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-- Twenty-two Britannia Roadc2011., Adult, Pamela Dorman Books/Viking Call No: Fic Hod Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Leaving Poland for England at the end of World War II, Silvana is accompanied by eight-year-old, near-feral Aurek, with whom she shares traumatic wartime memories that set them apart from her husband, who has remade himself as an Englishman to forget the past."--NoveList.
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By Lake, Alex2015., Harper Call No: MYS Fic Lak Edition: Paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A girl is missing. Five years old, taken from outside her school. She has vanished, traceless. The police are at a loss ; her parents are beyond grief. Their daughter is lost forever-perhaps dead, perhaps enslaved. But the biggest mystery is yet to come : one week after she was abducted, Anna is returned.
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By Straub, Emma2020., Riverhead Books Call No: Fic Str Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days, decades years earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares. But who gets to decide, so many years later, which long-ago lapses were the ones that mattered? Who decides which apologies really count? It might be that only Astrid's 13-year-old granddaughter and her new friend really understand the courage it takes to tell the truth to the people you love the most. In All Adults Here, Emma Straub's unique alchemy of wisdom, humor and insight come together in a deeply satisfying story about adult siblings, aging parents, high school boyfriends, middle school mean girls, the lifelong effects of birth order, and all the other things that follow us into adulthood, whether we like them to or not"--
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c2011., Adult, Broadview Press Call No: Fic Den Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ruth has a medical condition causing her to grow too fast. Her ongoing struggle to conceal the physical and mental symptoms of her rapid growth is complicated by her desire to connect with other children and appease her concerned parents. Not knowing what to do about Ruth, her parents Elspeth and James turn away from one another and their marriage begins to falter.
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2008., Theatre Communications Group Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: [This drama] is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest-and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long-held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed.
![August: Osage County [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT81817.JPG "August: Osage County [eBook]")
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By Heller, Zoe2009., Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Hel Edition: 1st US ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When Joel Litvinoff is felled by a stroke, his wife, Audrey, uncovers a secret that forces her to re-examine her ideas about their forty-year marriage. Joel<U+2019>s children will soon have to come to terms with this unsettling discovery themselves, but for the time being, they are grappling with their own dilemmas. Rosa is being pressed to make a commitment to religion. Karla is falling in love with the owner of a newspaper concession and Lenny is back on drugs. In the course of battling their own demons and each other, every member of the family is called upon to re-examine long-held articles of faith and to decide what <U+2013> if anything <U+2013> they still believe in."--Inside jacket.
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c2010., Delacorte Press Call No: LP Fic Ste Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family.
![Big girl [LP] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageM7.png "Big girl [LP] : a novel")
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By Gasco, Elyse1999., Picador USA Call No: QWF Fic Gas Edition: 1st Picador USA pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Stories dealing with adoption. In The Third Person, an adopted woman decides at the last minute not to have an abortion, Elements is a meeting of a woman and her birth mother, while in the title story the protagonist discovers a sister who was surrendered for adoption.
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-- Une vie fantastique2016., Adult, Entertainment One Films Canada Call No: DVD Fic Captain F Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, a devoted father dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults. But when a tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to leave this self-created paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent and brings into question everything he's taught them.
![Captain Fantastic [DVD] (2016). Directed by Matt Ross](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Captain Fantastic [DVD] (2016). Directed by Matt Ross")
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2020., W. W. Norton & Company Call No: Fic Mil Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "An indelible and haunting new novel that explores the loss of childhood, intergenerational conflict, and humanity's complacency in the face of its own demise. Lydia Millet's multilayered new novel - her first since the National Book Award Longlist Sweet Lamb of Heaven -- follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack, A Children's Bible is loosely structured around events and characters that often appear in collections of Bible stories intended for young readers. These narrative touchstones are imbedded in a backdrop of environmental and psychological distress as the children reject the parents for their emotional and moral failures-in part as normal teenagers must, and in part for their generation's passivity and denial in the face of cataclysmic change. In A Children's Bible, Millet offers brilliant commentary on the environment and human weakness and a vision of what awaits us on the other side of Revelations"--
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2001., HarperCollins Call No: Fic Fra Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Oprah's book clubSummary Note: After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man-or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home.
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2014., Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD. Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Jessie Constable has learned the hard way to always keep herself safe. But meeting Gus King changes everything. Before she knows it, Jessie is sleeping at Gus§s house, babysitting his kids, becoming a part of his family. And yet, she can§t ignore the unsettling questions. Who does she keep seeing from the corner of her eye? Why are strange men threatening her? Most importantly, what really happened to Gus§s wife?.
![The day she died [eBook] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT76534.JPG "The day she died [eBook] : a novel")
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[2008]., General, Universal Studios Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Definitely Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Will Hayes is a 30-something Manhattan dad who is in the midst of a divorce. His 10 year old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will's story begins years earlier when, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician, he moves to New York in order to work on the Clinton campaign. Will attempts a "PG" version of his romantic relationships with three very different women for his daughter and changes the names of the women so Maya has to guess who he finally married. Maya puts together the pieces of her dad's romantic puzzle and begins to understand that love is not so simple or easy. As Will tells her his tale, Maya helps him to understand that it's definitely never too late to go back, and just maybe, find a happy ending.
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2012., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Descendants Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
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2013., General, Douglas & McIntyre Call No: Fic Bri Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A gripping debut teeming with drama and scathing insight into the world of an all-girl private high school. For years, Audrey Brindle has dreamed of attending George Eliot Academy, the school where her mother, Ruth, has taught for a decade. But when she is finally admitted, she discovers a place of sly bullying and ferocious intolerance. Ruth, meanwhile, finds her world upended by the arrival of a new teacher, Henry Winter. An acutely observed exploration of ambition, betrayal, and cruelty, 'The Eliot Girls' deftly explores the intimacies and injustices of privileged female adolescence and the relationship of a mother and daughter for whom life will never be the same."--Publisher.
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2010., Delacorte Press Call No: Fic Ste Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this compelling novel, a young woman overnight becomes mother to her sister's three small children. Grown now, each of them will choose a different path. Through it all, one thing will remain: family ties.
