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Deadly little scandals / by Barnes, Jennifer(Jennifer Lynn);
While spending a summer at the family lake house, eighteen-year-old Sawyer finally learns the full truth about her complicated family.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Debutantes; Identity (Psychology); Secrecy; Mothers and daughters; Grandmothers; Families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Kindred / by Butler, Octavia E.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Science fiction.; African American women; Slaveholders; Time travel; Slavery; Slaves;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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To kill a mockingbird / by Lee, Harper.;
This book is part of our Book Sanctuary collection. A Book Sanctuary is a physical or digital space that actively protects the freedom to read. It provides shelter and access to endangered books. Launched by Chicago Public Library in 2022, The Book Sanctuary initiative brings attention to challenged titles, and commits to making these books accessible. Innisfil ideaLAB & Library's Book Sanctuary Collection represents books that have been challenged, censored or removed from a public library or school in North America. More than 50 adult, teen, and children's books are in our collection and are available for browsing and borrowing in our branches and online. Explore the collection to learn more about why these books were challenged.LSC
Subjects: Legal stories.; Banned book sanctuary.; Classics; Literary; Race relations; Trials (Rape); Girls;
© 1999, c1988., HarperCollins,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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The funeral dress : a novel / by Gilmore, Susan Gregg.;
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Historical fiction.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Single mothers; Women;
© c2013., Broadway Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Girls and their horses / by Brazier, Eliza Jane,author.;
"Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cutthroat mothers, and a suspicious death at a horse show."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Competition (Psychology); Horsemanship; Mothers and daughters; Rich people; Secrecy; Show jumping;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Our beautiful boys : a novel / by Pandya, Sameer,author.;
"When the star players on a high school football team are accused of violence by another student, their secrets-and the secrets of their parents-threaten to shatter their entire community in a gripping novel of race, class, and privilege from the author of Members Only"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Family secrets; Football players; High school students; Racism; Secrecy; Social classes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The mothers : a novel / by Bennett, Brit,author.;
"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season." It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance--and the subsequent cover-up--will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. Soon, Nadia, Luke, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver, and dogged by the constant, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt. In entrancing, lyrical prose, The Mothers asks whether a "what if" can be more powerful than an experience itself. If, as time passes, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves, to the communities that have parented us, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Bildungsromans.; African American teenagers; Choice (Psychology); Teenage pregnancy; Triangles (Interpersonal relations);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The lost boy of Santa Chionia / by Grames, Juliet,author.;
"Calabria, 1960. Francesca Loftfield, a twenty-seven-year-old, starry-eyed American, arrives in the isolated mountain village of Santa Chionia tasked with opening a nursery school. There is no road, no doctor, no running water or electricity. And thanks to a recent flood that swept away the post office, there's no mail, either. Most troubling, though, is the human skeleton that surfaced after the flood waters receded. Who is it? And why don't the police come and investigate? When an old woman begs Francesca to help determine if the remains are those of her long-missing son, Francesca begins to ask a lot of inconvenient questions. As an outsider, she might be the only person who can uncover the truth. Or she might be getting in over her head. As she attempts to juggle a nosy landlady, a suspiciously dashing shepherd, and a network of local families bound together by a code of silence, Francesca finds herself forced to choose between the charitable mission that brought her to Santa Chionia, and her future happiness, between truth and survival. Set in the wild heart of Calabria, a land of sheer cliff faces, ancient tradition, dazzling sunlight-and one of the world's most ruthless criminal syndicates-The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia is a suspenseful puzzle mystery, a captivating romance, and an affecting portrait of a young woman in search of a meaningful life"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Missing persons; Nineteen sixties; Secrecy; Young women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Front desk / by Yang, Kelly.;
Includes bibliographical references.Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade class, the other being Mr. Yao's son, Jason.LSC
Subjects: Immigrant families; Immigrants; Chinese; Motels; Exploitation; Self-confidence; Friendship;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Another fine mess : a novel / by Ryan, Lindy,author.;
"Making sure dead things stay buried is the family business ... For over a hundred years, the Evans women have kept the undead in their strange southeast Texas town from rising. But sometimes the dead rise too quick -- and that's what left Lenore Evans, and her granddaughter Luna, burying Luna's mother, Grace, and Lenore's mother, Ducey. Now the only two women left in the Evans family, Luna and Lenore are left rudderless in the wake of the most Godawful Mess to date. But when the full moon finds another victim, it's clear their trouble is far from over. Now Lenore, Luna, and the new sheriff -- their biggest ally -- must dig deep down into family lore to uncover what threatens everything they love most. The body count ticks up, the most unexpected dead will rise -- forcing Lenore and Luna to face the possibility that the undead aren't the only monsters preying on their small town"--
Subjects: Monster fiction.; Vampire fiction.; Horror fiction.; Novels.; Dead; Intergenerational relations; Monsters; Undertakers and undertaking; Vampires;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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