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A dog's perfect Christmas / by Cameron, W. Bruce,author.;
The problems fracturing the Goss family as Christmas approaches are hardly unique, though perhaps they are handling them a little differently than most people might. But then a true emergency arises, one with the potential to not only ruin Christmas, but everything holding the family together. Is the arrival of a lost puppy yet another in the string of calamities facing them, or could the little canine be just what they all need?
Subjects: Animal fiction.; Christmas fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Dogs; Families; Family crises; Holiday stress; Human-animal relationships; Lost dogs;
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Good Daughtering : The Work You've Always Done, the Credit You've Never Gotten, and How to Finally Feel Like Enough. by Alford, Allison M.;
Adult daughters often do the bulk of unpaid work required to keep a family together - managing parents' care, offering support, and dealing with crises. 'Good Daughtering' is a tribute to these daughters, offering a fresh perspective on caregiving, emotional resilience, and the power daughters have to shape healthier, more fulfilling family connections. Book Club.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Parent & Adult Child; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adulthood & Aging; SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies;
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See You on the Other Side : A Novel. by McInerney, Jay.;
With 'See You on the Other Side', Jay McInerney gives us the final volume in the tetralogy charting the marriage of the Russell and Corrinne Calloway, now in their 60s, against the backdrop of various crises that have bedeviled our society in the past 40 years.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Romance fiction.; FICTION / Family Life / General; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Urban & Street Lit;
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Haunted / by Patterson, James,author.;
"Detective Michael Bennett is ready for a vacation after a series of crises push him, and his family, to the brink. He settles on an idyllic, small town in the beautiful Maine woods, a recommendation from a former colleague. But just when Bennett thinks he can relax, he gets pulled into a case that has shocked the tight-knit community. Kids are disappearing left and right with no explanation -- until several bodies turn up in the woods. As Bennett investigates, he discovers that the seemingly perfect town is reeling from a deadly addiction, and the violence is about to reach a fever pitch. Far from the city streets he knows so well, Bennett faces off against a horrific evil next door that threatens a town, the law, and the family that Bennett loves above all else."--From Amazon.com.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Bennett, Michael (Fictitious character); Missing persons;
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Haunted [sound recording] / by Patterson, James,author.; Mastrogiorgio, Danny,narrator.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Danny Mastrogiorgio."Detective Michael Bennett is ready for a vacation after a series of crises push him, and his family, to the brink. He settles on an idyllic, small town in the beautiful Maine woods, a recommendation from a former colleague. But just when Bennett thinks he can relax, he gets pulled into a case that has shocked the tight-knit community. Kids are disappearing left and right with no explanation -- until several bodies turn up in the woods. As Bennett investigates, he discovers that the seemingly perfect town is reeling from a deadly addiction, and the violence is about to reach a fever pitch. Far from the city streets he knows so well, Bennett faces off against a horrific evil next door that threatens a town, the law, and the family that Bennett loves above all else."--From Amazon.com.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Bennett, Michael (Fictitious character); Missing persons;
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Journey through genocide : stories of survivors and the dead / by Boudjikanian, Raffy,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Darfuri refugee camps in Chad, Kigali in Rwanda, and the ruins of ancient villages in Turkey--all visited by genocide, all still reeling in its wake. In Journey through Genocide, Raffy Boudjikanian travels to communities that have survived genocide to understand the legacy of this most terrible of crimes against humanity. In this era of ethnic and religious wars, mass displacements, and forced migrations, Boudjikanian looks back at three humanitarian crises. In Chad, meet families displaced by massacres in neighbouring Darfur and Sudan, their ordeal still raw. In Rwanda, meet a people struggling with justice and reconciliation. And in Turkey, explore what it means to still be afraid a century after Boudjikanian's own ancestors were caught in the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Clear-eyed and compassionate, Boudjikanian breathes life into horrors that too often seem remote."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Boudjikanian, Raffy; Crimes against humanity; Genocide;
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Deep as the sky, red as the sea : a novel / by Chang-Eppig, Rita,author.;
"When Shek Yeung sees a Portuguese sailor slay her husband, a feared pirate, she knows she must act swiftly or die. Instead of mourning, Shek Yeung launches a new plan: immediately marrying her husband's second-in-command, and agreeing to bear him a son and heir, in order to retain power over her half of the fleet. But as Shek Yeung vies for control over the army she knows she was born to lead, larger threats loom. The Chinese Emperor has charged a brutal, crafty nobleman with ridding the South China Seas of pirates, and the Europeans--tired of losing ships, men, and money to Shek Yeung's alliance--have new plans for the area. Even worse, Shek Yeung's cutthroat retributions create problems all their own. As Shek Yeung navigates new motherhood and the crises of leadership, she must decide how long she is willing to fight, and at what price, or risk losing her fleet, her new family, and even her life"--
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Pirates; Women pirates;
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The last tsar : the abdication of Nicholas II and the fall of the Romanovs / by Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi,1941-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."When Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest. Though Nicholas's life is often described as tragic, it was not fate that doomed the Romanovs-it was poor leadership and a blinkered faith in autocracy. Based on a trove of new archival discoveries, The Last Tsar narrates how Nicholas's resistance to reform doomed the monarchy. Encompassing the captivating personalities of the era-the bumbling Nicholas, his spiteful wife Alexandra, the family's faith healer Rasputin-it untangles the dramatic struggle by Russia's aristocratic, military, and legislative elite to reform the monarchy. By rejecting compromise, Nicholas undermined his supporters at crucial moments. His blunders cleared the way for all-out civil war and the eventual rise of the Soviet Union. Definitive and engrossing, The Last Tsar uncovers how Nicholas II stumbled into revolution, taking his family, the Romanov dynasty, and the whole Russian Empire down with him"--
Subjects: Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918.; Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918;
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Jennie's boy : a Newfoundland childhood / by Johnston, Wayne,author.;
"Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of a Newfoundland boyhood few thought he would survive, including him. For six months between 1966 and 1967, Wayne Johnston and his family lived in a wreck of a house across from his grandparents in Goulds, Newfoundland, which was not so much a place as a scattering of houses along an unpaved road. At seven, Wayne was sickly and skinny, unable to keep food down, unable to sleep, plagued with a relentless cough that no doctor could diagnose, though they had already removed his tonsils, adenoids and appendix. Heart murmur, pleurisy, a tapeworm? All were suspected, and none confirmed. To the community he was known as "Jennie's boy," and his tiny, ferocious mother felt judged for Wayne's condition at the same time as worried he might not grow up to be his own man. While his brothers went off to school, and his parents to work, trying to stave off the next eviction, Wayne spent his days with his witty, religious, deeply eccentric maternal grandmother, Lucy, who kept a statue of the Blessed Virgin in one of her bedrooms along with a photo of her son Leonard, who had died at seven. During these six months of Wayne's childhood, he and Lucy faced two life-or-death crises, and only one of them lived to tell the tale. Jennie's Boy is Wayne's tribute to a family and a community that were simultaneously fiercely protective of him and fed up with having to make allowances for him: grandparents, parents and siblings, aunts and uncles, and the people of the Goulds, whose pet and nuisance he was. He recalls a boyhood full of pain, yes, but also laughter, tenderness, and the kind of wit that is peculiar to Newfoundlanders. By that wit, and by their love for each other--so often expressed in the most unloving ways--he, and they, survived."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Johnston, Wayne; Johnston, Wayne; Johnston, Wayne.; Families.; Authors, Canadian (English);
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Hope in action : a memoir about the courage to lead / by Marin, Sanna,1985-author.;
"In Hope in Action, Sanna Marin takes readers on the extraordinary journey of her trailblazing career and shares her vision for a new kind of leadership. When she became Prime Minister of Finland at just thirty-four years old, Marin was the world's youngest serving prime minister at the time, captivating the world's attention with her progressive ideas and her boldness amidst major crises. Marin's story is one of resilience and hope. The first in her family to attend university, she broke barriers to become a global icon of progressive leadership. Her time as Prime Minister saw historic milestones. During Marin's term (2019-2023), she led Finland through the COVID-19 pandemic, and her government implemented many progressive reforms addressing climate change, social justice, and equality. She helped the country navigate neighboring Russia's devastating full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and Finland's rapid joining of NATO -- the swiftest entry for any country in the alliance's history. Through vivid retellings of her experiences, Marin shares how she overcame significant political challenges, and how she coped with her personal life becoming public, like in an incident that sparked a media frenzy and prompted women including Hillary Clinton and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to express their support for Marin. Hope in Action is much more than a memoir -- it's a call to action. Marin urges the next generation of leaders to bring their full selves to the job. Her story is an empowering testament to the opportunities we have to affect real change in our worlds"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Marin, Sanna, 1985-; Courage.; Leadership.; Women prime ministers; Women heads of state;
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