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121) Eat cake
Author
Language
English
Description
Ruth draws on her talent for concocting delectable cakes and desserts when her family begins to disintegrate around her--her husband loses his job, her mother moves in, and her long-estranged father shows up at the door with no place to go.
124) Two weeks
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Four siblings, now adults, return home to North Carolina, to their terminally ill mother's house for what they think are her final few days. When she hangs on, they find themselves stuck under the same roof for two difficult weeks. But as the children come to terms with their grief, they discover laughter in the midst of sorrow, love in the face of anger, and an opportunity to gain new perspectives on their own lives.
125) Hold the sunset
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Edith and Phil are retired and in love. When she finally agrees to marry him, they're all set to move to a place in the sun. But then Edith's son Roger crashes back into their lives. Fifty going on twelve, Roger has had a mid-life breakdown and left his wife, children and job. As Roger and a host of other unwanted visitors cause havoc around their house, Edith and Phil's lives explode into farce.
126) Wedding at Graceland
Publisher
Hallmark Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Laurel and Clay have three weeks to plan their wedding that will take place at Graceland Chapel in the Woods at Elvis Presley's celebrated Memphis home. However, when both sets of in-laws, each with vastly different personalities and ideas for the wedding, descend upon Memphis to "help" plan the nuptials, the bride and groom are pushed to the breaking point.
128) Victorine
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Witnessing Nazi patrols in the seaside town where she is spending the final years of her life, Victorine examines her past, from the willow-lined canals of her childhood home to her nights along the Mekong River at the turn of the century.
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen minutes after Bill Griffith's father died from a bicycle accident in 1972, his mother turned to him and said, "If I don't tell you this now, I'll never be able to tell you. I had a long and happy relationship with a man you knew slightly." Thus began Griffith's journey to reconstruct this hidden relationship between his mother and a deeply cultured jack-of-all-trades cartoonist and crime novelist. Invisible Ink unfolds like a detective story,...
132) Familia de estrellas
Author
Publisher
Plaza & Janés
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Un homenaje de Danielle Steel a las mujeres fuertes que no se dejan vencer por las adversidades. Kait Whittier escribe una columna en una revista femenina por la que se ha ganado el respeto de sus lectoras. Tras dos matrimonios fallidos, quiere evitar las complicaciones de volverse a enamorar. Para ella lo más importante son su trabajo y sus hijos, con los que disfruta enormemente a pesar de que ya están construyendo sus propios caminos. Su vida...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When a mother's unusual health condition renders her entirely dependent upon you, your sisters, caretakers, and companions, the unimaginable will become daily life. In Mothercare, Lynne Tillman writes an honest and straightforward account of doing the impossible: handling her mother as if she were a child; navigating the unnavigable medical world, and confronting her own emotions regarding a suddenly, forever changed relationship to mother and care....
134) The mummy trilogy
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Embark on the ultimate action adventure that spans continents and centuries in the spectacular Mummy trilogy ... Follow the exhilarating journeys and exploits of daring explorer Rick O'Connell ... and his family as they combat the evil undead from the dusty tombs of Egypt to the hidden catacombs of China ..."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Aribella Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Amid her own mid-life crisis, Maisie Carver discovers her 85-year-old mother's bucket list. Her mother, her sister, and she embark on a trip to the redwoods of California. While Masie soon learns her perfect husband and sister are anything but, she discovers the fabulous new creature she was meant to be.--
137) Facing the light
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
140) She is me
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Greta finds her life turned upside down by the arrival of her grown daughter, Elizabeth, by the increasingly eccentric behavior of her widowed mother, and by unexpectedly falling in love with someone other than her devoted husband.