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A week at the shore [sound recording] / by Delinsky, Barbara,author.; Plummer, Thérèse,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Therese Plummer.""A first-rate storyteller who creates believable, sympathetic characters who seem as familiar as your neighbors," (The Boston Globe), Barbara Delinsky presents a captivating new novel about a woman whose unexpected reunion with her estranged family forces her to confront a devastating past. One phone call is all it takes to lure Mallory Aldiss back to her family's Rhode Island beach home. It's been twenty years since she's been gone-running from the scandal that destroyed her parents' marriage, drove her and her two sisters apart, and crushed her relationship with the love of her life, Jack Sabathian.Twenty years during which she lived in New York, building her career as a photographer and raising her now teenage daughter Joy. But that phone call makes it clear that something has brought the past forward again-something involving Mallory's father. Compelled by concern for her family and by Joy's wish to visit her mother's childhood home, Mallory returns to Bay Bluff, where conflicting loyalties will be faced and painful truths revealed. In just seven watershed days at the Rhode Island shore, she will test the bonds of friendship and family-and discover the role that love plays in defining their lives"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Families; Homecoming; Man-woman relationships; Photographers; Scandals; Single mothers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Better luck next time : a novel / by Hilton, Kate,1972-author.;
"It isn't easy being related to a feminist icon, especially when she's celebrating the greatest moment of her storied career. Just ask the daughters of Lydia Hennessey, who could have it all if only they'd stop self-destructing. Mariana, the eldest, is on the verge of throwing away a distinguished reputation in journalism, along with her marriage. Nina, the middle daughter, has returned from a medical mission overseas as a changed woman but won't discuss it with anyone. And Beata, the youngest, has a hostile teenaged son who just discovered the existence of a father who didn't know about him either. Meanwhile, their cousin Zoe is making divorce look like a death match, while her brother, Zack, is grappling with the fallout from his popular television dramedy, which is based far too closely on Lydia herself. It might be easier to find their paths if they could step out of Lydia's shadow--but the biggest women's march in history is underway, and Lydia and her family are at the centre of it. Over the course of an eventful year, the Hennessey children contend with the big struggles of midlife: aging parents, raging teens, crumbling marriages and bodies, new loves and the choice between playing it safe or taking life-altering risks. And as they inch toward a new definition of happiness, they might even persuade their parents--and themselves--that they're all grown up"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Feminists; Women journalists; Dysfunctional families; Mothers and daughters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The boy in the field : a novel / by Livesey, Margot,author.;
"One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy's life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed. Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim's brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford, looking at men, and one of them, a visiting American graduate student, returns her gaze. Duncan, the youngest, who has seldom thought about being adopted, suddenly decides he wants to find his birth mother. Overshadowing all three is the awareness that something is amiss in their parents' marriage. Over the course of the autumn, as each of the siblings confronts the complications and contradictions of their approaching adulthood, they find themselves at once drawn together and driven apart"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Brothers and sisters; Families; Life change events; Teenagers;
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The last boss of Brighton : Boris "Biba" Nayfeld and the rise of the Russian mob in America / by Century, Douglas,author.;
Boris Nayfeld, a.k.a. "Biba," is the last living boss of the old-school Russian mob in America, and he's survived to tell it all. Filled with sex, drugs, and murder, Biba's story is a mind-boggling journey that took him from petty street crime in the USSR to billion-dollar embezzlement in America. Born in Soviet-era Belarus, abandoned by his parents in infancy, Biba's brutal upbringing left him hungry for more--more power, control, and money. Taking advantage of the rampant corruption in the Soviet Union, Biba's teenage hooliganism quickly turned into bolder "black cash" rackets, making him, by Soviet standards, a very rich young man. When authorities took notice and threatened him with "the supreme measure"-- execution by firing squad--he managed to get out of the USSR just in time. Within months of landing in America, his intimidating presence and street smarts quickly made him legendary in the Soviet émigré community of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, and launched him to the top of New York's Russian Jewish mob, one of the world's most inventive, powerful and violent criminal organizations. After decades as a globe-trotting boss, and three stints in U.S. federal prisons he remains unbroken and unrepentant, even as his entire life has unraveled around him. Now seventy-four years old, Biba is a lion in winter. Douglas Century vividly brings the notorious gangster to life in these pages, telling not only his epic journey but also the history of the Russian mob in America.
Subjects: Biographies.; True crime stories.; Nayfeld, Boris.; Organized crime; Russian American criminals;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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Mountain runaways / by Withers, Pam.;
When three siblings run away to hide in the mountains, they have to face search parties, hunger, injury <U+2014> and the danger of their team unravelling. First a Canadian Rockies avalanche kills their parents. Then Children<U+2019>s Services threatens to separate them. That<U+2019>s when the three Gunnarsson kids, Jon, Korka, and Aron, decide to run away into the mountains and fend for themselves until Jon turns eighteen and becomes their legal guardian. But can they survive all that the backcountry throws at them <U+2014> hunger, illness and injury, dangerous animals, a shadowy woods dweller, and search teams in pursuit? Above all, can they stop their feisty threesome from unravelling?LSC
Subjects: Runaway teenagers; Orphans; Brothers and sisters; Survival;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Deadpool. [graphic novel] / by Ziglar, Cody,author.; Guru-eFX,colourist.; Antonio, Roge,illustrator.; Di Vito, Andrea,illustrator.; Quasarano, Alexis,author.; Sabino, Joe,letterer.;
Wade Wilson triumphed against Death Grip! Killing Deadpool now would be an insane thing to do, right? Well, that's exactly why we're doing it!
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Superhero comics.; Deadpool (Fictitious character); Taskmaster (Fictitious character); Antiheroes; Fathers and daughters; Superheroes; Supervillains; Teenage superheroes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fuller house. [videorecording] / by Barber, Andrea,actor.; Bure, Candace Cameron,actor.; Campion, Michael,actor.; Cendrowski, Mark,film director.; Correll, Richard,film director.; Engelberg, Amy,screenwriter.; Engelberg, Wendy,screenwriter.; Franklin, Jeff,screenwriter,film director.; Garretson, Katy,film director.; Gottlieb, Andrew,screenwriter.; Hale, Boyd,screenwriter.; Sandefur, Kelly,film producer.; Sandoval, Steve,film producer.; Schiller, Rob,film director.; Stamos, John,1963-producer,actor.; Sweetin, Jodie,actor.; Zwick, Joel,film director.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,production company.; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment,film distributor.;
Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, John Stamos, Andrea Barber, Michael Campion.In the spinoff series, Fuller House, life can take you into unexpected directions and also back into familiar territory when veterinarian and recently widowed D.J. Tanner-Fuller (Candace Cameron Bure) lives in her childhood home with younger sister and aspiring musician Stephanie Tanner (Jodie Sweetin) and DJ's lifelong best friend/fellow single mother Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea Barber). The women support one another as they navigate careers, parenting and relationships. The Tanner childhood house is fuller than ever though with not only DJ's three boys, but also Kimmy's feisty teenage daughter Ramona (Soni Bringas) and Kimmy's not so estranged ex-husband Fernando (Juan Pablo Di Pace) all under the same roof. Fuller House viewers will also be treated to guest appearances by most members of the original series, including “three dads” Danny Tanner (Bob Saget), Jesse Katsopolis (John Stamos) and Joey Gladstone (Dave Coulier).Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Television comedies.; Situation comedies (Television programs); Television series.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Best friends; Extended families; Families; Sisters; Fatherless families; Widows;
For private home use only.
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Mania : a novel / by Shriver, Lionel,author.;
"In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who use it at home. A college English instructor, the constitutionally rebellious Pearson Converse rejected her restrictive Jehovah's Witness upbringing as a teenager, and so has an aversion to dogma of any kind. Made impotent in the university classroom, she's also enraged by the crushing of her exceptionally bright children's spirit in primary school. Fortunately, she enjoys the confidence of a best friend, a media commentator with whom she can speak frankly about her socially unacceptable contempt for the MP movement. Or at least she thinks she can ... until one day the political chasm between the two women becomes uncrossable, and a lifelong relationship implodes."--
Subjects: Satirical literature.; Novels.; Discrimination; Intelligence levels; Personality and intelligence; Trust;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mania [text (large print)] : a novel / by Shriver, Lionel,author.;
"In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who use it at home. A college English instructor, the constitutionally rebellious Pearson Converse rejected her restrictive Jehovah's Witness upbringing as a teenager, and so has an aversion to dogma of any kind. Made impotent in the university classroom, she's also enraged by the crushing of her exceptionally bright children's spirit in primary school. Fortunately, she enjoys the confidence of a best friend, a media commentator with whom she can speak frankly about her socially unacceptable contempt for the MP movement. Or at least she thinks she can ... until one day the political chasm between the two women becomes uncrossable, and a lifelong relationship implodes."--
Subjects: Large print books.; Satirical literature.; Novels.; Discrimination; Intelligence levels; Personality and intelligence; Trust;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Y is for yesterday / by Grafton, Sue,author.;
"The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader escapes without a trace. Now, it's 1989 and one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been released from prison. Moody, unrepentant, and angry, he is a virtual prisoner of his ever-watchful parents--until a copy of the missing tape arrives with a ransom demand. That's when the McCabes call Kinsey Millhone for help. As she is drawn into their family drama, she keeps a watchful eye on Fritz. But he's not the only one being haunted by the past. A vicious sociopath with a grudge against Millhone may be leaving traces of himself for her to find"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character); Women private investigators; Extortion;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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