Adjapon, Bisi
Summary: "At twenty-one, life in Senegal couldn't be better for Lola. An aspiring writer and university graduate, she has a great job, a vibrant social life, and a future filled with possibility. But fate disrupts her world when she falls for Armand, an American Marine stationed at the U.S. Embassy. Her mother, a high court judge in Ghana who endeavors to keep her anchored to home, disapproves of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADJHarrison, Lisi.
Summary: Joining her mother on a business trip to Hawaii, Dylan plans to work on her self-esteem and getting her mother's attention, but instead finds herself pursuing a rich, attractive boy who only has eyes for a bad-girl tennis star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HARToews, Miriam
Summary: Fight Night is told in the unforgettable voice of Swiv, a nine-year-old living in Toronto with her pregnant mother, who is raising Swiv while caring for her own elderly, frail, yet extraordinarily lively mother. When Swiv is expelled from school, Grandma takes on the role of teacher and gives her the task of writing to Swiv's absent father about life in the household during the last trimester...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOESemple, Maria.
Summary: To her Microsoft-guru husband, Bernadette is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect; and to 15-year-old Bee, she's a best friend and, simply, Mom. Bee has aced her report card and claimed her reward: a family trip to Antarctica. For Bernadette, who has become increasingly agoraphobic,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SEMSemple, Maria.
Summary: When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her. Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she is a disgrace; to design mavens, she is a revolutionary architect, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SEMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SEMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P SEMTuccelli, Jessica Maria.
Summary: " A breathtaking Georgia-mountain epic about the complex bond of mothers and daughters across a century. In the autumn of 1941, Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, and an outspoken pamphleteer for the NAACP, hastily sends her daughter, Ella, alone on a bus home to Georgia in the middle of the night-a desperate action that is met with dire consequences when the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TUCGailey, Sarah
Summary: "Just Like Home is a darkly gothic thriller from nationally bestselling author Sarah Gailey, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House as well as HBO's true crime masterpiece I'll Be Gone in the Dark. "Come home." Vera's mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories - she's come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC GAIJackson, Lisa
Summary: In death, Didi Storm is finally getting the kind of publicity that eluded her in life. Twenty years ago, the ex-beauty queen worked the Vegas strip as a celebrity impersonator, too busy trying to make it big to spare much time for her daughter, Remmi. Shortly before she leaped from a San Francisco building, Didi's profile was rising again, thanks to a tell-all book. To Detective Dani Settler,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JACCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Jackson 2018Glatt, Lisa
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Publisher / Publication Date: RB Large Print 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GLAGreenwald, Lisa
Summary: With a Valentine's Day dance, snooping parents, and way too many secrets, these four BFFs have a lot to deal with in the seventh book in this hilarious series told entirely in text messages, emojis, and passed notes, perfect for fans of Invisible Emmie and the Dork Diaries series. It's no secret that Victoria's mom can be OTT overprotective! But lately her anxiety has been too much to handle....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRESee, Lisa.
Summary: Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate, the first automobile any of them have seen, and a stranger arrives. Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, translates for the stranger and is among the first to reject the rules...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction See 2017Stringfellow, Lisa
Summary: Twelve-year-old Kela is still mourning her mother when she finds a mermaid's comb while she and her friend are looking for sea glass on her Caribbean island; such combs have magic in them, and touching it opens a connection to the mermaid Ophidia who cangrant her wish, to bring her mother back to life--but all wishes have consequences, and magic demands a price which may prove to be more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STRFipps, Lisa
Summary: Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FIPSchroeder, Lisa
Summary: Eleven-year-old Juliet, her newly separated mother, and her older sister have moved to a Mission Beach, where she forms an instant bond with a girl her own age, Emma, even throwing bottles with secret messages into the sea; and then an email arrives, inviting Juliet to join the Starry Night Society, and all she has to do is make someone else's wish come true--but what about her own family, whom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHSchroeder, Lisa.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of seeing the world but has never left Oregon, and so when her best friend, Sophie, tells her of a baking contest whose winners travel to New York City, she eagerly enters despite concerns about her mother, who is opening a cupcake bakery. Includes recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCHScottoline, Lisa.
Summary: When an explosion rips through the nearly empty cafeteria of a Reesburgh (Pa.) Elementary School, lunch mother Rose McKenna leads two girls to safety before racing to rescue her own daughter, Melly. But Rose soon learns that she may face both civil and criminal charges for her heroics because one of the girls she saved was seriously injured in the resulting fire that killed three school staff...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOSee, Lisa
Summary: Explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter, who has been adopted by an American couple, tracing the very different cultural factors that compel them to consume a rare native tea that has shaped their family's destiny for generations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SEERisco, Elle D.
Summary: After unleashing a beastly curse upon her Scottish village, Princess Merida embarks on a perilous quest and discovers the meaning of true bravery. Full color.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Book 2012