A Friend of the Family

A Friend of the Family
Author: Lauren Grodstein
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2009-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1565129679

After his best friend's daughter, Laura, sets her sights on his son, Alec, Pete Dizinoff sees his plans for a perfect son not just unraveling but being destroyed completely and sets out to derail the romance.

Friends of the Family

Friends of the Family
Author: Tommy Dades
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2009-05-05
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0061876321

“One of the most spectacular cases of police corruption in the city.” —New York Times Friends of the Family is a look deep inside the most notorious case to rock the NYPD: The story of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, the two police detectives who moonlighted as mob hit men. As told by Tommy Dades and Michael Vecchione—the cop and District Attorney investigator who solved New York’s coldest case—along with co-writer David Fisher, Friends of the Family is shocking true crime in the tradition of Nicolas Pileggi’s Wiseguys and Underboss by Peter Mass—a chilling, in-depth examination of what the New York Daily News calls “the worst betrayal of the badge in the NYPD’s history.”

An Old Friend of the Family

An Old Friend of the Family
Author: Fred Saberhagen
Publisher: JSS Literary Productions, LLC
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-01-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1937422194

Dr Emile Corday, aka Dracula, is summoned to the aid of the Sutherland family, descendants of his great love, Mina Harker. Corday finds himself facing a rebellious faction of American vampires out to see him and anyone he cares for annihilated. Leading his adversaries is the evil and alluring enchantress Morgan Le Fay. Corday, the Sutherland family, and policeman Joe Koegh will cross paths again in Saberhagen’s Dracula series.

A Friend of the Family

A Friend of the Family
Author: Lisa Jewell
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2005-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141916230

THE EMOTIONALLY GRIPPING BESTSELLER FROM THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED AND THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS 'A heart-warming page-turner from start to finish' Heat 'Terrific stuff: touching, funny and sentient' Sunday Times A stranger in your home can only mean trouble . . . ________ The London family is in crisis. Newly-divorced Tony is fantasising about someone he shouldn't. Prize-winning writer Sean has a hot new girlfriend, and a dose of writer's block. Their brother Ned has just come back from Australia, leaving his girlfriend behind. And now they have a new lodger - a mysterious stranger. But is he the friend this family needs, or a troublemaker they could do without? ________ 'Funny and emotionally satisfying' The Times 'Jewell's readability and emotional intelligence make her the cream of pop fiction' Glamour

Friend of the Family

Friend of the Family
Author: D. Lea Jacobs
Publisher: Howells House
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780929590196

Jacobs writes historical fiction under a different name, but here tries his hand at nonfiction to tell the story of Ed Robb, one of the first and most successful FBI undercover agents to work against the Mafia organized crime network. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

A Friend of the Family

A Friend of the Family
Author: Alison Shaw
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Abduction
ISBN: 9781551990248

A fascinating blend of true-crime story and psychological thriller, this book casts painfully revealing light on the life and mind of a sociopath.

A Friend of the Family

A Friend of the Family
Author: Lauren Grodstein
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2010-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1616200340

The New York Times bestseller that “unfolds with suspense worthy of Hitchcock . . . Grodstein is a terrific storyteller.” —The New York Times Book Review Pre-order author Lauren Grodstein's new simply can't-be-missed novel, We Must Not Think of Ourselves, coming November 28, 2023. A truly unforgettable story about the fight for life—and love—in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Pete Dizinoff, a skilled and successful New Jersey internist, has a loving and devoted wife, a network of close friends, an impressive house, and, most of all, a son, Alec, now nineteen, on whom he has pinned all his hopes. But Pete hadn’t expected his best friend’s troubled daughter to set her sights on his boy. When Alec falls under her spell, Pete sets out to derail the romance, never foreseeing the devastating consequences. In a riveting story of suburban tragedy, Lauren Grodstein charts a father’s fall from grace as he struggles to save his family, his reputation, and himself.

A Friend of the Family

A Friend of the Family
Author: Marcia Willett
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429909978

The beloved author of First Friends returns to the intwined relationships, loves, and rivalries of Devon in this “captivating comedy of manners” (Booklist). In A Friend of the Family, Marcia Willett returns to beloved characters Kate Webster and Cass Wivenhoe and the story that began with First Friends. Yet it is one of their friends, Felicity Mainwaring, who takes center stage. Everyone knows Felicity is a happily married woman—that is, married to her husband and happily dallying with her paramour George. When Felicity is widowed, everyone expects George to pop the question. And he does. But his intended bride is not Felicity. With her usual generous helping of tears and laughter, Marcia Willett again provides her fans with a treat to be savored. “This sequel to First Friends . . . makes for engrossing reading.” —Publishers Weekly First published in the UK as Thea’s Parrot

An Old Friend of the Family

An Old Friend of the Family
Author: Fred Saberhagen
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1992-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780812523850

Vampiress Morgan Le Fay is killing off the Southerland family. Kate has now joined the ranks of the undead and Johnny has mysteriously disappeared, making it necessary to call on an old friend of the family for help--the nefarious Count Dracula. Reissue.

Friends of the Family

Friends of the Family
Author: William J. Plummer
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2017-05-11
Genre: Pets
ISBN:

Re-join the Plummers, who adopted and raised “Peep-sight” the Gambel’s quail rooster of A Quail in the Family. In this second book, William Plummer describes the family's adventures with birds, rodents, snakes, lizards, and other animals—the visiting and resident members of the Plummer menagerie in Las Vegas. We learn of the rescue of “Beverly” the Desert Tortoise from the Nevada Nuclear Test Site; playing “dogfish” with “Georgia” the beagle; “Squeaky”, a kangaroo rat who occasionally left his open cage to make nocturnal household explorations, and “Ellery” the caiman—who resided for a time in his own backyard pool. And we first meet “Carrie", “Rose", "Red-Leg", “Pearl", and “Brownie”, the five charming female quail whose complete tale is told in the book Five of a Kind.