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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...
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Language
English
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As elderly women, sisters Twiss and Milly live alone in the house where they grew up in Spring Green, Wis. They spend their days tending to injured birds and roaming their land, lost in memories. For Milly, there is the constant reminder of what could have been. Twiss spent her childhood happily trailing behind their golf-pro father, but Milly dreamed about a family and children that never happened. There was hope for a young Milly, until an accident...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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An Indie Next Pick
The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul.
Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground—an old polaroid...
The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul.
Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground—an old polaroid...
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
"Written with love, told with joy. Very easy to enjoy."--Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called Ove The global fiction sensation--publishing in 28 countries around the world--that follows 96-year-old Doris, who writes down the memories of her eventful life as she pages through her decades-old address book. But the most profound moment of her life is still to come... Meet Doris, a 96-year-old woman living alone in her Stockholm apartment. She has...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"An extraordinary novel, a poetic writer, and a story that moved me to tears." —New York Times John Boyne, bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
"I'm here to remember–all that I have been and all that I will never be again."
If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each of them, what would you say? And what would you learn
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"A story of secrets, loss, and the betrayals of memory: a lyrical novel of an aging woman confronting her romantic past under the mysterious skies of her island home. Off the coast of Georgia, near Savannah, generations have been tempted by strange blue lights in the sky near an island called Lyra. At the height of WWII, impressionable young Elle Ranier comes to the island when her new husband, Simon, is dispatched by his industrialist father to find...
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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.
12) Ancient light
Author
Series
Alexander Cleave trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
13) Windwalker
Series
Publisher
Sterling Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Special ed.
Language
Cheyenne
Description
Lying on his deathbed, the aging Cheyenne Warrior, Windwalker, tells his life's story to his small grandchildren. He recounts his years as a young brave, marriage to beautiful Tashina, the blessing of having twin sons born to them, and his anguish at having Tashina die and one of the babies stolen during a raid by Crow warriors.
14) Think of me
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of We Must Be Brave comes a new sweeping historical novel about one couple's journey through war, love, and loss, and how the people we love never really leave us"--
15) Cinema paradiso
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
Italiano
Description
The love for cinema is the central theme of this moving film, which tells the story of Toto's life as a child and his unconditional friendship with Alfredo the film designer of his small town. With the passage of time, the child abandons his home and his friend to achieve his dreams. Thirty years later a message from his mother asks him to return to the village, where his memories and unexpected news await his return.
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Language
English
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Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. Waiting to be rescued, she wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light. If the charming new resident is who he claims to be, why does he look exactly like a man who died sixty years ago? Only her best friend, Elsie, believes her; everyone else thinks Florence is just confused. But as truths are revealed, the women find out that some memories...
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English
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"From the author of the highly acclaimed The Railwayman's Wife, called a "literary and literate gem" by Psychology Today, comes an emotionally resonant and profound new novel of two families, interconnected through the house that bears witness to their lives. When Elsie Gormley leaves the Brisbane house in which she has lived for more than sixty years, Lucy Kiss and her family move in, eager to establish their new life. As they settle in, Lucy and...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
A little book with a big heart—from the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Anxious People.
"I read this beautifully imagined and moving novella in one sitting, utterly wowed, wanting to share it with everyone I know." —Lisa Genova, bestselling author of Still Alice
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell...
"I read this beautifully imagined and moving novella in one sitting, utterly wowed, wanting to share it with everyone I know." —Lisa Genova, bestselling author of Still Alice
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island. 1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther's prison but soon becomes her refuge. 2017. Free-spirited marine scientist Rachel Parker embarks on a research posting in the Isles of Scilly, off the Cornish coast. When a violent storm forces her to...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First trade edition.
Language
English
Description
Lillian's rise to fame and fortune spans seventy years and is inextricably linked to the course of American history itself, from Prohibition to the disco days of Studio 54. Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media. Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely complex woman who prefers a good stiff drink to an ice cream cone. And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything...
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