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Language
English
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As the awkward one, Courtney Watson may not be as together as her sisters, but she excels at one thing: keeping secrets, including her white-hot affair with a sexy music producer. Planning Mom's wedding exposes her startling hidden life, changing her family's view of her -- and how she views herself -- forever. When Sienna's boyfriend proposes -- in front of her mom and sisters, for crying out loud -- he takes her by surprise. She already has two...
62) The daughter
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished and her family is broken. As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios--kidnapping, murder--seem less plausible. The trail...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jamie Wagner is a young lawyer who is happy to be flying under the radar at a large firm doing background research for the partners. It's not that he isn't smart. He is. It's just that hard work, the whole legal world, isn't really his thing. Underachiever? Yes. Content? At least until the firm puts him on a case that turns his whole world upside down. Sheryl Harrison has served four years of a thirty-year murder sentence for killing her husband...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Margot doesn't know anything about her family, beyond her quiet life with her mother. But she wants more and when she finds a clue that leads her to a town called Phalene, she leaves to investigate. Only Phalene and her family history are full of secrets, some that may prove more dangerous and deadly than Margot ever could have bargained for"--
65) Just like Mama
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young girl enumerates all the things that her mother does in inimitable fashion, from scooping her up in a hug in the morning to tucking her in at night.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Lindy Carmichael isn't feeling particularly joyful when she returns home to Wenatchee, Washington, for Christmas. The man she thought was the one has cheated on her with her best friend, and she feels completely devoid of creativity in her graphic-design job. Not even carolers or Christmas cookies can cheer her up but Lindy s mother, Ellen, remembers an old tradition that might lift her daughter's spirits. Reading through a box of childhood letters...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT, MADNESS LIES . . .
Emma can’t sleep.
CHECK THE WINDOWS.
It’s been like this since her big 4-0 started getting closer.
LOCK THE DOORS.
Her mother stopped sleeping just before her own fortieth birthday.
She went mad and did the unthinkable because of it.
LOOK IN ON THE CHILDREN.
Is that what’s happening to Emma?
WHY CAN’T SHE SLEEP?
Author
Language
English
Description
"After divorce shatters her family, one woman's struggle to pick up the pieces finally leads to a new beginning--but is the past truly behind her? #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber explores the powerful intersections of love and family in this poignant novel"--
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived since college still looks like she's just moved in. But she's got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club. She's at peace with her plus-size body--at least, most of the time--and she's on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her...
70) The obelisk gate
Author
Series
The broken earth volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
""Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season (A New York Times Notable Book of 2015) The second novel in a new fantasy trilogy by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin. THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME. The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger -- has found shelter, but not her daughter....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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 fight for her life. Desperate to find stability for Zoe,...
72) Exclusive
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After she moves into a beach-front estate formerly owned by Lucille Ball, Toots Loudenberry finds she has some high-profile ghostly roommates, all while trying to help her daughter's celebrity magazine stay afloat.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink--who finally pushes back. Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal. and stalled-the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she's really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. Grace sets off across...
74) Master class
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 319 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the critically acclaimed author of Vox comes a suspenseful new novel that explores a disturbing alternate reality where the government has legalized eugenics. Elena Fairchild is a teacher at one of the state's new elite schools, where children undergo routine tests for their quotient (Q). Those who don't measure up are placed in the many state boarding schools that have cropped up under a new government mandate--Elena's daughter, Freddie, is...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Physical Desc
400 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lynn Austin presents a tale of family secrets, forgiveness, and reconcilation in the story of three generations of women: Kathleen, her mother, Eleanor, and her grandmother, Fiona. Each woman left home to escape her family's past and to start a new life"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Physical Desc
402 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cutthroat mothers, and a suspicious death at a horse show...from the author of Good Rich People When the nouveau riche Parker family moves to an exclusive community in the heart of Southern California, they believe it's their chance at a fresh start. Heather Parker is determined to give her daughters the life she never had--starting with horses. She signs...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Hannah has abandoned everything-her trajectory as a law student, her childhood home and caring for her ill mother-for the chance to work with the Innocence Project, a prestigious coalition of investigators who fight to free wrongly convicted prisoners. Hannah's ambitions are set on the program's highest-stakes case in years: a convicted rapist and murderer on death row. She'll do anything-whatever it takes-to work on this case. Because Hannah has...
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the California desert"--
79) Catch a kiss
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Izzie just loves when her Mama blows her kisses to catch. Smooch kisses, zig-zag kisses, and even triple decker kisses! But even though she runs and leaps for it, Izzie misses a kiss! When Mama lets Izzie in on a sweet secret she realizes that her mama's love will always come to find her, no matter what!" --
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Bernadette is a frightfully intelligent wife and mother whose intense allergy to Seattle specifically, and to people in general, has driven her to hire a virtual assistant in India to execute even her most basic tasks. Then her daughter, Bee, insists on a family trip to Antarctica as her reward for getting perfect grades in middle school, and Bernadette is faced with the daunting prospect of actual human interaction. And then Bernadette disappears....