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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thirty-two-year-old Jess Abbot has lost everything: her job, her apartment, and--most heart-wrenching--her eight-year-old son, Chance, to a tragic accident. Haunted by memories and grief, Jess packs what's left and heads for the small mountain town of Pine Lake, where she takes a position as caregiver to an eccentric old woman. A rumored clairvoyant, Lucy is strange but welcoming and immediately intuits Jess as a loose end in need of closure. But...
122) My mama needs me
Author
Pub. Date
[1983]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Jason wants to help, but isn't sure that his mother needs him at all after she brings home a new baby from the hospital.
123) Beware, beware
Author
Pub. Date
1993.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
An adventurous child slips out of her mother's warm kitchen to explore the mysteries of a cold winter evening; but, in the dark woods, her imagination creates fearsome images which drive her home to her mother's arms.
125) The unfortunates
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The story of a prominent New York family on the cusp of ruin in the face of a matriarch's wavering health, a bumbling son's scandalous opera, and a life of wealth and inheritance belonging to a bygone era"--
Author
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
Two English children travel to Italy to rescue their wayward mother from her lover and save their family in this New York Times-bestselling novel. The lives of the two Clavering children, Hugh and Caddie, have been abruptly upended by the bitter divorce of their parents, British Army colonel Darrell and the formerly solid, dependable Fanny. Their English country home has been abandoned in favor of a London flat, and the fate of their adored pony,...
Author
Series
O'Bannon sisters volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Nora has always been the sister who binds the O'Bannons together. No matter what crisis hits, smart, dependable Nora knows how to fix it. But for Nora, the pressure of perfection is taking its toll. Nora's marriage is in trouble and she has been reluctant to worry her sisters with just how dire her situation is. Now, though, faced with losing her husband, her home, and the life she's worked so hard to build, Nora can no longer pretend. As the O'Bannon...
128) Grace
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Every family photograph hides a story. Some are suffused with warmth and joy, others reflect the dull ache of disappointed dreams. For thirteen-year-old Trevor Kennedy, taking photos helps make sense of his fractured world. His father, Kurt, struggles to keep a business going while also caring for Trevor's aging grandfather, whose hoarding has reached dangerous levels. Trevor's mother, Elisabeth, all but ignores her son while doting on his five-year-old...
Author
Language
English
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Description
An "insidious, suspenseful tale" (J.T. Ellison) with a "shocker of an ending you won't see coming" (Michele Campbell), Because You're Mine by Rea Frey, the author who "brings to mind Jodi Picoult" (Booklist) and "will appeal to readers of Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen" (Sally Hepworth) is a novel about how the truth will set you free. But it's the lies that keep you safe. Single mother Lee has the daily routine down to a science: shower in six...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After her father passes away, Sophie Shah discovers a cache of hidden letters revealing her mother didn't die, she left, and determined to find the woman who abandoned her, journeys to Paris where she, chasing lead after lead, discovers parts of herself she never knew.
133) When Mama wore a hat
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Two children see the effects of their mother's chemotherapy after they learn she has cancer.
134) The crane husband
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerful story of love, sacrifice, and family. "Mothers fly away like migrating birds. This is why farmers have daughters." A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mother, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. For six years, it's been just...
135) A mom in a million
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Nervous about starting school, Pip the little penguin wonders how he is going to find his mom at the end of the school day because all the parents look alike, but Pip's mom finds a special way to stand out from the crowd.
136) Four minutes
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Giving voice to people living on the periphery in post-communist Bulgaria, Four Minutes centers around Leah, an orphan who suffered daily horrors growing up, and now struggles to integrate into society as a gay woman. She confronts her trauma by trying to volunteer at the orphanage, and to adopt a young girl--a choice that is frustrated over and over by bureaucracy and the pervasive stigma against gay women. In addition to Leah's narrative, the novel...
137) Hopper
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Even though he doesn't like the cold snow, Hopper, a little hare, enjoys playing with a friend and the adventure of searching for food with his mother.
139) Little white fish
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
As Little White Fish searches for his mother, he meets several other animals who do not look like his mother.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Lainey Carson and Sydney Beaumont were the closest of friends in high school, until popular Sydney leaves her comtemplative, ungainly friend behind. Eighteen years later Sydney and her infant daughter come to Lainey's doorstep. Sydney tells her friend that she is escaping the child's abusive father. Lainey takes the child but then Sydney tells the news that the child has been kidnapped. Whom can Lainey trust?
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