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Pub. Date
2021.
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"When Ben Aitken learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday including four three-course dinners, four cooked breakfasts, four games of bingo, a pair of excursions, sixteen pints of lager and luxury return coach travel, all for a hundred pounds, he thought, that's the life, and signed himself up. Six times over. Good value aside, what Ben was really after was the company of his elders - those with more chapters under their belt, with the...
63) Promise me
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"One minute Lou is happily employed, with a perfect flat. The next, her home and job have gone. Suddenly she has to start over. The last thing Lou wants is to move to a tiny Cotswolds village. She certainly doesn't intend to work for grumpy eighty-year-old Edgar Allsopp. But Edgar is about to make her the kind of promise nobody could ignore. In return, she secretly vows to help him fall in love with life again. Foxwell is also home to Remy, whose...
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Pub. Date
2007
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"At 52, Karl Preston lives an ideal American life with his wife and 24-year-old daughter, in an affluent North Carolina suburb. At the request of his father, Karl and his family travel to Florida for a weekend visit that generates a roller-coaster ride of emotions that buttoned-up Karl is not fully prepared to deal with." "Frank and Annike, Karl's elderly parents, use this reunion to announce their planned move to a retirement community and their...
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Cape Light novels volume 12
Pub. Date
2011
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Reverend Ben has been ignoring his health recently and it's finally caught up with him. Since Ben will need six weeks' recuperation and physical rehab, interim minister Isabel Moran is assigned to the congregation. Is this health setback a sign from above that it's time for Ben to move on to a new phase of his life?
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Pub. Date
2009
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"Though she lives in the shadow of her legendary landscape photographer father, and is the mother of a painter whose career is about to take off, Claire has carved out a practical existence as a commercial photographer. Her pictures may not be the stuff of genius, but they've paid for a good life. But when her father dies, Claire loses faith in the work she has devoted her life to, and worse, begins to feel jealous of her daughter's success. Then,...
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Pub. Date
[1996]
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In The Sibling Society, Bly turns to stories as unexpected as Jack and the Beanstalk and the Hindu tale of Ganesha to illustrate and illuminate the troubled soul of our nation itself. What he shows us is a culture where adults remain children, and where children have no desire to become adults - a nation of squabbling siblings
Through his use of poetry and myth, Bly takes us beyond the sociological statistics and tired psychobabble to see our dilemma...
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Pub. Date
[2009]
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Set in the lush, rolling hills of northern New Jersey and the romantic, windswept dunes of Cape Cod, this is the story of three generations of women who find their lives, and dreams, suddenly transformed in ways they never could have imagined; and the journey of one woman who comes to realize that when you're a mother, or a daughter, you are never truly free.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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"A dazzling debut novel about a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream. In this account of two decades in the life of an immigrant household, the fall of communism and the rise of globalization are artfully reflected in the experience of a single family. Ironies, subtle and glaring, are revealed: the Nasmertovs left Odessa for Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, with a huge sense of finality,...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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A generations expert and author of When Generations Collide and The M-Factor, teams up with his seventeen-year-old son to introduce the next influential demographic group to join the workforce--Generation Z. At 72.8 million strong, Gen Z (born between 1995 and 2012) is about to make its presence known in the workplace in a major way, and employers need to understand the differences that set them apart. They're radically different than the Millennials,...
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Dear friends and army wives Diana, Carmen, and Joanie have been through war, rumors of war, marital problems, motherhood, fears, joy, and heartache. But none of the women are prepared when their daughters decide to enlist in the army together. Facing an empty nest won't be easy. Especially for Carmen. With emotions already high, she suffers an even greater blow: divorce papers. Diana understands the fury and tears. She's been there. With nothing to...
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Pub. Date
[2023].
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"After ending a long-term relationship with her fiancé, twenty-nine-year-old Nora Dawson moves to Brentwood, Tennessee in search of a fresh start. She quickly forms an unlikely bond with one of the residents of the nursing home where she works, and he soon begins to open up about his life. Never could Nora have imagined that the story she will hear will alter her perspective and impact her life in such a profound way."--Back cover.
78) Six of one
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Series
Julia and Louise novels volume 1
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Whether careening through town propelling cars like long-range missiles, or laying waste to a costumed July Fourth parade, Wheezie and Juts Hunsenmeir are Runnymede's most irrepressible, mule-headed sister act. Together these Southern siblings cheerfully raise hell-- and a hell of a family-- among some of the most colorful townsfolk you're ever likely to meet. Chief among them is elegant Celeste Chalfonte. As exquisite as she is fearless, Celeste...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"In today's world, the acceleration of megatrends - increasing longevity and the explosion of technology among many others - are transforming life as we now know it. In The Perennials, bestselling author of 2030 Mauro Guillén unpacks a sweeping societal shift triggered by demographic and technological transformation. Guillén argues that outmoded terms like Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z have long been used to pigeonhole us into rigid categories...
80) Blush: a novel
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Pub. Date
2021.
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For decades, the Hollander Estates winery has been the premier destination for lavish parties and romantic day trips on the North Fork of Long Island. But behind the lush vineyards and majestic estate house, the Hollander family fortunes have suffered and the threat of a sale brings old wounds to the surface. For matriarch Vivian, she fears that this summer season could be their last—and that selling their winery to strangers could expose a dark...
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