Angel-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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Summary: As a child Penny was found abandoned. Grace Francome felt like fate brought Penny to her and her husband Arthur. But as she grew, Penny's actions grew more disturbing, and different "personalities" emerged. Now Penny is in the locked ward of a decaying state psychiatric hospital, charged with the murder of a stranger. Police had her fingerprints on the murder weapon and the victim's blood on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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Summary: "The Gerard family has lived a charmed life. Carl is a highly successful residential developer with millions in the bank who married his high school sweetheart, Becky, and they have a beautiful daughter, Meghan. But when Meghan is suddenly struck with a mysterious illness that starts out as chronic headaches and joint pain but progresses rapidly to affect her cognitive ability, the family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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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 PALEngel, Amy
Summary: "A spellbinding story of a mother with nothing left to lose who sets out on an all-consuming quest for justice after her daughter is murdered on the town playground. Sometimes the answers are worse than the questions. Sometimes it's better not to know. Set in the poorest part of the Missouri Ozarks, in a small-town with big secrets, The Familiar Dark opens with a murder in the town's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGAudrain, Ashley
Summary: "A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, about a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for--and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting, supportive mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUDBanker, Ashok
Summary: Queen Aqreen of Aquila leaves her husband Jarsun and flees across the Red Desert. She is determined to keep her daughter from being used by Jarsun to stake his claim to the Burning Throne of Hastinaga, seat of the all-powerful Burnt Empire. But Jarsun is powerful and vengeful, and can summon legions of demoniac forces at will.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: When a young girl's fish-wrestling, spider-wrangling mom becomes an illness-fighting mom, they explore together what it means to be strong, brave, and fierce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ACKLange, Richard
Summary: To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She takes only the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in her husband's safe. The corpses in the hallway weren't part of her plan. Luz needs to find the daughter she left behind years earlier, but she knows she may die trying. Her husband is El Principe, a key player in a high-powered drug cartel, a business he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/ Little, Brown and Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANBarker-White, Eleanor
Summary: "In this unsettling psychological debut, a mother's experience with Vanishing Twin Syndrome results in disturbing changes in her teenage daughter, perfect for fans of The Push and The Undoing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPubiishers 2024
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Summary: For two years, twelve-year-old Hazel has coped with her Mum's accidental death by overprotecting her sister and Mama, but when Mama reconnects with her first love, roles begin to shift.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: When Sunny St. James receives a new heart, she decides to set off on a New Life Plan: 1) do awesome amazing things she could never do before; 2) find a new best friend; and 3) kiss a boy for the first time. Her New Life Plan seems to be racing forward, but when she meets her new best friend Quinn, Sunny questions whether she really wants to kiss a boy at all. With the reemergence of her mother,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BLAPisel, Angela
Summary: "Angela Pisel's poignant debut explores the complex relationship between a mother and a daughter, and their quest to discover the truth and whether or not love can prevail--even from behind bars. Grace Bradshaw knows the exact minute she will die. On death row for murdering her infant son, her last breath will be taken on February 15 at 12:01 a.m. Eleven years, five months, and twenty-seven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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Summary: "In John Manuel Arias's lush and lyrical debut, a Costa Rican family wrestles with the aftermath of neocolonialism, a deadly secret, and an all-consuming fire. Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, the future of Teresa Cepeda Valverde's family is changed forever. Now, twenty-seven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023