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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Two women -- a century apart -- embark on a journey to healing, faith, forgiveness, and romance. In 2012, art historian Gwen Morris travels to England's Lake District to appraise the paintings and antiques of an old family friend, hoping to prove herself to her prestigious grandfather. While at Longdale Manor, she meets David Bradford -- the owner's handsome grandson -- who is desperate to save the crumbling estate by turning it into a luxury hotel....
2) Mighty Jack
Author
Series
Mighty Jack volume 1
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
203 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack might be the only kid in the world who's dreading summer. But he's got a good reason: summer is when his single mom takes a second job and leaves him at home to watch his autistic kid sister, Maddy. It's a lot of responsibility, and it's boring, too, because Maddy doesn't talk. Ever. But then, one day at the flea market, Maddy does talkto tell Jack to trade their mom's car for a box of mysterious seeds. It's the best mistake Jack has...
3) Mother, nature: a 5,000-mile journey to discover if a mother and son can survive their differences
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
220 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this ... memoir, ... a forty-year-old gay man and his eccentric conservative mother travel the country together and find surprising answers to our generational and cultural rifts. When his mother, Barbara, turned seventy, Jedidiah Jenkins was reminded of a palpable, sobering truth: our parents won't live forever. For years, he and Barbara had talked about taking a trip together, just the two of them. They landed on an idea: retrace the thousands...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Artificial, we meet the Kurzweils, a family of creators who are preserving their history through unusual means. At the center is renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, who has long been saving the documents of his deceased father, Fredric, an accomplished conductor and pianist from Vienna who fled the Nazis in 1938. With Kurzweils signature humanity and humor, in boundary-pushing, gorgeous handmade drawings, Artificial guides us through...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
324 pages, 16 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor. Unexpectedly, he met and fell in love with a renowned dialect coach Joan Washington. Their relationship and marriage, navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood, parenthood, and loss, lasted almost forty years. When Joan died in 2021, her final challenge to him was to find a "pocketful of happiness in every day." This honest and frequently hilarious...
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