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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Laurel and Clay have three weeks to plan their wedding that will take place at Graceland Chapel in the Woods at Elvis Presley's celebrated Memphis home. However, when both sets of in-laws, each with vastly different personalities and ideas for the wedding, descend upon Memphis to "help" plan the nuptials, the bride and groom are pushed to the breaking point.
42) Best girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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When aspiring musician Amanda Moss learns the truth about the parents that she thought were dead, some aspects of her life and personality begin to make sense, even as she is compelled to look into unsettling questions about her family.
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English
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"Taking chances is part of life, but when you bet your future against the odds, it's a high-risk game. Kate Madison's stylish resale shop has been a big SoHo success, supporting her and her four kids since her husband's untimely death. Now they are grown and ready to forge lives of their own. And they all choose to play against the odds, to their mother's dismay. Isabelle, a dedicated attorney, is in line to make partner at her Wall Street firm when...
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1040L
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English
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Plantagenet Palliser must face new challenges and a changing world if he is to hold his family together in the final installment of the Palliser Novels. After losing his devoted wife, Glencora, Duke Plantagenet Palliser takes on a task he has never had the time or skills to bother with before: dealing with his children. Palliser has never been a doting father, what with the responsibilities of title and duty constantly beckoning him away, but now...
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From Susan Forward, Ph.D., the New York Times bestselling author of Toxic Parents and Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them, comes a practical and powerful book that will help couples cope with terrible and toxic in-laws.
Toxic in-laws are in-laws who create genuine chaos through various assaults—aggressive or subtle—on you and your marriage. Toxic in-laws come in a wide variety of guises:
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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When Todd McCray, a developmentally challenged young man still living on his parents' Kansas farm, hears that a local animal shelter is seeking temporary homes for its dogs during the days leading to Christmas, he knows exactly what he wants for the holidays. His father objects, but Todd's persistence quickly wins out. Soon the McCrays are the short-term foster family for a lovable pooch the young man names Christmas, But what about all the other...
48) Family album
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English
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All Alison ever wanted was a blissful childhood for her six children, with summers at the beach and birthday parties on the law at their family home. Together with Ingrid, the family au pair, she has worked hard to create a real old-fashioned family life. But beneath its postcard sheen, the picture is clouded by a distant father, Alison's inexplicable emotional outbursts, and long-repressed secrets that no one dares mention.
49) His father's son
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English
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"Steve Nye writes for alumni publications, and his long-term relationship is on the steady path to marriage. But his quiet life takes an unexpected turn when he receives a phone call from his mother. His father attacked her and has been committed to a psych ward. The doctor says he's suffering from dementia--but Steve's father seems so calm, clear-eyed, and perfectly lucid when he whispers, 'I killed her.' Is it simply another symptom of delusion...
51) The Noel letters
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Series
Noel collection volume 4
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English
Description
"After nearly two decades, Noel Post, an editor for a major New York publishing house, returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one...
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Betty Lynne Davidson is planning her husband's funeral. The problem? He's not dead. Will her daughter Suzanne go along with her mother's outrageous scheme in order to keep her family in one piece -- even if it does mean watching her father give the eulogy at his own funeral?
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Television producer Mary Pflum Peterson's memoir of three generations of women and the white dresses that adorned them. Peterson describes her chaotic childood and battle to rescue her mother from compulsive hoarding. Through the white dresses, pivotal events in their lives are celebrated, even as Mary tries in vain to save Anne from herself. Unflinchingly honest, insightful, and compelling, White Dresses is a beautiful, powerful story—and a reminder...
55) Strange but true
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Now a Major Motion Picture starring Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, and Blythe Danner.
"Sinister and complex.... You'll race right through it."-New York Times
After a mysterious fall from his New York City apartment, Philip Chase has moved back home with his mother, Charlene, a bitter woman who has never fully accepted the death of her younger son, Ronnie, five years earlier. Surrounded by memories of the family he no longer has, and trying to forget the...
56) Reconnecting with your estranged adult child: practical tips and tools to heal your relationship
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English
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"A licensed professional counselor shows parents how to repair their relationships with their estranged adult children. The book includes exercises, examples, and sample scripts to facilitate the process of reconciliation"--
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English
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"Called back home to care for her mother, who is slowly slipping into early-onset Alzheimer's, successful writer Clara Winter is determined to know the woman who sent her away all those years ago, while trying to figure out what the future has in store for her since she also carries the gene for the disease"--
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Helps fathers, and their sons move through the past to find deep connection in the present.
"What do sons wish they had received from their fathers? What might honest, healing conversations between fathers and sons look like? Tune sat down with seventeen men of diverse ages, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds, and in conversation invited them to unpack their relationships with their fathers. He also offers readers strategies and prompts for...
59) Trojan odyssey
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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Underwater adventurer Dirk Pitt and the NUMA crew investigate a black tide infesting the ocean off Nicaragua, a study complicated by the discovery of a mysterious artifact, a powerful storm, and a conspiracy.
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Told from the perspective of mothers who've lived it, Difficult focuses on mothering challenging adult children.
Difficult brings to life the conflicts that arise for mothers who are confronted with the unexpected and burdensome dependencies of their adult children associated with mental illness, substance use, or chronic unemployment. Through real stories of mothers and their challenging adult children, this book offers accessible, provocative,...
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