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Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father. There, she struggles with personal and political issues, as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
Author
Series
Lakeshore chronicles volume 11
Language
English
Description
Faith McCallum is determined to rebuild her shattered life and give her two daughters a chance at a better future. Caring for her sharp-tongued new client, Alice Bellamy, is definitely a challenge, but it's Alice's charismatic son, Mason, who truly leaves Faith at a loss for words. Mason Bellamy longs to escape the family mansion and return to his fast-paced, exciting life in Manhattan ... and his beautiful, jet-setting finacée. But when Faith makes...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A witty, tender memoir of a son's journey home to care for his irascible mother--a tale of secrets, silences, and enduring love. When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself--an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook--in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can't bring himself to force her from...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Janet Peery's first novel, The River Beyond the World, was a National Book Award finalist in 1996. Acclaimed for her gorgeous writing and piercing gaze into the hearts of people, Peery now returns with a new, unflinching audiobook, The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs.
On a summer evening in the blue-collar town of Amicus, Kansas, the Campbell family gathers for a birthday dinner for their ailing patriarch, retired judge Abel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From star-crossed matches to unexpected love triangles, summer on Nantucket always holds the promise of romance in this sensational novel from New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. Lisa Hudson feels more alive than she has in a long time afterhiring hunky carpenter Mack Whitney to renovate her old Nantucket home. There's no denying the spark growing between them--despite the fact that Mack is ten years her junior. But her twentysomething...
Author
Series
Seaside seasons volume 3
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
333 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cass Merton, owner of a bed-and-breakfast in Seaside, New Jersey, is drawn to her newest guest, a finance specialist who has come to the small town to rethink his life, career, and relationships after witnessing the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York City.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through a mixture of cartoons, family photos, documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial,...
9) To survive caregiving: a daughter's experience, a doctor's advice, on finding hope, help, and health
Author
Publisher
Infinity Publishing.com
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
168 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
10) That evening sun
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing the retirement home where his son abandoned him, Abner Meecham sets out to reclaim his beloved Tennessee farmstead, only to find it's been leased to an old enemy, the volatile Lonzo Choat. After Abner intervenes to protect Choat's daughter from her drunken father's abuse, events spiral toward a startling, violent climax.
Author
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xi, 307 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the next few years, 66 million Americans will be caring for an aging parent. The desire to help our elders navigate health issues is clear and universal--how to assure proper care and a good ending is not. This book brings the reader into the all-too-familiar scenarios facing our aging parents, and provides the tools needed to help them spend the last years of their life with dignity. Houle and Eckstrom offer answers to the questions we may not...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 162 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Explores the beautiful and complicated mother-daughter relationship in the context of caregiving for an ill or aging mother and offers tips and suggestions for overcoming the more difficult aspects while celebrating and cherishing the more comforting features"--
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