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81) The scoop
Author
Series
Godmothers novels volume 1
Description
In this first book of a new series, Michaels introduces The Godmothers, four unforgettable women who are about to get a whole new lease on life. When the gossip newspaper where her daughter works is in danger of closing down because of the owner's gambling debts, Teresa "Toots" Loudenberry calls on three trusted friends to help her pull some strings to keep her daughter employed among Hollywood's elite.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When twelve-year-old Fern and her mother abruptly leave their isolated, off-the-grid community, Fern wants nothing more than to return, but things get murky as she slowly adjusts to her new life and discovers unsettling truths about her old one.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Faye is a thirty-seven-year-old happily married mother of two young daughters. Every night, before she puts them to bed, she whispers to them: “You are good, you are kind, you are clever, you are funny.” She?s determined that they never doubt for a minute that their mother loves them unconditionally. After all, her own mother Jeanie had died when she was only seven years old and Faye has never gotten over that intense pain of losing her. But one...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
32 p. ;
Description
When Heather goes to playgroup, at first she feels bad because she has two mothers and no father, but then she learns that there are lots of different kinds of families and the most important thing is that all the people love each other.
Author
Formats
Description
"Dearest loved ones, far and near -- evergreen tidings from the Baumgartners! Violet Baumgartner has opened her annual holiday letter the same way for the past three decades. And this year she's going to throw her husband, Ed, a truly perfect retirement party, one worthy of memorializing in her upcoming letter. But the event becomes a disaster when, in front of two hundred guests, Violet learns her daughter Cerise has been keeping a shocking secret...
86) Tin camp road
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
288 pages 24 cm.
Description
"The author of South of Superior returns to that same territory and landscape with this story of a woman who, on the verge of losing the land and home that defines her, finds her way to a brighter future when she learns the power of giving to and accepting help from the community around her"--
88) Lady Bird
Pub. Date
2018
Formats
Description
The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Born invisible, seventeen-year-old Pie wants more from life than lurking unseen in other people's houses, but when she finally reveals herself, her mother disappears, and Pie begins to question everything she thought she knew.
Author
Publisher
G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Returning to an idyllic Rhode Island oceanfront community for the summer of 1938, New York socialite Lily Dane is devastated by the appearance of her newly married ex-fiance and her former best friend.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she's sleeping, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie spies a dead butterfly, exactly matching the ones on the lamp, floating in a glass of water. She drinks...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Seventeen-year-old Evie, devastated by her father's death and the knowledge that he had planned to leave their family for another woman pregnant with his child, finds a way forward through a prestigious photography class and handsome classmate Declan.
93) Mildred Pierce
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 111 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mildred Pierce is a woman who will do anything to satisfy the demands of her spoiled daughter Veda, including divorce, opening her own business, and possibly murder.
94) Porch Lights
Author
Series
Lowcountry tales (Dorothea Benton Frank) volume 10
Description
In the South Carolina Lowcountry, three generations of a family--a grandmother, a mother, and a son--discover the indelible power of love as they share a memorable summer on Sullivan's Island.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"Stuck in a bus full of strangers, mother-and-daughter duo Jessica and Emily Burnstein watch their carefully mapped-out college tour devolve into something they never expected in this hilarious and insightful new novel from the author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill. Jessica and Emily have very different ideas of how this college tour should go. For Emily, it's a last-ditch effort to get excited about her future, because every day in the present...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Bestselling advice columnist Vandy Guru built her career teaching others how to live honestly and courageously, but after the loss of her husband, Vandy’s public veneer can barely conceal her grief. When her beloved daughter Mallika suddenly disappears and her estranged childhood best friend Rani returns, stirring up long-buried secrets, Vandy’s carefully crafted life feels at risk. Aspiring choreographer Mallika Guru is tired of failure. When...
Author
Description
Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her late husband's venture capital firm, and in doing so is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse in the...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 24 cm
Description
When Sadie Roper moves back to London, she's determined to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. First, she needs to get her daughter settled into a new school-one of the most exclusive in the city. Next, she's going to get back the high-flying criminal barrister career she sacrificed for marriage ten years earlier. But nothing goes quite as planned. The school is not very welcoming to newcomers, her daughter hasn't made any friends yet and the...
100) Little Night
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
At the end of a long day, Mother Sky helps her playful daughter, Little Night, to get ready for bed.
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