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22) Wish you well
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains—but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they'll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story.
Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes—and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must...
Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes—and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Fall in love with this small-town love story about a widower sheriff and a divorced schoolteacher who are searching for second chances — only to be threatened by long-held secrets of the past.Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown...
24) Changing hearts
Publisher
SunWorld Pictures
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"James Reed is quite content with the successful life he's built for himself, complete with beautiful girlfriend and great reputation in his big city career. But after receiving an urgent call about his father's health, James reluctantly returns home to help with the family business, Reed Mill Bed & Breakfast. There he returns to menial work he eagerly left years before, and a brother he clashes with. Though he yearns to leave as quickly as he...
25) Delirious
Author
Language
English
Description
Charlie Giles watches his life slowly unravel as he becomes the prime suspect in the murders of his former employers, who are being picked off one by one, and, with nowhere else to turn, enlists the help of his schizophrenic brother to find the truth.
Author
Publisher
Zink Ink
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The former NFL player, model, and television actor examines his disadvantaged childhood and long-time marriage to share advice on how to be a responsible family man while maintaining one's masculinity and sense of humor.
Author
Publisher
Pinon Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Explains how to parent teenagers not by punishing but by helping them understand real-world consequences for actions, focusing on preparing them for life on their own; provides practical guidance and sample conversations for specific situations.
Author
Series
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maintaining a relationship is hard enough without the added challenges of your partner's bipolar disorder symptoms. Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder offers information and step-by-step advice for helping your partner manage mood swings and impulsive actions, allowing you to finally focus on enjoying your relationship while also taking time for yourself. This book explains the symptoms of your partner's disorder and offers strategies
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Learning to drive occasions emotions ranging from reasonable caution to unbridled terror. Learning unde the watchful eye of one's spouse is an added challenge; undertaking the task with anxious children in the back seat can only heighten the intensity. Davis recalls his mother's driving lessons through the objective eye of a patient and restrained young man of seve, in contrast with this little brother, whose oft-shouted refrain-- "You're going...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Seventh edition.
Language
English
Description
Updated throughout and filled with all the latest research, treatment plans, commonly asked questions and more, the bestselling resource on schizophrenia is back-now in its seventh edition. E. Fuller Torrey is a brilliant writer. There is no one writing on psychology today whom I would rather read. - Los Angeles Times Since its first publication in 1983, Surviving Schizophrenia has become the standard reference book on the disease and has helped thousands...
Author
Publisher
Highbridge Co
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
From one of America's most important writers, "Perfume River" is an exquisite novel that examines family ties and the legacy of the Vietnam War through the portrait of a single North Florida family. Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian, teaching at Florida State University, where his wife Darla is also tenured. Their marriage, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam-war protests, now bears the fractures of time, both personal and historical,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former U.S. Senator Quintrell is dead.
His son, New Mexico's governor, is preparing his
run for the highest political office in the land. And dark family secrets are about to explode with the
devastating force of a Southwestern earthquake. An eccentric Quintrell aunt has invited genealogist Carolina "Carly" May to their Taos compound to compile a record of the illustrious family. But digging into the past is raising troubling questions about a would-be...
35) Blood ties
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
New York, 1974: Chris is released from prison. Reluctantly waiting for him on the outside is his younger brother Frank, a cop with an aspiring future. After trying to stay on the straight path without any success, Chris inevitably descends back into a life of crime and puts Frank in a tough predicament. Should he cover for his brother and salvage the only family he has? Or should he do the right thing and risk destroying everything he loves?
36) A winter dream
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Joseph Jacobson is the twelfth of thirteen siblings, all of whom are employed by their father’s successful Colorado advertising company. But underneath the success runs a poisonous undercurrent of jealousy; Joseph is his father’s favorite and the focus of his brothers’ envy and hatred. When the father seems ready to anoint Joseph as his heir, the brothers make their move, forcing Joseph from the company and his Denver home, severing his ties...
37) Easter Sunday
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A man returns home to celebrate Easter with his riotous, bickering, eating, drinking, laughing, loving family, in this love letter to his Filipino-American community.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage” (The Washington Post) by the celebrated author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini
Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered—and shadowed—by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of outsiders....
Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered—and shadowed—by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of outsiders....
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