Hepinstall, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEPAppelt, Kathi
Summary: On the night of the blue moon when mermaids are said to gather on a sandbar in the Gulf of Mexico, ten-year-old Keeper sets out in a small boat, with her dog BD and a seagull named Captain, determined to find her mother, a mermaid, as Keeper has always believed, who left long ago to return to the sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC APPWargin, Kathy-jo.
Summary: A young girl and her mother both make secret wishes on butterfly wings, and learn years later that the legend of the butterfly is real and that both of their wishes have come true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION WarginMahy, Margaret.
Summary: Summary: Determined to satisfy her curiosity about her unknown father, eighteen-year-old Angela May embarks on an emotional journey that shapes and forever alters the way she looks at herself, her unconventional mother, and her devoted friend Tycho.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHYPicoult, Jodi
Summary: For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has searched for her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared after a tragic accident. Desperate to find the truth, Jenna enlists two unlikely allies in her quest. Serenity Jones is a psychic who rose to fame finding missing persons. Virgil Stanhope is a jaded private detective who originally investigated Alice's case. As they work together to uncover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction PicDann, Patty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ticknor & Fields 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANMcMahon, Jennifer
Summary: West Hall, Vermont, has always been a place of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house, just months after the tragic death of her daughter. Ruthie Washburne has never put much stock in West Hall's rumors. Having grown up in an isolated farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: A girl afflicted with pyrokinesis tries to control her fire-starting long enough to go to a dance with a boy she likes. A woman trapped in a stalled marriage is excited by an alluring ex-con who enrolls in her YMCA cooking class. A teen accompanies her mother, a prestigious poet, to a writing conference where she navigates a misguided attraction to a married writer -- who is, in turn, attracted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2018
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Summary: Against the Heart: "When Meriwether Jones takes her young daughter and runs from trouble in L.A., that trouble follows. By the time Meri reaches Spokane, she's out of gas, money, and ideas. Luckily, ex-cop Ian Brodie hires her to help him with his father's farmhouse, and they seem like the answer to each other's prayers. But Meri is keeping a dangerous secret--and Ian is in danger of losing his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARGreathead, Kate
Summary: "A tender, witty debut novel about a single mother raising her daughter among the upper crust of New York City society in the late twentieth century from a nine-time Moth StorySLAM champion. Laura hails from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, born into old money, drifting aimlessly into her early thirties. One weekend in 1981 she meets Jefferson. The two sleep together. He vanishes. And Laura...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Greathead 2018Jacobs, Kate
Summary: Walker & Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Its Friday Night Knitting Club is improvised by some of Georgia's regulars, who stroll into the shop looking for tips on knitting and end up finding much, much more. So now, once a week, they gather to work on their latest projects and to chat-- and occasionally clash-- over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007
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Summary: This sequel to "The Friday Night Knitting Club" returns to the Manhattan yarn store, Walker & Daughter, five years after the death of the store's owner, Georgia Walker. Georgia's daughter Dakota is now an eighteen-year-old freshman at New York University, running the yarn store part-time with the help of the Friday Night Knitting Club.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JACMilford, Kate
Summary: "Ghosts, a kidnapping, a crew of young detectives, and family secrets mix in this new standalone mystery set in the world of the bestselling Greenglass House, from a National Book Award nominee and Edgar Award-winning author."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MILMilliken, Kate
Summary: "Rory Ramos is a dutiful teenager with a love of photography who works as a ranch hand at the stable her stepfather manages in Topanga Canyon, a dry, dusty place reliant on horses and hierarchies. There she rides for the rich clientele, including twins June and Wade Fisk. June begins to take an interest in Rory--but she is more drawn to Vivian Price, the beautiful teenager with the movie-star...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MillikenCarlisle, Kate
Summary: "Brooklyn and her new hunky husband, Derek, are excited to be guests at Dharma's first annual Book Festival. The entire town is involved and Brooklyn's mom Rebecca is taking charge. In addition to all of her other event related duties, she's got Brooklyn doing rare book appraisals and is also staging Little Women, the musical to delight the festival goers. If that wasn't enough, she and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: "Fifteen years ago, Lilith Wade was arrested for the brutal murder of six women. After a death row conviction, media frenzy, and the release of an unauthorized biography, her thirty-year-old daughter Edie Beckett is just trying to survive out of the spotlight. She's a recovering alcoholic with a dead-end city job and an unhealthy codependent relationship with her brother. Edie also has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORO'Shaughnessy, Kate
Summary: When twelve-year-old Fern and her mother abruptly leave their isolated, off-the-grid community, Fern wants nothing more than to return, but things get murky as she slowly adjusts to her new life and discovers unsettling truths about her old one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: "Rory Ramos is a dutiful teenager with a love of photography who works as a ranch hand at the stable her stepfather manages in Topanga Canyon, a dry, dusty place reliant on horses and hierarchies. There she rides for the rich clientele, including twins June and Wade Fisk. June begins to take an interest in Rory--but she is more drawn to Vivian Price, the beautiful teenager with the movie-star...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020