Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Mr. and Mrs. Cho run a successful chain of Hawai'ian plate lunch restaurants, and their adult children are finding their way in the world: 21-year-old Grace is graduating in a few months, and 25-year-old Jacob is teaching English in Seoul. They're set to take over the restaurants when Umma and Appa retire. But when Jacob is captured by the South Korean government for attempting to run across the DMZ, the Chos' peaceful lives are shattered. What could...
Author
Publisher
D&T Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Wanda has uncovered a dark secret that could shatter the image of her perfect family. Attempting to force the situation back into the societal framework she'd strived for years to present, events spiral out of control. Secrets threaten to emerge from a carefully suppressed past and become public. To save her family's reputation, Wanda succumbs to a madness no one could have expected."-- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Mango Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this full-color book, dive into the mountain of Simpsons merchandise that the '90s (and beyond) blasted into toy aisles everywhere : comics, video games, toys, books, clothing, cookie jars, toilet brushes, things you remember, the lost toys that you don't, and maybe even some things we don't want to remember. You will find that these bizarre products can actually help trace the show's developments as well as its culture impact. The Simpsons knew...
4) Take back your family: from the tyrants of burnout, busyness, individualism, and the nuclear ideal
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Jefferson Bethke delivers a powerful critique of the nuclear family ideal and calls for a sweeping new paradigm that brings not only longed-for stability but also radical blessings to the world."--
When Bethke and his wife Alyssa were wrestling with how to create a healthy Christian family, they dug deep into what the Bible says about having a purpose-oriented family that follows after God. They began to live what they learned, and her Bethke delivers...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Right-wing stalwart Mark R. Levin posits "that since its establishment, the [Democratic] Party has set out to rewrite history and destroy the foundation of freedom in America. More than a political party, it is the entity through which Marxism has installed its philosophy and its new revolution. As in a Thomas Paine pamphlet or a clarion call from Paul Revere, Levin believes that his fellow Americans [are facing] destruction, ... and rallies them...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In today's world, the acceleration of megatrends - increasing longevity and the explosion of technology among many others - are transforming life as we now know it. In The Perennials, bestselling author of 2030 Mauro Guillén unpacks a sweeping societal shift triggered by demographic and technological transformation. Guillén argues that outmoded terms like Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z have long been used to pigeonhole us into rigid categories...
Author
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Braverman challenges mythological nuclear family roles in her memorable collection of new stories"--
"Haunting new stories about girls on the brink of adulthood, women on the verge of breakdowns, and families undone by past deceptions"--
13) Wildlife
Series
Criterion collection volume 1031
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A meticulously crafted portrait of the American nuclear family in crisis charts the rift that forms within a 1960s Montana household when the father and breadwinner abruptly departs to fight the forest fires raging nearby, leaving his restless wife and teenage son to pick up the pieces. A deeply human look at a woman's wayward journey toward self-fulfillment in the pre-women's liberation era and a sensitively observed, child's eye coming-of-age tale....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
A debut short story collection in the tradition of writers like Kelly Link, Aimee Bender, and George Saunders—strange, imaginative, and refreshingly original—now back in print as part of Ecco's "Art of the Story" Series, and with a new introduction from the author
Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the
Author
Publisher
Balance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Baby Making for Everybody, queer millennial midwives Ray Rachlin and Marea Goodman use their professional expertise to demystify the dizzying process of pursuing parenthood as queer and solo people, offering concrete, gender-affirming advice on topics like tracking fertility, choosing a sperm donor, legal considerations, IVF, IUI, adoption, navigating gender and pregnancy, and more. The result is a much-needed how-to guide for every aspect of...
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The adventures continue for Marvels favorite radioactive-spider-powered nuclear family! And things kick off with a little trip for Peter and MJ! A 401(k), insurance and vacation days just arent part of the package when youre a super hero. But Mr. and Mrs. Parker have been saving up for a just the two of us
Author
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Illegal Immigrants/Model Minorities thinks through two figures-the Chinese illegal immigrant and the Chinese model minority-during the Cold War. Reading the two together sheds light on how the discussion of Chinese Americans in both literature and archival materials grapples with these constructs and creates competing usages of and perspectives on Chinese American history"--
Author
Publisher
Hudson Street Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Claire Bidwell Smith was just fourteen years old when both of her parents were diagnosed with cancer within months of each other. As her mother begins to succumb during Claire's first year of college, Claire hurtles towards loss. She throws herself into the arms of anything she thinks might hold her up: boys, alcohol, traveling, and the anonymity of big cities. In New York, she studies writing and learns the ways of the world, falling in and out of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
Hoy, cuando los medios de comunicación han convertido la historia individual y colectiva en espectáculo, la literatura es el espacio privilegiado de la subjetividad. Este libro se asoma al fascinante mundo interior de unos personajes atrapados en sus particulares delirios: un Club de Fetichistas que intercambian sus manías sexuales, un hombre enamorado de una mujer-ballena, un marido a quien su mujer ha abandonado por otra, o una bella y eficiente...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In our era of crisis, collapse, and reactionary tyrants, we are also witnessing a productive transformation: profound and permanent changes in how we define gender, sex, consent, and whose bodies matter. It's a time of creative disobedience, of reimagining ways of organizing care, reproduction, and the work of building and sustaining the human species. These changes threaten the social and economic certainties that form our world; they threaten existing...
Interlibrary Loan Request
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Des Moines Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? If the item was published recently, submit a purchase suggestion. Submit Request