Harrington, Claudia
Summary: "Learn about diversity in a gentle manner through the eyes of a second grader Lenny. Join him as he shadows his classmates for a special report on the Students of the Week. Through innocent, simple questions, Lenny discovers his new friends' families aren't all that different from his own."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Looking Glass Library, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC HARSummary: Not wanted : Hollywood legend Ida Lupino makes her directorial debut in this ahead-of-its-time shocker! Naive teenager Sally Kelton falls for womanizing jazz pianist Steve Ryan. When the struggling musician suddenly leaves town for another gig, the lovestruck girl runs away from home to find him. But Steve rejects her, leaving Sally to fend for herself on the street. She is taken in by kindly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IDASummary: In pre-World War II France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with a dashing air force pilot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WELLowry, Lois.
Summary: Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Lowry 2003Todd, Terrie
Summary: "Winnipeg, 1942. War widow Maggie Marshall finds it hard to grieve for her abusive husband. But when Charlotte, the unwed pregnant teen in her care runs away, Maggie's childhood friend Reverend Reuben Fennel is happy join Maggie in her pursuit to Fort William to find Charlotte though it may cost him his job and his reputation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TODGunnis, Emily
Summary: Read her letter. Remember her story ... Gripping. Mesmerising. Haunting. Heart-breaking. Once you've heard her story, you will never forget The Girl in the Letter. Perfect for fans of Kate Morton, Rachel Hore and Kathryn Hughes, this page-turning, moving novel of separation and long-buried secrets will stay with you for ever. In the winter of 1956 pregnant young Ivy is sent in disgrace to St...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Headline Review 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNWoods, Sherryl.
Summary: Heather Reed thought she was making the right choice when she decided to raise her daughter, Angel, on her own. But three years later, Heather realizes she needs help. Her career as an actress is faltering, and Angel's more than she can handle alone. It's time to track down Angel's father only problem is, he doesn't know Angel exists.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOSummary: In Ireland in the 1960s, four women were sent to the Magdalene Laundries, an institution for "fallen" women, where they will atone for their sins through a regimented life of work and prayer. They all had to work in the laundry, where the strict nuns would break everyone's wills through sadistic punishment. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAGEvans, Richard Paul
Summary: "When bestselling romance author Jacob Churcher returns to Salt Lake City to settle his estranged mother's estate, a young woman arrives looking for her birth mother who lived with Jacob's family during her pregnancy. They discover a diary written by Noel and begin a quest to find her, reconcile their pasts and rewrite their futures"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EVANicholls, Sally
Summary: "It's Christmas time, 1919. Three years before, seventeen-year-old Margot Allan, a respectable vicar's daughter, fell passionately in love. But she lost her fiancé, Harry, to the Great War. In turn, she gained a desperate secret, one with the power to ruin her life and her family's reputation, a secret she guards at all costs. Now Margot's family is gathering at the vicarage for the first time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NICDench, Judi
Summary: A woman searches for her lost son, who was taken away from her many years ago after she was forced to live in a convent after she became pregnant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PHICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHI RATED PG-13Benton, Janet
Summary: "In 1883 Philadelphia, Quaker schoolteacher Lilli de Jong finds herself faced with a seemingly impossible task: how can she keep her infant daughter after being cast out by her family, abandoned by her fiancé, and rejected by society? After the unexpected death of her beloved mother, a prominent Quaker in their Germantown community, Lilli de Jong's once-orderly life becomes increasingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENSummary: Yoko, a freelance writer, becomes pregnant and chooses, against tradition and her parents' wishes, to raise the baby alone. In her loneliness and confusion, Yoko befriends the owner of a second-hand bookstore, who silently falls in love with her as she contemplates the choice she has made.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CAFHood, Ann
Summary: A friendship between a widow and a homeless girl enriches both their lives. The widow is wealthy Olivia, 37, frustrated by not being a mother. The girl is poor Ruby, 15, pot smoking, manipulative and pregnant. Olivia takes her in and Ruby agrees to let Olivia have the child--hopefully without changing her mind when it is born.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOMallery, Susan
Summary: "Best friends Unity and Ellen are in serious ruts. High school teacher Ellen, whose son's dream of going out of state for college is arousing financial anxiety, hasn't dated since she became pregnant on the night of her junior prom. Unity, a successful handyman, is grieving after her soldier husband was killed three years ago. Each woman goads the other to venture out of her restrictive comfort...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MALRoberts, Nora.
Summary: "A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night... Hayley Phillips came to Memphis hoping for a new start, for herself and her unborn child. She wasn't looking for a handout from her distant cousin Roz, just a job at her thriving In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Trade 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBRobuck, Erika.
Summary: "Upstate New York, 1928. Laura Kelley and the man she loves sneak away from their judgmental town to attend a performance of the scandalous Ziegfeld Follies. But the dark consequences of their night of daring and delight reach far into the future.... That same evening, Bohemian poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and her indulgent husband hold a wild party in their remote mountain estate, hoping to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBDietrich, Sean
Summary: "When two Depression-era migrant workers, Paul and Vern, find an abandoned baby in the woods, they take it upon themselves to care for the mysterious child. When fifteen-year-old Marigold, reviled by her family after an unwanted pregnancy, loses her babyin the forest, her whole world is painted black. She's still fraught with despair when she discovers what seems to be a miraculous power within...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DIESixsmith, Martin
Summary: Fifty years after giving her son up for adoption, Irishwoman Philomena Lee decides to find him, while, on the other side of the Atlantic, her son, a lawyer in the first Bush administration, struggles to find his mother.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LEE, PHILOMENA SIXSixsmith, Martin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEE, PHILOMENA SIXSummary: "In the United States, more than 15 million women are parenting children on their own, either by circumstance or by choice. Too often these moms who do it all have been misrepresented and maligned. Not anymore. In We Got This, seventy-five solo mom writers tell the truth about their lives―their hopes and fears, their resilience and setbacks, their embarrassments and triumphs." -- Back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents LindholmSummary: Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall of Fame 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MaKingsbury, Karen
Summary: "More than two decades ago, Ashley Baxter Blake made her most grievous mistake in Paris. Now, a forgotten voice brings new information about that terrible time, causing Ashley to see that experience in a new light. Can she finally lay down yesterday's pain and move on? In Paris, Alice Michel is having dinner with her son Gabe and his new friend, Jessie Taylor, an Indiana girl who is studying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINPatchett, Ann
Summary: St. Elizabeth's, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little while. Not so Rose Clinton, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed, and stays. She plans to give up her child, thinking she cannot be the mother it needs. But when Cecilia is born, Rose makes a place for herself and her daughter amid St. Elizabeth's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1992