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Queen Esther : A Novel. by Irving, John.;
After 40 years, John Irving revisits the setting of his classic novel, 'The Cider House Rules' and St. Cloud's, Maine. It is the story of a precocious 14-year-old Jewish girl adopted from the infamous orphanage in St. Clouds to serve as an au pair to their youngest daughter, Honor, and how she became the surrogate biological mother of a child that Honor and the Winslow family will raise as their own. Irving lives in Toronto, ON.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Political; FICTION / World Literature / American / 21st Century;
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The ghost woods / by Cooke, C. J.,1978-author.;
"In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folklore - old stories of ghosts, of witches, of a child who is not quite a child. Now the woods are creeping closer, and something has been unleashed. Pearl Gorham arrives in 1965, one of a string of young women sent to Lichen Hall to give birth. And she soon suspects the proprietors are hiding something. Then she meets the mysterious mother and young boy who live in the grounds - and together they begin to unpick the secrets of this place. As the truth comes to the surface and the darkness moves in, Pearl must rethink everything she knew - and risk what she holds most dear."--Publisher.
Subjects: Ghost stories.; Gothic fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Novels.; Folklore; Haunted houses; Secrecy; Superstition; Witches; Young women;
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Love finds you in Sugarcreek [videorecording] / by Cunningham, Terry.; Kapanowski, Thomas.; Lancaster, Sarah,1980-; Miller, Serena B.Love finds you in Sugarcreek.Videorecording.; Scott, Tom Everett,1970-; 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Tom Everett Scott, Sarah Lancaster, Thomas Kapanowski.Baseball player Micah Matthias and his young son Bobby are fleeing a brutal media following the traumatic and unsolved murder of their wife and mother. They end up in the quaint Amish community of Sugarcreek, Ohio under a set of aliases and with a broken-down old truck. Three Amish sisters running an old farmhouse inn take them under their wings and employ Micah as a handyman. This sparks the suspicions of a Sugarcreek policewoman named Rachel Troyler, niece of the three who raised her after she was orphaned as a child. Will the truth interfere with love?PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Amish; Fathers and sons; Made-for-TV movies.; Man-woman relationships; Policewomen; Sisters; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
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The darkest evening [sound recording] / by Cleeves, Ann,author.; Birkett, Janine,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Janine Birkett."Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera Stanhope's only thought is to get there quickly. But the snow is so heavy, she becomes disoriented and loses her way. Ploughing on, she sees a car slewed off the road ahead of her. With the driver's door open, Vera assumes the driver has sought shelter but when she inspects the car she is shocked to find a young toddler strapped in the back seat. Afraid they will freeze, Vera takes the child and drives on, arriving at Brockburn, a run-down stately home she immediately recognizes as the house her father Hector grew up in. Inside Brockburn a party is in full swing, with music and laughter to herald the coming Christmas. But outside in the snow, a young woman lies dead and Vera knows immediately she has a new case. Could this woman be the child's mother and, if so, what happened to her?"--Jacket flap.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Audiobooks.; Stanhope, Vera; Blizzards; Family secrets; Murder; Women detectives;
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Decoding boys : new science behind the subtle art of raising sons / by Natterson, Cara Familian,1970-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."What is my son doing behind his constantly closed door? What's with his curt responses, impulsiveness, newfound obsession with gaming, and ... that funky smell? As pediatrician and mother of two teenagers Cara Natterson explains, puberty starts in boys long before any visible signs appear, which causes confusion about their changing temperaments for boys and their parents alike. Often, they also grow quieter as they grow taller, which leads to less parent-child communication. But, as Natterson warns, we respect their increasing "need" for privacy and alone time at their peril. Explaining how modern culture mixes badly with male adolescent biology, she offers science, strategies, scripts, and tips for getting it right"--
Subjects: Boys; Child rearing.; Parent and child.; Teenage boys;
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Freckles / by Ahern, Cecelia,1981-author.;
"Like stars in the dark skies above the tiny island where she grew up, freckles scatter Allegra Bird's arms, a link to her beloved father. She's never known her mother. In a quest to find the one thing she's missing she begins a bold new life in Dublin. But she's left a lot behind. So when a stranger tells her she's the sum of five people--the five people she spends the most time with--she's suddenly no longer seeking one person. She's looking for five. And the truth lies in unexpected places ..."--
Subjects: Chick lit.; Friendship; Identity (Psychology); Parent and child; Self-realization;
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Broken strings / by Walters, Eric,1957-; Kacer, Kathy,1954-;
In the aftermath of the twin towers and the death of her beloved grandmother, Shirli Berman is intent on moving forward. She auditions for the lead role in Fiddler on the Roof, but is given the part of the old Jewish mother. While looking for props in her grandfather's attic, Shirli discovers an old violin in the corner. Showing it to her grandfather unleashes an anger in him she has never seen before.LSC
Subjects: Grandparent and child; Holocaust survivors; Music; Children's plays; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Family secrets;
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And the walls came down / by Da Costa, Denise(Author of And the walls came down),author.;
"Just before the demolition of her childhood home in east Toronto, Delia Ellis returns to retrieve her beloved diary. Using it as a compass, she rediscovers life as a precocious teen growing up in the nineties. Delia's writings reveal her anxieties following a move to Don Mount Court, a Toronto government housing complex, where she struggles to navigate life with an overprotective Jamaican mother and her father's inept replacement, "Neville the nuisance." Delia's troubles compound when she enlists her naive younger sister in a scheme to reunite their parents and recapture the idealistic life she yearns for. Yet, through the lens of adulthood, Delia's entries take a wrecking ball to the perception of her parents' love story she'd long built up in her mind, uncovering a child's internalization of a failed marriage, poverty, and a mother come undone."--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Children's diaries; Diaries; Families; Interpersonal relations; Marriage; Parent and child;
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The violet hour : a Lowcountry tale / by Frank, Victoria Benton,author.;
Violet Adams is the perfect, youngest child in a family of loud, passionate women on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina. As the sweet, traditional one, she's always been the steady hand in her family but after a sudden breakup and subsequent tragedy, she doesn't know who she is anymore. Aly Knox, Violet's best friend, is a young influencer still struggling with the loss of her mother and adjusting to joining Violet in Southern living. With her best friend's help, Violet is determined to break out of her shell -- and who she thought she was -- no matter what. And what better place to look for success, meaning, and possibly love than the Lowcountry of South Carolina?
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Female friendship; Man-woman relationships; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women;
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Gull Island : a novel / by Porter, Anna,author.;
"When her estranged father goes missing, Jude is persuaded by her mother to find his will. She travels to the family cottage on remote Gull Island, glad to be away from the city and to have the chance to sort through old memories, but is unsettled by what she finds there. While contending with the neglected cottage and encroaching wild animals, Jude looks not only for her father's will, but also for photographs of herself as a baby, desperate for proof that she was loved as a child. However, loneliness and terrifying dreams soon wear on her, bringing back frightening memories. Thoughts of her distant mother and intimidating father, her jealous sister, and her mother's mysterious friend infest Jude's increasingly clouded mind. Then a fierce storm sweeps away her boat and severs her from the outside world. Forced to reckon with long-buried truths and filled with the terrible sense that the cottage may be haunted by more than the past, Jude begins to fear for her sanity--and her life."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Cottages; Dysfunctional families; Family secrets; Islands; Missing persons; Parent and child;
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