Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
One of the most celebrated, beloved, and enduring actors of our time, Sally Field has an infectious charm that has captivated the nation for more than five decades, beginning with her first TV role at the age of seventeen. From Gidget's sweet-faced "girl next door" to the dazzling complexity of Sybil to the Academy Award-worthy ferocity and depth of Norma Rae and Mary Todd Lincoln, Field has stunned audiences time and time again with her artistic...
2) In Pieces
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
All with-in three days, Paige Masterson turns twenty-one, she graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, and she attends her parents wake.
After everything with her parents' deaths is taken care of, Paige leaves her hometown of South Boston, Massachusetts for an adventure across country, all made possible by the money left to her in her parents' will. She ends up in Loveland, Colorado and she finds a home and a great rental space for...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Valérie first met Josephine, she knew she would be embarking on a unique journey. Though vastly different in age, their connection was instantaneous. Humor quickly became their language, their playground, and despite the debilitating disease that Joséphine faced every single day, they were able to form a beautiful friendship that transcended the reaches of modern medicine.
Author
Language
English
Description
Essays inspired by Chabon's interactions with his four children and his own father illuminate the meaning, magic, and mysteries of fatherhood.
"For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham, then thirteen, to Paris Men's Fashion Week. Possessed with a precocious sense of style, Abe was in his element chatting with designers he idolized and turning a critical eye to the freshest runway looks of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Includes essays about E.B. White, Harold Ross, Mark Twain, John Hersey, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Donald Barthelme, Vladimir Nabokov, V.S. Pritchett, William Maxwell, William Steig, John Updike, and others.
"Long known for his range and supple prose (he is the only writer elected to membership in both the Baseball Hall of Paine and the American Academy of Arts and Letters), Angell won the 2015 American Society of Magazine Editors' Best Essay award for...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts...
10) Rest in pieces
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Blair Bainbridge comes to Crozet, Virginia, the local matchmakers set him up wtih the recently divorced postmistress. When pieces of a dismembered corpse turn up, Blair becomes a prime suspect.
Publisher
Silicon Beach Distribution
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An innovative and stylish take on the impact street art has in Northern Ireland, TOGETHER IN PIECES presents infamous murals and political slogans that have taunted its communities for over 40 years, yet which are being slowly transformed by a graffiti revolution.. In Derry, the birthplace of "the Troubles" and also the cradle of the Peace Process, creativity and expression transform didactic public art into a vehicle of choice, liberation and opportunity...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Real superheroes wear denim.
All Bobby wanted was a girl to come home to after a hard day of work. Like the last one said before she left, he was going exactly two places - no and where – and he was happy with that. But somebody had other plans for him. A murder. The Terrorist Watch List. For what? Underage drinking? Things couldn't possibly get worse. Right?
Oh yes, they could.
A lot.
He wouldn't believe superheroes were real if he wasn't one...
14) Rest in Pieces
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ashes to Ashes. Dust to Dust. If vampires kill your entire family, vengeance is a must.I can't say my parents never warned me about vampires. I just never believed them. Not-that is-until six months ago when vampires broke into my home and killed my family. Thanks to all the skills my parents taught me, I managed to escape but I couldn't save them.Two vampires down and the rest of the world to go.My bid for revenge is going to have to wait, though,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When you've raised the dead, battled vampires and werewolves, and passed the Boards, what do you do for an encore?
In his final rotations of med school, Giovanni is also desperately searching for Mrs. Harris the dead patient he lost-not once, but twice! Can he find her and help her to "Les Invisibles", or will he finally be overwhelmed by his growing responsibilities, an increasing number of ghosts, or the misplaced paperwork piling up in the morgue?
The...
16) All in pieces
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A girl struggles to take care of her younger brother with special needs while confronting her own anger issues"--
17) Rest in Pieces
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An obnoxious tourist in the cantina gets thrown out by Clint. A friend says he was the type whose headstone would read RIP - for rest in pieces. Then he was found dead. Chopped to pieces.
18) Us, in Pieces
Author
Language
English
Description
"Us, in Pieces is a daring and wildly imaginative novel, a coming-of-age story that's both timely and timeless." - Hannah Pittard, author of Visible Empire and Listen to Me
Us, in Pieces is a fresh and witty love story that follows two old friends into the unforgiving and wild terrain of the heart! In college, Lilly Jameson and Adin Driscoll were as close as friends could get, until Lilly leaves unexpectedly and without explanation at the end...
19) Rest in Pieces
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Beatrice takes on a new case, she must solve it before anyone else rests in pieces. It's a beautiful evening for a wedding and Beatrice couldn't be prouder as the mother of the bride. It's a happy occasion and a beautiful ceremony-aside from the appearance of the odd and uninvited Ophelia. Ophelia argues with another guest, who is later discovered dead. Beatrice must piece together the truth before the killer strikes again.
20) Life in Pieces
Author
Language
English
Description
A story of struggle, triumph, and tragedy told with honesty and passion. Life in Pieces is a collection of vignettes from the life of the author who tells of an idyllic childhood impacted by the racism and bigotry of the 1960s. His teen and early adult years was marred by drugs, promiscuity, and violence. He is able to find redemption in military service and eventually finds the love of his life.
Didn't find it?
Didn't find it in the Minuteman Library Network? Request it from other Massachusetts library systems.
Can't find what you are looking for? Recommend it to your local library as a future purchase. Suggest a Purchase