suburban life

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Just one look

2004
Suburban wife and mother Grace Lawson's idyllic life begins to unravel when she picks up a set of newly developed family photographs that contains a much older picture of a group of men that includes her husband Jack, and sets off a chain reaction of kidnapping and murder leading back to a deadly rock concert.

Life in a suburban city

2010
Examines life in a suburban city, explaining what suburbs are and the needs of people in these communities, and looking at Los Angeles, California, as an example of a suburban city, discussing its population, growth, daily life, schools, and other topics.

A suburban community of the 1950s

2002
A teenager tells how life changes for his family when they move from Brooklyn to Levittown, one of the earliest suburban communities.

The kindness of strangers

2007
Young widow and mother of two Sarah Laden becomes the foster mother to Jordon, a neighborhood boy after a tragedy leaves him an orphan.

Say when

2003

The chisellers

2000
Working-class Dublin woman Agnes Browne and her clan of seven children must cope after their tenement is demolished in this novel about the humor and heartache of Irish family life.

Couples

1996

Revolutionary road

2000
New York intellectuals Frank and April Wheeler move to the suburbs of Connecticut in 1955 and soon learn that the American dream is not at all what they expected.

The unthinkable thoughts of Jacob Green

a novel
2004
Jacob Green, an adolescent boy with an over-active imagination, learns about life, love, religion, sex, and growing up from his brother and his nanny.

Suburban legends

true tales of murder, mayhem, and minivans
2006
A collection of true stories that expose the dark side of life in the suburbs, describing murders, hauntings, and bizarre events that have taken place in American suburbs throughout history.

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