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Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Everybody wants to live on Hogarth Street, the pretty, tree-lined avenue with its white houses. The new family, The Wests, are a perfect fit. Katherine and Josh seem so in love and their gorgeous five-year-old twins race screeching around their beautiful emerald-green lawn. But soon people start to notice: why don't they join backyard barbecues? Why do they brush away offers to babysit? Why, when you knock at the door, do they shut you out, rather...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Astonished when her seemingly devoted husband is found murdered in a prostitute's apartment, Susie, a mother of four-year-old triplets, bristles at her neighbors' mixed reactions and tackles everyone from her husband's partners to the DA to restore her family's honor.
Series
Language
English
Description
The complete first season of the delightfully offbeat TV comedy that originally began as a skit on the legendary Carol Burnett Show. As portrayed by Vicki Lawrence, the formidable Mama put the 'diss' in dysfunctional. Mama dispenses no-nonsense motherly advice and verbal kicks in the backside. There's her nervous sister Fran, slow-witted son Vint, and his bubble-headed girlfriend Naomi, plus frequent appearances by Betty White and Carol Burnett as...
25) Middlesex
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A divorced L.A. lawyer, Peter, thinks he has met the girl of his dreams online, until she shows up at his door and is a sassy, African American ex-con. She moves in and really begins to shake up his boring suburban lifestyle.
Author
Language
English
Description
"After a newly divorced mother of two moves to an affluent Atlanta suburb with her children, she becomes involved in the secrets and scandals lurking behind the fa�cades of the seemingly perfect families who live there ... secrets that someone would kill to keep hidden"--
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Flight Patterns comes a stunning new novel about a young single mother who discovers that the nature of friendship is never what...
28) Bad move
Author
Series
Zach Walker novels volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
29) Gone Forever
Author
Series
Detective Kaitlyn Carr volume Book 7
Publisher
Byrd Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Kaitlyn Carr's hunt for the serial killer continues as she delves deeper into the mysteries surrounding her father's death.After receiving a letter from a retired FBI agent, Kaitlyn's world is turned upside down once again. The letter claims that her father's death was not an accident, but a murder. In order to uncover the truth, Kaitlyn and her boyfriend, FBI Agent Luke Galvinson, must help the agent solve a series of cold cases that he believes...
Author
Series
Detective Kaitlyn Carr volume Book 8
Publisher
Byrd Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful young woman’s mutilated body is found in the sand near the breaking waves of the Pacific Ocean. When Detective Kaitlyn Carr is called to the scene, she discovers that it belongs to Emilia Cruz, an actress on a popular Netflix show, who had just attended the Screen Actors Guild Awards and is still wearing her gown from the night before.As Kaitlyn begins her relentless pursuit of the truth, she uncovers a shocking secret: Emilia had recently...
Publisher
StarVista Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Laugh along with Mama Harper and her crazy, squabbling family. It's the final season of and Naomi is finally pregnant. She and Vint start looking to move out, only to end up living in an RV in Mama's driveway. Bubba is chugging away at college, enjoying more of the social aspects than the studying, and Iola is tending her hopefully prize-winning roses. And Mama? Well, she's still saving the day as her family navigates mishap after mishap!
Publisher
StarVista Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The Harper family refutes the old expression "there's no such thing as bad publicity" when Bubba gets a video camera and his heavily edited footage winds up on Raytown public access cable TV. Mama could use a personality coach, which might have helped in her campaign against neighbor Iola Boylen for president of the Church Ladies League....Thelma Harper does the right thing after the bank ATM spits out $20 bills like a slot machine. ...She boldly...
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Shep Ramsey, a galactic warrior temporarily stranded on earth while fleeing his evil nemesis, takes refuge with a mild-mannered architect, his wife and two children. Shep's efforts to adapt to suburban life are hilariously unsuccessful, but when his enemy tracks him down, he needs all the help from earthlings he can get.
Publisher
Time-Life Video/StarVista Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
From the spin-off sketch of the Carol Burnett Show comes the story of a squabbling family in the Midwestern blue collar suburb of Raytown. The noisy bunch is headed by Mama, a buxom, opinionated, gray-haired widow with a sharp tongue.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Mann brings her sharp wit to bear on suburban life, marriage, and motherhood. From the politics of joining a play group, to the thrill of mothers' night out at the gun range, nothing is sacred or off-limits.
Author
Series
Detective Charlotte Pierce mystery volume 3
Publisher
Byrd Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Following the incident that nearly killed her boyfriend, Detective Charlotte Pierce needs a weekend away with him in the quaint mountain town of Quail Lake, California. However their trip is interrupted when a sixteen-year-old camp counselor goes missing. The girl's body is later found by the lake shore with strangulation marks around her neck and bruises all over. The sleepy town of Quail Lake has only on experienced deputy on call and Charlotte...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Marilyn Grimes, wife and mother of three, has made a career of deferring her dreams to build a suburban California home and lifestyle with her husband, Leon. She troubleshoots for her grown kids, cares for her live-in mother-in-law, keeps tabs on her girlfriends Paulette and Bunny and her own aging mother and foster sister - all the while holding down a part-time job. But at forty-four, Marilyn's got too much on her plate and nothing to feed her passion....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
�2005
Language
English
Description
Reluntantly drawn into the schemes of his con-man father, Jack Acheson is frustrated by his progenitor's dishonest intents for the citizens of Kansas City, a situation that becomes further complicated by corrupt authorities and mobsters.
