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King, 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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KIN

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KIN

Liao, Jenny

Summary: Chinese American Zia helps her mom tell her classmates about her job as a seamstress through translation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LIA

Kurimoto, Kengo

Summary: "Discover the magic of the wilderness in this breathtaking graphic novel reminiscent of a modern-day The Secret Garden. Poppy's mother hasn't been the same since Gran passed away. She stays inside and watches TV, unable to leave the couch. So maybe that's why Poppy has started spending more time outside, taking her dog Pepper for walks around the neighborhood. When Pepper leads Poppy through a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2024

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Anderson, Karen C. L.

Summary: "Shift away from shame and turn to radical forgiveness. Grow your internal self acceptance and resilience with this guide for women. Packed with meditative prompts to help you explore your relationship to shame. You are Not Your Mother caters to your inner desires to be seen, heard, and known. The toxic generational trauma and unhealthy relationships stop with you!"--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Publishing 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 AND

Mallery, Susan

Summary: As the owner of Twisted, Seattle's best salon, Erica knows that the sharpest cuts come from the people we love. She's terrified that she's losing her teen daughter to her 'other' family as Summer grows closer to her stepmum, Allison. All it takes to blow up Allison's happy life is one call. From prison. Her husband, Peter, has been arrested, leaving Allison pregnant, scared and alone with a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MAL

Barron, Sandra Rodriguez.

Summary: En una clínica remota sobre una playa de arena negra, una mujer abre sus ojos ... Cuando la joven Mónica Winters Borrero pierde su madre encantadora en un accidente marítimo, ella se encuentra exiliada del paraíso tropical que una vez fue su hogar. En duelo y alejada de una vida dentro de la sociedad salvadoreña, Mónica y su padre estadounidense se mudan a Connecticut, jurando nunca mirar hacia...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 2008

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BAR

Cox, Amanda

Summary: "Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until his untimely death sends her world into a tailspin. She suddenly finds she must deal with a new part owner of the family business--one who is looking to sell the property. Beck cannot fathom why her father would put her into the position to lose everything they built together. When Callie Peterson...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COX

Kim, Juhea

5 holds on 4 copies

Summary: "A once famous ballerina faces a final choice-to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever-in this incandescent novel of redemption and love"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIM

Kaba, Mariame

Summary: "From New York Times Bestselling Author Mariame Kaba, a poignant, beautifully illustrated story of a little girl's worries when her Mama goes to jail, and the love that bridges the distance between them: "Even though I'm away, My love is always here to stay. See you soon, Queenie. Love, Mama." Queenie loves living with Mama and Grandma Louise. Together, they go to the grocery store, eat ice...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KAB

Pastis, Stephan

Summary: Upset that her neighborhood is being torn down and replaced by fancy condos and coffee shops, Saint, along with her new friend Daniel, hatches a plan to save what is left of her beloved hometown.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2023

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PAS

Chen, Wendy

Summary: "At the turn of the twentieth century, Yun Hong is born into a loving family in the southern China countryside, but as Communism consumes her older brothers, it threatens her stability-and her love affair with the son of a wealthy landlord. The line of women who later descend from Yun Hong share the burden of a family birthmark and are also each forced to reckon with both dramatic political...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHE

Roberts, Sheila

Summary: "Sunny, Arianna and Molly are having three very different but equally terrible Christmases. Sunny is a newlywed with two new stepkids who want nothing to do with her; Arianna is newly divorced and hates having to send her daughter off to spend the holiday with her dad; for Molly, nothing is new, but her job at the post office is getting very, very old. The whole Christmas season has been a bust...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

Miller, Linda Lael

Summary: Tessa Stafford will do anything for her daughter, Isabel even stay on the run to protect Isabel from her narcissistic grandmother. But when her car breaks down in Painted Pony Creek, Tessa gets caught up in the warm embrace of the town and feels safe enough to build a home and a life for them both. Love is the last thing on her mind until rugged cowboy and lawyer Jesse McKettrick s sexy smile...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MIL

Hanlon, 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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Callender, Kacen

Summary: Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and wants to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they rejects.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CAL

Baart, Nicole

Summary: "Juniper Baker had just graduated from high school and was deep in the throes of a summer romance when Cal and Beth Murphy, a childless couple who lived on a neighboring farm, were brutally murdered. When her younger brother became the prime suspect, June's world collapsed and everything she loved that summer fell away. She left, promising never to return to tiny Jericho, Iowa. Until now....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BAA

Chouhan, Anu

Summary: Meenu discovers the magic in her culture's tradition of hair oiling, and the bond she shares with her mother and grandmother. Includes Meenu's magic hair day tips.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHO

Attenberg, Jami

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over forty years and through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco: an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ATT

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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Dovalpage, Teresa

Summary: "Newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba in 2019 to care for her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes's life has been shaped by loss, beginning with the mysterious unsolved disappearance of her mother when Mercedes was a little girl. Returning to Cuba revives Mercedes's hopes of finding her mother as she attempts to piece together the few scraps of information...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024

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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DOV

Kubica, Mary

1 hold on 7 copies

Summary: Single mother and full-time nurse Meghan Michaels, when it is revealed her patient with a traumatic brain injury didn't jump from a bridge but was pushed, mistakenly lets herself get too close to the case, realizing she and her daughter could be the next victims.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUB
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KUB

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUB

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Ficition Kubica

Bluey

Summary: Discover all of Chilli's mum skills from playing Grannies, dancing, and taking care of Bluey and Bingo. She even makes brushing their teeth and fur fun in this adorable and hilarious book. And, most importantly, Mum teaches them that the world is a magical place. This is the perfect book to celebrate Mom on Mother's Day, or any day!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BLU

Fisher, Suzanne Woods

Summary: Dawn Dixon can't believe she's on a groomless honeymoon on beautiful Cape Cod with her mother. Mom creates a mess when, on a whim, she buys a run-down ice cream shop in the town's tightly regulated historic district with big plans to fix it up. Dawn knows she has to stay and fix this fiasco. But her mother's money pit ice cream shop may have created a chance for a happy ending.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Critchley, Emily

Summary: ""An uplifting, bittersweet story with a page-turning mystery at its heart. Emily Critchley writes about aging and memory with huge warmth and compassion. A beautifully atmospheric and endearing book.'' --Freya Sampson, author of The Last Chance Library. For readers of Elizabeth is Missing with notes of The Maid comes a dual-timeline novel that balances heartfelt tenderness with a suspenseful...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Critchley

Means, Brittany

Summary: "I can't write a story about myself as the sad, quiet child of two drug addicts. That's not how it was, even when it was. To me, sleeping in the car was normal. Better, it was comfy and fun. I loved my bed made of clothes inside a trash bag that I sank into slowly like Uncle Fester from the Addams Family movie... I loved the motels and their swimming pools and trashy daytime TV channels......

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zibby Books LLC 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEANS, BRITTANY MEA

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