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Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"De’Andrea Whitman, her husband Malik, and their five-year-old daughter, Nina, are new to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia—a move motivated by circumstance rather than choice. De’Andrea is heartbroken to leave her comfortable life in the Black oasis of Atlanta, and between her mother-in-law’s Alzheimer's diagnosis, her daughter starting kindergarten, and the overwhelming whiteness of Rolling Hills, she finds herself...
66) The accounting
Author
Publisher
Thomas and Mercer
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Jon Willing was just a teenager when he and his buddies Augie and Ben stole a fortune in drug money. Brazen with youth and stoned out of their gourds, they thought they had the perfect plan for getting away with it.They were wrong. Twenty-five years later, Jon's marriage is in ruins, his kids are virtual strangers, and the recession has decimated his finances. When he finds Augie murdered in Vegas, Jon knows his past has risen from the grave to grab...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Description
Muchas mujeres dejan aparcadas sus profesiones cuando los niños llegan. Kate Connor, por ejemplo, no ha cazado demonios desde hace años...Esa debe ser la razón por la que ni se fijó en ese tipo en la tienda de comida para animales de San Diablo. Desgraciadamente, sí que consiguió captar su atención una hora más tarde... cuando chocó violentamente contra la casa Connor en un intento de asesinarla. Ahora, Kate tiene que limpiar el desorden...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
As Cam and Mitch bicker over plans for their big day, the rest of the family has its hands full adapting to new jobs, new schools, and a new male nanny. There are babysitting disasters, an anniversary to celebrate, misguided male bonding, and everything from high-stakes poker to high-maintenance in-laws. Join the Pritchett-Dunphy clan for the wedding of the year, and share the honesty, love and laughter with America₂s favorite family.
Author
Publisher
Beaufort Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"From internationally acclaimed and best-selling author RAYMOND BENSON comes a wry and darkly comedic work in which a quaint suburb of Chicago finds itself rocked by more than just the uncertainties of 2020. Perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and the twisted prose of Tom Perrotta. For Scott Hatcher, a former television writer turned struggling novelist with a failing marriage to boot, social-distancing and mask-wearing feel like fitting additions to...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Patrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific washerwoman, and a childlike heiress are each blessed—and stricken—with visionary experiences that may or may not allow them to transcend the machinations of their fellow men. Tender and lacerating, pure and profane, subtle and sweeping, Riders in the Chariot is one of the Nobel Prize...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The household hilarity continues as the Dunphy clan is wrapping up a Big Apple adventure. Back at home, Claire struggles to keep order at Pritchett's Closets while Phil and Jay go into business together. Gloria's hot sauce business heats up, as Cam and Mitchell deal with their maturing tween, Lily. Meanwhile, Manny and Luke fumble through their senior year of high school.
77) That night
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
That night refers to the night Sheryl became pregnant and the resulting reactions. Excellent novel of Long Island suburbia.
On a warm suburban night, the sound of lawn sprinklers is drowned out by the rumble of hot rods. Suddenly, a car careens onto a family's neat front yard, teenage boys spill out brandishing chains and leather, and a young man cries out for the girl he loves. Tonight, fathers will pick up snow shovels and rakes to defend their...
78) The regulators
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Language
English
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Description
The battle against evil has begun in this "devishly entertaining" (Publishers Weekly) story of a suburban neighborhood in the grip of surreal terror--a #1 national bestseller from Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.Peaceful suburbia on Poplar Street in Wentworth, Ohio, takes a turn for the ugly when four vans containing armed "regulators" terrorize the street's residents, cold-bloodedly killing anyone foolish enough to step outside their homes....
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Enjoy a new chapter of love and laughter with the Seventh Season of the show. Quackery rules the roost when Phil adopts a trio of orphan ducklings and the rebellious Dunphy kids spread their wings. Meanwhile, Cam and Mitchell face financial hurdles and wild frat boys, Jay and Gloria ₁farm₂ out Joe₂s preschool education and Manny leaps into the dating game. But will the big question finally be answered: are Haley and Andy destined to be together....
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The honeymoon is over, but the laughs continue in Season Six. As freshly hitched Cam and Mitch acclimate to the realities of wedded bliss, Phil and Claire find their marriage stressed by annoying neighbors, Thanksgiving dinner gone awry and Claire's online snooping. Meanwhile, a spy-camera drone wreaks havoc in Jay and Gloria's backyard and a close call on the highway leads to amusing changes in various members of the Pritchett-Dunphy clan.
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