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Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award Windsor Armstrong is a polished, Harvard educated, African-American professor of Russian literature. Her son, Pushkin X, is an exceedingly famous pro-football player, an achievement that impresses his mother not at all. Even more distressing, however, is that her beloved son has just become engaged to a gorgeous white Russian émigré who also happens to be a lap dancer. For Windsor, this is no laughing matter....
4) Family ties
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c2010
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322 p. ; 25 cm.
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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.
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Chesapeake Shores novels volume 4
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When Mick and Megan O'Brien decide to get remarried after years apart, most of their grown children are excited about their rekindled romance with the exception of their son Connor, a divorce attorney, who, believing that Megan had abandoned the family, refuses to give his blessing.
8) Intervention
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"Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction: staging an intervention. But when eighteen-year-old Emily disappears on the way to drug treatment-and her interventionist is found dead at the airport-Barbara enters her darkest nightmare of all. Barbara and her son set out to find Emily before Detective Kent Harlan arrests her for a crime he is sure she committed. Fearing for Emily's life, Barbara maintains...
9) Home safe
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c2009
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260 p. ; 25 cm.
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Recently widowed Helen Ames and her twenty-seven-year-old daughter Tessa discover that money has disappeared in several big withdrawals from the Ames' retirement savings. What Helen's husband did with all their money turns out to be provocative, revelatory, and leads Helen and her daughter to embark on new adventures, and change.
10) Blueprints
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"Caroline MacAfee is a skilled carpenter, her daughter Jamie, a talented architect. Together they are the faces of Gut It!, a home renovation series on local public television." When life brings sudden changes, both women ask themselves, "Who am I?...as the blueprints they've built their lives around suddenly need revising."--
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Former executive editor of Essence magazine and Blackboard best-selling author Valerie Wilson Wesley has received the Literary Award for fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She has also been nominated for the Shamus award. In Playing My Mother's Blues, Wesley explores the complexities of love and family. Dani Carter is seven years old when her mother Maria leaves the family for a new lover. As a child, Dani could not...
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Lowcountry tales (Dorothea Benton Frank) volume 11
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Here we meet three generations of women buried in secrets. The determined matriarch, Maisie Pringle, at eighty, is a force to be reckoned with because she will have the final word on everything, especially when she's dead wrong. Her daughter, Liz, is caught up in the classic maelstrom of being middle-age and in an emotionally demanding career that will eventually open all their eyes to a terrible truth. And Liz's beautiful twenty-something daughter,...
13) The Pilgrim song
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House of Winslow volume 29
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Lewis Winslow has money and a bright future in business--but he has lost his wife and is disappointed with how his three children have turned out. Then in October 1929, Lewis Winslow loses everything. Now the family must change their priorities to survive.
14) The corrections
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IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 34
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The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century -- a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. 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...
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c2005
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278 p. ; 25 cm.
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Visiting his aging Episcopal priest father when his own home is decimated by the September 11 attacks, Mabry Kincaid meets his father's caregiver, an ambitious African American woman, and struggles with mixed feelings about his adult daughter.
17) Trojan odyssey
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c2003
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IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 25
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485 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
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Twenty-four-year-old Edward Warren, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: his dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara. With her father's chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father's...
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Duke dynasty volume 1
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2019.
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294 pages : genealogical table ; 18 cm
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A series of stepfathers and a difficult childhood have left Fletcher "Grey" Pryde, Fifth Duke of Greycourt, with a guarded heart, enviable wealth and the undeserved reputation of a rogue, but when his mother is widowed yet again and he meets the woman managing his stepfathers funeral, he has trouble keeping her at arms length.
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"Ava's twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart, and her two grown children are pursuing their own lives outside of the country. Ava joins a book group, not only for her love of reading but also out of sheer desperation for companionship. The group's goal throughout the year is for each member to present the book that matters most to them. Ava rediscovers a mysterious book from her childhood--one that helped her through the traumas of the untimely...
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