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(0)Anne Tyler
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English
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'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon'. This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different. Abby and Red are getting older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them and their beloved family...
2) Clock dance
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English
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Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: when she was eleven and her mother disappeared, being proposed to at twenty-one, the accident that would make her a widow at forty-one. At each of these moments, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others. So when she receives a phone call telling her that her son?s ex-girlfriend has been shot and needs her help, she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the...
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Micah Mortimer isn't the most polished person you'll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly, but he has his ways and means of navigating the world. He measures out his days running errands for work - his TECH HERMIT sign cheerily displayed on the roof of his car - maintaining an impeccable cleaning regime and going for runs (7:15, every morning). He is content with the steady balance of his life. But then the...
4) French braid
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone is determined not to notice. Over at her studio, she wants space and silence. She won?t allow any family clutter. Not even their cat, Desmond. Yet it is a clutter of untidy moments that forms the Garretts? family life over the decades, whether that?s a painstaking Easter lunch or giving a child a ride, a fateful train journey or an unexpected homecoming....
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Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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This is the story of a year in the life of Liam Pennywell, a man in his 61st year. A classical pedant, he's just been 'let go' from his schoolteaching job and downsizes to a tiny out-of-town apartment. When he goes to bed early and alone on the first night, he wakes up in hospital unable to recall how he got there.
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English
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The accident that killed Dorothy - involving an oak tree, a sun porch and some elusive biscuits - leaves Aaron bereft and the house a wreck. However when she comes back from the dead, the cracks that reappear in their marriage are a poignant reminder that life may move on, but some things will forever remain the same.
7) Vinegar girl
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Series
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she s always in trouble at work her pre-school charges adore her, but their parents don t always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr. Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions....
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Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
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Breathing Lessons covers the events of a day in the life of Maggie Moran, married to Ira and with two children. Her eternal optimism and her passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is put to the test.