Pedersen, Laura

Hayden MacBride takes a rather unorthodox approach to living by crashing funerals for the free food, getting involved with Rosamond, a nun playing hooky from the Holy Orders, and mingling in the lives of his daughter and grandson.

A memoir in which the author discusses growing up in Buffalo, New York in the 1970s and 1980s before becoming the youngest person to have a seat on the American Stock Exchange, and a millionaire by the age of twenty-one.

After the death of her father and her mother's emotional breakdown, graphic design student Hallie Palmer decides to leave college and take care of her eight younger siblings.

Hallie Palmer is persuaded by her legal guardian Bernard to return home to Cosgrove, Ohio, after her first year of college to take up her job as groundskeeper and help him win back his lover Gil who is considering marriage, and her own problems take a backseat when she is drawn into the further dramas of Bernard's eccentric mother, her party-girl sister, and an ex-boyfriend.

Upset that her family is so focused on the screens on their various electronic devices that they no longer talk, laugh, and play games together, Ella takes all of their chargers and small devices.