Diffenbaugh, Vanessa.
Summary: "For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children--Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, just six--in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2015
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Summary: "Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her eldest daughter Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEWalters, Vanessa
Summary: "Nicole Oruwari has the perfect life: a handsome husband; a palatial house in the heart of glittering Lagos, Nigeria; and a glamorous group of friends. She left gloomy London and a troubled family past behind for sunny, moneyed Lagos, becoming part of the Nigerwives--a community of foreign women married to Nigerian men. But when Nicole disappears without a trace after a boat trip, the cracks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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Summary: A dangerous accident prompts a family's relocation to a gothic seaside house, the site of an infamous murder 15 years earlier, where a wife and mother struggling with depression investigates rumors about the killer's parole. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAVKoca, Nazli
Summary: "A singular debut from an exciting new voice, The Applicant explores with scorching wit and startling brevity what it means to be an immigrant, woman, and emerging writer. It's 2017 and Leyla, a Turkish twentysomething living in Berlin, is scrubbing toilets at an Alice in Wonderland-themed hostel after failing her thesis, losing her student visa, and suing her German university in a Kafkaesque...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOCPower, Mona Susan
Summary: "A Council of Dolls is the moving and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award-winning Sioux author Mona Susan Powers, spanning four generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWZafrilla, Marta
Summary: A tale that explores themes of diversity, adoption, and alternative family life follows a little chick who shares a happy relationship with his loving mother, a cat with soft fur, tickling whiskers, and a long beautiful tail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cuento de Luz 2012
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Summary: Zoe Bascombe has never said no to her family. When she blew her Juilliard audition, she caved to their wishes and went to business school. But when her mother dies and leaves instructions for Zoe to spread her ashes at a place called Wind Chime Beach, she defies her brothers and starts out for a New England town none of them has ever heard of and discovers a side of her garden club mother that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019