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Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Charles Dickens's great satire on poverty, riches, and imprisonment, Little Dorrit is the story of Arthur Clennam, a man whose kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, assures him nothing but trouble. Her father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, has long been imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea.
2) Stranger
Author
Publisher
Fence Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A mother's illness and early death is only the beginning of the story of Stranger, Laura Sims' second collection. This is the death whose presence and particulars are felt and inscribed, and which achieves an agency, a purview, a resistance. We feel the loss from all angles, even as Sims' episodic, quicksilver narrative moves up and through a mother's life and its incompletion, her apprehension in the face of death, a surviving child's guilt and the...
3) Missing
Author
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Enter
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When a young woman's mother mysteriously disappears, she tries to find her from home with the use of online tools available to her.
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the Internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: they'll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other's out, and they'll both go on to find the love of their lives. It's a bonkers idea--and it just might work. Emma hadn't planned that...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
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"As You Like It, Shakespeare's most lighthearted comedy and one of the best-loved and most performed of all his plays, was probably written in 1599 or 1600, though it was not printed until the First Folio of 1623. As its witty heroine is Shakespeare's longest female role, the play's performance history is marked by notable Rosalinds, from Hannah Pritchard and Margaret Woffington (giving rival performances in 1741), to Helen Faucit, Ada Rehan, Peggy...
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old ©mbar has never known any parent other than her father, V©Ưctor Mondrag©đn, nor any life other than his - the life of a criminal. On any given Friday night, ©mbar longs to be at the arcade or a rock concert, but she's more likely to be patching up V©Ưctor's latest bullet hole in a dingy motel or creating a new set of fake identities for the both of them. Although she has come to terms with the realities of her life and enjoys...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The Act explores the tragic relationship between young Gypsy Blanchard and her overprotective mother. As Gypsy strives to break free from her mom's controlling influence, she begins to uncover a host of secrets that propel her down a deadly path.
9) Toxic prey
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Series
Language
English
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When a renowned expert in infectious diseases disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport, with the world on high alert, calls in her father, Lucas, to locate him, and when their worst fears are confirmed, they must race against time to stop the virus he created from becoming the perfect weapon.
10) Gut reaction
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
Tess Medina is dealing with the loss of her beloved father, a new school, and the troubling fact that the thing she enjoys most in life, baking, seems to be making her increasingly ill--something she is trying to hide from everybody.
11) Tear me apart
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Competitive skier Mindy Wright is a superstar in the making until a spectacular downhill crash threatens not just her racing career but her life. During surgery, doctors discover she's suffering from a severe form of leukemia, and a stem cell transplant is her only hope. But when her parents are tested, a frightening truth emerges. Mindy is not their daughter. The race to save Mindy's life means unraveling years of lies. Was she accidentally switched...
12) Finding Papa
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Follows young Mai and her mother's perilous journey from Vietnam to America to find Papa--who left ahead of them to start a better life for their family"--
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Almost a year after settling down in Oregon, Coyote embarks on a cross-country road trip with her dad to scatter her mom's ashes, but the journey takes an unexpected turn when she realizes the secret to the chosen resting place lies in a lost book.
14) She's not sorry
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Language
English
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Single mother and full-time nurse Meghan Michaels, when it is revealed her patient with a traumatic brain injury didn't jump from a bridge but was pushed, mistakenly lets herself get too close to the case, realizing she and her daughter could be the next victims.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Audrey St. Vrain has grown up in the shadow of someone who doesn't actually exist. Before she was born, her mother, Camilla St. Vrain, wrote the bestselling book Letters to My Someday Daughter, a guide to self-love that advises treating yourself like you would your own hypothetical future daughter. The book made Audrey's mother a household name, and she built an empire around it. While the world considers Audrey lucky to have Camilla for a mother,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
Lu̕ca loves to watch the monarchs' migration from her home in Mexico with Pàp. But this year, the monarchs' journey north holds extra weight; Pàp is heading north, too, to look for work. He promises her that when "the weather turns cold and the monarcas return, our winged ancestors will guide me home." So while he spends the summer months harvesting produce on faraway farms, Lu̕ca watches the skies for signs of the monarchs'--and her pàp's--return.
A...