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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
After her mother commits suicide, pregnant Thumbelina, a 14-year-old, six-foot blonde is placed in a foster home. But a girl in a similar predicament convinces Thumbelina to run away and the novel describes them trying to make it on their own. A first novel.
Author
Publisher
Hawktale Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Libby is planning to spend the holidays alone until a mysterious Christmas card takes her on a life-changing journey where she discovers a family she didn't know she had and a love she was never expecting to find..." --back cover.
87) Out of the blue
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Ten days after Jaya Mackenzie's mum dies, angels start falling from the sky. Smashing down to earth at extraordinary speeds, wings bent, faces contorted, not a single one has survived. Hysteria mounting with every Being that drops, Jaya's father uproots the family to Edinburgh intent on catching one alive. But Jaya can't stand this obsession and, struggling to make sense of her mother's sudden death and her own role on that fateful day, she's determined...
88) Fresh air
Author
Series
Lucinda Hunter novels volume 1
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
�2003
Language
English
Description
Lucinda Hunter has been a virtual recluse in a Connecticut farmhouse for 27 years. Katanya Taylor is a nine-year old from Harlem who is staying with a host family for two weeks and meets Lucinda while admiring her garden. Lucinda's acquaintance with Katanya prompts the older woman to reexamine her life.
Author
Series
Kauffman Amish bakery volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Miriam Lapp returns to the Amish community she once belonged to when she hears of her mother's death. Amidst her grief and some painful lies from her past, she is forced to face the people who rejected her. Losing her once fianc�e and being shunned by her father becomes an excruciating test of her faith.
90) My sisters
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When sisters Margaret, Rose, and Quincy Lansing receive the tragic news that a car accident has claimed the life of their mother, they must return to their childhood home -- and to one another's awkward company. Although they are shocked and heartbroken, none of the Lansing sisters is eager to be back, since the painful memories they thought they'd left behind are resurfacing. The Lansings were never a close or loving family. Each sibling had long...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
With her past set on haunting her, Simone, whose father was convicted of murdering her mother ten years ago, finds a chance encounter with her childhood next-door neighbor revealing a shocking secret that could prove her father's innocence or destroy her carefully rebuilt life.
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"In 1948, 12-year-old Amil, who is both Muslim and Hindu, struggles to find his place in Bombay, India, until his twin sister suggests he tell his story through drawings meant for their late mother as he tries to find hope and a sense of belonging in a chaotic world"--
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie's pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko's mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death. But tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko manages to get a rash kidnapping plot off the ground ... and then nothing goes as planned. The Fetishist is the story of three people--Kyoko, a Japanese American...
96) Journey's end
Author
Series
Gilded promises volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Having grown up on the mean streets of nineteenth-century London, Caroline St. James is used to fighting to survive. So when her beloved mother suddenly dies, the scrappy twenty-two-year-old sails to New York to settle the family score with her grandfather who had turned a cold shoulder to her mother's suffering"--
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Chloe Howard's devotion to her job has come at a cost: spending time with the most important person in her life--her mother. Vowing to change, she plans a trip home. Sadly, hours before she arrives, her mother passes away, leaving Chloe without a goodbye and riddled with grief and regret. But maybe...maybe it's not too late. Just days before the funeral, Chloe finds her mother unaccountably alive and well. And it's no longer May; she's been transported...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Juliet Young has always written letters to her mother, a world famous photojournalist--even after her mother's death, she leaves letters at her grave. When Declan finds a haunting letter left beside a grave, he can't resist the urge to write back. Soon, he is sharing his pain with a perfect stranger. When real life interferes with their secret life of letters, Juliet and Declan discover truths that might tear them apart"--
99) Deep sleep
Author
Series
Devin Gray volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Counter surveillance expert Devin Gray is unwittingly thrown headfirst into dangerous new territory after the death of his mother. Helen Gray, a paranoid and disgraced former CIA officer, believed she was on the verge of preventing a national catastrophe, a mission worth dying for. Others, including Devin, believe she was chasing delusions. Until he finds what she left behind. With the help of long-time friend and former Marine helicopter pilot, Marnie...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Acosta's mother died when she was three. Growing up in a Victorian mansion in the middle of the woods with her cold, distant father, she explored the dark hallways of the estate with her cousin, Margaret. They're inseparable--a family. When her aunt Penelope, the only mother she's ever known, tragically disappears while walking in the woods surrounding their estate, Lucy finds herself devastated and alone. Margaret has been spending a lot of...
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