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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Chapter One-My Brother's Keeper; Chapter Two-Promised Land; Chapter Three-The Roar of Intended Silence; Chapter Four-A Thoroughly Modern Woman; Chapter Five-Over the River and Through the Woods; Chapter Six-The Fall; Chapter Seven-Band-Aid on a Bullet Wound; Chapter Eight-Up and Down and All Around; Chapter Nine-A Noble Profession; Chapter Ten-How Low Can You Go?; Chapter Eleven-The Ghost of Christmas Past; Chapter Twelve-Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men and Dogs; Chapter Thirteen-The Eighty-Year-Old Orphan |
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Chapter Fourteen-The Brief Beautiful Life of a Happy Little GirlChapter Fifteen-Tidings of Comfort and Joy; Chapter Sixteen ""We'll take a cup of kindness yet, for Auld Lang Syne.; Chapter Seventeen-A New Year, A New Man; Chapter Eighteen-And Baby Makes Three; Chapter Nineteen-The Monkey Bar Queen; Chapter Twenty-Sweet Dream Baby; Chapter Twenty-one-The Renaissance Man; Chapter Twenty-two-Dinner for Two, Please; Chapter Twenty-three-The Beginning of Something Beautiful; Chapter Twenty-four-March Menagerie; Chapter Twenty-five-Little, Lost Lamb; Chapter Twenty-six-It's All Relative |
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Chapter Twenty-seven-The Straight and TrueChapter Twenty-eight-Adios; Chapter Twenty-nine-An Unfortunate Day for Jared Crain; Chapter Thirty-Someone I Used to Love; Chapter Thirty-one-All the World's a Stage; Chapter Thirty-two-Hold the Mayo; Chapter Thirty-three-Hot Dogs and Hand Grenades; Chapter Thirty-four-Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?; Chapter Thirty-five-O Little Flower; Chapter Thirty-six-A Death in the Family; Chapter Thirty-seven-Bulletproof; Chapter Thirty-eight-The Hope Diamond; About the Author; Back Cover |
| Summary |
"Fifty-year-old Karen Anders, a high school English teacher and the adoptive mother of Tiffany, comes to terms with being a single-parent and a clumsy drunk in the multicultural melting pot of Houston, Texas, as she forges an unlikely friendship with Leona Supak, a WWII Hungarian refugee, who inspires Karen to change her views on motherhood, drinking, and men. Karen's teaching job provides an ongoing challenge with low-scoring students and a lack of support from school administrators. Meanwhile, Tiffany moves to Austin to attend the University of Texas, but soon turns to drugs and a gamer boyfriend to try and cope when the stress of college life becomes too much. Tiffany hides the truth of her new life from Karen through a text-only relationship. Feeling rejected, Karen explores the paradox of romance for the middle-aged even as Tiffany's life going to pieces. In spite of the challenges, a family unit comes together inspired by strangers and disappointments in How We Came to Be"--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2018) |
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High school teachers -- Texas -- Houston -- Fiction
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Single mothers -- Texas -- Houston -- Fiction
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Middle-aged mothers -- Texas -- Houston -- Fiction
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FICTION -- General.
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High school teachers
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Middle-aged mothers
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Single mothers
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Texas -- Houston
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Fiction
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Fiction.
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Romans.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018004161 |
| ISBN |
9781680031577 |
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1680031570 |
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