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1) Slow motion
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
2) Old Yeller
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis is faced with taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The German-Irish author recounts his young adulthood desire to escape the legacies of his German mother and cousin, entanglement in a bitter dispute between Catholic and Protestant neighbors, and exposure to forbidden cultural elements.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author describes the year she spent riding the buses of her Pennsylvania city with her sister, and how taking part in those journeys allowed her to slow down her life and develop stronger interpersonal connections.
5) Saving Marty
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"When Lorenzo adopts a runt piglet destined for auction, an unexpected, life-changing friendship forms"--
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
251 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Details how the author coped with the passing of his parents, William F. Buckley, Jr., the father of the modern conservative movement, and Patricia Taylor Buckley, one of New York's most colorful socialites, between 2007 and 2008.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Several months after the tragic events set in motion by bully Betty Glengarry, Annabelle McBride is struck by lightning during a powerful summer storm, leaving her with heightened senses that give her a new understanding of animals and help her learn about compassion and forgiveness.
Author
Language
English
Description
1914. Rosemary Gresham has no family beyond the band of former urchins that helped her survive as a girl in the mean streets of London. Grown now, they concentrate on stealing high-value items and have learned how to blend into upper-class society. But when Rosemary must determine whether a certain wealthy gentleman is loyal to Britain or to Germany, she is in for the challenge of a lifetime. How does one steal a family's history, their very name?...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A coming-of-age memoir by the daughter of privileged, artistic, hard-drinking, bohemian parents, set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, Cape Cod, and Mexico"--
Herrera's parents each married five times; when she was three years old her parents separated and she and her sister moved from Cape Cod to New York City to live with their mother and their new hard-drinking stepfather. They saw their father only during summers on the Cape, when they and...
11) Strawberry Lane
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Pulling a stranger out of a wrecked car on the very same road where her parents died 20 years earlier, Starri Knight, a big believer in fate, must convince Rusty O'Sullivan, with whom she feels a compelling connection, he has something to live for, which takes all her faith in miracles"--
Starri Knight is a big believer in fate. When she pulls Rusty O'Sullivan out of a wrecked car on the very same road where her parents died twenty years earlier,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, his first work of prose: a deeply felt memoir of a family's bonds and a meditation on race, addiction, fatherhood, ambition, and American culture The Pardlos were an average, middle-class African American family living in a New Jersey Levittown: charismatic Gregory Sr., an air traffic controller, his wife, and their two sons, bookish Greg Jr. and musical-talent Robbie. But when "Big Greg" loses his job after...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
To Anne Serling, the figure the public saw hosting The Twilight Zone each week, intoning cautionary observations about fate, chance, and humanity, was not the father she knew. Her fun-loving dad would play on the floor with the dogs and was apt to put a lampshade on his head and break out in song. He was her best friend, her playmate, and her confidant. After his unexpected death at 50, Anne, just 20, was left stunned. Gradually, she found solace...
14) A song of joy
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In Minnesota in 1911, Nilda Carlson is torn between society life in the city of Blackduck and spending time with her family back home on the farm. Her employer, Mrs. Schoenleber, gives her more and more responsibility and experience, including recommending new opportunities for her philanthropy. Still new to America herself, Nilda focuses on the area's immigrant community, but she'll have to fight to get her ideas accepted by the locals and donors...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Four working-class Vancouver sisters, still reeling from the impact of World War I and the pandemic that stole their only brother, are scraping by but attempting to make the most of the exciting 1920s. Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue is a love story -- but like all love stories, it's complicated ... Morag is pregnant; she loves her husband. Georgina can't bear hers and dreams of getting an education. Harriet-Jean, still at home with her opium-addicted...
16) Love begins
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
"After their father's passing, Ellen Barlow and her sister Cassie struggle to maintain the family farm in Anderson's Corner. When Clark Davis finds trouble in town on his way to California, Ellen agrees to hire him at the farm to work off his debts. Before long, Clark and Ellen unexpectedly develop feelings for each other. Ultimately, a turn of events inspires the pair to begin a legacy of love and faith together."
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 265 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Light Between Us provides guideposts for living a rich and fulfilling life. In her beautiful worldview, Laura Lynne Jackson reminds us that our relationship to those we love endures across space and time; that we are all connected and invested in one another's lives; and that we are here to give and receive love selflessly. Her story offers a new understanding of the vast reach of our consciousness and enlarges our view of the human experience,"--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper ... Venice. Caroline's quest: to scatter Juliet "Lettie" Browning's ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years. It's 1938 when art teacher Juliet Browning arrives in romantic Venice. For her students, it's a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
445 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A riveting exploration of the intersecting lines of Jewish and indigenous Latin American thought and culture, by way of a family memoir. In Our America, eminent anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz traces his grandparents' exile from Eastern Europe to South America. At the same time, the book is a pretext to explain and analyze the worldview, culture, and spirit of countries such as Peru, Colombia, and Chile, from the perspective of educated...
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