Meyer, Kimberly
Summary: Traces how a once-bohemian dreamer and her college-student daughter shared a summer retracing the pilgrimage of a fifteenth-century Dominican friar from Venice through the Middle East to strengthen their bond and confront personal demons.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 MEYClark, Karla
Summary: "Mommy's too tired to be Mommy tonight. Can you be Mommy and hold me tight? In this clever, rhyming picture book, a mother tells her child that she's simply too tired to be Mommy tonight and asks her daughter to take over for her." -- Dust jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CLAGarcia, Gabriela
Summary: "In present-day Miami. Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GARSpencer, Elizabeth
Summary: Over the course of a career that spanned six decades, the southern novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Spencer established herself as one of the finest literary artists of a generation that included Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. This definitive volume brings together three remarkable novels: The Voice at the Back Door, her powerful masterpiece about racial...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPESummary: Three generations of women aspire to share a house, a law practice and their feelings. Claire Darrow, an idealistic lawyer, fights for what's right, regardless of whether it makes her a dime. Joanna is her mother, whose view of the law is more elastic and profitable. They clash on nearly everything, especially on the best way to raise Claire's daughter, Louise, a bright 12-year-old with an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Channel 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DARStrout, Elizabeth
Summary: "Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: one trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STRStrout, Elizabeth.
Summary: Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lay the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STRSummary: Claire Darrow, a lawyer, fights for what's right, regardless of whether it makes her a dime. Naomi, Claire's estranged mother and a lawyer as well, would rather make a profit. They clash on nearly everything, even on the best way to raise Claire's daughter. When a close friend is convicted of stealing from an expensive jewelry store, it's up to Claire to bring justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Channel 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DARSummary: Emerging from a detox clinic, a young addict must stay clean while living with her mother for the next four days.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FOUSummary: Julieta lives in Madrid with her daughter Antia. They both suffer in silence over the loss of Xoan, Antia's father and Julieta's husband. At times, grief doesn't bring people closer, it drives them apart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JUL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JUL