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Transister is the story of a family in transition. Not a prescriptive narrative but an affirming one. A raw, honest, sometimes humorous account of author Kate Brookes' journey as her young child grapples with gender identity and becomes her authentic self.
Brookes has longed to become a mother for as long as she can remember. And for almost as long, she has harbored a fierce determination to parent her children differently-better-than her own mentally...
2) House of Yes
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All Marty wants is a normal life, but nothing goes as planned when his fiancée meets his far-from-normal family. His beautiful but crazy twin sister, Jackie-O, becomes dangerously jealous, and their younger brother puts the moves on Marty's new love! Soon, Mother is hiding the kitchen knives - but she can't hide the family's shockingly hilarious secrets in this edgy and outrageous comedy!
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Meet 'Nancy Bright' drama queen of the first order.
It's only one week until Nancy's birthday party and she is looking forward to inviting her seven best friends. But events take a turn for the worse when her Mum drops a bombshell and Nancy becomes increasingly more worried that her party will be ruined.
Meanwhile, as well as having a 'not so normal' family life, she encounters trouble at school when two girls in her class start a hate campaign...
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Thea Slocombe is trying to settle into normal family domestic life with Drew and his two children in Broad Campden. But any sense of cosy domesticity is shattered when Thea finds the body of a neighbour. No longer a house-sitter, Thea has no choice but to stay in the village and deal with whatever happens next, even when this risks damage to her marriage.Unconvinced that the swift conclusion made about the death by the police is the right one, Thea...
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A work of both scholarship and imagination. The Lost Choice is a legend of personal discovery-a reminder of the opportunities we each are given.
When a young boy finds a mysterious object in the creek near his home, it starts a series of events that could change the world-again. Many search for the ancient relic's secret, but few find its truer purpose. What choices will each make-or lose?
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An intensely felt and extraordinary family memoir by Noelle Howey, who characterizes her touching and confusing sexual journey into womanhood as influenced by her relationship with her transgendered father and tomboy mother.
Throughout her childhood in suburban Ohio, Noelle struggled to gain love and affection from her distant father. In compensating for her father's brusqueness, Noelle idolized her nurturing tomboy mother and her conservative grandma...
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Magic has stepped out of the movies, morphed from the pages of fairy tales, and is more present in America today than you might expect. Soccer moms get voodoo head washings in their backyards, young American soldiers send chants toward pagan gods of war, and a seemingly normal family determines that they are in fact elves. National bestselling author and award-winning religion reporter Christine Wicker leaves no talisman unturned in her hunt to find...
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"Fighting for Their Lives" is a fictional story about a couple. Upon learning they were told they can't have children, they prayed for a miracle. Though their prayers were answered, tragedy struck when Caroline began hemorrhaging during her seventh month of pregnancy, resulting in premature labor. The moment Kristen was born she has to fight for her life. Months later, Kristen started thriving. Her parents gave thanks for their wonderful miracle....
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Banana Yoshimoto's novels of young life in Japan have made her an international sensation. Goodbye Tsugumi is an offbeat story of a deep and complicated friendship between two female cousins that ranks among her best work. Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled, and occasionally cruel. Now Maria's father is finally able to bring Maria...
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Graceland "Grace" Braun is a self-reliant, dedicated high school counselor. She spent her youth moving around as her mother, Maybelle, a Dolly Parton-wannabe and Elvis groupie, worked her way through several marriages while desperately searching for her "one true love." Their relationship was more like sisters than mother/daughter, with Grace becoming the practical one who worried about paying for food and rent. When her mother abandoned Grace at...
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According to a study by Christopher Udry, this form of informal insurance has both advantages and disadvantages. Over a year in rural Nigeria, Udry asked people to record every gift or informal loan they gave to each other and the conditions under which those loans were reciprocated. Every month, he also asked if anything unfortunate had happened to the villagers. The observed result is that at any given time, a normal family is in debt or loans to...
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From the author who brought you Dear Thing, Julie Cohen, comes After the Fall--a poignant, beautifully heartbreaking novel about what it means to be family, the ties that bind us, and the secrets that threaten to tear us apart.
When an unfortunate accident forces Honor back into the lives of her widowed daughter-in-law, Jo, and her only granddaughter, Lydia, she cannot wait to be well enough to get back to her own home. However, the longer she stays...
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A self-made billionaire, his real estate agent and three weeks to find the right property. Jackson Walker hasn't had the best family life. Growing up in the foster system in Australia, it wasn't until he met his college football coach that he understood what a normal family looked like. When he gets the call that Coach has passed away, he returns to California for the funeral and to find a place to honor the man. Hailey Montgomery threw herself into...
14) Fallen Angel
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Ana seems to have a perfectly normal life. Normal family, normal school, normal friends and a normal job. However, after witnessing a murder, her life becomes anything but normal. She is thrown into a world of the unknown. It is only with the help of a beautiful angel that she is able to make sense of anything. Remi is your typical bad boy, except he is hiding one thing. Remi is a fallen angel who is trapped on Earth. He fills his time with women...
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In three stunning intertwining novellas, Ellen Gilchrist explores the tumultuous nature of family and the ties that bond even beyond death.
Journeying through the lives of different members of the Hand family, Gilchrist masterfully weaves together the tumultuous relationships that are bound by blood. A harrowing custody battle leads Anna Hand to Istanbul and back to ensure once and for all that, her niece is safe from her conniving mother's ploys.
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16) Toxic Attention
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They seem like a normal family with normal issues but someone is trying to destroy that. Again. Nia is there to save her niece. But she's not clear from what. As she delves deeper into the mystery, some shocking truths about her own family come to light. Is her brother telling her the truth or is he hiding his own dark secret? Her niece has been ill for years but is it really a medical mystery? Or something deliberate? With her brother now suffering...
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"The son did as he was told. All his bloody life, he has done as he has been told. Time to change that, he thinks, grabbing a pen. He doesn't write that this will be the last time his father stays here. He doesn't write that he wants to break the father clause. Instead, he writes: Welcome, Dad. Hope you had a good flight."
A grandfather who lives abroad returns home to visit his adult children. The son is a failure. The daughter is having a baby...
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Family secrets can be the deadliest… Three women discover that the people who are trying to protect them are in fact fueling the fire for those who want to make them pay for their family's history. Family is everything… until they're not. Deadly Ties - They tried to bury an environmental disaster… along with those who got in the way. Kyara is out to save her family at all costs. "Nothing tastes as good as revenge!... a fast-paced and suspense...
19) Family Reins: The Heartbreaking Fall of an American Dynasty-and the Discovery of What Really Matters
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The story of the iconic Anheuser-Busch dynasty, written, for the first time, by a Busch heir.
As an heir to the Anheuser-Busch company and fortune, Billy Busch was raised on the real stories of how his family built one of America's oldest and most iconic brands. Since the company was formed almost 150 years ago, the Busch family, their beer, the famous Clydesdales in their advertising, and even their style of business have become a symbol of the American...
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"The best thing about the Depression was the way it reunited our family and gave my sister Mary a real opportunity to prove that anybody can do anything, especially Betty."
After surviving both the failed chicken farm - and marriage - immortalized in The Egg and I, Betty MacDonald returns to live with her mother and desperately searches to find a job to support her two young daughters. With the help of her older sister Mary, Anybody Can Do Anything recounts...
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