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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A head librarian trying to forget the painful realities of her suburban past unexpectedly bonds with a teenager performing community service, a disgruntled former Wall Street high flyer, and other offbeat regulars who encourage her out of her self-imposed isolation.
Author
Language
English
Description
Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Relates the author's difficult adjustment to life in the United States after leaving Cold War-era Russia, the birth of her daughter and arrival of her Soviet mother, and how three generations of women with different cultural values found balance and understanding together.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, seventeen-year-old Lenni and eighty-three-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create one hundred paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A compassionate nursing assistant and newly separated mother, Luna and her two children, to avoid eviction, move in with feisty widow Vivian Laurent, and these new housemates make for an unlikely pandemic pack as they forge the strongest bond to get through the worst of times.
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