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O'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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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Hosford, Kate

Summary: In rhyming text, a mother and daughter spend a day together, enjoying the beauty of nature.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOS

Hanlon, Abby

Summary: Dory's separation anxiety from her mother turns into a ghostly, goofy escapade.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023

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Albert, Melissa

Summary: Ivy's summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she's always known: that there's more to her mother than meets the eye. Back then, the summer Dana...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022

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

Nainy, Mamta

Summary: "Ammi weaves the most beautiful saris but never gets to wear any of them. Her two little daughters decide to do something about it--break their piggy bank! But when there isn't enough money to buy Ammi a sari, the two girls must work together to find a solution. Will they be able to buy Ammi the gift she so deserves? With a text full of heart, and bright, cheerful artwork, this story brings...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing Kids 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NAI

Lee, Jessica J.

Summary: "A little girl goes to her mother's homeland and develops an appreciation for nature. Returning to Canada she plants a garden that represents both sides of her heritage as Taiwanese plants grow side-by-side with Canadian wildflowers."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Book Group 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEE

Fipps, Lisa

Summary: Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

LaCour, Nina

Summary: When her mother goes on a business trip, a little girl, who loves to sit between Mama and Mommy at the table, misses her a lot and feels empty until Mommy finally comes home, filling the void with love.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LAC

Lee, C. B.

Summary: 1826. The legendary Dragon Fleet, the scourge of the South China Sea, is no more. Xiang has grown up with stories about the Dragon Fleet and its ruthless leader, a woman known only as the Dragon Queen. Desperate to set sail and explore, Xiang mainly wishes to find her father, a crew member of the Dragon Fleet. Her only memento of him is a simple but plain piece of gold jewelry. The pendant's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021

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

Roberts, Nora

Summary: "Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her-before her mother, Lina, stepped in. Soon after, Adrian was dropped off at her grandparents' house in Maryland, where she spent a long summer drinking lemonade, playing with dogs, making a new best friend-and developing the stirrings of a crush on her friend's ten-year-old brother. Lina,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROB

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

Menon, Uma

Summary: "Recounting her mother's migration from India and how she came to speak two languages--Malayalam and English--a young girl shows how the gift of multilingualism can transport people across borders and around the world"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MEN

Chung, Eve J.

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Summary: "A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story. Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHU

Ramadan, Ahmad Danny

Summary: All Salma wants is to make her mama smile again. Between English classes, job interviews, and missing Papa back in Syria, Mama always seems busy or sad. A homemade Syrian meal might cheer her up, but Salma doesn't know the recipe, or what to call the vegetables in English, or where to find the right spices! Luckily, the staff and other newcomers in her Welcome Home are happy to lend a hand-and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG RAM

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHE

Fruchter, Temim.

Summary: "A rich and riveting debut marrying centuries-old folklore to twenty-first-century queer literary fiction, City of Laughter spans four generations of Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years. Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an eighteenth century...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2024

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Clark, Mary Jane Behrends.

Summary: After a painful breakup and too few acting gigs in Manhattan, Piper Donavan returns home to Hillwood, N.J., where she's assisting her mother, Terri, at the family bakery, the Icing on the Cupcake. Piper is pleased to be preparing the cake for the upcoming wedding of her friend Glenna Brooks, the star of A Little Rain Must Fall ... but then a cyanide poisoning of one of Glenna's co-stars and her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2011

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CLA

Johansen, Iris.

Summary: The forensic sculptor, Eve Duncan, is hired to rebuild the face of a corpse, discovering in the process on a political conspiracy in Washington. The president has been killed and a double has been put in his place. By the author of And Then You Die.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOH

Greenberg, Louis

Summary: When Lucie Sterling's daughter is abducted, she knows it'll be no easy feat to find answers. Stanton is no ordinary city: invasive digital technology has been banned, by public vote. No surveillance state, no shadowy companies holding databases of information on private citizens, no phones tracking their every move. Only one place stays firmly anchored in the bad old ways, in a huge bunker...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Greenberg

Johnson, Sarai

Summary: "A novel about four generations of Black women contending with motherhood and daughterhood, generational trauma and the deeply ingrained tensions and wounds that divide them as they redefine happiness and healing for themselves"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOH

Mitchard, Jacquelyn

Summary: Stunned by her recently widowed father's reckless behavior, a young woman must learn to navigate a new world--where the people she should trust the most have become strangers she cannot trust at all. Frankie Attleboro returns home to Cape Cod with thrilling news. She's met the love of her life, they're getting married and have a baby on the way. Her talented, charismatic father overshadows her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIT

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIT

Walton, Jessica

Summary: Maisie is on her way to her first fancon and she can't wait to meet her idol, an action star who had an above-the-knee amputation, just like Maisie. But then she meets Ollie. Ollie is a cute volunteer working the show, and they geek out about nerd culture, just as much as Maisie does. After spending the day together, Maisie notices feelings for Ollie that she's never had before. Could Ollie...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WAL

Connolly, John

Summary: "Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident, a body without a spirit. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud the fairy stories Phoebe loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. But an old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author, is calling to Ceres. Something wants her to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books, Atria 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CON

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CON

Steel, Danielle

Summary: Darcy Gray's perfect life falls apart when a surprise visit to her husband leads to a horrible shock. She flees to visit her daughter in Paris, where a worldwide health crisis strands her indefinitely. There, she finds refuge with a widowed American engineer and beings to imagine a new life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Kingfisher, T.

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call-a dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm's "The Goose Girl," rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic. *The hardcover edition features a foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.* Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn't have...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, Tor Publishing Group 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KIN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIN
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

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