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1) Exclusive
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English
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Toots Loudenberry moves to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Abby, who is attempting to makeover a struggling tabloid. Toots brings along her best friends, Ida, Sophie, and Mavis, who expect fun times but instead find a haunted Malibu beach house, career problems for Abby, and Ida's budding romance with the suspicious Dr. Sameer.
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English
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Sisters Miranda and Annie retreat to Westport, Connecticut, with their mother after their father files for divorce after forty-eight years of marriage, and the three find life in the small, dilapidated beach cottage brings about confusion over reason and romance.
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English
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A summertime story only Elin Hilderbrand can tell: a family in upheaval after a cancelled wedding fill an island summer with heartache, laughter, and surprises.
Birdie Cousins has thrown herself into the details of her daughter Chess's lavish wedding, from the floating dance floor in her Connecticut back yard to the color of the cocktail napkins. Like any mother of a bride-to-be, she is weathering the storms of excitement and chaos, tears and joy....
7) Bedtime!
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Melanie is too busy playing to get ready for bed, her mother gives the special bedtime treatment to the dog, and Melanie misses some of the best parts of the routine.
9) Girlchild
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Follows the struggles of Rory Hendrix as she searches for a way out of her life of poverty at the Calle, a run-down Reno trailer park where she lives with her mother Jo, a hard-luck bartender at the Truck Stop.
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Dianne Robbins, deserted by her husband, Tim, after giving birth to a daughter with severe birth defects, devotes herself totally to her child for nearly twelve years before she opens herself up to love again with her ex-husband's brother, Alan.
12) The book of Ruth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Ruth, a farm girl from Honey Creek, Illinois, reviews the events of her life in an effort to make sense of the violence and tragedy that have plagued her and her family from the time she was a child.
Publisher
Ardustry Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When shallow, self-absorbed stockbrocker Sterling Brooks meets with a fatal freak accident on the golf course, he learns he can only get into heaven by performing one last good deed on Earth: he must rescue single mother Annie Campbell and her seven-year old daughter, Marissa, from mobsters.
14) Show way
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A mother passes on the tradition of making quilts, or "Show ways", that serve as secret maps for freedom seeking slaves.
17) Fish tank
Series
Criterion collection volume 553
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Mia's adolescent conflicts and emerging sexuality reach a boiling point when her mother's attractive new boyfriend arrives on the scene.
18) About face
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Series
Language
English
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Casey Edwards, found wandering by the side of the road by Dr. Blake Hunter with no memory of her horrific past, attempts to pull her life together with Blake's help but someone from her past does not want her to regain her memory.
19) Mildred Pierce
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A young divorcee, Mildred Pierce, rises up out of poverty to become a successful business woman in spite of hardships and her selfish daughter.
20) Whip it
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old rebel Bliss Cavendar, miserable living in a small Texas town with her beauty pageant-obsessed mother, secretly joins a roller derby team under the name "Babe Ruthless," and her life gets better, although infinitely more confusing.
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