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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Gritty and darkly hilarious novel quaking with life-winner of Australia's Miles Franklin Award-that follows a queer, First Nations Australian woman as she returns home to face her family and protect the land of their ancestors. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip, Kerry uses anger to fight the avalanche of bullshit the world...
Author
Series
Dixie Hemingway mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
vi, 262 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In the sixth installment of the wildly popular Dixie Hemingway mystery series, Dixie is caring for the cat of a prickly old man whose granddaughter shows up with baby in tow. Dixie desperately tries to save this young woman and her infant from murderous con artists ready to kill in order to hold on to the millions they stole from naive investors. The villains, though, are not run of the mill criminals; they are among the socially prominent movers...
63) Heidi
Author
Pub. Date
1998, c1986
Physical Desc
349 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
64) Ill-gotten panes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 291 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
"Stained-glass aficionado Georgia Kelly packed up her city life for the quiet of small town Wenwood, New York. But the sleepy village's peace is about to get shattered--by murder. After a banking scandal loses Georgia her job and her fiancé, she decides that a change of scenery will help piece her life back together. But escaping to her grandfather's house in the old-fashioned, brick-making Hudson River hamlet of Wenwood, New York, turns out to...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Attempting to fulfill her dying grandfather's dying wish, seventeen-year-old Francine enlists Ollie Tran to act as his honorary male, but the mounting lies and romantic feelings they develop complicate their plan.
Francine loves her grandfather, but their time together is running out. He has one final wish: to see a male heir carry on the family traditions. Francine knows his ideas are outdated, but she would do anything for him. Her solution? Ask...
66) Life expectancy
Author
Pub. Date
p2004
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. When Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks for the first and last time since his stroke, he says that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson-each occurring at different times of his life. Rudy is all too ready to discount...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
290 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"An international best seller: a vivid, masterly novel about a Flemish man who reconstructs his grandfather's story--his hopes, loves, and art, all disrupted by the First World War--from the unflinching notebooks he filled with pieces of his life. The life of Urbain Martien--artist, soldier, survivor of World War I--lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. His grandson, a writer, retells his story, the notebooks giving...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Description
"Lineage Most Lethal is the captivating second mystery in S. C. Perkins' Ancestry Detective series, in which Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster grapples with murders in both the past and present. It's the week before New Year's Eve and genealogist Lucy Lancaster is mixing work and play quite nicely at the boutique Sutton Hotel in Austin, Texas. After two months of research she's finalizing her presentation for hotel heiress Pippa Sutton, her latest...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 5
Formats
Description
With his dying words, H---Jacob's final connection to his grandfather Abes's secret life--entrusts Jacob with a mission: Deliver newly contacted peculiar Noor Pradesh to an operative known as V.
70) The blood years
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
390 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke Teitler and her older sister, Astra, live in a house, in a city, in a world divided. Their father ran out on them when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He's done his best to provide for them and shield them...
71) Call me Iggy
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
245 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Ignacio "Iggy" Garcia is an Ohio-born Colombian American teen living his best life. After bumping into Marisol (and her coffee) at school, Iggy's world is spun around. But Marisol has too much going on to be bothered with the likes of Iggy. She has school, work, family, and the uphill battle of getting her legal papers. As Iggy stresses over how to get Marisol to like him, his grandfather comes to the rescue. The thing is, not only is his abuelito...
73) You be grandpa
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
This comical and creative picture book follows a grandpa who, after a long day of playing pirates, gardening, skateboarding and more, tells his grandson he's simply too tired to be grandpa at bedtime and asks that his grandson take over for him.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
Description
Weighed down by sadness and grief at her grandfather's death, Enid packs a bag with all the objects connected to her grandfather, but as she shares both the objects and her emotions with other people, Enid finds her heavy burden lifted and what remains are simply lovely memories of time well spent in her grandfather's company.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 19 cm
Description
For most of his young life Avery has dealt with his alcoholic mother with the help of his grandfather Pal--he immerses himself in poetry and popular music, and now that high school is over for the summer, he makes out with his best friend Luca (who understands about alcoholic mothers), but the death of his grandfather creates a hole in his life that he can not seem to crawl out of.
Author
Series
New Americana volume 8
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"When news of her grandfather's stroke sends Jo Beth Ellis back to the family farm, she finds it in danger of foreclosure. Lone Oaks Crossing is in rough shape, but Jo has big plans--she'll use her expertise as a Derby-winning horse trainer to reinvent the property as a healing retreat. But renovating while trying to keep her independent grandfather in check is a huge job for one woman--and even more challenging when she receives her first client,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Secret Staircase Construction is under attack, and Tempest Raj feels helpless. After former client Julian Rhodes tried to kill his wife, he blamed her "accident" on the home renovation company's craftsmanship. Now the family business - known for bringing magic into homes through hidden doors, floating staircases, and architectural puzzle walls - is at a breaking point. No amount of Scottish and Indian meals from her grandfather can distract Tempest...
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