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"Joan Sample is not living the life she expected. Now a widow and an empty-nester, she has become by her own admission something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to reengage with the world. With her support, Joan gathers the courage to take some long-awaited steps: hiring someone to tame her overgrown garden, joining a grief support group, and even renting...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Her carefully constructed life thrown into turmoil by the appearance of an eighteen-year-old girl with ties to her past, New York television producer Marian Caldwell is swept up in a maelstrom of personal discovery that changes both of their perceptions about family.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by their artist mother at the age of twelve, Bean and her older sister, Liz, are sent to live in the decaying antebellum mansion of their widowed uncle, where they learn the truth about their parents and take odd jobs to earn extra money before an increasingly withdrawn Liz has a life-shattering experience.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"When Poppy met Alex, there was no spark, no chemistry, and no reason to think they'd ever talk again. Alex is quiet, studious, and destined for a future in academia. Poppy is a wild child who only came to U of Chicago to escape small-town life. But after sharing a ride home for the summer, the two form a surprising friendship. After all, who better to confide in than someone you could never, ever date? Over the years, Alex and Poppy's lives take...
5) Already home
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recovering from her failed marriage and opening her own cooking store, Jenna finds her new life upended by the arrival of her aging hippie birth parents as she struggles to reconcile her past with the present.
Author
Language
English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis. Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A well-known life coach, personal development coach, and addiction specialist provides a program to help readers examine where their lives are now and determine who they want to be.
Author
Language
English
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"One woman discovers the beauty in chaos in this poignant and heartwarming story about the threads that hold family together from #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery. With her divorce settlement about to run out and a mortgage she can't afford, Robyn Caldwell needs a plan for her future. She nurtured her family and neglected herself. But how's she supposed to think when her daughter has become the most demanding bride ever, her son...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
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Struggling with the demands of her job, distant husband, spoiled daughter and Alzheimer's patient father, Allison becomes addicted to painkillers and lands in rehab, where amid fellow inpatients she confronts incompatible recovery techniques, barely trained counselors and her own denial.
"Allison Weiss has a great job...a handsome husband...an adorable daughter...and a secret. Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business,...
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvii, 183 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a guide on how to establish a healthy relationship with competition, explaining the importance of overcoming negativity and tapping one's hidden potential to pursue excellence for the greater good.
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Faith Bass Darling, the richest woman in Bass, Texas, and a twenty-year recluse, holds a garage sale on the last day of the millennium, sparking curiosity and protectiveness throughout her Texas community.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
332 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Julie leaps at a chance to spend a summer in Amish country to help her sister-in-law Susan with a reality television program, an opportunity that forces Julie to confront the cameras, Susan's perfectionism, and her views about family life.
14) The goldfinch
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 bestselling sensation and Netflix star comes her guide to designing not just the home-but the life-of your dreams, fully illustrated with more than 200 photographs from inside the Marie Kondo lifestyle"--
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Guides readers to identify and handle "garbage trucks"--individuals who dump their negativity onto others--and learn to live a happier and more successful life, as well as how to stop dumping their own negativity.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater-vest, waters his fern, Frederica, and heads out to his garden. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, something changes. Sorting through Miriam's possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before. What follows...