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Now a high school junior, Samantha tries to decide whether to continue dating David, the Presidents son, as she juggles a real job, art lessons, and a trip to Camp David for Thanksgiving.

Depicts the struggles of the Tyrone family as they face drug addiction, alcohol abuse, tuberculosis, and lost dreams in this semi-autobiographical play.

Attempts to understand why one person succeeds and another does not through an examination of differences within families, specifically among siblings.

Yolanda Garcia finds success with her first novel in which she made characters out of her family members and friends, but her "fictionally victimized" relatives exact revenge by telling all they know about the author, Yo.

Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, friends since serving together in World War II, deal with the problems of love, lust, and the other challenges of raising their families in 1970s London.

Presents a one-volume edition of the three novels in the Cairo Trilogy which follows three generations of the family of Muslim patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad during the British occupation of Egypt in the early years of the twentieth century.

Grandpa Blakeslee marries a young milliner just three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward. Young Will is boggled by this act but becomes the newlyweds' conspirator and confidant; meanwhile he does some growing up on his own.

Barnaby Gaitlin, a thirty-year-old who was frequently in trouble as a youth, has been working steadily for eleven years for Rent-a-Back, Inc., but it seems as though his family, his ex-wife, and even the woman who seems to be interested in him, just cannot get over his past reputation.

Tells the story of Duncan Peck, a restless man with a penchant for moving, his wife Justine, a fortune teller, and her grandfather, Daniel, a man who is on a quest to find the brother who disappeared decades earlier.

Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka and educated in England and America, finds herself in the midst of a complicated mystery when she is sent back to her home country by an international human rights group to discover the source of an organized campaign of murder on the island.