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Smuggler's Cove / by Michaels, Fern,author.;

"Growing up, Madison Taylor and her younger brother Lincoln livedin privilege, but their sheltered existence abruptly ended when their father was arrested for fraud and the family assets were seized. Since then, Madison has carved out a new path, studying fashion and working her way up to editor-in-chief of La Femme magazine, while Lincoln teaches wealth management at a small college outside the city. Both have separated themselves from their family and their past -- until an unexpected bequest arrives from their late uncle. Madison and Lincoln are now the new co-owners of a marina at Smugglers Cove on the Navesink river. Instead of a fabulous, Hamptons-style property, Smugglers Cove offers little beyond a dilapidated dock, a few gas pumps, and a handful of clam boats. Madison's plan to sell the property goes awry when a dead body is found floating under their dock and transforms their new inheritance into a crime scene"--

Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Alienation (Social psychology); College teachers; Inheritance and succession; Marinas; Siblings; Women editors;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4

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Between sisters / by Hannah, Kristin;

Subjects: Women; Alienation (Social psychology); Mothers and daughters; Women lawyers; Weddings; Sisters; Domestic fiction;

© c2003., Ballantine Books,

Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 4

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Out of this world / by Wooding, Chris,1977-;

Twelve-year-old Jack is almost killed by intergalactic beings when he is mistaken for precocious superspy Gradius Clench, and his only chance for survival is to team up with a ragtag group of alien bounty hunters.Ages 12-8.Grades 4-6.LSC

Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Science fiction.; Mistaken identity; Human-alien encounters; Interplanetary voyages; Belonging (Social psychology);

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Mothers and sons : a novel / by Haslett, Adam,author.;

"At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a young gay man pierces Peter's numbness, the event that he has avoided for twenty years returns to haunt him. Ann, his mother, who runs a women's retreat center she founded after leaving his father, is hurt by the estrangement from Peter but cherishes the world she has built. She long ago put behind her the decision that divided her from her son. But as Peter's case plunges him further into the fraught memory of his first love and the night of violence that changed his life, he and his mother must confront the secret that tore them apart. With unsurpassed emotional depth, Mothers and Sons reveals all that is lost by looking away from the past and the love that might be restored by facing it. In his spellbinding new novel, Adam Haslett demonstrates yet again his mastery of "a rich assortment of literary gifts" (New York Times)."--

Subjects: Gay fiction.; Queer fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Alienation (Social psychology); Estranged families; Family secrets; Gay men; Immigration lawyers; Mothers and sons; Psychic trauma;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The Outsiders [videorecording] / by Coppola, Francis Ford,1939-; Howell, C. Thomas,1966-; Cruise, Tom,1962-; Dillon, Matt.; Swayze, Patrick.; Hinton, S. E.Outsiders.Videorecording.; Zoetrope Studios.; Warner Home Video (Firm);

Photography, Stephen H. Burum ; production design, Dean Taboularis ; music, Carmine Coppola.C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Diane Lane, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, Leif Garrett.A story about teenage hopes, fears, bravery, violent rebellion and living on the right side of the tracks.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD ; full screen presentation ; Dolby digital.

Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films.; Hinton, S. E.; Family life; Male friendship; Alienation (Social psychology); Teenagers; Gangs; Juvenile delinquency films.;

For private home use only.

Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1

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Pie in the Sky / by Lai, Remy.;

Knowing very little English, eleven-year-old Jingwen feels like an alien when his family immigrates to Australia, but copes with loneliness and the loss of his father by baking elaborate cakes.LSC

Subjects: Immigrants; Single-parent families; Brothers; Moving, Household; Language and languages; Schools; Belonging (Social psychology); Cakes; Baking;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Dandelion / by Liew, Jamie Chai Yun,author.;

"When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now, as a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987, growing up in a small British Columbia mining town where there were only a handful of Asian families; Lily's previously stateless father wanted them to blend seamlessly into Canadian life, while her mother, alienated and isolated, longed to return to Brunei. Years later, still affected by Swee Hua's disappearance, Lily's family is nonetheless stubbornly silent to her questioning. But eventually, an old family friend provides a clue that sends Lily to Southeast Asia to find out the truth. Winner of the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award from the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop, Dandelion is a beautifully written and affecting novel about motherhood, family secrets, migration, isolation, and mental illness. With clarity and care, it delves into the many ways we define home, identity, and above all, belonging."--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Absentee mothers; Family secrets; Identity (Psychology); Missing persons; Motherhood; Quests (Expeditions); Social isolation;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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To the Moon and back : a novel / by Ramage, Eliana,author.;

"Steph Harper is on the run. When she was five, her mother fled an abusive husband -- with Steph and her younger sister in tow -- to Cherokee Nation, where she hoped they might finally belong. In response, Steph sets her sights as far away from Oklahoma as she can get, vowing that she will let nothing get in the way of pursuing the rigorous physical and academic training she knows she will need to be accepted by NASA, and ultimately, to go to the moon. Spanning three decades and several continents, To the Moon and Back encompasses Steph's turbulent journey, along with the multifaceted and intertwined lives of the three women closest to her: her sister Kayla, an artist who goes on to become an Indigenous social media influencer, and whose determination to appear good takes her life to unexpected places; Steph's college girlfriend Della Owens, who strives to reclaim her identity as an adult after being removed from her Cherokee family through a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act; and Hannah, Steph and Kayla's mother, who has held up her family's tribal history as a beacon of inspiration to her children, all the while keeping her own past a secret. In Steph's certainty that only her ambition can save her, she will stretch her bonds with each of these women to the point of breaking, at once betraying their love and generosity, and forcing them to reconsider their own deepest desires in her shadow. Told through an intricately woven tapestry of narrative, To the Moon and Back is an astounding and expansive novel of mothers and daughters, love and sacrifice, alienation and heartbreak, terror and wonder. At its core, it is the story of the extraordinary lengths to which one woman will go to find space for herself."--

Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Astronauts; Belonging; Cherokee women; Identity (Psychology); Mothers and daughters; Sexual minorities; Sisters;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Memory piece / by Ko, Lisa,author.;

"Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist, pushing the boundaries of the form while socializing with the city's artistic and financial elite. Jackie Ong works at tech start-ups during the early dotcom era, as the internet's egalitarian promise is tested against its rampant monetization. Ellen Ng, a community activist, fights against gentrification overwhelming the city's neighborhoods. Their chosen paths separate them, but their friendship sustains and challenges them across huge divides of class, status, and worldview. Decades later, their sense of what is possible has changed, mutating against the hardscrabble realities of work and love. Moving from the 1980s to the 2040s, spanning multiple eras of a changing New York City, Memory Piece explores the roles of art, friendship, and creativity in self-preservation, chronicling three women as they strive to find value in a radically different world than the one they were promised. Ambitious, visionary, and intellectually playful, Memory Piece asks how we define a good life, individually and collectively, and understanding what we do about the direction our society is headed-where do we go from here?"--

Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Asian Americans; Female friendship; Self-realization in women;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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To the Moon and back [sound recording] : a novel / by Ramage, Eliana,author.; Standingcloud, Nathalie,narrator.; Minter, Kamali,1979-narrator.; Parenteau, Tanis,narrator.; Blackstone Audio, Inc.,publisher.;

Read by Nathalie Standingcloud, Kamali Minter, Tanis Parenteau."Steph Harper is on the run. When she was five, her mother fled an abusive husband -- with Steph and her younger sister in tow -- to Cherokee Nation, where she hoped they might finally belong. In response, Steph sets her sights as far away from Oklahoma as she can get, vowing that she will let nothing get in the way of pursuing the rigorous physical and academic training she knows she will need to be accepted by NASA, and ultimately, to go to the moon. Spanning three decades and several continents, To the Moon and Back encompasses Steph's turbulent journey, along with the multifaceted and intertwined lives of the three women closest to her: her sister Kayla, an artist who goes on to become an Indigenous social media influencer, and whose determination to appear good takes her life to unexpected places; Steph's college girlfriend Della Owens, who strives to reclaim her identity as an adult after being removed from her Cherokee family through a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act; and Hannah, Steph and Kayla's mother, who has held up her family's tribal history as a beacon of inspiration to her children, all the while keeping her own past a secret. In Steph's certainty that only her ambition can save her, she will stretch her bonds with each of these women to the point of breaking, at once betraying their love and generosity, and forcing them to reconsider their own deepest desires in her shadow. Told through an intricately woven tapestry of narrative, To the Moon and Back is an astounding and expansive novel of mothers and daughters, love and sacrifice, alienation and heartbreak, terror and wonder. At its core, it is the story of the extraordinary lengths to which one woman will go to find space for herself."--

Subjects: Audiobooks.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Astronauts; Belonging; Cherokee women; Identity (Psychology); Mothers and daughters; Sexual minorities; Sisters;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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