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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A mother and her young daughter reflect on the daughter's growing up, including her infancy, potty training, first words, and starting school, noting how nothing has been what the mother expected.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Lisa and Francesca are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This seven book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron"--
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Simran Mehta has always felt harshly judged by her mother, Nandini, especially when it comes to her little “writing hobby.” But when a highly respected journalist careens into Simran’s life, she begins to question not only her future as a psychologist, but her engagement to her high school sweetheart. Nandini Mehta has strived to create an easy life for her children in America. From dealing with her husband’s demanding family to the casual...
88) Porch lights
Author
Language
English
Description
When Jimmy McMullen, a fireman with the NYFD, is killed in the line of duty, his wife, Jackie, and ten-year-old son, Charlie, are devastated. Charlie idolized his dad, and now the outgoing, curious boy has become quiet and reserved. Trusting in the healing power of family, Jackie decides to return to her childhood home on Sullivans Island. Crossing the bridge from the mainland, Jackie and Charlie enter a world full of wonder and magic--lush green...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In present-day Miami. Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Like mother, like daughter. Neither a hard-as-nails New York playwright nor her flaky Louisiana mother will take the necessary steps to mend their long-time rift. No, this is a job for the Sisterhood, sworn life-long friends who stage an outlandish "intervention" to bring daughter and mother back together again.
Author
Language
English
Description
When Nora Bridge left her husband and her two daughters 10 years ago, she took the only route she could see, and assumed she still had her daughters' love. Now, though she is distant from her own daughters, Nora is the hostess of a radio advice show, where she advises listeners that "family comes first." When a scandal breaks and Nora hits rock bottom, she finds she has to rely on the two people she has betrayed most deeply: her daughters, Ruby and...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1995
Language
English
Description
Eighteen years ago the town accused Dolores Claiborne of murdering her husband in cold blood. Now a woman lies dead and a witness finds Dolores standing over the body. Her daughter is the only one who can save her life and the only thing that stands between guilt and innocence is the evil secret that made the daughter run away ten years ago.
94) Big bad mama
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A tough, intelligent, pistol-packing mother moves her two teen-age daughters out of poverty-stricken Texas in 1932 only to become bank robbers. This version has been digitally remastered.
95) The Hazel Wood
Author
Series
Hazel Wood volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate - the Hazel Wood - Alice learns how bad her luck can really get. Her mother is stolen away - by a figure who claims to come from the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories...
96) The awkward age
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adolescence and the transition to adulthood are difficult periods for most people, but the stakes are even higher when you're a well-born young woman at the center of a complex and morally suspect social circle. That's the dilemma facing young Nanda Brookenham in Henry James' The Awkward Age, a dialogue-driven novel that some critics rank among the writer's most accomplished literary feats.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The unstoppable, irreverent mother-daughter team presents a new collection of funny stories and true confessions that every woman can relate to. From identity theft to the hazards of bicycling to college reunions and eating on the beach, Lisa and Francesca tackle the quirks, absurdities, and wonders of everyday life with wit and warmth. --Amazon.com
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.
100) Good as gone
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
After eight long years, an abducted daughter suddenly reappears harboring deep secrets. Her mother wrestles with the ultimate guilty question: Do I really know my daughter? --Publisher
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