Chamberlain, Diane
Summary: "When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brother-in-law, a physicist, tells her that perhaps there is. Hunter appeared in their lives just a few years before--and his appearance was as mysterious as his past. With no family, no friends, and a background shrouded in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CHABaer, Marianna
Summary: Indigo finds a series of paintings made by her mother that could be the solution to their financial insecurities; however, her mother refuses to revive the series, so Indigo secretly takes up the brush herself and falls into the paintings' dangerous world which blurs fantasy and reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BAEMaldonado, Crystal
Summary: "Charlie Vega is smart, funny, artistic, ambitious. And fat. People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. The world wants Charlie to be thinner, lighter, slimmer-faced, straighter-haired, like her best friend Amelia. When Charlie starts a tentative relationship with cute classmate Brian, the first worthwhile guy to notice her, everything is perfect until she learns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MALO'Shaughnessy, Kate
Summary: When twelve-year-old Fern and her mother abruptly leave their isolated, off-the-grid community, Fern wants nothing more than to return, but things get murky as she slowly adjusts to her new life and discovers unsettling truths about her old one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: For all of Kat’s life, it’s just been her and her mother, Jamie—except for the forty-eight hours when Jamie was married and Kat had a stepbrother, Liam. That all ended in an epic divorce, and Kat and Liam haven’t spoken since. Now Jamie is a jewel thief trying to go straight, but she has one last job—at billionaire Ross Sutherland’s birthday party. And Kat has figured out a way to tag along....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCMHanlon, Abby
Summary: Dory's separation anxiety from her mother turns into a ghostly, goofy escapade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Ross Quest, a master thief, enters the Thieves' Gambit, a competition consisting of dangerous, international heists, in order to save her mother's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEWBayron, Kalynn
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Eve, gifted with rare magical abilities, believes it her purpose to defeat an evil Knight, but not everything is as it seems and Eve's mother, the Queen, knows more about the knight than she is telling her daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury YA 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BAYMcNeil, Gretchen
Summary: Izzy and her family welcome foreign exchange student Alberto into their home, but after a series of mishaps and coincidences, and with a serial killer on the loose, Izzy begins to suspect Alberto is not who he seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCNO'Clover, Ellen
Summary: "The daughter of a self-help superstar, Audrey is determined to create her own identity and agrees to go on her mother's book tour, hoping to figure out how they fit into each other's lives, but is unaware of how much this summer will upend her carefully planned life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC OCLMacGregor, Maya
Summary: Follows 17-year-old Will as they struggle with the aftermath of parental abuse and learn to a forge a new life for themself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra Young Readers 2023
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Summary: "Halle and her mother find unexpected solace on a tuberculosis ward in 1930s upstate New York"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WENSambury, Liselle
Summary: Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Daisy and her mother move into her deceased uncle's mansion, only to find horrors waiting inside, and ten years later, Brittney investigates the mystery behind the Miracle Mansion that turned her mother's life around.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2023
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Summary: Summer vacation quickly becomes complicated for Felicity Becker as she tries to plan a perfect wedding for her mom, figure out her feelings for her friend Nancy, and wonder what dating will look like for her as an asexual person.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NEIMurphy, Jennifer
Summary: "Part mystery, part coming-of-age story, and part tragedy, Scarlet In Blue, by acclaimed novelist Jennifer Murphy, traces the lives of a mother and daughter who, because of their fugitive lifestyle and the pain that overshadows it, share a dependence and a love so strong neither can imagine life without the other. Fifteen-year-old Blue Lake is a budding pianist who resents her mother Scarlet's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MurphyRogers, Shannon C. F.
Summary: Marisol and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and no end. When her mother dies suddenly, Marisol is left with no one to fight against, haunted by all the things that she both said and didn't say. When Marisol sleeps with her best friend's boyfriend--- and then punches said best friend in the face--- she is left alone with nothing but a burning anger. As a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROGMann, Dionna L.
Summary: "Set in the 1930s in the segregated African American community of Vinegar Hill in Charlottesville, Virginia, ten-year-old Allie devises a secret Man for Mama Plan to find her mama a husband"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House 2024
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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Deedee longs to escape the stifling world her Filipino mom has created since her husband died, so when Jay, the boy next door, offers to teach her to drive it seems like a way out--but both of them are haunted by family ghosts and traumas that force them apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OSOKing, A. S. (Amy Sarig)
Summary: Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane's mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and their mendacious father who confines Jane's mother to a system of pneumatic tubes whenever she's at home. And then there's weirdly ever-present Aunt Finch, Milorad the gardener, and his rat, Brutus. For Jane,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KINGlasgow, Kathleen
Summary: Tiger, sixteen, has been pushing away from her overprotective mother, but when her mother dies suddenly Tiger must learn to live when it feels she is surrounded by darkness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GLAPodos, Rebecca
Summary: On her seventeenth birthday, Hannah Williams begins exhibiting impossible, temporary mutations--gills one day and horns the next--that are the consequences of a desperate bargain her mother made with a sheyd decades ago, and to break the family curse, Hannah and her brother track down their mother's estranged family and discover a legacy that traces back to the Golem of Prague.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PODGould, Courtney
Summary: Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigative reporter. She finds herself unable to stop herself from slipping into memories of happier days, clamoring for a time when things were normal. So when a mysterious letter in her mother's handwriting arrives in the mail with the words Come and find me, pointing to a town called Backravel, Beck...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOUBasham, Brendan Shay
Summary: When the river swallowed Kai, Damien's little brother didn't die so much as vanish. As the unbearable loss settles deeper into his bones, Damien, a small-town line cook, walks away from everything he has ever known. Driving as far south as his old truck and his legs allow, he lands in a fishing village beyond the reach of his past where he hopes he can finally forget. But the village has grief...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BASOrtiz, Amparo
Summary: Scavenging and selling elf corpses to support her family, seventeen-year-old goth Sevim finds a chance encounter with an elf prince setting her revenge in motion and must enter the magical elven realm where her fate is linked to someone she least expected.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street YA 2023