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"After a series of terrible dates, Marni McGuire, the host of a popular TV cooking show, forms an unbreakable bond with her best friend Ellen as well as a young intern on the show and her pregnant daughter Bella as they navigate the challenges and celebrate the joys of life"--
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
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English
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"When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"It's opening night, but far from glamorous. Alice is performing in a local Bay Area production of The Winter's Tale, the complete opposite of what she had envisioned for her career back home in Los Angeles. She doesn't have dreams of superstardom per se, but the basement theatre in a wildfire-choked town simply isn't ideal. To make matters worse, her best friend Sadie is not even coming. Pragmatic and serious Sadie and flighty, creative Alice have...
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English
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When Etienne Bernay, enfant terrible of French ballet, arrives. documenting his search for one special student who will receive a full scholarship to the Ballet de Paris Academie, three mothers, amidst backstabbing, jealousy, disappointment and triumph, reveal the sacrifices they've made for their children, for friendship and for art.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a reformatory center--a stunning work of great emotional power from the critically acclaimed author of If You Leave Me"--
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the house she grew up in. She does things more carefully than most people. On quiet days, she must eat only white foods. Her etiquette handbook guides her through confusing social situations, and to escape, she turns to her treasury of Sicilian folklore. The one thing very much out of her control is clever headstrong Dolly, now on the cusp of leaving home"--
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Franny tries to follow her mother's suggestion to change her appearance, but by turning hair styling into a science experiment she creates some very greedy pigtails that terrorize the town.
11) Alas de sangre
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans....
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
To free herself from her dysfunctional family in Kingston, Jamaica, and join her beloved aunt in Paris, 13-year-old Pumkin Patterson turns her passion for baking into a way to raise money for her French exam, but when word gets out, she stands to lose everything she's worked so hard for.
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English
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"A rich and riveting debut marrying centuries-old folklore to twenty-first-century queer literary fiction, City of Laughter spans four generations of Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years. Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an eighteenth century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to bring laughter to the...
Author
Series
Hildafolk volume 1
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
This Paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
In the mountains where she lives with her mother, Hilda finds many adventures and friends to share them with, including an antlered fox named Twig, a lost giant, a wood man, a wandering water spirit, and a mistakenly-belled rock troll.
17) Swanna in love
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Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 1982 and fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain is the only one left at camp. The place is a ghost town by the time her mother Val finally shows up six hours late...Assuming she is headed home to her air-conditioned Upper West Side apartment, Swanna and her lovable younger brother Madding are instead dragged to Vermont--to an artist colony where kids are not welcome...Then Swanna meets Dennis, a handsome married father of two, at a bowling...
19) Furie
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Vietnamese
Description
After a girl is taken by a trafficking ring, the kidnappers discover that her mother is a former violent gang leader who will stop at nothing to retrieve her daughter.
20) Maybe a whale
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After Grandpa dies, a girl and her mother take the trip he had planned for her, kayaking along the Pacific west coast to look for the whales that he loved"--Provided by publisher.
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