Acevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: Ever since she got pregnant in her freshman year, Emoni Santiago's life has been about making tough decisions. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen. Even though she dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, Emoni knows that it's impossible. Yet once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ACEKhan, Sabina
Summary: "Ayesha is a world away from home when she meets the boy of her dreams. Like her, Suresh is from India but going to high school in Illinois. Once they get together, they are inseparable... until a twist of fate takes Suresh back to India right when Ayesha discovers she's pregnant. Suddenly she feels she's on her own, navigating the biggest decision she'll ever make. Seventeen years later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Push 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KHABenway, Robin
Summary: Grace, adopted at birth, is raised as an only child. At sixteen she's just put her own baby up for adoption, and now is looking for her biological family. She discovers Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister who was also adopted ; and Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother after seventeen years in the foster care system....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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3 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BENAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ACEHarvey, Kristy Woodson.
Summary: " A moving debut novel about two mothers-one biological and one adoptive-from a compelling new voice in Southern women's fiction. One baby girl. Two strong Southern women. And the most difficult decision they'll ever make. Frances "Khaki" Mason has it all: a thriving interior design career, a loving husband and son, homes in North Carolina and Manhattan-everything except the second child she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Trade 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOODHarvey, Kristy Woodson.
Summary: A moving debut novel about two mothers-one biological and one adoptive-from a compelling new voice in Southern women's fiction. One baby girl. Two strong Southern women. And the most difficult decision they'll ever make. Frances "Khaki" Mason has it all: a thriving interior design career, a loving husband and son, homes in North Carolina and Manhattan-everything except the second child she has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media Inc 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HARKubica, Mary
Summary: Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit and takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal--or worse. But despite her family's objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: CD FIC KUBLippman, Laura
Summary: New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman tells the story of Amber Glass, desperately trying to get away from her tabloid past but compulsively drawn back to the city of her youth and the prom date who destroyed everything she was reaching for. Amber Glass has spent her entire adult life putting as much distance as possible between her and her hometown of Baltimore, where she fears she will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LIPKubica, Mary
Summary: She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head... Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUBLippman, Laura
Summary: Amber Glass has spent her entire adult life putting as much distance as possible between her and her hometown of Baltimore, where she fears she will forever be known as "Prom Mom"-the girl who allegedly killed her baby on the night of the prom after her date, Joe Simpson, abandoned her to pursue the girl he really liked. But when circumstances bring Amber back to the city, she realizes she can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIPHand, Cynthia
Summary: "Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for; they've given Cass a life she wouldn't trade for the world. She has everything she needs--but she has questions, too. Like, to know who she is. Where she came from. Questions her adoptive parents can't answer, no matter how much they love her. But eighteen years ago, someone wrote Cass a series of letters. And they may just hold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HANMichaels, Fern.
Summary: At seventeen, Rosalind Townsend finds herself pregnant and alone. Her father, deeply religious yet cruel, throws her out of the house. Nick Pemberton, her baby's father and the man she naively hoped to marry, rejects her. Yet even at the lowest point in her life, Rosalind vows to succeed on her own terms, and to give her son, Will, all the love and happiness she's been denied.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICDietrich, Sean
Summary: "When two Depression-era migrant workers, Paul and Vern, find an abandoned baby in the woods, they take it upon themselves to care for the mysterious child. When fifteen-year-old Marigold, reviled by her family after an unwanted pregnancy, loses her babyin the forest, her whole world is painted black. She's still fraught with despair when she discovers what seems to be a miraculous power within...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DIEJenoff, Pam
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep. When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction JenJenoff, Pam
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep… When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Jenoff 2017Lee, Kristen R.
Summary: At risk of losing her home, teen mom B'onca forges a risky plan to help pay the bills that, if she makes one wrong move, could cost her and her family everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC LEEAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "Desde que Emoni Santiago se quedó embarazada durante el segundo año de instituto, su vida se ha reducido a tomar decisiones difíciles y hacer lo mejor posible para su hija y para su abuela. Pero el único lugar en el que puede olvidarse de todo es en la cocina: allí permite que sus manos le digan qué cocinar, sigue su intuición y agrega una pequeña pizca de magia en cada receta, lo que...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puck 2021
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH ACEMcCann, Colum
Summary: A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2009
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Summary: In 1950s Quebec, where the French and English barely tolerate each other, Maggie Hughes falls for the French boy next door. But Maggie's English father won't have any of it, and when she becomes pregnant at fifteen, he forces her to give baby Elodie up for adoption. Elodie is raised in Quebec's impoverished orphanage system, withstanding abysmal treatment until she earns her freedom at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GOOHyde, Catherine Ryan.
Summary: Pearl was thirteen when she got pregnant and accidentally kills the father who is a police officer. She goes on the run for the next five years, but is forced by a cop to confront what she did. She leaves her son with a neighbor and never returns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HYDGlines, Abbi
Summary: After being away for two years, Riley Young returns to Lawton, Alabama, with her fifteen-month-old daughter to help take care of her grandmother who has Alzheimers, even though it means she has to face the lies that forced her to leave town in the first place and a blossoming friendship with the high school football star Brady Higgens, who is dealing with his own family problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y FICTION GLIWilson, Kevin
Summary: When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she's fresh out of high school, pregnant with her art teacher's baby, and totally on her own. Izzy knows she can be a good mother but without any money or relatives to help, she's left searching. Dr. Grind, an awkwardly charming child psychologist, has spent his life studying family, even after tragedy struck his own. Now, with the help of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: Virginia and Buddy have to get married in the summer of 1960 when they learn she is expecting a baby, but they quickly realize they do not know each other at all and the course of their love is not helped by the constant presence of Buddy's old flame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOLeavitt, Caroline.
Summary: Abandoned by her boyfriend and at odds with her parents for choosing open adoption, Sara, a sixteen-year-old honor student, is sustained by her relationship with her daughter's adoptive parents until they become threatened by her increasing obsession with the baby and make a decision that has devastating consequences for everyone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003