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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...
684) Untouchable
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A man's quest to find answers for those who are haunted by the past leads him deeper into the shadows in this electrifying novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Promise Not to Tell. Quinton Zane is back. Jack Lancaster, consultant to the FBI, has always been drawn to the coldest of cold cases, the kind that law enforcement either considers unsolvable or else has chalked up to accidents or suicides. As a survivor of a fire, he finds...
685) Back to the future
Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Marty McFly test-drives his friend Doc's time machine and accidentally travels 30 years into the past, where he must locate a younger version of Doc and make sure that his parents fall in love.
686) Yotsuba&!: 3
Author
Series
Yotsuba&! volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"YOTSUBA heeeeeere! Guess what, guess what!? Yotsuba is going to a flower store with Fuuka! Yotsuba's gonna give flowers to everybody in the whole, wide world, even the police lady with her whistle that goes-- PI! PI! PIPI! PI! PIPUUUUUUUU!!"--Publisher's web site.
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This sweet paper-over-board storybook treasury collects eighteen popular CoComelon stories that are perfect for reading aloud at bedtime or any time! Join JJ, his family, and his friends in their many lessons and adventures from going to school to meeting the doctor to getting ready for bed to managing difficult feelings, and so much more!"--
688) The twin
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"After sixteen-year-old Ivy's twin sister, Iris, moves in with her and their father, Ivy learns that Iris is trying to push her out of her own life--and may be responsible for their mother's death." --
691) Lilith: a novel
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After her son Lydan suffers traumatic injuries in a school shooting, single mom Elisabeth Ross grows enraged at men in power. If they won't do anything to help end this epidemic of violence, she will. Believing it's her destiny, she sets out to awaken the world to the cowards these men are and commits her own shocking act of violence. Going by the name Lilith -- the first wife of Adam who fled Eden rather than serve a man -- she posts a video of...
Author
Publisher
Adoption Wise Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Shed your shame. Renew your hope. Rediscover the parent you know you can be. Is your adoption journey turning out differently than you imagined? You had so much love to give, but now you feel ashamed and bewildered by your lack of compassion. You may be experiencing blocked care-a self-protective mechanism in your nervous system that makes it difficult to connect with your child and maintain compassion. When it happens, it's like your heart seems...
Author
Publisher
Heart Words Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Weaning can be difficult with or without a children's book about weaning. However, the stress of weaning can be lessened when mothers have a resource to help toddlers acknowledge and understand this significant transition. This book was written to help mothers talk to toddlers about weaning. It can be helpful during the weaning process, and it can help newly weaned toddlers and toddlers with a new nursing sibling. All mothers who have breastfed a...
695) A father for Zach
Author
Series
Lighthouse Lane volume 4
Publisher
Irene Hannon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Widowed mother Catherine Walker hopes to help her fatherless little boy deal with his painful memories.
696) The pond
Author
Publisher
Graffeg
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A young boy and his family are trying to overcome the loss of his father. The natural world becomes part of the healing process.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Noura can't wait for the sun to go down. The month of Ramadan is almost over, and she and Mama and Papa are headed for the hills for a moonsighting picnic. It would be truly special if Noura's first fast ended with a glimpse of a silvery crescent in the night sky. If the moon stays hidden, that means one more long day before Noura gets to put on her sparkly new dress and the joyful Eid celebrations begin!" -- Jacket flap
699) The dead years
Author
Series
Cory and Crystal Pratt novels volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Siblings Cory and Crystal Pratt are still trying to get their lives together after a tragic accident which killed their parents years ago. The only thing that distracts them now is their jobs. With Crystal working as a newly minted detective at the Chicago Police Department and Cory owning a dog training academy with two human remains detection dogs of his own, their professional paths cross every now and then. Crime, and especially murder, in Chicago...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Combining expert information with practical, sensitive advice, the eight "key" concepts here will help parents reduce chaos, improve cooperation, and nurture the advantages--like creativity and drive--that often accompany all of that energy"--Page [4] of cover.
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