an entrepreneur and investor, Arlan Hamilton knows that entrepreneurship is the quickest path to money and power -- particularly for those who haven't had much of it in the past. In Your First Million, she shows how anyone -- no matter what they look like or how much money they have -- they can tap into all the new tools they already have at their disposal to get their million-dollar idea off the ground. Readers will learn: how to identify unmet needs, raise money, choose the right collaborators, create multiple income streams, and turn their unique knowledge and experience into a profitable businesses -- while reinvesting in their communities and empowering others to do the same. If we can change who gets to decide what new ideas are worthy, and who gets to turn those ideas into reality, not only can we change our own circumstances -- we can change the world"--
- Subjects: African American businesspeople; Business education.; Businesspeople; Entrepreneurship.; Intergenerational relations;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- My Magnolia summer : a novel / by Frank, Victoria Benton,author.;
Escape to the South Carolina Lowcountry, where family bonds and hidden secrets run deep. In this gripping tale of self-discovery, Victoria Benton Frank introduces us to Maggie, struggling to find her place in the world when she receives a phone call bringing her back to her hometown of Sullivan's Island.
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Recipes.; Novels.; Families; Intergenerational relations; Man-woman relationships; Mothers and daughters; Secrecy;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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- Dreaming of flight : a novel / by Hyde, Catherine Ryan,author.;
"Never knowing his parents, eleven-year-old Stewie Little and his brother have been raised on a farm by their older sister ... And every day Stewie goes door to door selling fresh eggs from his wagon--a routine with a surprise just around the corner. It's his new customer, Marilyn. She's prickly and guarded, yet comfortably familiar ... Marilyn has a reason for keeping her distance: a secret no one knows about ... But whatever difficult times lie ahead, Stewie learns that although he can't fix everything for Marilyn or himself, at least he's no longer alone"--
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Boys; Farm life; Friendship; Grandmothers; Intergenerational relations; Loneliness; Orphans; Secrecy;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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