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Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
t was 1970 when thirteen-year-old runaway Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero, a smooth-talking, low-level criminal, who first coddled her and then groomed her into his partner-in-crime. Before long, Kit and Manny were infamous for their string of gas station robberies throughout Texas, making a name for themselves as the Texaco Twosome.
Twenty years after they meet, Kit has scraped together a life for herself and her daughter amongst the pecan...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Emma, a politician constantly under fire who is lobbying for a new law to protect women and girls from online bullying, is pushed to the limit when a body is found in her house, and will do anything to protect her reputation and family, no matter what the cost.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Losing her mother to a hit-and-run at age 15 threw Beatrice "Beans" Bennett's life into turmoil. Bereft, she developed a life-threatening eating disorder, and went through a challenging recovery process which paved the way for her work as a clinical psychologist decades later. When a new patient arrives at her office and insists that Beans's mother is still alive-and in danger-Beans is forced to revisit her past in order to uncover the truth. She...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
293 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alexis, a 12-year-old native Hawaiian, is terrified of the ocean and the creatures that live there because of an encounter she had early in her life with a moray eel. Her mother, a civilian contractor for the Navy, likes to give Alexis elaborate puzzles to solve when she's away on assignments. One puzzle gets her working for her grumpy neighbor, who everyone calls Uncle Tanaka, helping him gather marine samples. She has to use all her problem-solving...
67) Reminders of Him
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter's life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself. The only person who hasn't closed the door on her completely is Ledger Ward, a local bar owner and one of the...
68) Winter garden
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Reunited when their beloved father falls ill, sisters Meredith and Nina find themselves under the shadow of their disapproving mother, whose painful history is hidden behind her rendition of a Russian fairy tale told to the sisters in childhood.
69) Little women
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
An unabridged edition of nineteenth-century American author Louisa May Alcott's novel about four New England sisters who come of age during the Civil War, which also includes discussion questions and activity ideas for reading groups.
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?
71) Saturday
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this heartfelt and universal story, a mother and daughter look forward to their special Saturday routine together every single week. But this Saturday, one thing after another goes wrong--ruining storytime, salon time, picnic time, and the puppet show they'd been looking forward to going to all week. Mom is nearing a meltdown...until her loving daughter reminds her that being together is the most important thing of all.
72) The Hazel Wood
Author
Series
Hazel Wood volume 1
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get.
73) Liar, liar
Author
Language
English
Description
In death, Didi Storm is finally getting the kind of publicity that eluded her in life. Twenty years ago, the ex-beauty queen worked the Vegas strip as a celebrity impersonator, too busy trying to make it big to spare much time for her daughter, Remmi. Shortly before she leaped from a San Francisco building, Didi's profile was rising again, thanks to a tell-all book. To Detective Dani Settler, it looks like a straightforward suicide, or perhaps a promotional...
74) Legacy
Author
Language
English
Description
"A ... novel of a mother and a daughter, of ambition and romance, and of a traumatic past reawakened by a terrifying threat ... 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...
75) Good as gone
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night, witnessed only by her younger sister. Her family was shattered, but managed to stick together, hoping against hope that Julie is still alive. And then one night: the doorbell rings. A young woman who appears to be Julie is finally, miraculously, home safe. The family is ecstatic--but Anna, Julie's mother, has whispers of doubts. She hates to face them. She...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A child living in the Arctic learns that a mother's love is unconditional
A child living in the Arctic learns that a mother's love is unconditional. On board pages.
A child living in the Arctic learns that a mother's love is unconditional.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate--the first automobile any of them have seen--and a stranger arrives. In...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
151 p. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Amber Brown must make some important decisions when her mother and Max move their wedding date up and prepare to buy a house together, while her father makes some bad choices of his own.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Three generations of women strive for real freedom in this startling, provocative novel exploring sexuality, gender, and maternal ambivalence, from the acclaimed author of The Best Kind of People. It's 1997 and Missy's band has finally hit the big time as they tour across America. At twenty-two years old, Missy gets on stage every night and plays the song about her absent mother that made the band famous. Missy is the only girl in the band and she's...
Author
Series
An Elm Creek quilts novel volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sylvia Bergstrom Compson and her fiance Andrew embark on a difficult journey to find her mother's missing heirloom quilts, all the while discovering secrets regarding her mother's life and untimely death.