Spud gets angry when he sees Dumper Stubbs, a creepy delivery man, dumping oil into a storm drain and causing terrible pollution in the river. When Spud blows the whistle, he loses his job. Enlisting the help of his buddy, Dink the...
Families
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Author:Doyle, BrianSummary: - Author:Little, JeanSummary:
"Meg, the youngest in the Copeland family always feels out of place. She has to share a room with her older sister Sally and they constantly bicker. Everyone in the house thinks she's too rowdy and she is always getting into...
- Author:Knausgaard, Karl Ove.Summary:
Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles. "Today is Wednesday the thirteenth of April 2016, it is twelve minutes to eleven, and I have just finished writing this book for you....
- Author:Kozminski, Catherine, Palardy, Sylvain, Haddad, ÉlieSummary:
Le soleil a continué de se lever chaque jour depuis cinq ans et la nuit a toujours fait place à la lumière, malgré la peur, la douleur, l’incompréhension et le non-sens. Comme on ne sait jamais de quoi demain sera fait dans la vie comme...
- Author:Adams, BethanySummary:
Arlyn promised on her mother's deathbed to find her father and tell him her mother is dead, but her father doesn't even live on Earth. Meanwhile, Kai meets Arlyn, recognizes her as his mate, and starts up their soul bond. Now Arlyn...
- Author:Snelling, LauraineSummary:
When 17-year-old Sophie abandons her North Dakota family in 1901, she never dreams tragedy will turn her again toward home. But she fears the loved ones she hurt will reject her--and that she'll never love again.
- Author:Picoult, JodiSummary:
This moving story of love and family is told through the eyes of five people: Jane Jones, her daughter Rebecca, and three very different men in their lives. After a watershed moment in their marriage, Jane leaves Oliver, her renowned...
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Author:Dupont, ÉricSummary:A big fat whopper of a tall tale that bounces around from provincial Rivière-du-Loup in 1919 to Nagasaki, 1990s Berlin, Rome, and beyond.
- Author:Gray, Shelley ShepardSummary:
Lukas and Darla had been close friends until her father caused the fire that killed five Amish men, including himself and the mill owner, Lukas's father. Now Lukas is responsible for the mill and his three siblings. But when he...
- Author:Bowden, Charles, Kesey, KenSummary:
This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper familys rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey...
- Author:Balogh, MarySummary:
New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh's new Wescott series continues as a young woman deals with her father's death and a reversal of fortune. With her parent's marriage declared bigamous, Camille Westcott is now illegitimate...
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Author:Doctorow, CorySummary:Alan is an entrepreneur in Toronto who decides to involve himself in a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles of hardware from...
- Author:Gunn, GenniSummary:
When Vito Santoro's body is inadvertently unearthed by a demolition crew in Fregene, Italy, his siblings are thrown into turmoil, having been told by their sister Piera that Vito had fled to Argentina fifty years earlier after...
- Author:Johnston, MichaelSummary:
The first in a new epic fantasy series inspired by ancient Egyptian history and King Lear The ruling family of the Soleri Empire has been in power longer than even the calendars that stretch back 2,826 years. Those records tell a...
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Author:Bush, JennaSummary:Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. In this book they take listeners on a revealing, thoughtful, and deeply personal tour behind the scenes of their lives, with never-before-told stories...
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Author:Cárdenas, TessaSummary:As a principal dancer for a contemporary New York ballet company, Sean has the privilege of working with student interns. The company’s newest intern, Lupe, is a talented dancer from Purchase College—but the man who picks her up from...
- Author:Kalman Naves, Elaine, Ringuet, ChantalSummary:
Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Shoshanna, une jeune Juive hongroise, est très amoureuse de son mari, qui disparaît en Russie. Esseulée, elle accepte qu’un homme plus vieux qu’elle la prenne sous son aile. Il lui donnera un enfant, Elaine....
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Author:Grosso, AlissaSummary:Everyone in Shallow Pond knows the Bunting Sisters. Nobody knows their Secrets. Annie is the oldest. The sickly one who gave up on her own life so she could raise her sisters after their parents died. Gracie is the wild child. She wants...
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Author:Wilgus, NickSummary:Wise-cracking Wiley Cantrell is loud and roaringly outrageous—and he needs to be to keep his deeply religious neighbors and family in the Deep South at bay. A failed writer on food stamps, Wiley works a minimum wage job and barely...
- Author:Clayton, MelindaSummary:
On the anniversary of her husband’s death, forty-nine-year-old Emily Holt runs away, leaving an unmade bed, an unlocked house, two college-aged sons, and an overabundance of bad memories.Struggling to make peace with the death of a...
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