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"The greatest writer of his time."-Edmund Wilson
"One of the great poets of the novel, a genius of his art"-Edgar Johnson
"His characters are marvelous, his insights wonderful…you don't expect reality but you get something bigger and better."-Ruth Rendell
The Old Curiosity Shop was initially published in a weekly serial, "Master Humphrey's Clock", between 1840 and 1841. Charles Dickens' story of the frail and innocent orphan had become such...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Calvin Sidey is a cowboy of the old-school, no-guff sort--steely, hardened, with his own personal code. It's the 1960s, and he's living off the grid in a stifling trailer on the prairie when his adult son, Bill, seeks his help. A mostly absentee father, and a virtual no-show as a grandfather, Calvin nevertheless reluctantly agrees to stay with his grandchildren for a week. He decamps for his son's dark and musty basement, to the small town where...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Victorian socialite Clara Stanton strives to protect her eccentric family's reputation, but that proves to be difficult when her grandfather takes off on a flight of fancy. Thrown together with vagabond tinker Theodore Kingsley, Clara sets off to follow her grandfather's whimsical adventure and finds love along the way"-- Provided by publisher.
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Struggling to understand why her beloved grandfather left his family to die alone in a field hospital far from home, a young doctor in a war-torn Balkan country takes over her grandfather's search for a mythical ageless vagabond while referring to a worn copy of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book."
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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In this heartfelt picture book, a child imagines ways to connect with a grandmother who lives far way. Whether by rocket ship or jet pack, train or in a plane, any journey is worth it to see someone you love.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A keenly observant and "whip smart" (Sunday Telegraph) debut novel, following a former competitive swimmer and granddaughter of a famous Irish poet as she comes of age in the shadow of her family's tragic past, perfect for fans of Sally Rooney, Lily King's Writers & Lovers, and Elif Batuman's The Idiot"-- Provided by publisher.
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John Scognamiglio Books/Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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In this powerful and ultimately uplifting new novel set in 1970s Mississippi, the acclaimed author of The Last Suppers tells of three generations of women whose lives are thrown into upheaval when a dark secret is brutally exposed...On a hot, humid July morning, sixteen-year-old Cissy Pickering calmly and deliberately shoots her father in the back. To their Mississippi community, the death of well-regarded attorney Richard Pickering is a fascinating...
9) Let him go
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Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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A retired sheriff and his wife go after their young grandson in "a fast-paced story of marital love, family violence and small-town justice" (Pioneer Press).
It's been years since George and Margaret Blackledge lost their son James, and months since his widow, Lorna, took off with their only grandson and married Donnie Weboy. Margaret is resolved to find and retrieve the boy—while George is none too eager to stir up trouble. Soon,...
It's been years since George and Margaret Blackledge lost their son James, and months since his widow, Lorna, took off with their only grandson and married Donnie Weboy. Margaret is resolved to find and retrieve the boy—while George is none too eager to stir up trouble. Soon,...
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"1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther's prison but soon surprisingly becomes her refuge. 2018. Free-spirited marine scientist Rachel Parker embarks on a research posting in the Isles of Scilly, off the Cornish coast. When a violent storm forces her to take shelter on a far-flung island, she discovers a collection of hidden love...
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Shelter Springs volume 2
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English
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The magic of Christmas--and a second shot at romance--is in the air in Shelter Springs this holiday season… Amanda Taylor isn’t a fan of Christmas, but as the owner of a local soap shop, ignoring the holiday season isn’t an option. To forget the pain of Christmases past, Amanda focuses on making the season bright for her customers at the Shelter Springs Holiday Giving Market. But when her beloved grandmother, Birdie, starts dating...
16) Leaping Lizzie
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Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (64 pages) : color illustrations.
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English
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Tabitha Catarina is staying at her grandparents' farm/cat hotel for the summer, and she is thrilled when the owner of Queen Lizzie's Pizza Palace brings Queen Lizzie, a Sphynx cat, to Tabby Towers to stay because Lizzie keeps jumping up on the counter too close to the food. Lizzie's owner is sad, though, so Tabitha sets out to research this bad behavior and come up with a solution that will allow Lizzie to remain in the store that is named after her....
18) Fishing Frankie
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Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 online resource (63 pages) : color illustrations.
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English
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Tabitha is overjoyed when Frankie, a Bengal cat, joins the family at Tabby Towers, and the best thing is that Frankie likes water. Alfreeda can't believe it, and when Frankie slips out the hotel door, the hunt to get him back is on.
19) Hope
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Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
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pages cm
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English
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"Two lions celebrate their grandchild and express all the ways this new life has expanded their world, and the hope they hold for his future"-- Provided by publisher.
20) Loved and missed
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Publisher
The New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"When your beloved daughter is lost in the fog of addiction and you make off with her baby in order to save the day, can willpower and a daring creative zeal carry you through? Examining the limits, disappointments and excesses of love in all its forms, this marvellously absorbing novel, full of insight and compassion, delights as much as it disturbs"-- Provided by publisher.
Ruth believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter,...