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1) It's you
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of a tragedy that tore her life down to the foundations, Dr. Alison McAdams has lost her way. So when she's summoned to Napa to care for her ailing father, she's not sure she has anything to offer him--or anyone else. What Ali finds in Northern California wine country is a gift--an opportunity to rest, and distance from her painful memories. Most unexpectedly, she finds people who aren't afraid of her grief or desperate for her to hurry...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
On his first day of preschool, Dimitri's vocal affection for everything is met with wary reactions-until his guileless words begin to take root and grow. Dimitri may be small, but his heart is as big and as open as a cloudless blue sky. "I love you," Dimitri tells his new classmates at preschool. "I love you," Dimitri tells the class guinea pig and the ants on the ground. "I love you," Dimitri tells the paintbrushes and the tree with heart-shaped...
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
While on vacation in Hawaii, a divorced mother of two finds romance with a much younger man.
Jackie is a recently divorced woman with two children who is about to turn forty. Her best friend hooks her up with a trip to the Islands for a little vacation getaway. Finding herself alone, she decides to have a scorching romance with a sexy younger man. Her children, friends, ex-husband and her common sense tell her something completely different from...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
After their escape from North Carolina to Philadelphia in the summer of 1864, Addy and her mother begin their new life as free people as her mother gets a paying job and Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.
After escaping from a plantation in North Carolina, Addy and her mother arrive in Philadelphia, where Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.
8) Bear outside
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A little girl wears a bear on the outside to keep her safe and to be her friend, just as some people have a fierce animal inside to protect them.
10) Music and lyrics
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Alex Fletcher is a washed-up 80s pop star who has been reduced to working the nostalgia circuit of county fairs and amusement parks. The charismatic and talented musician gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write and record a duet with her.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story of the Giacometti brothers, one an artist, the other a daredevil, both devoted to their craft . . . but even more devoted to each other. Everyone who knew them agreed. Alberto was the genius of the family. His younger brother Diego was his opposite--he didn't care much for books or schoolwork, and he had no idea what he would be when he grew up. But despite their differences, the two brothers shared an intense bond. Alberto...
13) Pollyanna
Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
Description
A young orphan brings sunshine into the lives of everyone she meets with her optimistic outlook on life.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Shahrazad must hold the interest of her despotic husband the sultan with nightly tales, lest she lose her life in the morning. This wellspring of storytelling, circulating from medieval Persia to Egypt to Iraq, like its wily raconteur, lives on in many modern adaptations. Art, performance, and film images are employed to show the collection's broad span of influence. Featured speakers include Marin Alsop, musical director of the Baltimore Symphony...
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