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Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Bilingual edition/Edición bilingüe.
Language
Español
Description
"Clarissa Dalloway es una mujer de cincuenta y dos años de la alta sociedad londinense, casada con un diputado conservador del parlamento británico y madre de una hija adolescente. Un día de junio de 1923, se prepara para dar una fiesta en su casa aquella misma noche. Allí se rencontrará con amigos que hace muchos años que no ve. Mientras pasea por las calles londinenses ultimando los preparativos, Clarissa se encuentra inmersa en sus...
5784) Outside wonderland
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
When they were just children, two tragedies robbed Alice, Griffin, and Dinah Stenen of their parents. Now, as adults, their lives are in crisis with each sibling struggling and in need of someone to turn to. What they don't know is that their parents are watching them from a place not unlike heaven, worrying, smiling, reminiscing, and perhaps even guiding as each of them makes their tentative way toward happiness.
Author
Series
Bradshaw brothers volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Sullivan Bradshaw never dreamed of returning to his hometown of Benevolence, Washington, but when a car crash kills his brother and critically injures his sister-in-law, the die-hard bachelor returns to care for the couple's six children and the ancestral farm. The nanny he hires will change everything he ever thought he wanted"--
5787) Desierto sonoro
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Language
Español
Description
Un matrimonio en plena crisis viaja en coche con sus dos hijos pequeños desde Nueva York hasta Arizona. Ambos son documentalistas y cada uno se concentra en un proyecto propio: él está tras los rastros de la última banda apache; ella busca documentar la diáspora de niños que llega a la frontera del país en busca de asilo. Mientras el coche familiar atraviesa el vasto territorio norteamericano, los dos niños escuchan las conversaciones...
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat he's tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old woman in his building who introduced herself with a curious question: Have you seen Luis Velez? Mildred Gutermann, a German Jew who narrowly escaped the Holocaust, has been alone since her caretaker disappeared. She turns to Raymond for help, and as he tries to track Luis down, a deep and unexpected friendship blossoms between the two."--Provided...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
1. edición Vintage Español.
Language
Español
Description
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
Sigue los destinos de cinco familias interrelacionadas--una estadounidense, una alemana, una rusa, una inglesa, y una galesa--mientras pasan por los dramas de la Primera Guerra Mundial, la Revolución Rusa, y la lucha por el sufragio...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"1857. Three women -- once strangers -- come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they'll allow nothing on Earth or in Heaven to stand in their way. Following the call of their newfound Mormon faith, Tamar Loader and her family weather a brutal pilgrimage from England to Utah, where Tamar is united with her destined husband, Thomas Ricks. Clinging to a promise for the future, she abides an unexpected surprise:...
5791) Time for me to come home
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-five-year-old Heath Sawyer has finally made it to the big-time as a country music star. After a year full of the kind of success he could only dream of, it's December 23, and he's headlining a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden. It's only as the lights on the stage go down and the Christmas lights outside come on that Heath realizes there's just one place he wants to be for the holidays: back home in Okmulgee, Oklahoma."
5792) Chance Harbor
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Catherine and Zoe are sisters, but even their mother, Eve, admits her daughters are nothing alike. Catherine is calm and responsible. Zoe is passionate and rebellious. Nobody is surprised when Zoe gets pregnant, drops out of college, and spirals into drug addiction. One night Catherine gets a call from Zoes terrified daughter, Willow, saying her mother has abandoned her in a bus station and disappeared. Eve blames herself, while Catherine, unable...
5793) Daughters for a time
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition. Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"A woman raised by her older sister adopts a child to start a family of her own, but her joy is short-lived when her sister is diagnosed with life-threatening cancer"--
5794) Lecciones de juventud
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Saint Ambrose Prep is a place where the wealthy send their children for the best possible education . . . Traditionally a boys-only school, Saint Ambrose has just enrolled one hundred and forty female students for the first time. Even though most of the kids on the campus have all the privilege in the world, some are struggling . . . One day after the school's annual Halloween event, a student lies in the hospital, her system poisoned by dangerous...
5795) A happy catastrophe
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Marnie MacGraw and Patrick Delaney have been in love for a few years now, enough to realize that they are imperfectly perfect together. Still, there are some things that maybe need a little attention. Marnie?s ebullient; he?s brooding. She thrives on change; he prefers stability. She sees marriage and parenthood in their future, but he can?t see beyond the shadow of an earlier tragedy. Then an eight-year-old surprise from Patrick?s past shows up...
5797) Talk of the town
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"They're coworkers, friends, and confidants, but Peter Marshal has always pined for a little something more with Noelle Walters. As a widow and a single mom, Noelle prefers to play it safe, and falling for Peter was never part of the plan. Then again, neither of their plans accounted for the well-meaning but meddling actions of Peter's sister, who offers him up as their town's most eligible bachelor in the local moms' Facebook group. He's none the...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Bridget, Cici and Lindsay left behind their safe suburban lives for a stately old mansion in the Shenandoah Valley, they redefined the concept of family. Now Lindsay is marrying Dominic and the foundation of their life together will be tested"--
5800) Iveliz lo explica todo
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
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