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3022) Mama mine, mama mine
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text reassure a series of barnyard babies, as well as the reader, that mamas always come back.
Author
Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
xi, 340 pages ; 19 cm
Description
This volume is the second installment of a trilogy of books which depict the life of the author, who as a young boy who was physically, emotionally, and psychologically abused by his obsessive mother. The book discusses Pelzer's struggling with his ability to fit in and adapt to the new environment around him as he is put into foster care. It also talks about the kindness of his foster parents and other people around him as well as his inability to...
3024) Regretting you
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike. Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesn't want to follow in her mother's footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn't have a spontaneous bone in her body. With warring personalities and conflicting goals, Morgan...
3025) Birthright
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
465 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Overseeing the excavation of an ancient skeleton at a small-town construction site, archaeologist Callie Dunbrook copes with accidents and rumors that the project is cursed, a situation that is complicated by a stranger's claims about her past.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
323 p ; 25 cm.
Description
Distraught when her youngest son, twenty-two-year-old Ben, plans to leave home, Edie, an actress, and her theatrical agent husband, Russell, are faced with an empty nest for the first time, until their two older children plan to move back in.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina, a small town struggling with racial tension and the hardships imposed by World War II. Tess's new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows no interest in making love. Tess quickly realizes she's trapped in...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A deliciously funny, sharply observed novel of family, wealth, love and tennis, this zeitgeisty debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one, the millennial conscience of the family, who wants to give it all away. Darley, the eldest daughter in the Stockton family, has never worried about money. The product of generational wealth and capitalist success, Darley renounced her...
3030) One Italian summer
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: to Positano, the magical town where Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy's father. Katy has been waiting years for Carol to take her, and now she is faced with embarking...
3031) Dear brother
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Sister, who constantly feels overlooked, especially when the family gets a pet of Brother's choice, decides to send him letters expressing how she feels, and to her surprise, he thoughtfully responds.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xi, 302 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Two sisters reconnect and pursue their dreams on the beautiful island of Nantucket, overcoming life's challenges and finding new love, in this heartwarming and hopeful novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. Eddie Grant is happy with her life and her work as a personal assistant to Dinah Lavender, one of the most famous and renowned romance authors in the business. But being a spectator to notoriety and glamour isn't as fulfilling...
3033) The housemaid's secret
Author
Series
Housemaid novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I...
3034) Home
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2008, 2009
Physical Desc
325 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack--the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years--comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain.
3035) The cowboy bargain
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023].
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 17 cm
Description
A little competition...brings a change of heart. Sam Morgan never thought he'd see his ex-fiancée again after she skipped town days before their wedding. He certainly didn't expect to find her opening a restaurant on his property--in the building he'd intended to sell his crafts from. This time Olivia's sticking around, forcing Sam to strike a deal: work together and see whose products sell best. Could their business venture lead to a surprising...
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 22
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Summer Sullivan, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, has spent the last two years pursuing a master's degree in history at the University of Chicago. Her unexpected return home to the celebrated quilter's retreat is met with delight but also concern from her mother, Gwen; her best friend, Sarah; master quilter Sylvia; and her other colleagues--and rightly so. Stymied by writer's block, Summer hasn't finished her thesis, and she can't...
3037) Day: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house--and whose departure...
3038) Squished
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
243 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Eleven-year-old Avery Lee loves living in Hickory Valley, Maryland. She loves her neighborhood, school, and the end-of-summer fair she always goes to with her two best friends. But she's tired of feeling squished by her six siblings! They're noisy and chaotic and the younger kids love her a little too much. All Avery wants is her own room -- her own space to be alone and make art. So she's furious when Theo, her grumpy older brother, gets his own...
3039) Barnyard dance!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
[22] p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A bespectacled fiddle-playing cow and a pig twirling a sheep are featured in a barnyard dance.
3040) Reunion
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Redemption volume 5
Pub. Date
2004, 2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
378 p. ; [592 p. large print] ; 21 cm.
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