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Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After Mimi Slavitt's three-year-old son, Danny, is diagnosed with autism, she finds herself in a world nearly as isolating as her son's. It is a position she shares only with mothers like herself, women chosen against their will for lives of sacrifice and martyrdom. Searching for miracles, begging for the help of heartless bureaucracies while arranging every minute of every day for children who can never be left alone, they exist in a state of perpetual...
2) Hello, Moon
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A parent and child explore the wonder of the changing moon together.
Author
Series
Bird Box novels volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a world where no one can go outside for fear of something terrifying that when seen drives people to deadly violence, single mother Malorie and her two children must attempt a terrifying twenty-mile trip downriver while blindfolded.
4) Mother land
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
JP, one of seven living children, contemplates his mother's influence on the family and his life, as he struggles with her disappointment in him and suspects she may have sabotaged a budding relationship.
7) Hero mom
Author
Publisher
Amazon Children's Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A child demonstrates that while Mom differs from a traditional superhero, as an American soldier, she is a hero of a different kind.
8) Son
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 4
Language
English
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Noble children Thomas and Emily have always known their mother to be sensible...But then they discover Meg, a cranky scribe who lives in the castle basement...Meg claims that she was a friend of their mother's back when the two were kids--even before thedragon lived in the castle...Not sure they can believe Meg's tales, the kids return again and again to hear the evolving, fantastical story of their mother's escapades"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three "nudges" to change the outcome of events on earth, and with her daughter Willa on her third miscarriage,...
14) The snow day
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Description
A little rabbit enjoys having a day off from kindergarten and spending time with his mother during a snowstorm, but his father's flight home is cancelled until the snow stops falling.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Returning home for a family reunion, Laura Bartone and her brother, Steve, are stunned by their sister's allegations of shocking behavior on the part of their mother, and must come to terms with the truth and lies within their family.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers. Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the 1%, but she can't seem to find her own...until...
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