Filter By Subjects
City and town life Fiction Families Fiction German Americans Fiction Immigrant families United States Fiction Intergenerational relations Fiction Large type books Life change events Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Sullivans Island (S.C.) Fiction United States Social life and customs 20th century FictionFilter By Subjects
City and town life Fiction Families Fiction German Americans Fiction Immigrant families United States Fiction Intergenerational relations Fiction Large type books Life change events Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Sullivans Island (S.C.) Fiction United States Social life and customs 20th century FictionSteel, Danielle
Summary: From the glamorous San Francisco social scene of the 1920s, through war and the social changes of the '60s, to the rise of Silicon Valley today, this extraordinary novel takes us on a family odyssey that is both heartbreaking and inspiring, as each generation faces the challenges of their day. The Parisian design houses in 1928, the crash of 1929, the losses of war, the drug culture of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEHosseini, Khaled.
Summary: Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in wartorn Kabul, losses incurred over the course of thirty years that test the limits of their strength and courage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HosCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HosseiniMonroe, Mary Alice
Summary: "It's been sixteen years since Caretta 'Cara' Rutledge has returned home to the beautiful shores of Charleston, South Carolina. Over those years, she has weathered the tides of deaths and births, struggles and joys. And now, as Cara prepares for her second wedding, her life is about to change yet again. Meanwhile, the rest of the storied Rutledge family is also in flux. Cara's niece Linnea...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONGeorge, Alex.
Summary: The Meisenheimer family struggles to find its place among the colorful residents of its new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than music, and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gale Cengage Learning 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GEODameron, DéLana R. A.
Summary: ""Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write 'em in your books and show everyone who we are." So begins DéLana R.A. Dameron's stunning novel-in-stories, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Mosby spends much of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2024
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAMBrown, Rita Mae.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROGeorge, Alex.
Summary: A Good American is a story of immigrant hope. Set in a fictional Midwestern town and spanning more than a century, the novel tells the story of three generations of the Meisenheimer family. Beginning with an improbable love affair ignited by the power of song, the story follows an unorthodox young couple as they flee to America in search of a new life together. From prohibition to the Kennedy...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEOMonroe, Mary Alice
Summary: It's been sixteen years since Caretta "Cara" Rutledge has returned home to the beautiful shores of Charleston, South Carolina. Over those years, she has weathered the tides of deaths and births, struggles and joys. And now, as Cara prepares for her second wedding, her life is about to change yet again. Meanwhile, the rest of the storied Rutledge family is also in flux. But as excitement over...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020