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Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"When three women receive an unexpected phone call that leaves them reeling, they have no other choice but to reckon with a lifetime of memories they’ve long tried to bury. Only in facing the past will they find their path forward. Frances Mae Livingston’s firm grip of her family’s destructive history makes her hold her husband and four children even closer. But she’s losing bits of herself while proving to everybody and...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the house she grew up in. She does things more carefully than most people. On quiet days, she must eat only white foods. Her etiquette handbook guides her through confusing social situations, and to escape, she turns to her treasury of Sicilian folklore. The one thing very much out of her control is clever headstrong Dolly, now on the cusp of leaving home"--
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2023.
Description
"Twelve-year-old Darika "Rika" Lovelace is in trouble.the kind of trouble that sends her to her grandmother's boring estate in Trinidad for the summer. This time, tough, the island feels ... different. As soon as she steps off the plane, strange things start happening, like being stalked by an iguana!
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019, 2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"Against all odds, Sawyer befriends a group of debutantes and quickly learns that her family is not the only mainstay of high society with skeletons in their closet. As she navigates the twisted relationships between her new friends and their powerful parents, Sawyer discovers there are secrets people will kill to keep buried."
5) Sweet water
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©1993
Description
A mysterious bequest, a mother's terrible death, and a daughter's searth for the truth about the past in the little town of Sweetwater, Tennessee.
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Lulu Sinagtala can't wait for a fun Christmas break. She's excited to hang out with her sister, Kitty, and best friend, Bart; to reenact her favorite legends from Tagalog folklore (like the amazing tale of Bernardo Carpio); and, of course, to eat as much yummy street-side inihaw as possible! But when a vicious wakwak attacks her neighborhood and kidnaps Mom, Lulu discovers the creatures and deities of Tagalog myth are real and that two additional...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld. Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune...
Author
Series
Havana mystery volume 4
Pub. Date
[2024]
Formats
Description
" In 2019, newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba to care after her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes's life has been shaped by loss, beginning with the mysterious unsolved disappearance of her mother when Mercedes was a little girl. Returning to Cuba revives Mercedes's hopes of finding her mother as she attempts to piece together the few scraps of information she has. Could her mother still be alive? Thirty-three...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Description
"Anna Lapera expertly voices a young girl's middle school trials, but with a voice so unique and heartfelt you will be cringing one moment and cheering the next. She weaves a distinctive story filled with humor, family heartache, and secrets while a young girl releases the fear of her voice and grasps its power."
- Newbery Medalist Donna Barba Higuera
For fans of Donna Barba Higuera's Lupe Wong Won't Dance and Aida Salazar's The Moon Within, comes...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Paul's just here to help, or so he claims -- sent by a charity for vulnerable people to do odd jobs for elderly widow Gwen. But for Gwen's daughter Connie, there's just something about Paul that rings alarm bells from day one. He's a little too kind, a little too involved... Worse still, Gwen seems to have fallen under his spell. The last thing Connie wants is a stranger meddling in the safe routine she's built around Gwen. She loves being the one...
12) Hair oil magic
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Meenu discovers the magic in her culture's tradition of hair oiling, and the bond she shares with her mother and grandmother. Includes Meenu's magic hair day tips.
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Ayla lives on a beautiful tropical island surrounded by a coral reef. Her mom is a marine biologist, and every day, the two go exploring together. One day, Ayla notices that many of the fish have disappeared, and the once-vibrant corals have turned pale. She and her mom set out to save the corals--but is it too late?"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"A mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve. Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband's high-paying job. But a year after his death, the 36-year-old is a grieving single mother deeply in debt and living paycheck to paycheck with her three children. Then an unexpected call from a well-known estate lawyer in New York offers a glimmer of hope. It is the...
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