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Yang, Kao Kalia

Summary: "In the 1960s when Kalia's mother, Chue, was born, the US was actively recruiting Hmong Laotians to assist with CIA efforts in Laos's Secret War. By the time Chue was a teenager, the US had completely vacated Laos, and the country erupted into genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, who were perceived as traitorous for their involvement. Notably, from 1964-1973, Laos became victim to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024

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Lawrence, Iain

Summary: Eleven-year-old Virgil Pepper is returning to Little Lost Lake in Oregon with his older brother and sister to scatter their mother's ashes in the place she loved best, but when their van breaks down in the middle nowhere, it is up to Virgil, who shared his mother's love of science and the wild, to remember and use all the lessons she taught him to survive a forest fire started by a lightning...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAW

Barron, Sandra Rodriguez.

Summary: En una clínica remota sobre una playa de arena negra, una mujer abre sus ojos ... Cuando la joven Mónica Winters Borrero pierde su madre encantadora en un accidente marítimo, ella se encuentra exiliada del paraíso tropical que una vez fue su hogar. En duelo y alejada de una vida dentro de la sociedad salvadoreña, Mónica y su padre estadounidense se mudan a Connecticut, jurando nunca mirar hacia...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 2008

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BAR

Summary: In pre-World War II France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with a dashing air force pilot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WEL

Bluey

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Discover all of Chilli's mum skills from playing Grannies, dancing, and taking care of Bluey and Bingo. She even makes brushing their teeth and fur fun in this adorable and hilarious book. And, most importantly, Mum teaches them that the world is a magical place. This is the perfect book to celebrate Mom on Mother's Day, or any day!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BLU

Weiner, Andrew

Summary: To help her fall asleep, the author tells his daughter a bedtime story from his mischievous childhood when he bought magic beans with his mother's grocery money.

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Publisher / Publication Date: LB Ink/Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WEI

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC WEI (GRAPHIC NOVEL)

Cox, Amanda

Summary: "Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until his untimely death sends her world into a tailspin. She suddenly finds she must deal with a new part owner of the family business--one who is looking to sell the property. Beck cannot fathom why her father would put her into the position to lose everything they built together. When Callie Peterson...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023

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Gabhart, Ann H.

Summary: "Widow Rose Meadows eagerly accepts her brother-in-law's offer for her and her two daughters to live on his farm after her treatments in a sanatorium finds them needing a home. But is this scarred and reclusive man ready for all the changes these women will bring to his life?"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2022

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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

Bluey

Summary: Everyone loves Bandit, but especially Bluey and Bingo! He's always making up funny games, playing Daddy Robot, and taking them on exciting adventures. This is the perfect book to celebrate your dad on Father's Day, or any day, and share what makes him awesome!

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

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McGowan, Anthony

Summary: Things are getting tense at home for Nicky and Kenny as they wait for a visit from their estranged mother. To escape, they go for a walk on the moors, taking their little Jack Russell terrier with them. But what should have been a laugh, a lark, turns deadly when the weather changes and they are caught in a blizzard. Nothing will ever be quite the same again...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2024

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC MCG

Hickey, Caroline

Summary: On the last day of fifth grade, super-smart eleven-year-old Ginny learns that her father, who is a military ER doctor, is being deployed to Afghanistan, devastating news because they are already moving to another post in Maryland and Ginny depends on her father to help her manage her obsessions, panic attacks and general meltdowns; one of her obsessions is geographical facts, and somehow Ginny...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIC

Shenjé, Kuchenga

6 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England and the secrets lurking on the estate where we she works, for fans of Fingersmith and The Confessions of Frannie Langton The library is under lock and key. But its secrets can't be contained. 1896. After he brought her home from Jamaica as a baby, Florence's father had her hair hot-combed to make...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2024

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Fipps, Lisa

Summary: Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIP

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIP

Critchley, Emily

Summary: ""An uplifting, bittersweet story with a page-turning mystery at its heart. Emily Critchley writes about aging and memory with huge warmth and compassion. A beautifully atmospheric and endearing book.'' --Freya Sampson, author of The Last Chance Library. For readers of Elizabeth is Missing with notes of The Maid comes a dual-timeline novel that balances heartfelt tenderness with a suspenseful...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CRI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Critchley

Scarry, Richard

Summary: Bridget spends a day at work with her father, Sergeant Murphy, and learns what an important job being a police officer is.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Golden book 2004

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCA

Hourigan, Erin

Summary: A little girl whose father's world goes from bright and yellow to dark and blue gets frustrated when she is unable to help him, but knows that together, they can do anything.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOU

Kurimoto, Kengo

Summary: "Discover the magic of the wilderness in this breathtaking graphic novel reminiscent of a modern-day The Secret Garden. Poppy's mother hasn't been the same since Gran passed away. She stays inside and watches TV, unable to leave the couch. So maybe that's why Poppy has started spending more time outside, taking her dog Pepper for walks around the neighborhood. When Pepper leads Poppy through a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2024

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Grimaldi, Virginie.

Summary: Anna, 37 ans, croule sous le travail et les relances des huissiers. Ses filles, elle ne fait que les croiser au petit déjeuner. Sa vie défile, et elle l'observe depuis la bulle dans laquelle elle s'est enfermée. A 17 ans, Chloé a des rêves plein la tête mais a choisi d'y renoncer pour aider sa mère. Elle cherche de l'affection auprès des garçons, mais cela ne dure jamais. Comme le carrosse de...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fayard 2018

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Marshall, Linda Elovitz

Summary: Ixchel, a young Mayan girl, who is not allowed to use her mother's thread to weave, exercises her ingenuity and repurposes plastic bags to create colorful weavings.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019

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Pease, Amy

Summary: Eli North is not okay. His drinking is getting worse by the day, his emotional wounds after a deployment to Afghanistan are as raw as ever, his marriage and career are over, and the only job he can hold down is with the local sheriff’s department. And that’s only because the sheriff is his mother—and she’s overwhelmed with small town Shaky Lake’s dwindling budget and the fallout from the opioid...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books, Atria 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC PEA
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Williams, Vera B.

Summary: Three babies are caught up in the air and given loving attention by a father, grandmother, and mother.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 1990

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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WIL

Kubica, Mary

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working as a full-time nurse. While on duty at the hospital, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging to the train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024

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Chouhan, Anu

Summary: Meenu discovers the magic in her culture's tradition of hair oiling, and the bond she shares with her mother and grandmother. Includes Meenu's magic hair day tips.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2024

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Bradford, Barbara Taylor

Summary: James Falconer, a tycoon and a self-made man, seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023

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