Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: In this stunning debut novel, Pushcart nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing this lyrical exploration of America with magical realism and vodou culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZOBJohnson, Abigail
Summary: When Jill's mother unceremoniously leaves her family for reasons only Jill knows, Jill tries to piece her life together with the help of new guy Daniel, who has scars on the inside and out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Teen 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION JOHRice, Luanne
Summary: Ever since her mother left, Maia has struggled with depression, which has only gotten worse since her father remarried; so Maia decides run away to Canada to find her mother, together with Billy, a boy who now lives in a group home and has his own family tragedy--but when they finally arrive in Tadoussac, Quebec, Maia discovers that even her mother has been keeping secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2017
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Summary: "A National Book Award Finalist with five starred reviews! A New York Times Notable Book * Publishers Weekly Flying Start * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice of 2017 (Top of the List winner) * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * BookPage Best YA Book of the Year American Street is an evocative and powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ZOBFrederick, Heather Vogel.
Summary: As the Mother-Daughter Book Club reads Jane Eyre, the girls and some of their mothers are involved in some serious competitions, Becca finds romance when the Wyoming pen pals come for a visit, and a wedding brings the British Berkeley brothers and even Stinkerbelle to Concord.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRERogers, 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 ROGZoboi, Ibi
Summary: When Fabiola's mother is detained upon their arrival to the United States, Fabiola must navigate her loud American cousins, the grittiness of Detroit's west side, a new school, and a surprising romance all on her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZOBDessen, Sarah.
Summary: Raised by a mother who's had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DESKuhn, Sarah
Summary: Kimi Nakamura loves nothing more than transforming the outfits of her friends into expressions of their "Ultimate Selves" but her mother thinks it is a waste of time. After a huge fight, Kimi makes the decision to accept her grandparents' invitation to Kyoto where she is surrounded by her heritage, which is simultaneously foreign and familiar, and the environment helps her understand her mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KUHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Kuhn 2019Johnson, Sarai
Summary: "A novel about four generations of Black women contending with motherhood and daughterhood, generational trauma and the deeply ingrained tensions and wounds that divide them as they redefine happiness and healing for themselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2024
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Summary: Anthony Puckett was a rising literary star. The son of an uber-famous thriller writer, Anthony's debut novel spent two years on the bestseller list and won the adoration of critics. But something went very wrong with his second work. Now Anthony's borrowing an old college's friend's crumbling beach house on Block Island in the hopes that solitude will help him get back to the person he used to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MooreChambers, Clare
Summary: When Gretchen Tilbury claims that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth, Jean Swinney, a feature writer on a local paper, sets out to prove whether Gretchen is a miracle or a fraud-an investigation that sends dark ripples across all their lives with unimaginable consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAEnright, Anne
Summary: "From Booker-prize winning author Anne Enright, an astonishing novel about the love between mother and daughter--sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent. "Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other; one life into another life, and the baby knew exactly how alone her mother had been."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: "After her cat toy empire goes up in flames, Sophie Lane returns to Blackberry Island, determined to rebuild. Until small-town life reveals a big problem: she can't grow unless she learns to let go. If Sophie relaxes her grip even a little, she might lose everything. Or she might finally be free to reach for the happiness and love that have eluded her for so long.Kristine has become defined by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MALGunnis, Emily
Summary: A tragic death. A missing baby. A long-kept secret... 1960. Thirteen-year-old Rebecca lives in fear of her father's temper. As a storm batters Seaview Cottage one night, she hears a visitor at the door and a violent argument ensues. By the time the police arrive, Rebecca's parents are dead and the visitor has fled. No one believes Rebecca heard a stranger downstairs... 2014. Iris, a journalist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Headline Review 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNXie, Jenny
Summary: "Holding Pattern is a novel about immigration and belonging, mother-daughter relationships, and the many ways we can learn to hold each other. At 28, Kathleen Cheng returns home to live with her single mother, Marissa, an immigrant from China. Her mother, to Katheen's surprise, is in love, and Kathleen helps her mother plan her wedding to a tech entrepreneur. Kathleen takes a job working for an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC XIESteel, Danielle.
Summary: A mother and daughter confront respective challenges, cope with celebrity and work through tragedy while maintaining an idyllic facade to the outside world, in an uplifting tale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Steel 2014Frederick, Heather Vogel.
Summary: When the mothers of four sixth-grade girls with very different personalities pressure them into forming a book club, they find, as they read and discuss "Little Women," that they have much more in common than they could have imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC FreMayne, Kerryn
Summary: "Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns thirty-six copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she has to a friendship is playing Scrabble against an imaginary Monica Gellar while watching Friends reruns. And Lenny Marks is very, very good at not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: "Told from different viewpoints, five seventh-graders, who face their own personal challenges, are also determined as a group to help two very special people reconcile a long-standing dispute"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
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Summary: Blaise is a famous anchor on morning news and a legend in her field. In order to rise to the top, she had to place her blind daughter, Salima, in a boarding school. When tragedy hits, Salima is forced to move in with Blaise. They both have to contend with a new caretaker who has little patience for indulging Salima's handicap. Blaise can't deny that Salima seems to be improving under Simon's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2014
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Summary: A brush with mortality compels a tough-love businesswoman to gather her estranged family for a Christmas reunion in Scotland, where she teams up with her adorable granddaughter to help her daughters reconcile.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Holiday Fiction, Call number: FIC MORZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: Warrior Princess. That's what Nigeria's father calls her. He's raised her as part of the Movement, a Black separatist group based in Philadelphia. Nigeria is homeschooled and vegan and participates in traditional rituals that connect her and other kids from the group to their ancestors. But when her mother--the perfect matriarch to their Movement--disappears, Nigeria's world is upended. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZOBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ZOBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ZOBHickey, 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