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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
554 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
An expert on generational change looks at the six generations of Americans currently alive, from the Silents to the still-unnamed generation born after 2012, and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another.
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The year is 1873, and a buffalo hunter named Samson travels the Kansas plains. The year is 1975, and an adolescent girl named Bea walks those very same plains. The year is 2024 and, after a series of devastating storms, an engineer named Paul has left behind his suburban existence to build a floating city above the drowned streets that were once New Orleans. The year is 2073, and Moon has heard only stories of the blue planet-Earth, as they once called...
5) Crossroads
Author
Series
Key to all mythologies volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless-unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 278 pages : illustrations, charts ; 25 cm
Description
Examines the vast differences in the economic, demographic, social and political values of the four current living generations, the millennials, gen Xers, baby boomers, and the silent generation.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"To Katherine, twenty-four-year-old Lily Lunt is a typical "snowflake." Soft, entitled, unflaggingly earnest, the privileged, politically correct millennial will do whatever she can to make it big as a writer, including leveraging her family's connections. She's got it easy. To Lily, Katherine Ross, a career woman in her early forties, is a holdover from another era: clueless, old-fashioned, and perfectly happy to build her success on the backs of...
8) Clarissa
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 201 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the 18th century novel by Samuel Richardson, this is the original tale of fatal attraction and dangerous liasons. A wealthy young heiress, famed for her virtue, is sought by a man wishing to seduce and destroy her reputation. For the first time in his life he becomes genuinely infatuated with his prey, and sows the seeds of his own fate.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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"In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard takes on the topography of the heart - a landscape of grief, reconciliation, forgiveness, and the way the mistakes of parents are passed down through generations, to fester, or to be healed"--
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Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A retired master chef and widower is worried about the future of his three unmarried daughters who are skeptical about marriage. Yet he himself surprises them with his secret love affair with a young woman many years his junior.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twentysomething best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. Now, in his high-octane prequel, The Kings of Cool, Winslow reaches back in time to tell the story of how Ben, Chon, and O became the people they are. Spanning from 1960s Southern California to the recent past, it is a tale of family in all its forms--fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, friends and lovers."--
13) The taste of tea
Publisher
Viz Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Harunos are a rather unconventional, but happy and loving family. Eight-year-old Sachiko is bothered by her own giant-sized double, who hangs around sitting on buildings staring at her. Her older brother, Hajime, privately wrestles with raging hormones and a love-struck crush on a pretty new classmate. Mom struggles to come out of retirement as an animator and Dad is a professional hypnotist who occasionally plies his trade on his own family....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
356 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Description
In 1910, Agnes Carter makes the wrong choice in marriage. After years as an independent woman of fortune, influential with the board of a prominent university because of her financial donations, she is now subject to the whims of an abusive, spendthrift husband. But when Bohemian naturalist and glassblower Ignace Novak reignites Agnes's passion for science, Agnes begins to imagine a different life, and she sets her mind to getting it. Agnes's desperate...
15) Rose petal soup
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Joss and Nico Carbury exemplify the modern adage that sixty is the new forty. If there is any cloud on the horizon, its their daughter, Elizabeth. Always reserved, she has never divulged the secrets of her love life. So when she arrives for Sunday lunch with a fiance? who is older than her parents, the shock is considerable. Then they are introduced to her new stepson, and all hell breaks loose.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxi, 499 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Drawing on interviews with prominent activists, authors, actors, and politicians, this timely guide addresses some of the biggest issues of the present day, from climate change to gun violence to transphobia, empowering readers to make the world a betterplace.
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"Neva Bradley, a third-generation midwife, is determined to keep the details surrounding her own pregnancy--including the identity of the baby's father--hidden from her family and coworkers for as long as possible. Her mother Grace finds it impossible to let this secret rest. The more Grace prods, the tighter Neva holds to her story, and the more the lifelong differences between private, quiet Neva and open, gregarious Grace strain their relationship....
19) Gilead
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In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
331 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
Description
Paris, 1958: Rose, a seamstress at a fashionable atelier, has been entrusted with sewing a Grace Kelly--look-alike gown for a wealthy bride-to-be. But when, against better judgment, she finds herself falling in love with the bride's handsome brother, Rose must make an impossible choice, one that could put all she's worked for at risk: love, security and of course, the dress. Sixty years later, tech CEO Rachel, who goes by the childhood nickname "Rocky,"...
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