Caple, Natalee
Summary: To fufill her adoptive father's dying wish, Miette sets out to meet her mother, the notorious Calamity Jane, and crosses the badlands of the North American West in her quest to find the woman who had forsaken her for a life of danger and adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPCadwalladr, Carole.
Summary: Presents a novel narrated by pop culture researcher Rebecca Monroe who tells of her marriage to a behavioral geneticist, her childhood and mother's suicide, her grandmother's biracial marriage and all the other family secrets that seem to control her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CADCadwalladr, Carole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CADWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A black mother describes her dreams for her newborn daughter, and her hopes for a future in which her little one will grow to cross borders and bridge boundaries, be her best self, and find love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WEARoss, Helen Klein
Summary: Lucy Wakefield is a seemingly ordinary woman who does something extraordinary in a desperate moment: she takes a baby girl from a shopping cart and raises her as her own. It₂s a secret she manages to keep for over two decades. When Lucy's now-grown daughter Mia discovers the devastating truth of her origins, she is overwhelmed by confusion and anger and determines not to speak again to the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROSDevlin, Calla
Summary: "The three Babcock sisters must travel to a Mexican clinic across the border so their mother, ill with leukemia, can receive alternative treatments. The sisters' world is about to shatter under the weight of an incomprehensible betrayal. . . an illness far more insidious than cancer that poisons their home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Devlin 2016Lloyd-Barlow, Viktoria
Summary: "Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the house she grew up in. She does things more carefully than most people. On quiet days, she must eat only white foods. Her etiquette handbook guides her through confusing social situations, and to escape, she turns to her treasury of Sicilian folklore. The one thing very much out of her control is clever headstrong Dolly,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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Summary: Anna Larson's daughter, Lauren, is confused, brokenhearted and misguided. It's the turbulent 1960s and feeling alienated from her mother, Lauren chooses to stay with her paternal grandmother. However, repelled by the woman's manipulative and spiteful ways, Lauren returns to her mother, the river and the Inn at Shining Waters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Publishing 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CARCarrick, Carol.
Summary: While waiting for her mother to come home from work on Valentine's Day, Heather helps her grandmother rescue a newborn lamb and bake a special cooky.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CARGoodman, Carol
Summary: "From the author of the internationally bestselling The Lake of Dead Languages comes a gripping novel about madness, motherhood, love, and trust. When Daphne Marist and her infant daughter, Chloe, pull up the gravel drive to the home of Daphne's new employer, it feels like they've entered a whole new world. Tucked in the Catskills, the stone mansion looks like something out of a fairy tale, its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOOWallace, Carol
Summary: "Helen Wilcox has one desire: to successfully launch her daughters into society. From the upper crust herself, Helen's unconventional--if happy--marriage has made the girls' social position precarious. Then her husband gambles the family fortunes on an elevated railroad that he claims will transform the face of the city and the way the people of New York live, but will it ruin the Wilcoxes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALShields, Carol.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2002
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Summary: Dire financial straits and a desire for a fresh start take Meg and her teenaged daughter Sally from a comfortable life on Long Island to a tucked-away hamlet in upstate New York: Arcadia Falls, where Meg has accepted a teaching position at a boarding school. Meg is determined to make the best of it and to make a good impression on the school's dean, Ivy St. Clare. But everyone at the school is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOOGoodman, Carol.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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Summary: "In the hills above Port-au-Prince, a young girl named Fallon wants more than anything to carry a large woven basket to the market, just like her Manman. As she watches her mother wrap her hair in a mouchwa, Fallon tries to twist her own braids into a scarf and balance the empty panye atop her head, but realizes it's much harder than she thought"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHAOates, Joyce Carol
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: In the aftermath of her mother's death, thirty-one-year-old Nikki Eaton comes into a startling realization of her identity as a daughter and experiences a tumultuous year of mourning that gives way to greater wisdom and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATDuncan, Alice Faye
Summary: Carol Olivia Clementine wishes her parents did not live so far away, but Mama Rose provides a home, loves her, and cares for her just like a mother would.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC DUNErivo, Cynthia
Summary: "A girl dreams of a rocket ship, and her mother encourages her to follow her big, bright, bold dream"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021