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Author
Series
Ernest Cunningham volume 1
Language
English
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"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started"--...
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English
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"La La Fine relates to animals better than she does to other people. Abandoned by a mother who never wanted a family, raised by a locksmith-turned-thief father, La La looks to pets when it feels like the rest of the world conspires against her. La La's world stops being whole when her mother, who never wanted a child, abandons her twice. First, when La La falls through thin ice on a skating trip, and again when the accusations of "unfit mother" feel...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
""Christensen is a forceful writer whose . . . prose is visceral and poetic. . . . She is a portrait artist, drawing in miniature, capturing the light within."-San Francisco Chronicle From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home-reluctantly-to Maine after the death of her mother. Can you ever truly...
24) After love
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Boris and Marie have decided to separate after fifteen years together. However, cash-strapped Boris is still living in the family home. When all is said and done, neither of the two is willing to give up. Now this apartment is a war zone and their situation a nightmare.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is one of kidnapping and betrayal, of a mysterious island where the two were held. But to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Abby Winter, something doesn't add up. Looking deep within this dysfunctional family Dr. Winter uncovers a life where boundaries were violated and a narcissistic...
26) Girl A: a novel
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"For readers of Room and Dear Edward, a propulsive and psychologically immersive novel about a young girl who escapes captivity--but not the secrets that shadow the rest of her life"--
27) L.A. weather
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza's Box of Saints L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life...
28) Aphasia
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
vi, 195 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Antonio works making spreadsheets for Bank of America, but not-so-secretly wants to be a great writer-or indeed to do anything that will help him avoid thinking about his sister, a paranoid schizophrenic on the run from the police. Antonio's attempts to write a novel become an ekphrastic performance of avoidance and evasion, darting between the past and the present to consider relationships erotic and familial, the worlds of architecture and literature,...
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Series
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English
Description
Shay Benson adored her younger brother, Caden, and that got her into trouble. When he owed money, Shay realized she would do anything to help him avoid the men who were threatening him, and she crossed lines she never should have crossed. Now, determined to start fresh, she finds herself in search of a place to stay and wanders into a church to escape from the cold. Pastor Drew Douglas adored his wife. But when he lost her, it was all he could do...
31) Grown ups
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
536 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
32) The nest
Author
Language
English
Description
Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab....
33) One last shot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Miniature golf becomes an escape for Malcolm during a time when his home life feels tumultuous and he must navigate tournaments, new friendships, and growing tensions at home.
34) Parakeet
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"A darkly funny and warm-hearted novel about a young woman whose dead grandmother (in the form of a parakeet) warns her not to marry and sends her out to find an estranged loved one"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
280, 14 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This unforgettable story, filled with empathy, humor and emotional wisdom, follows four generations of an American family living under one roof as they each look for meaning in all the wrong places.
36) Eden's children
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When former teacher Paula Eden adopts Faith and Trevor, she is astounded by their natural intelligence and decides to homeschool them to nurture their brilliance. But as the years go on, Faith and Trevor itch for more independence. When Faith sets her sights on a handsome young man visiting from out of town, Paula grows increasingly desperate to preserve her small family and her plans for the children to carry on her legacy. Luckily, she has a cohort...
37) Krampus
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 38 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A darkly festive tale of a yuletide ghoul, reveals an irreverently twisted side to the holiday. The horror-comedy tells the story of young Max, who turns his back on Christmas as his dysfunctional family comes together and comically clashes over the holidays. When they accidentally unleash the wrath of Krampus, an ancient entity from European folklore, all hell breaks loose and beloved holiday icons take on a monstrous life of their own.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Some of the stormy weather of the past few seasons seems to have finally lifted for the Quinns. After a year apart, Mitzi has returned to rule the roost; Patrick is about to be released from prison; Kevin has a successful new business and is finally ready to tie the knot with Isabelle; and best of all, there's hopeful news about Bart, who has been captured by enemy forces in Afghanistan....
39) Inside man
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Sam Capra's best customer--and friend--is murdered outside his Miami bar, Sam decides to seek justice. Determined to find out the connection between his friend's death and a beautiful stranger, Sam infiltrates the Ligeras, one of Miami's most prominent--and dangerous-families. He faces a powerful but unstable mastermind intent on dividing his business empire between his three very different children, who may hold murderous secrets of their own....
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English
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"This beautiful novel tells the love story of young Arthur Moses and Nola, and how a young man grew up to become the wise old man known as Arthur trulove. Set in the 1950s in the warm community of Mason, Missouri, Arthur is a shy, unathletic teenage boy, in love with the most beautiful girl in his class. He is thrilled when they become friends, but he wants more than friendship. Alas, he learns that Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses--Arthur's older...
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