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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Our Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises. Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth. Edith...
2) Rejoice
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Redemption volume 4
Description
Brooke Baxter has achieved everything this world has to offer--a prestigious career, a beautiful home, and two wonderful children. Her recent return to her faith is an encouragement to her family. But can her fledgling faith and her rocky marriage survive?
3) Malorie
Author
Series
Bird Box novels volume 2
Description
Twelve years after Malorie and her children rowed up the river to safety, a blindfold is still the only thing that stands between sanity and madness. There remains no explanation, no solution. But for the first time Malorie has allowed herself to hope: someone very dear to her, someone she believed dead, may be alive. Now she must choose: to live by the rules of survival that have served her so well, or to venture into the darkness and reach for home...
4) Son
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 4
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
Author
Series
Llama Llama (Picture books) volume 1
Description
At bedtime, a little llama worries after his mother puts him to bed and goes downstairs.
6) The snow day
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
A little rabbit enjoys having a day off from kindergarten and spending time with his mother during a snowstorm, but his father's flight home is cancelled until the snow stops falling.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"For fans of Donna Barba Higuera's Lupe Wong Won't Dance and Aida Salazar's The Moon Within, comes Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice -- a contemporary middle grade novel full of spunk and activist heart. Manuela Mani Semilla wants two things: to get her period, and to thwart her mom's plan of taking her to Guatemala, a place that has always been more of a mystery than an answer. Mani can't imagine leaving behind Las Nerdas, her band of misfit friends,...
9) Orfeia
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"When you can find me an acre of land, Every sage grows merry in time, Between the ocean and the sand Then will you be united again. (Inspired by The Child Ballads 2 & 19) ... So begins a beautiful and tragic quest as a heartbroken mother sets out to save her lost daughter, through the realms of the real, of dream, and even into the underworld itself. But determination alone is not enough. For to save something precious, she must give up something...
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Description
Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. In the Beyond, she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three 'nudges' to change the outcome of events on earth. Daughter Willa is on her third miscarriage; daughter Carson partying until all hours,...
13) Why do we cry?
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
Description
"When Mario asks his mother why we cry, her answer comes in sweet imagery. She speaks of grey storm clouds, locked boxes and a vast ocean. She explains that we cry for many reasons -- sometimes cry because we're sad. Other times we cry because we're lonely. Often we cry because we're frustrated. And through all these emotions, our tears can calm us, heal us and help us grow. Vivid illustrations and lyrical prose combine perfectly in this sensitive,...
15) Plenty of hugs
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 26 cm
Description
Illustrations and gently rhyming text follow two mothers and their toddler on a sunny day.
18) Hula lullaby
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 26 cm.
Description
Against the backdrop of a beautiful Hawaiian landscape, a young girl cuddles and sleeps in her mother's lap.
19) Scared to death
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 18 cm.
Description
Elsa and Marin, two mothers linked by tragedy, are stalked by a faceless enemy who, driven by revenge and the poetry of nursery rhymes, longs to take out his anger on their innocent children.
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