Smith, Betty
Summary: "Set in Brooklyn in the 1920's Tomorrow will be better tells the story of Margy Shannon, a shy, joyfully optimistic young woman just out of school who lives with her parents and witnesses how a lifetime of hard work and poverty has worn them down. Determined not to end up like them, Margy takes refuge in her dreams of a better life. Her goals are simple: to find a husband she loves, have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2020
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Summary: "Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her mother, a physician, has a vision for their future together: Libertie will go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie feels stifled by her mother's choices and is constantly reminded that, unlike her mother, Libertie has skin that is too dark. When a young man...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Greenridge 2021Shimko, Bonnie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Academy Chicago Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHIWoodson, Jacqueline
Summary: Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOAcampora, Paul
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Ellie Magari's mother left shortly after Ellie was born, and her father has raised her, but Ellie always figured that one day she would meet her mother and ask her some pertinent questions--but now her mother has died, and Ellie does not know exactly how to feel about that, but she is determined, with the help of her friends in the St. Francis of Assisi's Howling Wolves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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Summary: Celeste, who is forced by her mother to take the identity of Celeste's dead twin, has virtually disappeared--until a handsome boy moves in next door.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Summary: A novel-in-verse about a 12-year-old Dominican American girl who must keep her love of swimming a secret from her mother, is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis, and is forced to reimagine the person she is to become.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MENRogers, Shannon C. F.
Summary: Marisol and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and no end. When her mother dies suddenly, Marisol is left with no one to fight against, haunted by all the things that she both said and didn't say. When Marisol sleeps with her best friend's boyfriend--- and then punches said best friend in the face--- she is left alone with nothing but a burning anger. As a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROGVan Meter, Crissy
Summary: "Winter Island, off the coast of Southern California. Evangeline grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island's world-famous strain of marijuana, Winter Wonderland. Tomorrow Evie is getting married-- but on the eve of the wedding a dead whale becomes lodged in the bay; the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie's mostly absent mother shows up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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Summary: From the moment she met Samantha, star of the school basketball team, on her first day at Daniel Boone Middle School, Allison Drake felt she had found a friend, something she needs badly since her brother died and her father left--but as their friendshipgrows it begins to evolve into a deeper emotion, and in North Carolina in 1977, it is not easy to discover that you might be gay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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Summary: ''I have more privilege than any person in my family. And I'm still screwed." From award-winning author Olivia Wenzel comes a captivating and unsettling literary debut about race, politics, feminism, motherhood, nationality and enduring love. A young woman attends a play about the Berlin Wall coming down and is the only Black person in the audience. She is sitting with her boyfriend by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WENReynolds, Sheri.
Summary: Seven years after being abandoned with her little brother at a Tennessee campground, fifteen-year-old Tessa Lee learns that her mother has been living two hours away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REYHarvey, 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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Summary: "In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: "In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION EVEAngel-Ajani, Asale
Summary: "A debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the California desert"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "The laugh-out-loud story of a girl determined to keep up with her aging, crazy-as-a-fox mother and learn the truth of her mother's long-secret past...Willow Havens is ten years old and obsessed with the fear that her mother will die. Her mother, Polly, is a cantankerous, take-no-prisoners Southern woman who lives to shoot varmints, drink margaritas, and antagonize the neighbors--and she sticks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books 2017
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Summary: "Part mystery, part coming-of-age story, and part tragedy, Scarlet In Blue, by acclaimed novelist Jennifer Murphy, traces the lives of a mother and daughter who, because of their fugitive lifestyle and the pain that overshadows it, share a dependence and a love so strong neither can imagine life without the other. Fifteen-year-old Blue Lake is a budding pianist who resents her mother Scarlet's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MurphySmith, Sarah Elaine
Summary: "Fourteen year old Cindy and her two older brothers live in rural Pennsylvania, in a house with occasional electricity, two fierce dogs, one book, and a mother who comes and goes for months at a time. Deprived of adult supervision, the siblings rely on one another for nourishment of all kinds. As Cindy's brothers take on new responsibilities for her care, the shadow of danger looms larger and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Smith 2019Moriarty, Laura
Summary: This is the story of a 10-year-old math prodigy, Evelyn Bucknow. Living in Kansas with her single mother and deeply religious grandmother. Evelyn believes she is destined to marry Travis, the boy next door. But as she grows up, she experiences the heartbreak of a love not meant to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MORAtrek, İnci
Summary: "Nineteen-year-old Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The glittering waters, picturesque olive groves, and her spirited friends make it easy for Ada to leave her idle life in California behind. But no matter how much Ada feels she belongs to the country where her mother grew up, deep down, her connection to the culture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEPhillips, Delores
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Tangy Mae tells of the brutal physical and mental abuse that her mother inflicts on her and her ten siblings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: Claire McLeod's peaceful life in Portland, Oregon, is turned upside down by the arrival of her tyrannical mother as she tries to negotiate peace between her mother and her lesbian sister and find out why her father remained home in Omaha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2003