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Language
English
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In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...
2) The nanny
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Accepting a live-in nanny position for executive chef Aiden Reid, Cassie Evans soon discovers that he is not a stranger at all, but her biggest OnlyFans client, and faced with an impossible situation, struggles with telling him the truth before things get even hotter between them.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Sara Grayson is a thirty-two-year-old greeting card writer about to land the toughest assignment of her life. Three weeks after the death of her mother--a world-famous suspense novelist--Sara learns that her mother's dying wish is for her to write the final book in her bestselling series...Against an impossible deadline and a publisher intent on sabotaging her every move, Sara discovers that stepping into her mother's shoes means stumbling on family...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Adoption Unfiltered authors Sara Easterly (adoptee), Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard (birth parent), and Lori Holden (adoptive parent) interview more than 30 adoptees, 20 birth parents, a dozen adoptive parents, and several industry professionals-all sharing candidly about the challenges in adoption. Flipping the typical script, in which adoptive parents take the lion's share of the narrative, this book leads with adoptee stories then moves on to stories...
Author
Series
Under suspicion (Mary Higgins Clark) volume 8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Years after their parents' murder, identical twin brothers, determined to clear one name at the expense of the other, ask Laura Moran and her Under Suspicion crew to solve this brutal crime and as they get close to the truth, they find the danger from the past finding its way into the present.
6) Boy dad
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Celebrating fathers who raise, love, and uplift little men, this picture book shows how there's nothing a dad won't do for his favorite boy.
Author
Publisher
Balance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A pediatrician provides empathy, support and evidence-based guidance to help parents manage the emotional stress and navigation of care when their child has medical issues, from ADHD and food allergies to anxiety and developmental delays.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"After being abandoned by her mother in an amusement park, twelve-year-old Mouse is determined to secretly live in the park on her own, even though getting caught could mean saving her life"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Returning to the house where her parents were murdered, mother-to-be Emma Palmer who has never told anyone what she saw the night her parents died, even when she became the prime suspect, is reunited with her estranged sisters who will do anything to keep the past buried.
10) My darling girl
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taking in her estranged mother who only has weeks to live, Alison, with memories of her violent abuse coming back to haunt her, discovers her mother is not quite who she seems as strange things start happening, forcing her to decide how far she’s willing to go to protect her family.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
As the Seeing Eye Girl for her blind and mentally ill mother, Beverly Armento was intimately connected with and responsible for her, even though her mother physically and emotionally abused her. Written for the walking wounded among us who hide their pain behind smiles—and for the educators and mentors who sometimes doubt the power of their influence—Seeing Eye Girl is an inspiring story of one girl’s search for hope in an abusive, dysfunctional...
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 9
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This compendium tells the entire story (so far!) of a girl named Hazel and her star-crossed parents. Hazel is a child born to parents from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war. Now, Hazel's fugitive family must risk everything to find a peaceful future in a harsh universe that values destruction over creation.
Author
Publisher
Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
We're never going to measure up to the 'perfect parent' model we've built up in our heads, cobbled together from our childhoods, our parents, cultural ideals, social media, and everything in between. We want to be good parents, but our pasts hold us back. If you're thinking: 'I can't be a good parent because I had a shitty childhood, bad parents, or a traumatic experience,' stop! Let go of what came before and start taking action in the present to...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Lily and Charlotte are as different as two thirteen-year-olds can be, but they are spending the summer together in a small beach house because their parents are dating; trouble is, they can't stop sniping at each other--until an accident gives them a new perspective on their lives.
16) Face the night
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Once, Catriona Macgregor led a charmed life. Daughter of a wealthy rancher, pretty and educated, she looked forward to all the world had to offer—until fate took a turn. As “Black Cat Whitfield,” adopted daughter of an outlaw, she’s wanted by the authorities. It certainly wasn’t the destiny she imagined—especially as one of the Blessed. The Blessed, rare people like Cat, are supposed to use their gifts to carry out missions for the Patron...
17) Throwback
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Priscilla is first-generation Korean American, a former high school cheerleader who expects her daughter Sam to want the same all-American nightmare. Meanwhile, Sam is a girl of the times who has no energy for clichéd high school aspirations. After a huge blowup, Sam finds herself thrown back. Way back. To her shock, Sam lands in the '90s . . . alongside a 17-year-old Priscilla. Now, Sam has to deal with outdated tech, regressive '90s attitudes,...
Author
Publisher
The Guilford Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This unique book guides parents to help their child or teen thrive and keep their loving connection strong, even in hot-button situations. Dr. Barkley presents 12 key parenting principles that address the most common problems that ADHD poses, such as family conflicts, difficult behavior, school problems, out-of-control emotions, and parental stress. Concise, inspiring, and filled with quick-reference lists and tips, this is the perfect book for parents...
19) West of the sea
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When her mom disappears from their small Texas town, Haven is determined to find her. But as she uncovers truths about her mom's identity, Haven also uncovers a monstrous family secret. Her mom can take the shape of a human and, in the right environment, also turn into an amphibious creature known as a kitskara. And now that she's growing up, Haven is discovering she has this ability, too. This newfound identity is her only clue to help her track...
20) Shark teeth
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Kita embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.
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