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- The Mother-Daughter Book Club [text (large print)] : A Novel. by Patterson, Susan.;
- The Mother-Daughter Book Club - four longtime friends and their five daughters - rarely have time for in-person meetings. And maybe its just as well, after what happened at their last get-together. So its an emotional reunion when they finally gather again for their book clubs trademark Night of Secrets. As the years and the distance cast shadows and doubt, confidences and sympathies turn into surprising revelations. From the author of 'Things I Wish I Told My Mother'.Library Bound Incorporated
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); FICTION / Family Life / General; FICTION / Women;
- The Mother-Daughter Book Club : A Novel. by Patterson, Susan.;
- The Mother-Daughter Book Club - four longtime friends and their five daughters - rarely have time for in-person meetings. And maybe its just as well, after what happened at their last get-together. So its an emotional reunion when they finally gather again for their book clubs trademark Night of Secrets. As the years and the distance cast shadows and doubt, confidences and sympathies turn into surprising revelations. From the author of 'Things I Wish I Told My Mother'. Book Club.Library Bound Incorporated
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); FICTION / Family Life / General; FICTION / Women;
- Union Square [videorecording] / by Armian, Neda.; Blanchard, Tammy.; Doyle, Mike(Actor); Guay, Richard.; LuPone, Patti.; Rispoli, Michael.; Rubin-Vega, Daphne.; Savoca, Nancy.; Sorvino, Mira.; Tobler, Mary.; Armian Pictures (Firm); Cine-Si (Firm); FilmBuff (Firm); Video Service Corp.;
- Director of photography, Lisa Leone ; edited by Jennifer Lee.Mira Sorvino, Tammy Blanchard, Mike Doyle, Michael Rispoli, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Patti Lupone.After having rejected her tumultuous family and establishing a new and more ordered life for herself, Jenny finally seems ready to commit to her longtime fiance. When her estranged sister Lucy suddenly reappears in her life, everything Jenny hoped to escape from threatens to catch up with her. But Jenny and Lucy's combustible reunion might be just what they both needed, an opportunity to shatter and reconstruct the worlds they carefully constructed while trying to become someone they're not.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, NTSC, region 1; 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen; Dolby digital 2.0.
- Subjects: Dysfunctional families; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Sisters;
- © c2013., Film Buff ; Distributed by Video Service Corp.,
- A sinister revenge / by Raybourn, Deanna,author.;
- "Veronica must find and stop a devious killer when a group of old friends is targeted for death in this new adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Veronica's natural-historian beau, Stoker, has been away in Bavaria for months and their relationship is at an impasse. But when Veronica shows up before him with his brother, Tiberius, Lord Templeton-Vane, he is lured back home by an intriguing job offer: preparing an iguanodon for a very special dinner party. Tiberius has received a cryptic message--along with the obituaries of two recently deceased members of his old group of friends, the Seven Sinners--that he too should get his affairs in order. Realizing he is in grave danger but not knowing why, he plans a reunion party for the remaining Sinners at his family estate to lure the killer out while Veronica and Stoker investigate. As the guests arrive and settle in, the evening's events turn deadly. More clues come to light, leading Veronica, Stoker, and Tiberius to uncover a shared past among the Sinners that has led to the fatal present. But the truth might be far more sinister than what they were prepared for"--
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Speedwell, Veronica; Murder; Revenge; Serial murderers;
- The manor of dreams : a novel / by Li, Christina,author.;
- Mexican Gothic meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in Christina Li's haunting novel about the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese American families fighting to inherit it. They say what you don't know can't hurt you. But silence can be deadly. Vivian Yin is dead. The first Chinese actress to win an Oscar, the trailblazing ingénue rose to fame in the eighties, only to disappear from the spotlight at the height of her career and live out the rest of her life as a recluse. Now her remaining family members are gathered for the reading of her will and her daughters expect to inherit their childhood home: Vivian's sprawling, Southern California garden estate. But due to a last-minute change to the will, the house is passed on to another family instead-one that has suddenly returned after decades of estrangement. In hopes of staking their claim, both families move into the mansion. Amidst the grief and paranoia of this unhappy reunion, Vivian's daughters race to piece together what happened in the last weeks of their mother's life, only to realize they are being haunted by something much more sinister and vengeful than their regrets. After so many years of silence, will the families finally confront the painful truth about the last fateful summer they spent in the house, or will they cling to their secrets until it's too late? Told in dual timelines, spanning three generations, and brimming with forbidden romance, betrayal, ambition and sacrifice, The Manor of Dreams is a thrilling family gothic that examines the true cost of the American dream-and what happens when the roots we set down in this country turn to rot."
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Novels.; Chinese Americans; Families; Family secrets; Inheritance and succession; Secrecy;
- The dragons, the giant, the women : a memoir / by Moore, Wayétu,author.;
- "When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother, who is working and studying in faraway New York. Before she gets the reunion her father promised her, war breaks out in Liberia. The family is forced to flee their home on foot, walking and hiding for three weeks until they arrive in the village of Lai. Finally, a rebel soldier smuggles them across the border to Sierra Leone, reuniting the family and setting them off on yet another journey, this time to the United States. Spanning this harrowing journey in Moore's early childhood, her years adjusting to life in Texas as a black woman and an immigrant, and her eventual return to Liberia, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women is a deeply moving story of the search for home in the midst of upheaval. Moore has a novelist's eye for suspense and emotional depth, and this unforgettable memoir is full of imaginative, lyrical flights and lush prose. In capturing both the hazy magic and stark realities of what is becoming an increasingly pervasive experience, Moore shines a light on the great political and personal forces that continue to affect many migrants around the world, and calls us all to acknowledge the tenacious power of love and family"--
- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Moore, Wayétu.; African American women authors; Refugees; Immigrants; Liberian Americans; Families;
- Forty autumns : a family's story of courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall / by Willner, Nina,1961-author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family--of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Forty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live apart in a world divided by two. At twenty, Hanna escaped from East to West Germany. But the price of freedom--leaving behind her parents, eight siblings, and family home--was heartbreaking. Uprooted, Hanna eventually moved to America, where she settled down with her husband and had children of her own. Growing up near Washington, D.C., Hanna's daughter, Nina Willner became the first female Army intelligence officer to lead sensitive intelligence operations in East Berlin at the height of the Cold War. Though only a few miles separated American Nina and her German relatives--grandmother Oma, Aunt Heidi, and cousin, Cordula, a member of the East German Olympic training team--a bitter political war kept them apart. In Forty Autumns, Nina recounts her family's story--five ordinary lives buffeted by circumstances beyond their control. She takes us deep into the tumultuous and terrifying world of East Germany under Communist rule, revealing both the cruel reality her relatives endured and her own experiences as an intelligence officer, running secret operations behind the Berlin Wall that put her life at risk. A personal look at a tenuous era that divided a city and a nation, and continues to haunt us, Forty Autumns is an intimate and beautifully written story of courage, resilience, and love--of five women whose spirits could not be broken, and who fought to preserve what matters most: family. Forty Autumns is illustrated with dozens of black-and-white and color photographs"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Willner, Nina, 1961-; Willner, Nina, 1961-; Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989; German Americans; Intelligence officers; Women intelligence officers; Women;
- A brambleberry summer / by Thayne, Raeanne.;
- Brambleberry summer -- Cold Creek reunion.Will the secrets of her past... Prevent her from having the future she's always wanted? Rosa Galvez's attraction to Officer Wyatt Townsend is as powerful as the moon's pull on the tides. But with her past, Rosa knows better than to act on her feelings. When Wyatt and his adorable son become Brambleberry House's newest tenants, Rosa finds her resolve slipping. Her solo life slowly becomes a sun-filled family adventure--until dark secrets threaten to break like a summer storm. With a bonus story, A Cold Creek Reunion! Taft Bowman was stupid enough to let Laura Pendleton go once before. He's not about to make the same mistake again. He never stopped loving her--and one look at her two adorable kids and he knows he's meant to be with all three of them forever. All he has to do is convince her that this time he's a man she can count on!
- Subjects: Romance fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Single fathers;
- Santa's secret / by Michaels, Fern,author.;
- "Christmas is filled with beloved and long-kept traditions, but sometimes, there's nothing better than creating brand-new ones. That's why Francesca and her high school friends Amy, Rachael, and Nina are traveling to Italy to spend the holidays with Frankie's boyfriend, Giovanni, and his family. Giovanni and his brother, Marco, run a small Italian restaurant in Manhattan, where cherished family recipes delight tourists and locals alike. But there's one recipe that eludes the brothers. Their mama refuses to divulge the special ingredient in her coveted panettone, claiming it is "Santa's secret." While Frankie joins Giovanni and Marco in the kitchen, hoping to uncover the mystery of Mrs. Lombardi's mouthwatering panettone, Amy, Nina, and Rachael are on their own quests. Amy wants to see the statue of David in Florence, Nina needs career inspiration, and Rachael longs to meet some eligible Italian men. Can one trip provide the answers everyone seeks? With a stunning Italian backdrop and a sprinkling of holiday magic in the mix, there may be all kinds of sweet surprises in store ... "--
- Subjects: Christmas fiction.; Chick lit.; Psychological fiction.; Recipes.; Novels.; Christmas stories; Brothers; Female friendship; Friendship; Holidays; Man-woman relationships; Restaurateurs; Reunions;
- Sisters of Belfast : a novel / by Maure, Melanie,author.;
- "Orphaned during the Second World War, Aelish and Isabel McGuire--known as the twins of Belfast--are given over to the austere care of the Sisters of Bethlehem. Though they are each all the other has, the girls are propelled in opposite directions as they grow up. Rebellious Isabel turns her back on the church and Ireland, traveling to Newfoundland where she pursues a perilous yet independent life. Devout Aelish chooses to remain in Northern Ireland and takes the veil, burying painful truths beneath years of silence. For decades the two are separated, each unaware of the other's life. But after years of isolation Aelish is unexpectedly summoned to Newfoundland, where she and her estranged sister begin to bridge the chasm between them. Reunion brings to light the painful secrets and seismic deceptions that have kept these sisters apart, leaving the McGuire twins to begin reconstructing their understanding about themselves as women and as family--what they know of love, hope, and above all, forgiveness."--
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Faith; Family secrets; Orphans; Self-realization in women; Sisters; Twins;
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