Chamberlain, Diane
Summary: "When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brother-in-law, a physicist, tells her that perhaps there is. Hunter appeared in their lives just a few years before--and his appearance was as mysterious as his past. With no family, no friends, and a background shrouded in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHAMoretti, Kate
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: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MORFeder, Tyler
Summary: "Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2020
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Summary: Depicts the author's life with her grandmother in Moscow while her mother goes to school in America, describing how she navigated her problems with friends and school and her surprise when she learned she would be joining her mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TOLHepworth, Sally
Summary: All their lives, Alice Stanhope and her daughter Zoe have been a family of two, living quietly in northern California. Zoe has always struggled with crippling social anxiety and her mother has been her constant and fierce protector. With no family to speak of, and the identity of Zoe's father shrouded in mystery, their team of two works - until it doesn't. Until Alice gets sick and needs to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hepworth 2017Acampora, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ACAHarrington, Claudia
Summary: Lenny, the class reporter, follows Elsie for a school project and learns about her life with her two moms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Looking Glass Library, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC HARJohnson, Varian
Summary: "When Candice finds the letter, she isn't sure she should read it. It's addressed to her grandmother, after all, who left Lambert in a cloud of shame. But the letter describes a young African American woman named Siobhan Washington. An injustice that happened decades ago. A mystery enfolding the letter writer. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle. Grandma tried and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC JOHCortese, Katie
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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORCoyle, Carmela LaVigna
Summary: When a little girl asks her mother about princesses, she learns that they are much like herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taylor Trade Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: BRDDonahue, Jill L. (Jill Lynn)
Summary: While out picking blueberries with her mother, Bliss follows a butterfly and loses sight of her mother, but when she looks around she notices she has also unwittingly made a trail for herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DONFaruqi, Saadia
Summary: Yasmin struggles with Ms. Alex's assignment to write an essay about her hero until she realizes that her hero is someone very close to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FARAdichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Summary: A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. 'Dear Ijeawele' is Adichie's letter of response. Here are fifteen suggestions for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 649.133 ADIBowe, Julie
Summary: Victoria Torres has always had a family birthday party that she shares with her beloved grandmother, but this year she is so impressed by her classmate's birthday party at GlamaRama, the mall's newest spa store, that she decides that she wants to celebrate her twelfth birthday there--and her mother refuses to do both.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOWCooper, Abby
Summary: From the author of Sticks & Stones, a realistic middle-grade story with a dash of magic about a girl who sees other people's thoughts in bubbles above their heads. Twelve-year-old Sophie Mulvaney's world has been turned upside down after her mom loses her job and breaks up with Pratik, who Sophie adored. But then: Sophie starts seeing bubbles above people's heads that tell her what they are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD COOCrossan, Sarah
Summary: When her imagined perfect life with her estranged mother begins to unravel, fourteen-year-old Apple finds comfort in reading and writing poetry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CROGurtler, Janet
Summary: Ever since her father disappeared Shyanna's home has been a sad place, but if the twelve-year old mermaid can conquer her stage fright before the Melody Pageant, she hopes to win the contest and bring song back to her mother's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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Summary: While spending a summer at the family lake house, eighteen-year-old Sawyer finally learns the full truth about her complicated family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freeform Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BARBauer, Joan
Summary: Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BAUDevlin, Calla
Summary: "The three Babcock sisters must travel to a Mexican clinic across the border so their mother, ill with leukemia, can receive alternative treatments. The sisters' world is about to shatter under the weight of an incomprehensible betrayal. . . an illness far more insidious than cancer that poisons their home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Devlin 2016McDonald, Christina
Summary: "In the small hours of the morning, Abi Knight is startled awake by the phone call no mother ever wants to get: her teenage daughter Olivia has fallen off a bridge. Not only is Olivia brain dead, she's pregnant and must remain on life support to keep her baby alive. And then Abi sees the angry bruises circling Olivia's wrists. When the police unexpectedly rule Olivia's fall an accident, Abi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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Summary: In this stunning debut novel, Pushcart nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing this lyrical exploration of America with magical realism and vodou culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ZOBBowling, Nicholas
Summary: It is 1577 and one month ago Alyce's mother was burnt at the stake as a witch, and Alyce escaped from the witchfinders using her own poorly understood powers, only to be locked up in Bedlam; now another pair has come for her, only they seem different (and a lot easier to escape), and with the help of an innkeeper and a boy, Alyce sets out to find out about her mother's mysterious past--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House/Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOWChanani, Nidhi
Summary: Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mom leave him behind? But Pri's mom avoids these questions and the topic of India is permanently closed. For Pri, her mother's homeland can only exist in her imagination. That is, until she finds a mysterious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press 2017