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1) Gone tonight
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for her daughter. All her life, it's been just the two of them against the world. But now, Catherine is ready to spread her wings, move from home, and begin anew career. And Ruth Sterling will do anything to prevent that from happening. Ruth Sterling thinks she knows her daughter. Catherine would never rebel, would never question anything about her mother's...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp—an area known as “The Waters” to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan—herbalist and eccentric Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngest—the beautiful, inscrutable, and lazy Rose...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Christmas comes: Deciding to spend Christmas with her daughter, widow Emily Springer, through the Internet, swaps houses with history professor Charles Brewster, but destiny intervenes when this unlikely couple is forced to spend the holidays together.
Christmas Letters: When Katherine O'Connor, who writes Christmas letters for other people, meets Dr. Wynn Jeffries, a child psychologist, at the French cafe on Blossom Street, their opposing viewpoints...
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A family drama following the lives of three generations of women Kat Landry, her 15-year-old daughter Alice, and Kat's mother Del. As the three generations of women slowly work on finding their footing as a family, they embark on an enlightening and surprising journey none of them could have imagined as they learn how to find their way back to each other.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Nantucket Christmas: From the lighthouse sporting a huge wreath to the Christmas Stroll along its quaint streets, holidays on Nantucket are always magical. However, while the town might be aglow like a scene from Dickens tale, unfortunately for newly married island newcomer Nicole Somerset, Christmas means a dreaded visit from her step-daughter. Headstrong Kennedy brings with her a family of her own--husband Archer and adorable 3 year old son, Maddox--but...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Celia is trapped in a life that's not hers. Celia wakes up in a house that's supposed to be hers. There's a little girl who claims to be her daughter and a man who claims to be her husband, but Celia knows this family-and this life-is not hers. Allie is supposed to be on a fun weekend trip-but then her friend's boyfriend unexpectedly invites the group to a remote cabin in the woods. No one else believes Allie, but she is sure that something about...
Author
Series
Dory Fantasmagory volume 6
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dory's separation anxiety from her mother turns into a ghostly, goofy escapade.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 2011, Eunju Oh opens her door to greet a stranger: a young Korean American woman holding a familiar-looking knife--a knife Eunju hasn't seen in more than thirty years, and that connects her to a place she'd desperately hoped to leave behind forever. In South Korea in the 1980s, young Eunju and her mother are homeless on the street. After being captured by the police, they're sent to live within the walls of a state-sanctioned reformatory center...
10) Holiday country
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The glittering waters, picturesque olive groves, and her spirited friends make it easy for Ada to leave her idle life in California behind. But no matter how much Ada feels she belongs to the country where her mother grew up, deep down, her connection to the culture feels as fleeting as the seasons. When Levent, a mysterious...
Author
Series
Celestial Kingdom volume 3
Publisher
Voyager
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Sue Lynn Tan's highly acclaimed, bestselling Celestial Kingdom duology is expanded with this new compilation of stories from before, during, and after the events in Daughter of the Moon Goddess and Heart of the Sun Warrior, all from the perspectives of beloved characters.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh has Sensory Time Warp Syndrome, a rare condition that causes her to time travel to a moment in her life when she smells something linked to that memory. Her dad is convinced she'll simply grow out of it if she tries hard enough, but Aimee's fear of vanishing at random has kept her from living a normal life. When Aimee disappears for nine hours into a memory of her estranged mom--a moment Aimee has never remembered before--she...
Author
Series
Myrtlewood mystery volume 2
Publisher
Iris Beaglehole
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Rosemary and Athena are just settling into their new life in the unapologetically magical village of Myrtlewood. After so many years in financial turmoil, things are looking up, and Rosemary even nabs the perfect part-time job while waiting on a certain handsome vampire lawyer to process her inheritance. Life is surprisingly peaceful until strange disappearances throw everything into chaos leading up to the Spring Equinox. Meanwhile, Athena is newly...
Author
Series
Cowboy protectors volume 3
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her daughter is the only witness able to identify a group of bank robbers, single mom Penny Jackson knows their lives are in danger. These men will do anything to keep Missy quiet-permanently. Escaping to a small Texas town was supposed to be safe, but when the criminals track them down, police chief Caleb Harmon becomes their only hope for survival.
Author
Publisher
One More Chapter
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1916: At the onset of war, Nurse Pru le Cuirot left her home in Jersey to care for injured soldiers at Ashbury Manor, Dorset. She wanted to do her bit but she never expected to meet American pilot, Jack Garland, so unlike any man she has ever met. When Jack is sent on a dangerous mission and vanishes, Pru is forced to make an agonising decision... one that will haunt them both forever. 1940: Another lifetime, but another war and Pru's daughter Emma...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Painter Annie Shaw appears to be living the American dream with her renowned journalist husband, Duncan, and daughter, Tabitha, in the Virginia countryside. The facade starts to crack when Annie discovers her elderly Vietnamese refugee mother's dead body among her hoarded goods in Annie's carriage house. In the weeks that follow, the emotionally fragile Annie gradually loses her grip on reality. Medication that once kept her obsessive-compulsive disorder...
17) Never ever
Author
Series
Eva Rae Thomas mystery volume 3
Publisher
Buoy Media LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ex-agent Eva Rae Thomas is on the run. The past month she has done things she never knew she was capable of while hunting for her kidnapped daughter. Eva Rae has risked everything, her career, her newfound love, her freedom. She's looking for the man they call the Iron Fist. The trail has led her to Miami. Meanwhile, Miami is under attack. Hundreds of passengers in the Metrorail are exposed to a deathly nerve gas on a peaceful Monday morning. When...
Author
Series
Western light volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beth Rutledge and her mother's one chance to escape Beth's tyrannical father is a wagon train heading west. Wagon train scout Jake Holt senses the secretive Beth is running from something and finds a new hope for his future in protecting her. Can they risk trusting each other with their lives--and their hearts--with danger threatening their every step?
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mum to a teenage daughter and working as a full-time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma, having plunged from a bridge onto train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why? Meghan has always tried to...
20) Accidental magic
Author
Series
Myrtlewood mystery volume 1
Publisher
Te Ra Aroha Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Life's a struggle for Rosemary Thorn and her teen daughter, Athena. But their regular troubles are turned upside down after Granny Thorn's mysterious death. Despite her cousin's sinister manoeuvrings, Rosemary returns to Myrtlewood and the sprawling, dilapidated Thorn Manor. But there's more to the old house than meets the eye, as Rosemary and Athena soon find out - in a whirlwind of magic, adventure, mystical creatures, and endless cups of tea. Life...
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