Yoerg, Sonja Ingrid
Summary: A girl emerges from the woods, starved, ill, and alone ... and collapses. Suzanne Blakemore hurtles along the Blue Ridge Parkway, away from her overscheduled and completely normal life, and encounters the girl. As Suzanne rushes her to the hospital, she never imagines how the encounter will change her-a change she both fears and desperately needs. Suzanne has the perfect house, a successful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION YOELeavitt, Caroline
Summary: "As a teenager, for a moment, Ella Fitchburg found love--yearning, breathless love--that consumed both her and her boyfriend, Jude, as they wandered the streets of New York City together. But her life was unexpectedly upended when she was accused of trying to murder Jude's father, an imperious superior court judge, and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. When she learns she's pregnant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEAVan Pelt, Shelby
Summary: For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Chin, Rita Zoey
Summary: "When 6-year-old empath Leah Fern-once "The Youngest and Very Best Fortune Teller in the World"-is abandoned by her beautiful magician mother, she is consumed with longing for her mother's return. Until something bizarre happens: On her 21st birthday Leah receives an inheritance from someone she doesn't even know, and finds herself launched on a journey of magical discovery. It's a voyage that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ChinWillett, Marcia.
Summary: Abandoned by her mother as a child, Brigid Foster struggles with conflicted feelings when her mother reenters her life, while her summer lodger, Louise, also gives way to a painful past, with unexpected repercussions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003
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Edwards, Richard.
Summary: Copycub loves to play games, especially hide-and-seek with his mother. One afternoon he runs very deep into the forest. When he calls for his mother to find him, there is no reply. Copycub is lost! Mother bear has always found her little bear in the past. Will she find him this time, too?
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: FIC EdwarKwok, Jean
Summary: Jasmine Yang arrives in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, fleeing a controlling husband, on a desperate search for the daughter who was taken from her at birth--another female casualty of China's controversial One Child Policy. But with her husband on her trail, the clock is ticking, and she's forced to make increasingly desperate decisions if she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILWiggs, Susan.
Summary: In her career as a photojournalist, free-spirited Jessie Ryder has seen the world through her camera lens. But she's never traveled far enough to escape a painful moment that has haunted her for the past sixteen years: the day she gave her baby daughter away. Now, facing a life-altering crisis, she's decided to fix the broken pieces of her heart and seek out Lila, even if it means she has to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WIGFitch, Janet
Summary: When Ingrid, a brilliant but obsessed poet, is sent to prison for murder, her only child Astrid must find a place for herself as she journeys through a series of foster homes. With determination and humor, Astrid confronts the challenges of loneliness and poverty, and strives to learn who a motherless child in an indifferent world can become.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999
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Summary: The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine, as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC KINLandon, Michael
Summary: When her husband leaves her for someone whose time isn't wrapped up in a silent, handicapped kid, Mary and little Jack are out on their own in a world that has no room for the poor and disabled. But then arrives The Gift.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LANReid, Cheryl.
Summary: August 1956. After a night of rage and terror, Anna Nassad wakes to find her abusive husband dead and instinctively hides her bruises and her relief. As the daughter of Syrian immigrants living in segregated Alabama, Anna has never belonged, and now her world is about to erupt. Days before, Anna set in motion an explosive chain of events by allowing the first black postman to deliver the mail...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REILieberman, Nancy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIELott, Bret.
Summary: The life of Jewel Hilburn, a mother living with her husband and children in the backwoods of Mississippi in 1943, undergoes a drastic change when her sixth child, Brenda Kay, is born without the gift of common sense.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOTWolfson, Brianna
Summary: Enraged by her parents' joint-custody arrangement after she expressed a preference to live exclusively with her mother, eleven-year-old Willow struggles to make sense of her changing world and loneliness when her mother's demons begin to surface and overtake her. Eleven-year-old Willow is enraged by her parents' joint-custody arrangement after she expressed a preference to live exclusively with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLSolomon, Anna
Summary: "A novel about the entangled lives of two women in 1920s New England, both mothers to the same unforgettable girl"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SOLAirgood, Ellen
Summary: When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION AIRSolomon, Anna
Summary: Inadvertently reunited with the daughter she secretly abandoned and the girl's Irish Catholic adoptive mother during the height of the Prohibition era, the adult daughter of a Jewish industrialist finds her life turned upside down by her daughter's bold and unconventional personality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLPalmer, Daniel
Summary: Grace never dreamt she'd visit her teenaged daughter Penny in the locked ward of a decaying state psychiatric hospital, charged with the murder of a stranger. There was not much question of her daughter's guilt. Police had her fingerprints on the murder weapon and the victim's blood on her body and clothes. But they didn't have a motive. Grace blames herself, because thats what mothers do, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PALBaart, Nicole
Summary: Jessica Chamberlain, newly separated and living with her two sons in a small Iowa town, can't believe that a tragedy in another state could have anything to do with her. But when her phone rings one quiet morning, her world is shattered. As she tries to pick up the pieces and make sense of what went wrong, Jess begins to realize that a tragic death is just the beginning. Soon she is caught in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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Summary: The tale of a young woman whose family secrets--and secret passions--are about to change her life forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ALLBaart, Nicole
Summary: Jessica Chamberlain, newly separated and living with her two sons in a small Iowa town, can't believe that a tragedy in another state could have anything to do with her. But when her phone rings one quiet morning, her world is shattered. As she tries to pick up the pieces and make sense of what went wrong, Jess begins to realize that a tragic death is just the beginning. Soon she is caught in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018