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Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Fifty-year-old artist's model Helen Knightly, worn down by years of dealing with her depressed and needy mother, gives in to the temptation to smother the now old and senile Clair and spends the next twenty-four hours feeling both liberated by what she has done, and tormented by her memories of the past and expectations for the future.
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Language
English
Description
San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads Luling's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China--where LuLing's mute, disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient hominid Peking Man.
3) On the run
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Language
English
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Horse handler and former CIA agent Grace Archer turns to the father of her child for help for the first time in eight years when the Middle Eastern magnate who wants her dead finds her at the Alabama horse farm where she has been hiding.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Siddalee Walker, a successful theater director, is thrown into a void of uncertainty when she has a falling out with her mother over a New York Times article in which Vivi is characterized as an abusive parent, and the Ya-Yas, Vivi's gang of lifelong girlfriends, conspire to restore the mother-daughter relationship.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Calla Lily enjoys a blissful childhood in La Luna, Louisiana, learning her mother's healing ways and experiencing the joys of new love, until Calla's heart is broken, prompting her to move to New Orleans, where she discovers her destiny and begins to fully understand her special powers.
7) Almost home
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
10) Unhinged
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Series
Language
English
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Life gets complicated once again for teenaged Alyssa when her mother returns home from an asylum and the mysterious Morpheus tempts Alyssa with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after finding fame with a novel based on her own life, Cannie Shapiro has faded from the spotlight, content to write science fiction under a pen name and raise her daughter, Joy, but as Joy prepares for her bat mitzvah and begins to ask questions about Cannie's past, Cannie realizes she cannot hide forever if she wants to be truly happy.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After Senator Richard Woodruff's extramarital affair makes the headlines, his wife, Sylvie, and daughters, Lizzie and Diana, are caught in the national spotlight and begin to reconsider the choices that they have made in life and who they believe they were meant to become.
13) Knit two
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Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The members of the Friday Night Knitting Club help one another cope with new challenges, as Catherine searches for love after her divorce, Darwin dreams of starting a family, Lucie struggles to care for her elderly mother, and Anita must choose between her grown children and her sweetheart.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
Assistant District Attorney Alexa Hamilton reluctantly sends her seventeen-year-old daughter Savannah, to live with her ex-husband and his family in Charleston after she received death threats against Savannah's life for prosecuting serial killer Luke Quentin.
16) Article 5
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller, living in a world in which the Bill of Rights has been revoked, is able to keep a low profile until her mother is arrested for noncompliance and she realizes the officer responsible is her first love, Chase Jennings.
17) Out of the Easy
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Shelby Cooper, nearly eighteen, has been overprotected by her single mother all her life but after a car accident, Shelby's mother steals her away from the hospital, revealing that Shelby's father is not dead, but rather a violent man who promised to hunt them down.
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Ran\dom House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A poor girl delights in her coat of many colors, made by her mother from rags, because despite the ridicule of the other children she knows the coat was made with love.
"Country music legend Dolly Parton's upbringing in rural Tennessee provides the backdrop for this charming tale of love in a time of need. With winter on the way and no money for new clothes, Mama stitches a coat for her little girl from a donated box of rags. And though her classmates...
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