Brinkley, Jamel
Summary: In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters--from children to grandmothers to ghosts--live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect, to remember, to stand up for, and to really see each other, they often fall short, and the structures they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: Seeking comfort in traditional family culinary practices after the early deaths of her parents, twenty-six-year-old Asperger's patient Ginny struggles with her domineering sister's decision to sell the house, troubling secrets, and the ghost of a dead ancestor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Books 1976
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Summary: "If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am," says Alex Tuchman of her parents. Now that her father is on his deathbed, Alex--a strong-headed lawyer, devoted mother, and loving sister--feels she can finally unearth the secrets of who Victor is and what he did over the course of his life and career. (A power-hungry real estate developer, he is, by all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Summary: Balances are struck in this luminous first novel-between two radically distinct cultures, between obligation and self-will, between past and future, between hilarity and heartbreak-as the Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud settles in a small, poor-white community in upstate New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2003
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Summary: From the "New York Times" bestselling author who "makes history come brilliantly alive" ("The Washington Post Book World") comes a novel that spans decades and generations--from the American Revolution through the downfall of the Confederacy--in Jakes's most ambitious work yet.From the "New York Times" bestselling author who "makes history come brilliantly alive" ("The Washington Post Book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2002
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Summary: After a five year absence, an eighteen-year-old runaway returns to her family in Miami to deal with the guilty secret that caused her to flee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2011
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Summary: Hiding the truth about her unhappiness and struggles with anxiety from everyone including her family, best friend, and therapist, Andrea Bern joins her loved ones in a reevaluation of family strength in the wake of her newborn niece's heartbreaking ailment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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Summary: Six years ago, Jarvis Miller's husband, an artist whose career was just starting to gain momentum, fell into a coma. And ever since, Jarvis has been waiting. At first, she was waiting for him to wake up so that their happy marriage could be continued. But she's spent too many years of dwindling hope, living as a half-widow, and selling off more and more pieces of his artwork to power the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2007
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Summary: "Dorothy Moy channels her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. When her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has come to haunt her. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: When thirteen-year-old Ellie reluctantly agrees to enter a beauty pageant with her best friend Coralee, the director seems determined to feature Ellie and her wheelchair, so she must find a way to participate on her own terms, all while saving her friendship and forming a better relationship with her divorced dad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: When Sag Harbor's most famous resident, artist Henry Wyatt, dies suddenly, Emma Mapson finds herself in a battle against Henry's former business partner, Bea Winstead, when they discover that Henry has left his waterfront home to Emma's teenage daughter, Penny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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Summary: A recent head injury has scattered Polly's perception of her hometown as being a land charmed by natural beauty and a close network of family, surfacing events from thirty years ago and half a country away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2021
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Summary: Marin Bishop has always played by the rules, and it's paid off: on the cusp of thirty she has a handsome fiancé, a prestigious Manhattan legal career, and her father's hard-won admiration. But with one careless mistake at work, Marin suddenly finds herself unemployed and alone. Before she can summon the courage to tell her parents, a young woman appears, claiming to be Marin's half-sister....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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Summary: A half-Chinese orphan whose mother sacrificed everything to give him a better chance is raffled off as a prize at Seattle's 1909 World's Fair, only to land in the ownership of the madam of a notorious brothel where he finds friendship and opportunities, in a story based on true events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "While recovering from a traumatic head injury, Polly Schuster struggles to find her way through one chaotic week in July when her entire extended family descends upon the bucolic town of Livingston, Montana for their annual gathering. As she contents with a series of unexpected events and the haunting echoes of her past inconveniently resurfacing as a result of her injury, Polly soon learns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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Summary: "For readers of Maggie Shipstead and Maria Semple, a tender and funny debut that tells the story of an interfaith wedding in Atlanta -- from the perspectives of its (adoring, envious, resentful, hilarious) guests...One afternoon in Atlanta, Georgia. Two people heading to the altar. One hundred fifty guests. The bride, Elizabeth Gottlieb, proud graduate of the University of Virginia and of Emory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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Summary: When a young widow's reclusive life in a charming beach town is interrupted by a surprise visitor, she is forced to reckon with dark secrets about her family, her late husband, and the past she tried to leave behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Summary: Ruth Cooperman arrives in beautiful beachside Provincetown for her retirement, renting the perfect waterfront cottage while she searches for her forever home. After years of hard work and making peace with life's disappointments, Ruth is looking forward to a carefree summer of solitude. But when she finds a baby girl abandoned on her doorstep, Ruth turns to her new neighbors for help and is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Summary: "Inspired by a true story, this is the unforgettable story of a young boy named Ernest, set during the 1909 Seattle world's fair called the Alaska Yukon Pacific Expo. It is a time when the magical wonders of technology on display at the expo future seemslimitless. But for Ernest, a half-Chinese orphan who found his way to America through a last desperate act of his beloved mother, every door is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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Summary: When her mother is injured in a car accident, twelve-year-old Franny tries to keep their fragile world intact by taking over her mom's cleaning jobs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: Laura Calder, a sophisticated young woman of the world, finds her plans to remained unattached thwarted by two men--Boone Rutledge, the son of a Texas billionaire, and Sebastian Dunshill, the Earl of Crawford--who vie for her affection, while an enemy from her past prepares to destroy the Calder name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2004