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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For thirty-year-old Frankie Simon, selling movie memorabilia in the shop she opened with her late mother on Hollywood Boulevard is more than just her livelihood-it's an enduring connection to the only family she has ever known. But when a mysterious package arrives containing a photograph of her mother and famous movie stars Glory Cartwright and her husband at a coastal film festival the year before Frankie's birth, her life begins to unravel in...
25) I can fix it!
Author
Publisher
North Winds Press, an imprint of Scholastic Canada Ltd
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Taylor was a baby, her grandma gave her a blanket. Now she is six and she still takes that blanket everywhere until her brother borrows it to mop up a mess. When he tries to get the stain out, it only gets worse . . . and worse, and worse, with each additional attempt to clean it. Finally her panicked brother hides the remains in the couch cushions and hopes that Taylor will never find it. But she does . . . and she is not happy at all, until...
Author
Publisher
CICO Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"All of us have photos at home that we like and want to keep, but all too often they lay hidden away in packets or on a digital hard drive where we don't get to see or enjoy them. Ellie Laycock's aim with this book is to bring those images out of the dark and teach you how to use them to create wonderful new things for the home or personalized gifts for loved ones, so that these special images get a chance to shine. Discover how to use old negatives...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Still reeling from the sudden death of her mother, Jess is about to do the hardest thing she's ever done: empty her childhood home so that it can be sold. As she sorts through a lifetime of memories, everything comes to a halt when she comes across something she just can’t part with: an old set of encyclopedias. To the world, the books are outdated and ready to be recycled. To Jess, they represent love and the future that her mother always wanted...
28) Mine
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Lily moves to a creepy old house in a Florida swamp and finds out that the house isn't empty: it's packed full of the previous occupants' trash, keepsakes, and, Lily begins to suspect, maybe even their ghosts"--
29) Memorial Day
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
SSgt. Kyle Vogel leaves a handwritten letter on the seat of his car, grabs a pistol, and steps into a Minnesota forest. Flash back a few months as Vogel lies wounded in a hospital near Anbar Province, Iraq. The night before he's due to return to combat, his doctor, Lt. Kelly Tripp, presses him on why he's so obsessed with collecting battle souvenirs. Kyle proceeds to tell her what happened on Memorial Day, 1993, when, as a 13-year old boy, he discovered...
32) Time capsule
Author
Publisher
Make Me a World
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A child gathers keepsakes from everyday life, seals them in a jar, and buries them underground. A gift from the present day . . . to people of the future . . . that tells a story about the past. A time capsule"--Provided by publisher.
34) Objects of our affection: uncovering my family's past, one chair, pistol, and pickle fork at a time
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Faber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"I hadn't opened the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to touch it was Nina Simone, her saliva and fingerprints unsullied. The idea that it was still in her towel was something I had drawn strength from. I thought each time I opened it some of Nina Simone's spirit would vanish. In many ways that thought was more important than the gum itself. On Thursday 1 July, 1999, Dr Nina Simone gave a rare performance as part of Nick Cave's...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Alice keeps a perfectly round skipping stone in her pocket to remember her grandfather by -- but the stone goes missing. It looked just like a regular stone, but Alice knew it was different: It was perfectly round so you could use it to trace circles, and sometimes she could trick her dad into thinking it was a quarter. It was also how Alice remembered her grandpa, who taught her how to skip stones, and who passed away last winter. Alice brings the...
