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The cook, the crook, and the real estate tycoon: a novel of contemporary China

By Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Liu Zhenyun. 2015

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
General fiction, Suspense and thrillers, Family stories, Historical fiction, Mysteries and crime storiesCriticism, Asian travel and geography, General non-fiction
Human-narrated audio

Liu Yuejin, a worksite cook and a thief, has his pack with money stolen. While searching for it, he discovers…

another bag which contains a USB card detailing corruption of high officials and putting him in danger. Translated from the original 2007 Chinese edition. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2015

Five roads taken: a true story told by the kids to Tom Gleason

By Tom Gleason. 2001

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Family storiesPsychology, Family and relationships
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Each of John Howard Wilson's five adult children remembers his death and the experience of losing their father. As each…

shares very personal moments, the reader steps inside a family's life and explores the profound bonds between father and child

Annie and the Old One

By Miska Miles, Peter Parnall, Patricia Miles Martin. 1985

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Family stories, General fiction, Indigenous peoples fictionCriticism
Human-narrated audio

Annie, a young Navajo girl, is upset thinking her grandmother could die. When her grandmother announces that she will return…

to the earth when the rug on the loom is finished, Annie tries to stop the weaving. For grades 3-6. Newbery Honor. 1971

My brother's keeper

By ReShonda Tate Billingsley. 2005

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Family stories, RomancePsychology
Human-narrated audio

Twelve years after losing her parents, Aja James is tired of worrying about her siblings' problems: Eric's uncontrollable rage and…

Jada's impenetrable silence. Meanwhile Aja's best friend, Roxie, fixes her up with sexy bachelor Charles Clayton. Strong language. 2001

Wishing on the midnight star: my Asperger brother

By Nancy Ogaz. 2004

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Disabilities fiction, Family stories, General fictionPsychology
Human-narrated audio

Shy, thirteen-year-old Alex Stone wants to impress his classmate Brianna Santos, avoid the neighborhood bully, and be a normal teenager,…

but he has to watch over Nic, his older, autistic brother. That complicates everything until he realizes how much he loves Nic. For grades 5-8. 2004

The Mrs. Dalloway reader

By Virginia Woolf, Francine Prose. 2003

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Serious and literary fiction, General fiction, Suspense and thrillers, Family storiesCriticism
Human-narrated audio

Selection of critical essays exploring the evolution and impact of Virginia Woolf's 1925 classic novel Mrs. Dalloway and the companion…

piece, "Mrs. Dalloway's Party." Includes the two works, Woolf's journal entries and letters regarding the works' creation, and various writers' commentary. Includes editor's introduction. 2003

The secret within

By Theresa Martin Golding, Theresa Golding. 2002

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Family stories, Mysteries and crime stories, General fiction, Multi-cultural fictionCriticism
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Thirteen-year-old Carly lives at the New Jersey shore where she dodges her abusive father by sneaking out at night to…

roam the boardwalk. When a stranger seeks to question her about mysterious packages she delivers for her father, Carly's neighbors suspect him of criminal activities and rally around to help her. For grades 6-9. 2002

West of the Jordan: a novel (Bluestreak #19)

By Laila Halaby. 2003

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Family stories, General fiction, Historical fictionCriticism, Anthologies
Human-narrated audio

Four Palestine-born female cousins experience individual problems growing up. Mawal stays in the Middle East following a traditional lifestyle. Soraya…

and Khadija, emigrés in California, are torn between cultures. Hala lives in Arizona but falls in love in Jordan. Strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2003

Things remembered

By Georgia Bockoven. 1998

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Family stories, General fictionPsychology
Human-narrated audio

Twenty years ago when her parents were killed, Karla Esterbrook and her sisters went to live with their grandmother, Anna…

Olsen. Karla and Anna have never been close, but now that Anna is dying, Karla has returned to California to put Anna's affairs in order

In these hills

By Ralph Beer. 2000

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Family storiesHistory, Customs and cultures, Science and technology, Criticism, General non-fiction
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After a lifetime spent writing and working on his family's cattle ranch outside of Helena, Montana, Ralph Beer has gathered…

his best magazine essays into one collection called "In These Hills". In thirty-three essays he provides a moving and elegiac tribute to lives now passed, an often humorous homage to the provincial, and an attempt "to fathom the place where we live... to decipher who we are."

Breakfast with Neruda

By Laura Moe. 2016

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Romance, General fiction, Family storiesPsychology
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Michael is just trying to get through his community service after he made the dumb decision to try to blow…

up his friend's car with fireworks--the same friend who stole Michael's girl. Being expelled and losing his best buddy and his girlfriend are the least of his problems: he's living in a car, his mother is a hoarder, and his life seems to be falling apart - until he meets Shelly, that is. Unrated

My mama's waltz: a book for daughters of alcoholic mothers

By Eleanor Agnew. 1999

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Family stories, General fictionPsychology, Self help, Family and relationships, Parenting, Addiction and substance abuse
Human-transcribed braille

The authors share their personal accounts along with the memories and experiences of hundreds of women who are the daughters…

of alcoholic mothers. Co-author is Sharon Robideaux, foreword by Dr. Robert J. Ackerman. 1999

Happy birthday: a novel

By Danielle Steel. 2011

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Bestsellers (Fiction), Romance, Family stories, General fiction, Historical fiction, Contemporary romanceBestsellers (Non-fiction)
Human-transcribed braille

Three people start out miserable on their landmark birthdays but end up happy. Aging style guru Valerie Wyatt turns sixty…

unattached, Valerie's single daughter April is thirty and pregnant, and quarterback-turned-sportscaster Jack Adams faces fifty alone. Bestseller. 2011

Separate sisters

By Nancy Springer. 2001

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Family stories, School stories, General fictionPsychology
Human-transcribed braille

Thirteen-year-old Donni, living with her father, is so upset over her parents' divorce that she gets into increasingly serious trouble…

at school. She does not realize how much her fourteen-year-old sister, Trisha, who lives with their mother, is also hurting. For grades 6-9. 2001

À côté de la track (QA roman)

By Karine Glorieux. 2023

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French Canadian fiction, Canadian fiction, Humourous fiction, Family storiesPsychology
Human-narrated audio

Quand Manu n'est pas à la course pour le boulot ou les enfants, elle enfile ses espadrilles et... court encore.…

Malgré tout, elle ne va jamais nulle part, elle qui était jadis une grande voyageuse. Est-ce pour ça qu'elle se retrouve soudain face à une dépression qui la force à s'arrêter? La solution serait-elle de faire un grand ménage, une bucket list, de prendre de la téquila, ou pire, des antidépresseurs?

The Brother

By Rein Raud, Adam Cullen. 2008

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Family stories, Serious and literary fictionEuropean history, Psychology
Synthetic audio, Automated braille

The Brother is a spaghetti western told in poetic prose, simultaneously paying tribute to both Clint Eastwood and Alessandro Baricco.…

It opens with a mysterious stranger arriving in a small town controlled by a group of men-men who recently cheated the stranger's supposed sister out of her inheritance. Following his arrival, fortunes change dramatically, enraging this group of powerful men.

Bob Stevenson

By Richard Wiley. 2016

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Family stories, General fiction, Suspense and thrillersPsychology
Synthetic audio, Automated braille

"A witty, roller-coaster ride of uncertain identity set against the gritty certainties of New York City. In compelling, unadorned prose,…

Richard Wiley gives us a bewitching and ultimately moving tale." -Caryl Phillips, author of A Distant Shore and The Lost ChildDr. Ruby Okada meets a charming man with a Scottish accent in the elevator of her psychiatric hospital. Unaware that he is an escaping patient, she falls under his spell, and her life and his are changed forever by the time they get to the street.Who is the mysterious man? Is he Archie B. Billingsly, suffering from dissociative identity disorder and subject to brilliant flights of fancy and bizarre, violent fits? Or is he the reincarnation of Robert Louis Stevenson, back to haunt New York as Long John Silver and Mr. Edward Hyde? Her career compromised, Ruby soon learns that her future and that of her unborn child depend on finding the key to his identity. With compelling psychological descriptions and terrifying, ineffable transformations, Bob Stevenson is an ingenious tale featuring a quirky cast of characters drawn together by mutual fascination, need, and finally, love.Richard Wiley is the author of eight novels including Soldiers in Hiding, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and Ahmed's Revenge, winner of the Maria Thomas Fiction Award. Professor emeritus at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he divides his time between Los Angeles, California and Tacoma, Washington.

More Like Not Running Away: A Novel

By Paul Shepherd. 2005

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Family stories, General fiction, Suspense and thrillersPsychology
Synthetic audio, Automated braille

[A] haunting novel. . . . This book brims with the poetry of the working class, seldom sung lyrics of…

working men and women.--from the introduction by Larry Woiwode"Shepherd is a master craftsman, and the subtlety of his art, the unassuming elegance of its architecture, rendered me spellbound and finally grateful. I don't think I shall ever forget this fine book, its honest, guileless voice leading me along into the fire."--Bob Shacochis"A riveting exploration of what it is to be an outsider even in your own head. Shepherd has written a gripping story of childhood angst--psychologically thrilling, lyrically exact."--Janet BurrowayLevi Revel is a boy in danger of losing his family and maybe his mind. He's in awe of his father, Everest, a majestic dreamer, a master builder, a man with a violent, secret past. As the family moves from state to state, Levi hears solace in the voice of God, a voice that sends him preaching from treetops and roofs.But the family begins to fall apart, and as Levi enters adolescence, he hears more troubling things: other voices, terrifying sounds, warnings. When Everest takes him on a high-speed, cross-country chase to win back Levi's mother--by force if necessary--Levi realizes how much danger they all are in.Tender and frightening, this debut novel takes readers across America, through the eyes and ears of a child whose family is haunted by a past they can't outrun. From a boy lost in a world of imaginary voices and chilling destruction to a young man who can rebuild steeples, the story Levi tells is the triumph of persistence over moments of isolation and despair.Paul Shepherd lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

The Delivery Room: A Novel

By Sylvia Brownrigg. 2006

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Family storiesCriticism
Synthetic audio, Automated braille

It is 1998. In the safe haven of her London office—a room her husband jokingly calls "The Delivery Room"—therapist Mira…

Braverman listens to the stories of her troubled patients, including an aristocratic woman going through an intense infertility drama, an American journalist who is eager to have a baby, and an irritable divorcé who likes to taunt Mira about her Serbian nationality. As the novel unfolds, Mira discovers she is not as distant from her patients' pain as she might once have been: her husband Peter struggles with illness, NATO's threats against her country grow more serious, and submerged truths from her own past seem likely to erupt.Compelling, complex, and always deeply human, The Delivery Room is an engaging examination of the incomplete understandings that course between therapist and patient, and a set of variations on the theme of motherhood—as well as a timely meditation on the meanings of wars fought from a distance, when ordinary citizens have to measure their personal griefs against the outrages experienced by those under attack.

I'm Just a Teenage Punchbag: POIGNANT AND FUNNY: A NOVEL FOR A GENERATION OF WOMEN

By Jackie Clune. 2020

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General fiction, Multi-cultural fiction, Family storiesParanormal, Hobbies and crafts, Death and bereavement, Family and relationships, Medicine, Animals and wildlife, Psychology, Religion, Addiction and substance abuse
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'Obligatory reading for all parents of teenagers!' NIGELLA LAWSON'Bloody marvellous. Horribly familiar, funny, touching, sad, brutally honest...clutch this book to…

your stained T-shirt and never let it go.' JO BRAND'Terrific. A remarkable blend of hilarity and heartbreak with a really satisfying plot. Being childless never felt so good.' GRAHAM NORTON'Warm and witty... The competitive mothering, the hell that is other people's children, the fights and accusations of Homeland inquisition all rang deliciously true... a most entertaining read.' KATHY LETTE'Very poignant... A moving read as well as a funny one.' JANE GARVEY 'Honest, hilarious and painful' WOMAN & HOMEWarning!! This novel may lead you to make rash and life-changing decisions!**Probably don't read if you fear you may be ripe for liberation. Or if you sometimes wee when you laugh...First there was Having It All, then there was Bridget Jones' s Diary and I Don't Know How She Does It. Now there is Teenage Punchbag.I'm Just A Teenage Punchbag is a laugh-out-loud, sob-on-the bus journey through the so-called life of a middle-aged woman.Ciara is mother to three ungrateful, entitled teenagers, is married to steady Martin, a man with hairy udders, and is grieving for her mum who now lives in the wardrobe in a cardboard box from the crematorium. She finds solace in her anonymous blog, and in the daily chats she has with her mum's ashes (often the best conversations she has all day.)Despite the menopause, the invisibility of middle age and the daily self-esteem bashings, courtesy of her kids, Ciara manages to navigate the stormy waters of grief and family life - until her mask slips and she is cast out from the family bosom. She embarks on a mission to fulfil her mum's dying wishes to have her remains sprinkled from the top of the Empire State Building, finding company, distraction and - ultimately - herself in the process.If motherhood is a job - who says you can't resign?

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