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1) Grandmothers
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation: fiercely independent Nan, who leads a secret life as an award-winning poet when she is not teaching her grandson Billy how to lie; glamorous Blanche, deprived of the company of her beloved granddaughter Kitty by her hostile daughter-in-law, who finds solace in rebelliously taking to drink and shop lifting; and shy, bookish Minna who in the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Karen adopts a grandmother from Stoneybrook Manor. Eventually, she has five grandmothers in all. The problem is, her new grandmother makes Karen listen to old music and teaches her funny dances too, like the foxtrot.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Description
In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age. In Victoria and the Staveneys, a young woman gives birth to a child of mixed race and struggles with feelings of estrangement as her daughter gets drawn into a world of white privilege. The Reason for It traces the birth, faltering, and decline of an ancient culture, with enlightening...
7) Getting ready for baby: 50 fast and easy sewing projects for grandmothers, aunts, and mothers-to-be
Author
Publisher
Contemporary Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Your basic Cinderella makeover story with a fresh and affectionate twist. Mia is a frizzy-haired, glasses-wearing 15-year-old girl whose two highest ambitions are to become invisible and to get a few kisses from an attractive school heartthrob. She is stunned and horrified when her coolly continental grandmother shows up and informs her that she's the crown princess of the European principality Genovia. Soon enough, Mia has to undertake "princess...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Twenty-eight-year-old Georgia Stanton has to start over after she gave up almost everything in a brutal divorce - the New York house, the friends, and her pride. Now back home at her late great-grandmother's estate in Colorado, she finds herself face-to-face with Noah Harrison, the bestselling author of a million books where the cover is always people nearly kissing. He's just as arrogant in person as in interviews, and she'll be damned if the good-looking...
Author
Series
Publisher
WestBow Press
Pub. Date
2005
Description
When Abby and her 12-year-old daughter leave their home on Maui and set off across the United States on a road trip to Louisiana, Abby is sure that this trip is about Hannah. Abby wants Hannah to receive a blessing from Abby's grandmother and the matriarch of the family. This blessing, she is sure, will fill Hannah with confidence as she heads into the challenging years of adolescence. What Abby doesn't expect, is that in many ways, this trip is about...
14) In Her Shoes
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2002
Description
Meet Rose Feller. She's thirty years old and a high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her that she's beautiful. She also dreams of getting her fantastically screwed-up little sister to get her life together. Meet Rose's sister, Maggie. Twenty-eight years old, drop-dead gorgeous and only occasionally employed. Although her dreams of big-screen...
20) Grandma summer
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On a visit with Grandma to the old family summer house at the shore, Ben finds both the beach and the house filled with history and treasures waiting to be discovered.
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