Erens, Pamela
Summary: Eleven Hours is the story of two soon-to-be mothers who, in the midst of a difficult labor, are forced to reckon with their pasts and re-create their futures. Lore must disentangle herself from a love triangle; Franckline must move beyond past traumas to accept the life that is waiting for her. Pamela Erens moves seamlessly between their begrudging partnership and the memories evoked by so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by W.W. Norton and Company 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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Summary: "A Navajo family welcomes a new baby into the family with love and ceremony, eagerly waiting for that first special laugh. Includes brief description of birth customs in different cultures."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TAHYolen, Jane.
Summary: Grandma tells her grandchild the story of the child's birth and how they both hurried to make it there on time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOLBrooks-Dalton, Lily
Summary: "From the author of Good Morning, Midnight comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman's lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world. Florida as we know it is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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Summary: Lily is haunted by memories--of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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Summary: First, drop in at 5-B Poppy Lane, where you'll get a chance to visit with Helen Shelton, her granddaughter Ruth and Ruth's husband, Paul. They'll offer you a cup of mulled cider and the story of how they met--and they'll share Helen's breathtaking adventures during the Second World War. Then drive out to Grace and Cliff Harding's place. They have a small horse ranch not far from Cedar Cove....
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2010
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Summary: A family of tiny people experiences a crisis when a baby is born during a snowstorm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1993
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED PETClipston, Amy.
Summary: Anna Mae was shunned by her family four years ago when she left her Amish community to marry a non-Amish man in Baltimore. She arrives back in Lancaster County for Christmas. Is it too late for a miracle? She's determined to follow God's will regardless of the outcome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2010
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Summary: Kate Alger has finally found the cure for her post-partum depression. After years of suffering, all it takes to bring this mommy back to life were a few gruesome homicides! When someone starts offing the alpha-moms from Kate's daughter's preschool, Kate, who worked as an Assistant District Attorney before she had Molly, realizes it's time to get out of bed, dust off the skills and find out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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Summary: "An ordinary day in an ordinary neighborhood turns out to be extraordinary in this story about new life, death, and family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2020
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Summary: After a comedy of errors on Christmas Eve, a five-month pregnant woman, traveling to Cedar Cove to search for her child's father--who doesn't know she's pregnant--finds herself lodging in an apartment above a barn. The residents of Cedar Grove come to her rescue as an early labor begins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2008
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Summary: While baby animals are born--some with fur and some with scales, some with lots of brothers and sisters, some with none--a curious duck watches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: The moon, wind, rain, and a variety of animals celebrate the special occasion that is the birth of a child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2010
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Summary: A mother tells her child about its first day of life from the moment of birth through the end of the birth day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 1996
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Summary: The moon, wind, rain, and a variety of animals celebrate the special occasion that is the birth of a child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2006
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Summary: " The author of Red Sorghum and China's most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize. In 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yan's position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. In his much-anticipated new novel, Mo Yan chronicles the sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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Summary: " The author of Red Sorghum and China's most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize. In 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yan's position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. In his much-anticipated new novel, Mo Yan chronicles the sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021