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Author
Publisher
Amazon Children's Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little boy trying to find a Mother's Day gift for his mother is presented with a list of gifts that would be better suited to birds, dogs, spiders, and other mothers, but finally gets a good idea for a gift for his own mother.
82) The only ones
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Language
English
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"Inez wanders a post-pandemic world, strangely immune to disease, making her living by volunteering as a test subject. She is hired to provide genetic material to a grief-stricken, affluent mother, who lost all four of her daughters within four short weeks. This experimental genetic work is policed by a hazy network of governmental Ethics committees, and threatened by the Knights of Life, religious zealots who raze the rural farms where much of this...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
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Series
Publisher
Toon Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The further adventures of Patrick the little teddy bear as he goes on a picnic with his mother, tries to avoid his nap, goes to the bakery to buy cookies, and contends with the bullying Big Bear.
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ten-time New York Times bestselling author and child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen teams up with artist Gail Yerrill to create a book that helps facilitate sleep. Time for Bed, Sleepyhead pairs whimsical illustrations with storytelling techniques to tire your child's imagination in order to help them settle down at bedtime and fall asleep. Read aloud the story of little bear and his friends as they have a big day at the beach, then return...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Fans of Laura Lippman and A. S. A. Harrison will love this haunting psychological thriller. For twenty years, Henry Evans has been haunted by the memory of Francesca, the one that got away. When he travels to England to reconnect with his long-lost love, what he finds is a horrific shock: Francesca has been imprisoned for murdering her five-year-old son. But Henry refuses to believe Francesca is guilty, even if she did confess -- in chilling detail...
88) Chicks run wild
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her little chicks refuse to settle down for the night, Mama decides to surprise them with an unusual request.
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Harlequin Intrigue brings you three new edge-of-your-seat romances for one great price, available now! This Intrigue box set includes Reining in Justice by USA TODAY bestselling author Delores Fossen, Kansas City Cover-Up by USA TODAY bestselling author Julie Miller and Agent Undercover by Lisa Childs. Catch a thrill with 6 new edge-of-your-seat romances every month from Harlequin Intrigue!
90) Someone's Sleepy
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this tender rhyming picture book, a mother readies her child for bed. Their nighttime ritual includes bathtime, brushing teeth, hugs, and a storybook read aloud. Once tucked under the covers with stuffed animals, the child is lulled to sleep, watched over by her night-light and puppy friend. This is a wonderful bedtime story with sweet text by Deborah Lee Rose, complemented by the warm illustrations of Dan Andreasen. Praise for Someone's Sleepy...
91) Stepmom
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Language
English
Description
A young stepmother struggles to win a place in the hearts of her husband's children, who are still very much dominated by his ex-wife--an apparently perfect mom--who is dying of cancer.
Author
Language
English
Description
All about the adjustment a toddler makes when her mother returns to work, this humorous picture book takes on a big emotional milestone with a light hand. Perry knows all of Mama’s shoes. She knows that the zip-zup shoes are for skipping and swinging in the park. She knows that the pat-put shoes are for splishing and splashing in the rain. And she knows that no-shoes are for bath time and bedtime. But, one morning Mama puts on click-clack shoes,...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a trip to London. The city was a favorite of her mother's, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself reflecting on her mother's life and their relationship. Thoughts of the past meld with questions of the future: Back in New England, the family home is now up for sale, its considerable contents already winnowed. The narrator, a writer, recalls all that...
94) Girls Who Lie
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When a depressed, alcoholic single mother disappears, everything suggests suicide, but when her body is found, Icelandic Detective Elma and her team are thrust into a perplexing, chilling investigation. When single mother Mari'anna disappears from her home, leaving an apologetic note on the kitchen table, everyone assumes that she's taken her own life... until her body is found on the Gra´bro´k lava fields seven months later, clearly the victim...
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English
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A frustrated academic still reeling from her husband's betrayal moves into Ashton Hall with her young son and tries to come up with answers after they discover the remains of a woman walled into a forgotten part of the manor.--
When a close relative falls ill, Hannah Larson and her young son, Nicky, join him for the summer at Ashton Hall, a historic manor house outside Cambridge, England. A frustrated academic whose ambitions have been subsumed by...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The Giver: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. -- Gathering blue: Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians....
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives-set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San Francisco"--
At home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. Thanks to the rigorous direction of their mother, Vivian, they've become a bona fide...
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