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2181) The someday daughter
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The daughter of a self-help superstar, Audrey is determined to create her own identity and agrees to go on her mother's book tour, hoping to figure out how they fit into each other's lives, but is unaware of how much this summer will upend her carefullyplanned life"--
Publisher
Distributed by Allumination FilmWorks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A stranger in a strange land, Bolivar De La Cruz has just crossed the border from Mexico in search of a better life. In contrast, restless, club-hopping second-generation immigrant Lola has the American Dream at her fingertips but feels like a stranger in her own life, forever caught between appeasing her old-world mother and following her heart. On the surface, despite their shared ethnic heritage, Bolivar and Lola have little in common. But when...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (474 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Torment: A dark coming-of-age drama about a boarding-school senior, Widgren, terrorized by his sadistic Latin teacher. When Widgren falls for a troubled local girl, Bertha, he finds himself caught up even further in a web of emotional mind games.
Crisis: Urban beauty-shop proprietress Mrs. Jenny arrives in an idyllic rural town one morning to whisk away her 18-year-old daughter, Nelly, whom she abandoned as a child, from the loving woman who raised...
2184) Everything, everything
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"My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I'm allergic to the world. I don't leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black -- black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking...
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"In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother?s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother?s fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother?s racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century colonial Louisiana. In coming to terms with her decision to publicly out her mother, Gail changed how she looks...
2186) Harper Valley P.T.A
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
What happens when Stella Johnson and her daughter Dee come up against the unwelcome wagon of the Harper Valley P.T.A?
2187) Nobody's son: a memoir
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"'There comes a time in your life when the past decides to run you down,' Mark Slouka writes in this heartbreaking and soul-searching memoir about one man's attempt to reckon with the past. Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka's parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees moving from Innsbruck to Sydney to New York, dragging with them...
Author
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Desde que Emoni Santiago se qued�o embarazada durante el segundo a�no de instituto, su vida se ha reducido a tomar decisiones dif�iciles y hacer lo mejor posible para su hija y para su abuela. Pero el �unico lugar en el que puede olvidarse de todo es en la cocina: all�i permite que sus manos le digan qu�e cocinar, sigue su intuici�on y agrega una peque�na pizca de magia en cada receta, lo que convierte su comida en una maravilla absoluta....
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Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Both a toolbox of fresh tips and an amusing snapshot of parental love and wisdom colliding with teenage apathy, The Perfect Score Project rivets. In the book Debbie does it all: wrestles with Kaplan and Princeton Review, enrolls in Kumon, navigates khanacademy.org, meets regularly with a premier grammar coach, takes a battery of intelligence tests, and even cadges free lessons from the world?s most prestigious (and expensive) test prep company."--Amazon.com.
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2190) Paper Hearts
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"I'm sorry," he said, slowly untying the ribbon that held his mask in place. "It's just-I didn't want you to think of me any differently." Somehow I kept my mouth from falling open. I knew his face, but my mind couldn't accept that he was the person looking down at me. "My real name is Alec." Felicity has her entire future planned. Ever since her older sister ran away, she's had the full weight of her mother's expectations on her shoulders. So she...
2191) Small fry
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"A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in her, ushering her into a new world of mansions, vacations,...
2192) I rise
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Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Ayo has to decide whether to take on her mother's activist role when her mom is shot by police. As she tries to find answers, Ayo looks to the wisdom of her ancestors and her Harlem community for guidance"--
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Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
8 CDs (9 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A leading figure in the women's leadership movement counsels women on how to cultivate the essential skills of reevaluating expectations, setting realistic goals, and meaningfully engaging with others in order to thrive in personal and professional arenas.
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Series
Magnificent Mya Tibbs volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2017.
Physical Desc
261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
As she awaits the arrival of a new baby sister, Mya is cornered into a bet with her enemy that forces her to spend every night studying and enters a chili cook-off despite her limited culinary skills.
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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...
2196) Drawing home
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
607 pages (large print)
Description
"Summer has started in idyllic Sag Harbor, and for Emma Mapson that means greeting guests at the front desk of The American Hotel. But when one of the town's most famous residents, artist Henry Wyatt, dies suddenly, Emma learns he has mysteriously left his waterfront home - a self-designed masterpiece filled with his work - to her teenage daughter, Penny. Back in Manhattan, legendary art patron Bea Winstead's grief at her lifelong friend and former...
2197) The edge of summer
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Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 24 cm
Description
After the death of her beloved, intensely private mother, Sutton Douglas, leaving the Ozarks behind, heads to a magical Michigan resort town where she hopes to find answers to the lifelong questions she's had about not only her mother's past but her own place in the world.
2198) Truevine: two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South
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"The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world...
2199) The women in the walls
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Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Lucy Acosta's mother died when she was three. Growing up in a Victorian mansion in the middle of the woods with her cold, distant father, she explored the dark hallways of the estate with her cousin, Margaret. They're inseparable--a family. When her aunt Penelope, the only mother she's ever known, tragically disappears while walking in the woods surrounding their estate, Lucy finds herself devastated and alone. Margaret has been spending a lot of...
2200) Settle for more
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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Television journalist Megyn Kelly reflects on the enduring values and experiences that have shaped her -- from growing up in a family that rejected the "trophies for everyone" mentality, to her father's sudden, tragic death while she was in high school. She goes behind the scenes of her career, sharing the stories and struggles that landed her in the anchor chair of cable's #1 news show. Speaking candidly about her decision to "settle for more," Megyn...
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