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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Marta's daughter, Hilde, is quarantined with tuberculosis, Marta moves in to care for her granddaughter, Carolyn. The two form a special bond, even as tensions arise between Marta and Hilde. When a family tragedy threatens Carolyn's newfound freedom as a college student in San Francisco, she disappears for two years, returning home later with a daughter of her own, determined to help heal the deep hurt that has plagued her family for years.
23) Far and away
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As Sophie De Luca has learned, many things really are better the second time around, whether that's a wonderful year of marriage with Goebel, her sweet second husband, or strengthening her bonds with childhood friends Toots, Ida, and Mavis. Yet ever since she and Goebel moved into their new home, Sophie has sensed something a little . . . unusual. Old houses often contain items left behind from previous owners, but what remains in this case is a...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When she is almost sixteen years old, Rosemary decides she is sick of being overweight, mocked at school and at Heavenly Hair--her mother's beauty salon--and feeling out of control, and as she slowly loses weight, she realizes that she is able to cope with her mother's cancer, having a boyfriend for the first time, and discovering that other people's lives are not as perfect as they seem from the outside.
25) Legacy
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her-before her mother, Lina, stepped in. Soon after, Adrian was dropped off at her grandparents' house in Maryland, where she spent a long summer drinking lemonade, playing with dogs, making a new best friend-and developing the stirrings of a crush on her friend's ten-year-old brother. Lina, meanwhile, traveled the country promoting her fitness brand...
26) Major mama drama
Author
Series
Katharine the almost great volume 2
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Eliza Spalding Warren was just a child when she was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation; her impulsive husband wants them to make a new start in another territory, which will mean leaving her beloved home and her departed mother's grave--and returning to the land of her captivity. Eliza longs to know how her mother, an early missionary to the...
29) Fairy Mom and me
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ella Brook cannot wait to grow up and be a fairy just like her mom, even though her fairy mom's spells often backfire and Ella usually has to come to the rescue with a well-timed suggestion or manual clean-up.
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A mother's tragedy, a daughter's desire and the 7000 mile journey that changed their lives. In 1896 Norwegian American Helga Estby accepted a wager from the fashion industry to walk from Spokane, Washington to New York City within seven months in an effort to earn $10,000. Bringing along her nineteen year-old daughter Clara, the two made their way on the 3500-mile trek by following the railroad tracks and motivated by the money they needed to save...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Rose McCarthy's staff at Mode magazine pitches a cover shoot with Hollywood's hottest young actress, the actress's sizzling affair with a bestselling French author is exposed. The author happens to be Rose's son-in-law, which creates a painful dilemma for her. Her daughter Nadia, a talented interior designer, has been struggling to hold her marriage together, and conceal the truth from their young daughters, her family, and the world. But Nicolas,...
32) Almost home
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
33) Dirty thirty
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Stephanie Plum, Trenton's hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough. Local jeweler Martin Rabner wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a. Nutsy), who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds out of his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man, Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice arrested for robbing the same jewelry store on the same...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Eileen Jackson was happy to set aside her own dreams to raise a family with her husband, Paul. Together they built an ordinary life in a Connecticut town, the perfect place for their kids to grow up. But when Eileen discovers that Paul's late nights in the city are hiding an affair with a younger woman, she begins to question all those years of sacrifice and compromise. On the brink of forty and wondering what she's going to do with the rest of her...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter--a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she's written before. What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all. ? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she's spent her whole life in the small beachside town...
37) Show way
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[c2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of the year, in the middle of her life, Bethanne Hamlin takes a road trip with her daughter, Annie, and her former mother-in-law, Ruth. They're driving to Florida for Ruth's 50th high-school reunion. A longtime widow, Ruth would like to reconnect with Royce, the love of her teenage life. She's heard he's alone, too. Bethanne needs time to reflect on a decision she has to make - whether or not to reconcile with her ex-husband, Grant...
Author
Series
Piper Morgan volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Piper Morgan helps her mother plan a birthday party for a girl named Emmy, and Piper must figure out how to make Emmy's over-the-top requests come true.
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