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Series
Ernest Cunningham volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started"--...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
While recovering from a traumatic head injury, Polly Schuster struggles to find her way through one chaotic week in July when her entire extended family descends upon the bucolic town of Livingston, Montana for their annual gathering. As she contends with a series of unexpected events and the haunting echoes of her past inconveniently resurfacing as a result of her injury, Polly soon learns that her perception of her family and their life together...
Author
Language
English
Description
After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker's entire family is assembling for Nana's 80th birthday party in Nana's crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As the Baxter's make plans to come together for a summer lakeside reunion, the unthinkable happens. When the family rallies together, memories come to light that bring healing and hope during a time when darkness might have the final word. From bestselling author Karen Kingsbury, Coming Home---a stand-alone novel---can serve as either a grand introduction or a beautiful conclusion in the saga of the Baxter Family.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The tree is decorated, the cookies are baked, and the packages are wrapped, but the biggest celebration this Christmas is Gaby Summerhill's wedding. Since her husband died three years ago, Gaby's four children have drifted apart, each consumed by the turbulence of their own lives. They haven't celebrated Christmas together since their father's death, but when Gaby announces that she's getting married, and that the groom will remain a secret until...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In Metsan Valo, her family home on Lake Superior, Anni Halla's beloved grandmother has died...When another tragedy strikes near home, Anni must dive headfirst into the mysterious happenings to discover the truth about her home, her family, and the wooded island's ancient lore. Plunging into the past may be the only way to save her family from whatever bedevils Metsan Valo.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A family reunion in the Catskills brings hilarity and nostalgia when two clans convene for the summer at their beloved getaway. In its heyday, the Golden Hotel was the crown jewel of the hotter-than-hot Catskills vacation scene. For more than sixty years, the Goldman and Weingold families--best friends and business partners--have presided over this glamorous resort, which served as a second home for well-heeled guests and celebrities. But the Catskills...
Author
Language
English
Description
Returning home for the annual family reunion, Laura Bartone and her brother, Steve, are stunned by their sister, Caroline, and her allegations of shocking behavior on the part of their mother, and are forced to come to terms with the truth and lies within their family, as well as painful cycle of denial, blame, repression, and forgiveness.
Author
Series
Beach house volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
At Cara Rutledge's home on Isle of Palms, everything is comfortingly the same, yet rife with painful memories. Only through reconnecting with family, friends, and the rhythms of the lowcountry can Cara release the hold of the past and open herself to the possibility of a new love, career, and hope for the future. Meanwhile, her niece Linnea, a recent college graduate who doesn't know where her life will take her, leaves her historic home in Charleston,...
10) Sisters
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Four sisters, a Manhattan brownstone, and a tumultuous year of loss and courage...
SISTERS
Candy is blazing her way through Paris, New York, and Tokyo as fashion’s latest international supermodel…Her sister, Tammy, has a job producing the most successful hit show on TV…In New York, oldest sister Sabrina is an ambitious young lawyer, while Annie is an American in Florence, living for her art...One Fourth of July...
SISTERS
Candy is blazing her way through Paris, New York, and Tokyo as fashion’s latest international supermodel…Her sister, Tammy, has a job producing the most successful hit show on TV…In New York, oldest sister Sabrina is an ambitious young lawyer, while Annie is an American in Florence, living for her art...One Fourth of July...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Fresh off the heels of her college graduation, Eleanor's dear granddaughter, Ari, has just ended an engagement that felt less like true love and more like a chore. She longs for a change of scenery and to venture far from her parents' snobbish expectations. Taking advantage of her newfound freedom, she heads to Nantucket to clear her head before graduate school, moving in with her grandmother and taking a job at the local beach camp. As she watches...
Author
Language
English
Description
Born into poverty in southern New Jersey, Mary Anna King watched her mother give away one of her five newborn sisters every year to another family. Then one day, she was sent away, too. Mary is a college student when her sisters start to get back in touch. Moving, haunting, and at times wickedly funny, [this book] is about finding one's family and oneself. --Publisher
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