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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
197 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Despite the disapproval of her late husband's parents, Meredith Stoltzfus has become closer to Jonah Miller. She knows he can never replace Luke, her first love, but Jonah is head over heels for Meredith and cares deeply for her baby. Besides, Jonah promises to be a good provider for her son's future. But as Meredith and Jonah begin to talk of marriage, the husband Meredith believes to be dead is about to remember something from his past. Can the...
282) Changeling
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to challenge...
283) The darkest child
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new edition of this award-winning modern classic, with new introduction, excerpt, and discussion guide Pakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle's, estimation, but she's also the brightest. Rozelle--beautiful, charismatic, and light-skinned--exercises a violent hold over her children. Fearing abandonment,...
284) Hide away
Author
Series
Rachel Marin novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the surface, Rachel Marin is an ordinary single mother; on the inside, she's a fierce, brilliant vigilante. After an unspeakable crime shatters her life, she changes her identity and moves to a small town in Illinois, hoping to spare her children from further trauma...or worse. But crime follows her everywhere. When the former mayor winds up dead, Rachel can't help but get involved. Where local detectives see suicide, she sees murder. They resent...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society, and when she falls for no-account Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves. In 1982, Evelyn's daughter, Jackie, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband's drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family, he returns,...
286) Just like you
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she'd been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she's a nearly-divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isn't exactly looking for love--she's more...
Author
Series
Sunshine Vicram volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sheriff Sunshine Vicram finds her cup o' joe more than half full when the small village of Del Sol, New Mexico, becomes the center of national attention for a kidnapper on the loose. Del Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an-egg-on-the-cement summers, its strong cups of coffee--and a nationwide manhunt? Del Sol native Sunshine Vicram has returned to town as the elected sheriff--an election her adorably meddlesome parents entered her...
288) Amy and Isabelle
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student, falls in love with her math teacher, the love affair threatens the intimate relationship between Amy and her mother, Isabelle, whose feelings are influenced by the shame of her own past.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Escaping New York City and the espionage case that made her question everything, recently widowed Lina returns home to sell the house she has inherited in tony Greenfield, California. With her teenage son Rory, Lina hopes to reassemble her life, reevaluate her career, and find a clear way forward. Adrift and battling insomnia, she discovers that her father's sleepy hometown has been transformed into a Silicon Valley suburb on steroids, obsessed with...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef." --
Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago has been doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. She dreams of working as a chef after...
291) No one else
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charlene is a single mom and full-time nurse who also cares for her elderly father. She was already struggling to hold everything together when tragedy strikes and her nonconformist brother returns home unexpectedly, piling chaos on top of grief. A tightwire act of functioning dysfunction teeters on the brink in this funny and bittersweet work of graphic fiction from The New Yorker cartoonist R. Kikuo Johnson (Night Fisher), gorgeously set in and...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 397 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the experiences of three women soldiers deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq to reveal how their military service has affected their friendship, personal lives and families, detailing the realities of their work on bases and in war zones and how their choices and losses shaped their perspectives.
294) Tomorrow's bread
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of the acclaimed The Dry Grass of August comes a richly researched yet lyrical Southern-set novel that explores the conflicts of gentrification--a moving story of loss, love, and resilience. In 1961 Charlotte, North Carolina, the predominantly black neighborhood of Brooklyn is a bustling city within a city. Self-contained and vibrant, it has its own restaurants, schools, theaters, churches, and night clubs. There are shotgun shacks...
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Language
English
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Description
"Living through WWII working in a Paris bookstore with her young daughter, Vivi, and fighting for her life, Charlotte is no victim, she is a survivor. But can she survive the next chapter of her life? Alternating between wartime Paris and 1950s New York publishing, Paris Never Leaves You is an extraordinary story of resilience, love, and impossible choices, exploring how survival never comes without a cost. The war is over, but the past is never past."--
During...
296) Tranquility Falls
Author
Series
Miramar Bay novels volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Kensington Hardcover Edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Six years ago, Daniel was a Los Angeles financial analyst who was too handsome for his own good. Too smart for his anchor job on the nightly news. And too enamored with the heady addictions of the high life. That man died in a tragic accident with his fiancée. With grief and guilt battling for control, Daniel moved to the quiet California seaside town of Miramar Bay with his best friend--a rescue Labradoodle who still sees him through rough times....
297) Lilith: a novel
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a school shooting leaves her son with traumatic injuries, kindergarten teacher Elisabeth Ross commits her own act of shocking violence that captures the attention of the world.
298) High stakes: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Five successful women play for high stakes in their careers at a boutique literary and talent agency where newcomer Jane Addison quickly discovers there are damaging secrets hidden behind its doors. Jane Addison is an ambitious young woman with big dreams of owning her own company someday. At twenty-eight, she arrives in New York to start a job at Fletcher and Benson, a prestigious talent agency. Eager to impress her new colleagues, Jane jumps right...
299) Saga: Volume eleven
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 11
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new allegiances in the universe's never-ending war. Romeo & Juliet meets Star Wars in this genre-blending, sci-fi/fantasy space opera about star-crossed lovers from enemy worlds. An epic for mature readers, SAGA follows new parents Marko and Alana as they risk everything to raise their child amidst a never-ending galactic war."--Amazon.
300) Saga: Volume ten
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 10
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
At long last, Hazel and her star-crossed family are finally back in a new story arc. This story picks up three years after the events at the end of issue 54. Hazel, now ten years old, is living on the run with her mother Alana, who has partnered with a drug smuggler named Bombazine. Hazel acts confident and cheerful, but inside, she is torn up about her father's death. This collection features the latest six chapters of the most epic adventure in...
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