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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A story of a family fued between the Capulets and the Montagues continuing through the ages, as one generation picked up where the last one left off and of the forbidden love between two teenagers, Romeo, the son of the Montagues and Juliet, the daughter of the Capulets.
This is a story of two young people in love, but the families do not approve.
3) Adored
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
548 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This debut novel by Tilly Bagshawe has earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. Called an escapist fantasy by the author, Adored is right at home alongside the best fiction from Danielle Steel and Jackie Collins. Bold and beautiful Siena McMahon wants to be a movie star like her grandfather. But her father, a bigshot producer, wants Siena to be a doctor. So Siena sets out on her own in this epic romance filled with glamourous...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Expert advice on attracting, training, managing, retaining, and succeeding with America's newest generation of hard-working, tech-savvy employees. A new generation is entering the American workforce-Gen Z, the age cohort born after 1996. Having grown up with smartphones, social media, emoji-speak, helicopter parenting, and no expectation of privacy, Gen Z has a unique culture and working style that can be baffling to their Millennial, Gen X, and...
6) Home
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 2
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack--the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years--comes home, too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot (the pen name of author Mary Ann Evans), published in 1860. The novel was originally published in three parts. It was very successful and was adapted into a film as early as 1937. It was Eliot's second novel and one of her most successful of all time. The novel tells the story of Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom as they grow from children to young adults in the small rural town of St. Ogg's, England....
Author
Series
Clown in a cornfield volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don't know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can. Kettle Springs is caught in...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families--the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars--Palestinian immigrants who've all found a different welcome in America. Their various fates and struggles cause their community dynamic to sizzle and sometimes explode: The wealthy Ammar family employs young Maysoon Baladi, whose own family struggles financially, to clean up after their spoiled teenagers. Meanwhile, Marcus Salameh...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
554 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another--from the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen." --Amazon.
11) All my rage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.
12) Romeo y Julieta
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
To commemorate 400 years after the death of Shakespeare, we publish this illustrated version of the classic "Romeo and Juliet," a novel published in 1597 for the first time, and that has been enshrined with the past of time. The strength of the feelings represented in it has made it in one of the most advertised novels of this English author, which is still recreated in music, dance, theatre, and literature; however, there are few illustrated editions...
13) Good family
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A retreat on Lake Michigan for old-money WASPs, Sand Isle has long been the summer residence of the Addison family. The youngest member of the clan, Maddie Addison, survived an awkward but sheltered adolescence only to be plagued in adulthood by alcoholism, a failed marriage, and an unendurable loss that sent her fleeing the burden of family expectations. Now, after an eleven-year hiatus, Maddie has been summoned back to Sand Isle, where her widowed...
14) Jack
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Marilynne Robinson's mythical world of Gilead, Iowa, the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Jack is Robinson?s fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead's Presbyterian minister, and his...
15) Gilead
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
16) Nervous water
Author
Series
Brady Coyne mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
vii, 292 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
17) The intern
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (Blu-ray) (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (11:52:15) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
No one in my mother's family ever talks about anything that can be categorized as unpleasant or as having to do with emotions. . . . This spellbinding novel by bestselling author Ann Napolitano is a poignant reminder of how connected we are to those we love, even when we cannot find the words to say it. The unforgettable story of three generations of an Irish American family, Within Arm's Reach is another rich and deeply satisfying novel from the...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"With empathy and keen insight, Sally Hepworth delivers a page-turning novel about the complex, lovely, and even heartbreaking relationships between mothers and daughters. - Emily Giffin Three generations of women Secrets in the present and from the past A captivating tale of life, loss, and love... Neva Bradley, a third-generation midwife, is determined to keep the details surrounding her own pregnancy - including the identity of the baby's father...
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
394 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A family saga of pain and reconciliation set behind the closed doors of an Amish community. Spanning three generations, the story follows the life of Will McGruder, who having fled as a young man, seeks to heal the past by bringing his new family to meet his Amish relatives"--Provided by publisher.
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