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1) Enon
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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A grieving Charlie Crosby (grandson of Tinkers protagonist George Washington Crosby) attempts to come to terms with the death of his daughter, Kate, and the subsequent dissolution of his marriage.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In a quirky farmhouse outside Boston, 70-year-old Percy Darling enjoys a vigorous but mostly solitary life until, in a complex scheme to help his oldest daughter through a crisis, he allows a progressive preschool to move into his barn. The abrupt transformation of Percy's rural refuge into a lively, youthful community compels him to reexamine the choices he's made.
Author
Series
New Americana volume 4
Language
English
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Description
"When 73-year-old Emmy Hart asks her to help revitalize Hart's Hollow farm, Kristen accepts, despite her fears about becoming too attached to the family; and then there's Emmy's ruggedly handsome grandson."--Publisher.
Hart's Hollow farm has seen better days, but for Emmy Hart it is a home worth fighting for. She asks Kristen Daniels to help return the farm to its former glory and Kristen accepts, despite her fears about getting involved with Emmy...
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Retired Chicago cop Harry Bentley was lying low after blowing the whistle on a gang of rogue cops and was awaiting the day when Internal Affairs would call him to testify. His cover was working as a doorman in a Chicago lakefront luxury highrise. Through penthouse resident Gabby Fairbanks, Harry meets the Yada Yada brothers and a new circle of friends to replace his old police cohorts. When Harry discovers he has a grandson he didn't know about, will...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins proves it's never too late to be the person you want to be in this rich, heartwarming story from the acclaimed author of Ellie and the Harpmaker. Eighty-five-year-old Veronica McCreedy is estranged from her family and wants to find a worthwhile cause to leave her fortune to. When she sees a documentary about penguins being studied in Antarctica, she tells the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The last thing Lane Bromley wants is to leave his remote mountain cabin. But when his struggling daughter shows up with a grandson he didn't know he had, Lane's search for the boy's father leads him to the other surprise grandparent: veterinarian Julia Frasier. They can't seem to agree on anything, but maybe they can find common ground long enough to create a loving environment for their grandchild...and each other."--Amazon.
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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Description
"In 1954, six men who spent their young lives as cowboys in the Southwest, now gather at the Matador Hotel in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, for weekly games of cribbage. One rainy afternoon, on of the men brings his ten-year-old grandson with him to the cribbage game. The boy has on his red straw hat, his cap gun, and wears his leather bullet belt with silver painted wooden bullets. They play cribbage and tell stories - and the boy listens while...
8) Secret bride
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When Damion Templeton, Viscount Woodhurst, commissions Alix Adams, a young, penniless schoolteacher, to pose as his fiancée until his grandmother dies, he has no idea that his aunt is not dying and that the schoolteacher will steal his heart in this historical romance set in 18th-century England.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In this vivid and masterful novel, a Flemish man reconstructs his grandfather's story--his life, loves, and art, all disrupted by the first World War--from the unflinching notebooks he left behind. Short Description War and Turpentine centers on two men distanced by time: a religious painter whose life is changed forever by World War One; and his grandson, a writer reckoning with his grandfather's story. The life of Urbain Martien--artist, soldier,...
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