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2) The telling
Author
Series
Seasons of grace volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grace Byler leaves her Amish community with her new English friend to search for her estranged mother in Ohio; meanwhile, Grace's mother, Lettie, continues her own quest to find what she feels is missing and swallows her guilt over leaving her family.
3) Girlchild
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
6) Exclusive
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
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.
8) Three women
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Suzanne Blume is just beginning to live the life she has always dreamed of when her oldest daughter loses her job and moves back home, and her elderly mother is rushed to the hospital after suffering a stroke.
11) The glass lake
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
A novel of a mother's secret and a daughter's courage, and their relationship that neither deceit nor death can destroy.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Three very different people-Valerie Wyatt, a successful television host, her daughter April, and former football star Jack Adams--reach a turning point in their lives on the same day after a terrifying act of violence changes them all forever.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Beth Lowe receives a scrapbook from her long-estranged mother entitled The Book of Summers which is filled with photographs and mementos recording the seven glorious childhood summers Beth spent in rural Hungary before it all came brutally to an end when she turned sixteen.
16) The book of Ruth
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1990, c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
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.
18) About face
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of Ruth Cole, looking in on three stages of her life, the first in the summer of 1958 when she is four and her parents are estranged; next in the fall of 1990 when Ruth, unmarried, has a thriving literary career but no personal success; and finally in the autumn of 1995 when she falls in love for the first time.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Samantha's delight in her baby daughter does not keep her from feeling she has lost something of herself in giving up her artistic dreams to become a mother, but she is able to come to terms with her doubts, as well as secrets of the past, when a box of her late mother Iris's belongings arrives on her doorstep, containing revelations about Iris, and Sam's grandmother Violet.
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