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1) Memory Road
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Despite knowing it’s a mad idea, Lily agrees to take her mother on one last road trip around the UK, in this new novel by the bestselling author of His Other Woman.
This trip will be challenging because Lily’s mother can no longer be described as “just a bit forgetful”: Moira has started talking to imaginary friends and singing ABBA songs in public, and last week she began emptying boxes of cereal onto the...
This trip will be challenging because Lily’s mother can no longer be described as “just a bit forgetful”: Moira has started talking to imaginary friends and singing ABBA songs in public, and last week she began emptying boxes of cereal onto the...
2) Oddballs
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A collection of stories based on experiences from the author's youth and peopled with an unusual assortment of family and friends.
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AVp2s fiction readalong volume 118
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Describes in rhyme the activities of a young boy and his extended family as they share a special Thanksgiving.
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AVp2s fiction readalong volume 21
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As they gather to celebrate Thanksgiving Day, members of an extended family take turns describing, in rhyme, the things that make them feel grateful.
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"Tommy struggles with people, with communicating, preferring solitude, drifting off with nature. He is protected by his Tinker family who keep to the old ways. A life of quiet seclusion under canvas is all he knows. Charlotte cares for her sickly father. She meets Tommy by the riverside and an unexpected friendship develops. Over the years it becomes something more, something crucial to both of them. But when tragedy strikes each family they are torn...
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A brilliant comedy of manners about a Boston Brahmin's search for meaning from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Late George Apley In preparation for the twenty-fifth reunion of his class at Harvard, Harry Pulham is asked to collect and edit the personal histories of his fellow alumni. A glance at the previous year's Class Book tells him just how tedious the assignment will be: "I have been very busy all this time practising corporation...
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A small-town doctor acquitted of murdering his pregnant wife faces new accusations in this classic set in the early days of modern medicine. Hambledon, Pennsylvania, is still reeling from the sensational murder trial that shattered the peace of the bucolic hamlet less than a year ago. Dr. Jonathan Ferrier was accused of killing his beautiful young wife after she died following a botched abortion. The scion of a powerful old eastern family, Jonathan...
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Rufus and Hannah Barnes are good Quakers, highly respected in their new community of Dukla, Pennsylvania and strictly loyal to their faith. They pass this loyalty on to their children, including Solon Barnes, who must hold on to his Quaker convictions while living in an increasingly materialistic modern society. After falling for the lovely Benecia_x2014_a daughter of the wealthy Wallin family_x2014_Solon is given a position at her father's bank in...
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The story of a Boston heiress who wishes for nothing-except happiness-by a New York Times–bestselling author who "never falters when it comes to storytelling" (Publishers Weekly).
Caroline Ames is rich beyond imagining. But after a childhood with a cold, rejecting father, she is irrationally terrified of poverty, seething with hostility, and incapable of giving or receiving love. Those who cross her path tend to find themselves at the very least...
14) Masquerade
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Remy Jardin, suffering from amnesia after an attack in Nice, risks losing the man she loves, Cole Buchanan, as well as her own life, as she searches for the truth about an accident involving her family's shipping company.
15) B. F.'s daughter
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The daughter of a powerful industrialist seeks to live on her own terms in this entertaining portrait of the American home front during World War II Polly Fulton, the daughter of one of America's most successful and admired businessmen, lives with her parents and brother in a thirty-room apartment on New York City's Park Avenue. Yet she despises the superficial trappings of wealth and delights in defying convention. In the months before America enters...
16) The real mother
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Forced to leave medical school in order to care for her young siblings after their mother is placed in a nursing home, Sara Elliott finds her situation challenged by a love interest with questionable family ties and the reappearance of her long-lost brother.
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"Louisa Meets Bear, SCB/FSG, 2015."--
"A novel telling the dramatic, multigenerational story of the O'Connor family. When Prudence receives an unexpected visit from Grace, the granddaughter of Prudence's long estranged and now deceased brother, the two begin to unravel the stories of their connected lives."--
18) The Italian girl
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A poignant portrait of a family's struggle for redemption The funeral of Edward's mother brings him home for the first time in years. Though his return rekindles his affection for his childhood home, it also triggers a resurgence of the family tensions that caused him to leave in the first place. As Edward becomes tangled in his family's web of corrosive secrets, his homecoming tips a precariously balanced dynamic into sudden chaos. The Italian...
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Nan has written her brothers and sisters that they are invited (and must come) home for Christmas. They had not all been home together for years. No spouses or children . Just the five siblings. They really didn't want to go, it did not sound like fun. The story of a family reunion in the old homestead, planned by the youngest member of the family, resisted and scoffed at by the eldest-and successfully brought off.
20) Baby love
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Maynard's captivating novel of four teenage girls, bound together by early motherhood and forever changed by the arrival of two women in their small New England town. In their New Hampshire community, Sandy, Jill, Tara, and Wanda are different from other teenage girls. Jill is pregnant, while the other three are already mothers. Sandy, at eighteen, is married. Tara, the product of a broken family, is raising her baby alone. Wanda, with her three-month-old,...