Smith, 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 2019Atrek, 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 Adult, Call number: FIC ATRMurphy, Jennifer
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 MurphyKim, Crystal Hana
Summary: "A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a reformatory center-a stunning work of great emotional power from the critically acclaimed author of If You Leave Me"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KIMRogers, 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 ROGAngel-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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANGGreenidge, Kaitlyn
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 2021Mannion, Una
Summary: It is the early 1980s and fifteen-year-old Libby is obsessed with trees. One night, while driving home, her mother, exhausted and overwhelmed with the fighting in the backseat, pulls over and orders Libby's little sister Ellen to walk home. What none of this family knows as they drive off leaving a twelve-year-old girl on the side of the road five miles from home with darkness closing in, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MANSteavenson, Wendell
Summary: "A moving portrait of a young woman's struggle to break free from her upper-class upbringing amid the whirlwind years of the sexual revolution"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023