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Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
When Etienne Bernay, enfant terrible of French ballet, arrives. documenting his search for one special student who will receive a full scholarship to the Ballet de Paris Academie, three mothers, amidst backstabbing, jealousy, disappointment and triumph, reveal the sacrifices they've made for their children, for friendship and for art.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Description
In a small Mississippi town, justice and the law are two very different things. A modern noir-thriller based on the acclaimed novel by Michael Farris Smith. Two lost souls, tortured by the mistakes of their past, are bound by a secret that keeps them running.
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"Sunny, Arianna and Molly are having three very different but equally terrible Christmases. Sunny is a newlywed with two new stepkids who want nothing to do with her; Arianna is newly divorced and hates having to send her daughter off to spend the holiday with her dad; for Molly, nothing is new, but her job at the post office is getting very, very old. The whole Christmas season has been a bust all around. But Sunny and Arianna have a wild idea: What...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
When twelve-year-old Fern and her mother abruptly leave their isolated, off-the-grid community, Fern wants nothing more than to return, but things get murky as she slowly adjusts to her new life and discovers unsettling truths about her old one.
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
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
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
When a memory of her estranged mom doesn't match up, seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh, who has a rare condition that causes her to travel back to a moment in her life when she smells something linked to that memory, journeys to Korea to discover the truth.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
When her mother, a Vietnam War refugee, dies suddenly, Annie Shaw finds her OCD coming back with a vengeance, and when the investigation zeroes in on her, her mind increasingly fractures and the only thing she knows is this: she will do anything to protect her daughter even if it means losing herself.
11) Annika: Season 2
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Detective Inspector Annika Strandhed and the Marine Homicide Unit return to solve more brutal and unexplained murders that wash up in Scotland's waters. The team is challenged as their dynamics shift, pushing them to rapidly adapt as they encounter murders more complex than ever before.
12) Glory be
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"It's a hot and sticky Sunday in Lafayette, Louisiana, and Glory has settled into her usual after-church routine, meeting gamblers at the local coffee shop, where she works as a small-time bookie. Sitting at her corner table, Glory hears that her best friend--a nun beloved by the community--has been found dead in her apartment. When police declare the mysterious death a suicide, Glory is convinced that there must be more to the story. With her reluctant...
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"Thirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment, but that may be the only thing they have in common. It's been nearly three years since they lost beloved husband and father Martn̕, who had always been the bridge between them. One day, cleaning beneath his urn, Flores discovers a note written in her mother's handwriting: Perdn̤ame si te falle. Recuerda que siempre te quise. ("Forgive me if I failed you. Remember...
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."
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Description
A teen loses a leg in a riding accident that leaves both rider and horse damaged physically and emotionally. Her mother, who has left her family for a job in the city, takes her daughter and the horse to a "horse whisperer," hoping that he can provide the necessary healing.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2024, 2019
Description
From writers Nick Antosca (Channel Zero) and Michelle Dean comes The Act, based on Dean's 2016 Buzzfeed article "Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom To Be Murdered" and explores the tragic relationship between young Gypsy Blanchard and her overprotective mother Dee Dee (Patricia Arquette, in her Primetime Emmy winning performance). As Gypsy strives to break free from her mom's controlling influence, she begins to uncover a...
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...
Author
Description
Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men wherethe only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
20) 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.
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