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The other mothers / by Faulkner, Katherine,author.;
"When a young nanny is found dead in mysterious circumstances, new mom, Tash, is intrigued. She has been searching for a story to launch her career as a freelance journalist. But she has also been searching for something else--new friends to help her navigate motherhood. She sees them at her son's new playgroup. The other mothers. A group of sleek, sophisticated women who live in a neighborhood of tree-lined avenues and stunning houses. The sort of mothers Tash herself would like to be. When the mothers welcome her into their circle, Tash discovers the kind of life she has always dreamt of--their elegant London townhouses a far cry from her cramped basement flat and endless bills. She is quickly swept up into their wealthy world via coffees, cocktails, and playdates. But when another young woman is found dead, it's clear there's much more to the community than meets the eye. The more Tash investigates, the more she's led uncomfortably close to the other mothers. Are these women really her friends? Or is there another, more dangerous reason why she has been so quickly accepted into their exclusive world? Who, exactly, is investigating who?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Friendship; Journalists; Mothers; Parents; Play groups; Secrecy; Young women;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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My name is Lucy Barton : a novel / by Strout, Elizabeth.;
FP 175,000. The profound mother-daughter bond is explored through a mother's hospital visit to her estranged daughter by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of OLIVE KITTERIDGE and BURGESS BOYS. Lucy Barton, a writer, married with two young children, is in the hospital in New York City due to an infection from a simple appendix operation. (Her medical condition is incidental - it's not about the illness). Her mother, whom she hasn't seen in years, comes from Amgash, Illinois, to visit her, and sits by her bedside, reminiscing about people she and Lucy know from Lucy's childhood, before Lucy went off to college and never returned.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Mothers and daughters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Unfit parent : a disabled mother challenges an inaccessible world / by Slice, Jessica,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Navigating the joys, stigma, and discrimination of disabled parenting-and how the solutions offered by disability culture can transform the way we all raise our kids"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Discrimination against people with disabilities.; Parents with disabilities.; Sociology of disability.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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This is how we love / by Moore, Lisa,1964-author.;
"As the snowstorm of the century rages toward Newfoundland, twenty-one-year-old Xavier is beaten and stabbed in a vicious attack. His mother, Jules, must fight her way through the shuttered streets of St. John's to reach the hospital where Xavier lies unconscious. When a video of the attack surfaces, Jules struggles to make sense of what she sees in the footage--and of what she can't quite make out. While Xavier's story unfolds, so, too, do the stories that brought him there. Here, across families and generations, are stories of mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers; of children cared for, neglected, lost, and re-found; of selfless generosity and reluctant debt. Above all, Moore, in the inimitable largesse of her art, paints a shimmering portrait of the sacrifice, pain, and wild joy of loving. A tour de force of storytelling and craft, This is How We Love brings us a cast of characters so rich and true they could only have been written by Lisa Moore."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Coma; Families; Love; Mothers; Parent and child; Storms;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The blue window : a novel / by Berne, Suzanne,author.;
Lorna, a respected psychotherapist, struggles to make her estranged mother a part of the family while also trying to break through to her son, Adam, who has returned from college after an incident he refuses to discuss.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Family secrets; Parent and adult child; Psychic trauma; Women psychotherapists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The great witch of Brittany / by Morgan, Louisa,1952-author.;
"There hasn't been a witch born in the Orchière clan for generations. According to the elders, that line is dead, leaving the clan vulnerable to the whims of superstitious villagers and the prejudices of fearmongering bishops. Ursule Orchière has been raised on stories of the great witches of the past. But the only magic she knows is the false spells her mother weaves over the gullible women who visit their fortune-telling caravan. All of that changes when Ursule comes of age and a spark of power flares to life--the power of witchcraft, guided by the whispers of her ancestors and an ancient grimoire. Simply thrilled to be chosen, she has no idea how magic will twist and shape her future. Ursule is destined to walk the same path the great witches of old took before her. But first, the Orchière magical lineage will have to survive. And danger hovers over her, whether it's the bloodlust of the mob or the flames of the pyre"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Historical fiction.; Magic; Witches;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Surrogate Mother. by McFadden, Freida.;
#1 New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Sunday Times internationally bestselling author Freida McFadden is a practicing physician specializing in brain injury. Freida is the winner of both the International Thriller Writer Award for Best Paperback Original and the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Thriller. Her novels have been translated into more than forty languages. Freida lives withher family and black cat in a centuries-old three-story home overlooking the ocean.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); FICTION / Thrillers / Crime; FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological; FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense;
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Loving Amy : a mother's story / by Winehouse, Janis,author.;
Hurricane Amy -- Child of mine -- Dad's gone--can we get a hamster? -- We three -- Take the box -- Frank -- Headline honey -- Puttin' on the ritz -- Behind the beehive -- Fly me to the moon -- Steps forward, one step back -- Maybe -- Island in the sun -- Drinkin' again -- Leader of the pack -- Time out for tears -- Epilogue.
Subjects: Winehouse, Amy, 1983-2011.; Drug addicts; Singers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Of women and salt / by Garcia, Gabriela,1984-author.;
"A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt. From 19th-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers, from Cuba to Mexico, Of Women and Salt is a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayals-personal and political, self-inflicted and those done by others-that have shaped the lives of these extraordinary women. A haunting meditation on the choices of mothers, the legacy of the memories they carry, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them, this is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of America's most tangled, honest, human roots"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Mothers and daughters; Cuban American women; Immigrants; Family secrets;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Queen of thieves : a novel / by Marsh, Beezy,author.;
In 1946, as London struggles to rebuild after the devastation of the Blitz, Alice Diamond, leader of a gang of women jewel thieves, takes on a teenager named Nell and guides her in their underworld existence even as Nell plots to carve out her own path to power and riches.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Female offenders; Gangs; Nineteen forties; Revenge; Thieves; Unmarried mothers; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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