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Author
Series
Mother-daughter book club volume 1
Publisher
Ideal Audiobooks, LLC
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When the mothers of four sixth-grade girls with very different personalities pressure them into forming a book club, they find, as they read and discuss "Little Women," that they have much more in common than they could have imagined.
22) The memory thief
Author
Series
Thirteen witches volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When sixth-grader Rosie begins to see magic, she learns that her mother's dwindling memory is tied to an age-old battle between the light of the moon and the darkness of witches.
23) Between sisters
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
With her wedding day approaching, Claire Cavenaugh prepares to confront her estranged older sister and self-absorbed mother after more than twenty years apart and find out how to transform themselves into a family.
24) The fourth suit
Author
Series
Magic misfits volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The Magic Misfits confront their greatest enemy in this final story told from Ridley's point of view"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her mother Carmel's orderly home to find her own voice as a writer (mostly online, ghost-blogging for an influencer) and to live a poetical life. As she chases obsessive love, damage, and transcendence in Dublin and beyond, her grandfather's poetry seems to...
26) Alas de sangre
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans....
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm--and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow's disappearance, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors. It's been a year since June started seeing and hearing things that weren't there....
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written like a crooked Métis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women and bison as they reach for the stories that could remake their worlds and rebuild their futures. Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means. Allie, Carter's mother, is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to...
29) Fly away
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Tully Hart has always been larger than life, a woman fueled by big dreams and driven by memories of a painful past. She thinks she can overcome anything until her best friend, Kate Ryan, dies. Tully tries to fulfill her deathbed promise to Kate -- to be there for Kate's children -- but Tully knows nothing about family or motherhood or taking care of people. Sixteen-year-old Marah Ryan is devastated by her mother's death. Her father, Johnny, strives...
30) Starfish
Author
Language
English
Description
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--
Ever since she wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, Ellie's been bullied about her weight. To cope, she tries to live by her list of Fat Girl Rules, which are all about not standing out. And she's found a haven in her swimming pool, where she...
31) The swimmers
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A novel portraying a group of dedicated recreational swimmers and what happens when a crack appears at the bottom of their community pool"--
The swimmers are unknown to each other except through their private routines (slow lane, fast lane), and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world without comfort or relief. One of these swimmers...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When Sally Gilmartin's life is threatened, she must turn to her daughter Ruth for help. But first Sally must reveal the truth about her past: she is actually Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigre once recruited by the British Secret Service during World War II. Though Ruth is struggling with her own demons, she is now drawn deeper and deeper into the astonishing events of her mother's past.
33) Wildful
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Nothing's been the same since Gran passed away. Mum's grief has kept her on the couch, so Poppy has started taking her dog Pepper for walks around the nieghborhood. When Poppy finds a forgotten forest through a hole in the fence, she meets a new friend who shows her that you can find magic in the wilderness--if you know where to look, what to listen for and how to wait...but will Poppy be able to help her Mum see it, too?"--