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1501) Stranger in paradise
Author
Series
Carson Springs novels volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
1503) I wanted you to know
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Dear Edie, I wanted you to know so many things. I wanted to tell you them in person, as you grew up by my side. But it wasn't to be... When Jess gives birth to Edie, it's the happiest day of her life. She knows, from the moment her little girl's hand grasps her finger, that her daughter owns her heart, completely and utterly. And even though Edie's father has left them, and single motherhood isn't easy, her beautiful, innocent child brings her untold...
1504) Mildred Pierce
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
New York
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Christine O'Brien remembers growing up in NYC's famous Dakota apartment with her powerful father, her beautiful mother, and a food obsessesion that consumed her. Hunger comes in many forms. A person can crave a steak in the same way that she can crave a perfect family life. In her memoir, Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing, Christine O'Brien tells the story of her own cravings. It's a story of growing up in a family with a successful, but explosive...
1506) FOR OUR DAUGHTERS
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A Black mother replaces common misconceptions with empowering statements and lets her daughter know there are no limits to what she can achieve.
Author
Series
Ya-Yas volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
1508) Can't hear you listening
Author
Publisher
M.K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the changing relationship between Tracy and her overprotective, famous-author mother, and Tracy's struggle to help a close friend who's experimenting with drugs.
1510) Hard girls
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jane Pool likes her safe, suburban existence just fine. She has a house, a family, (an infuriating mother-in-law,) and a quiet-if-unfulfilling administrative job at the local college. Everything is wonderfully, numbingly normal. Yet Jane remains haunted by her past: her mercurial, absent mother, her parents’ secrets, and the act of violence that transformed her life. When her estranged twin, Lila, makes contact, claiming to know where their mother...
1512) Mrs. Portree's pony
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Description
Addie, a foster child who feels unloved, seeks comfort in the company of a beautiful pony and begins an enriching relationship with his owner, a proud women who has alienated and lost her own daughter.
1513) Persephone's garden
Author
Publisher
Secret Acres
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A children's song inspires a love of Greek mythology in a young girl. A young woman finds a career in archeology and illustration. A young mother sees her daughter become a woman, as her own mother's memories are lost. Persephone's Garden is a deeply personal story and an inventive study of girlhood, womanhood and motherhood, through memory, history and mythology."-- cover page 4.
1514) Antiquity: a novel
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A lonely thirtysomething disrupts the relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter on a beautiful Greek island, distorting the lines between lover and beloved and child and adult, in a queer version of Lolita by an award-winning Swedish writer.
1515) Girls and their horses
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cutthroat mothers, and a suspicious death at a horse show...from the author of Good Rich People When the nouveau riche Parker family moves to an exclusive community in the heart of Southern California, they believe it's their chance at a fresh start. Heather Parker is determined to give her daughters the life she never had-starting with horses. She signs...
1516) Mermaid Beach
Author
Series
Moonlight Harbor novels volume 7
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Bonnie Brinks and her all-woman band, The Mermaids, are the pride of Moonlight Harbor. They're the house band at The Drunken Sailor, and that's just the right amount of fame for Bonnie. A lifetime ago, she went to Nashville to make it big, but she returned home with a broken heart and broken dreams. Now she's got a comfortable life and a brilliant daughter, Avril, who plays for The Mermaids alongside Bonnie and Bonnie's mother, Loretta. Avril has...
1517) Forever home: a novel
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show returns with a tense and darky comic novel that casts a caustic light on the relationship between mothers and daughters and truth and self-preservation"--
Where do secrets live? Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only son now grown. A second chance at love brings her unexpected connection and belonging--and sparks a flurry of speculation. What...
1519) When we let go
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Avery Beckett is proposed to by Jude Masters, a widowed father and the man she loves, it should be a time of great joy. Instead, Avery is on edge. She's wary of the idea of family, doubtful of happy endings, and too afraid to take the leap. It's the kind of fear that comes from having secrets. Before Avery commits to a new life, she must reconcile with the one she left behind. When Avery returns to her childhood farm in the North Carolina mountains,...
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