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Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Struggling to move on after her husband's death, thirty-five-year-old Anna receives an unexpected phone call from her estranged grandmother, Goldie, summoning her to New York. A demanding woman with a sharp tongue and a devotion to fashion and etiquette, Goldie has not softened in the five years since she and her granddaughter last spoke. Now she wants Anna to drive her to San Francisco to return a collection of exquisite Japanese art to a long-lost...
82) The velvet hours
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"As Paris teeters on the edge of the German occupation, a young French woman closes the door to her late grandmother's treasure-filled apartment, unsure if she'll ever return. An elusive courtesan, Marthe de Florian cultivated a life of art and beauty, casting out all recollections of her impoverished childhood in the dark alleys of Montmartre. With Europe on the brink of war, she shares her story with her granddaughter Solange Beaugiron, using her...
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Language
English
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"Majella is happiest out of the spotlight, living a quiet life away from neighbors' stares and the gossips of the small town in Northern Ireland where she grew up during the Troubles. But underneath her seemingly predictable existence, she doesn't know where her father is, and every person in her town has been changed by the lingering divide between Protestants and Catholics. When Majella's grandmother dies, she comes to realize there may be more...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Roberta, a lonely thirty-four-year-old, works at The New and Old Bookshop in England. When she finds a letter inside her centenarian grandmother's battered old suitcase that hints at a dark secret, her understanding of her family's history is completely upturned. Running alongside Roberta's narrative is that of her grandmother, Dorothy, as a forty-year-old childless woman desperate for motherhood during the early years of World War II. And so, the...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
El clásico de Roald Dahl en novela gráfica, que será adaptado al cine en 2020 por Guillermo del Toro y Alfonso Cuarón. Vuelve Roald Dahl, el mejor escritor de historias infantiles de todos los tiempos... ¡Y ahora en cómic! ¡Cuidado! Las brujas existen y se han disfrazado para pasar desapercibidas. ¡Parecen mujeres normales! Pero de normales no tienen nada. Estas brujas son malvadas y odian a los niños. Los odian tanto que deciden acabar con...
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Language
English
Description
"Do not try to make George's marvelous medicine yourselves at home. It could be dangerous. George is alone in the house with Grandma. The most horrid, grizzly old grunion of a grandma ever. She needs something stronger than her usual medicine to cure her chronic grouchiness. A special grandma medicine, a remedy for everything. And George knows just what to put into it. Grandma's in for the surprise of her life - and so is George, when he sees the...
Author
Publisher
Pelican Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"It's time for Arturo and his grandmother, Abue Rosa, to decorate their Christmas tree. Abue Rosa shares with him the family history of each ornament as it is hung. But what happens when Arturo plays with--and breaks--a glass bird?"--
91) Listen, slowly
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Assisting her grandmother's investigation of her grandfather's fate during the Vietnam War, Mai struggles to adapt to an unfamiliar culture while redefining her sense of family.
92) Forgiveness road
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In 1970s Mississippi, sixteen-year-old Cissy Pickering calmly and deliberately shot her father. She claimed it was the only way she could protect her sisters from experiencing the same abuse she had suffered for years. Her mother refuses to believe her, but her grandmother, despite her own failing health, takes it upon herself to become Cissy's advocate and rescuer"--
93) Ghost wings
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
While celebrating the Days of the Dead, a young Mexican girl remembers her wonderful grandmother who sang songs, made tortillas, chased monsters away, and loved butterflies.
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life-her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the...
Author
Publisher
Pinata Books, Arte Publico Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Long ago in what would come to be called Mexico, as Mama Alma and her granddaughter, Bella, recall happy times while walking in the garden they have tended together since Bella was a baby, Mama Alma asks that after she is gone her family remember her on one special day each year. Includes facts about The Remembering Day, El dia de los muertos.
96) The farewell
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a Chinese family finds out that their grandmother has only a short time left to live, they plan a family reunion before she dies without telling her.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Tosh has spent many days in the kitchen with his grandmother, Honey, watching her bake cookies and listening to tales of their slave ancestors, so when Honey's memory starts to fail, Tosh is able to help with the cookies and more. Includes a recipe for tea cakes.
99) Soul food Sunday
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Language
English
Description
Granny teaches her young grandson how to cook the family meal, in this celebration of food, traditions, and gathering together at the table. Includes recipe for baked macaroni and cheese.
100) Unbecoming
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Language
English
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Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.
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