Smith, Betty
Summary: "Set in Brooklyn in the 1920's Tomorrow will be better tells the story of Margy Shannon, a shy, joyfully optimistic young woman just out of school who lives with her parents and witnesses how a lifetime of hard work and poverty has worn them down. Determined not to end up like them, Margy takes refuge in her dreams of a better life. Her goals are simple: to find a husband she loves, have...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SMIHepinstall, Kathy
Summary: "The laugh-out-loud story of a girl determined to keep up with her aging, crazy-as-a-fox mother and learn the truth of her mother's long-secret past...Willow Havens is ten years old and obsessed with the fear that her mother will die. Her mother, Polly, is a cantankerous, take-no-prisoners Southern woman who lives to shoot varmints, drink margaritas, and antagonize the neighbors--and she sticks...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEPAcampora, Paul
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Ellie Magari's mother left shortly after Ellie was born, and her father has raised her, but Ellie always figured that one day she would meet her mother and ask her some pertinent questions--but now her mother has died, and Ellie does not know exactly how to feel about that, but she is determined, with the help of her friends in the St. Francis of Assisi's Howling Wolves...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ACALand, Ali
Summary: "INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW FAR DOES THE APPLE REALLY FALL FROM THE TREE? Milly's mother is a serial killer. Though Milly loves her mother, the only way to make her stop was to turn her in to the police. Milly is given a fresh start: a new identity, a home with an affluent foster family, and a spot at an exclusive private school. But Milly has secrets, and life at her new home becomes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017