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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....
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Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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A psychiatrist and former medical director helps parents rebuild their relationships with their children through four essential areas--trust, shared beliefs, family history and forgiveness--and shows how to overcome generational wounds and create safety and stability.
3) The humans
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English
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Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter's apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group's deepest fears are laid bare. The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director Stephen Karam, adapted from his Tony Awardʼ-winning play, THE HUMANS explores the hidden dread of a family and the love that binds...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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A couple who were radicals in the '60s now face the problems of raising children in suburbia. With a young Republican for a son, one daughter that's only concerned with fashion, and another who is a tomboy, life is never dull in the Keaton household.
7) The intern
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Ben Whittaker is a 70-year-old widower who has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A couple who were radicals in the '60s now face the problems of raising children in suburbia. With a young Republican for a son, one daughter that's only concerned with fashion, and another who is a tomboy, life is never dull in the Keaton household.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A couple who were radicals in the '60s now face the problems of raising children in suburbia. With a young Republican for a son, one daughter that's only concerned with fashion, and another who is a tomboy, life is never dull in the Keaton household.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
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"Now a college sophomore, Alex falls in love with Ellen, a girl who's his total opposite. And Mallory falls for Nick, a junkyard sculptor who's her intellectual equal! But it's young Jennifer who feels off-balance, as she grows closer to mom Elyse but more distant from dad Steven now that she's becoming a teenager. But even with their older kids changing, and as baby Andrew's diapers still need changing, the Keaton parents know their four kids will...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"A collection of stories culled from the front lines of the millennial culture wars. Rife with failing rock bands, student loans, and participation trophies, [this book] is about a generation of narcissists--and the well-meaning boomers who made them that way"-- Amazon.com.
12) The widow queen
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Series
Bold novels volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Elzbieta Cherezinska's The Widow Queen is the epic story of a Polish queen whose life and name were all but forgotten until now. The bold one, they call her - too bold for most. To her father, the great duke of Poland, Swietoslawa and her two sisters represent three chances for an alliance. Three marriages on which to build his empire. But Swietoslawa refuses to be simply a pawn in her father's schemes; she seeks a throne of her own, with no husband...
13) Romeo and Juliet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the text of Shakespeare's play of unrequited love and contains extensive annotations that provide context, pronunciation, and alternative readings and phrasings.
14) Toni Erdmann
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Winfried doesn't see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she's busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn't help them to see more eye to eye. Practical joker Winfried annoys his daughter with corny pranks and jabs at her routine lifestyle of meetings and paperwork. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to go home to Germany. Enter Toni Erdmann: Winfried's flashy...
15) Gilead
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English
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Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 20th century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. GILEAD tells the story of America and will break your heart.
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"Set during the swampy summer in 1982, this stunning debut novel follows eleven-year-old Sunshine Turner and her troubled father Billy as the secrets of their family's past swirl around them in the one-road town of Fingertip, Louisiana. During a hot summer of June moods, grubworms, and dark storms, Sunshine discovers stones in her chest - and learns the dangers her coming-of-age will bring about in the yellow house she shares with her father. Without...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"For a woman who just wants to get her first kiss out of the way, a young rugby star her parents would never approve of seems like the perfect mismatch. But she has no idea how intoxicating one kiss can be... Soraya Nazari is ready to make her mark on the world--if only she knew what that was going to be. Caught between her strict Muslim family's expectations and her own, Soraya can't help feeling like a fish out of water as she navigates life as...
18) Toni Erdmann
Publisher
NFP marketing & distribution GmbH
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Winfried doesn't see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she's busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn't help them to see more eye to eye. Practical joker Winfried annoys his daughter with corny pranks and jabs at her routine lifestyle of meetings and paperwork. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to go home to Germany. Enter Toni Erdmann: Winfried's flashy...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"No one needs another book about how to lead Millennials-what we need is a book about harnessing the untapped potential from the diversity of thought in a multigenerational workforce. "Gentelligence" is that book. It presents a transformative way to end the generational wars once and for all"--
20) Joyful noise
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the church choir to lift their spirits by winning the national Joyful Noise Competition. But the discord between its two leading ladies threatens to tear everything apart.
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