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- The museum of failures : a novel / by Umrigar, Thrity N.,author.;
- "Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby--and to see his elderly mother for the first time in several years. Discovering that she is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have given up on life, he is struck with guilt for not realizing just how sick she has become. His unexpected appearance and assiduous attention revives her and enables her to return to her home. But when Remy finds an old photograph from his adoring late father, shocking long-held family secrets surface"--
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Family secrets; Guilt; Mothers and sons; Redemption;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Normal family : on truth, love, and how I met my 35 siblings / by Bilton, Chrysta,author.;
- "In this unputdownable story of nature, nurture, and coming to terms with one's true inheritance, the author, introducing her deeply dysfunctional yet fiercely loving family that is anything but "normal," reveals how a colorful cast of characters were thrown together by chance and DNA"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Bilton, Chrysta.; Children of gay parents; Children of sperm donors; Lesbian mothers;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- An Enola Holmes mystery. [graphic novel] / by Blasco, Serena,author,illustrator.; Based on (work):Springer, Nancy.Enola Holmes mystery.; Melloul, Jeremy,translator.; Mullaney, Dean,1954-translator.;
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- Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Graphic novels.; Mothers; Missing persons;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Stray : a memoir / by Danler, Stephanie,author.;
- "From the author of the best-selling Sweetbitter comes an intimate, searingly honest memoir of growing up the child of addicts, of how that turbulent, often harrowing experience has affected her at every stage of her life, and of how she has struggled to transcend this unwanted legacy. When Sweetbitter was published to great success, the author knew she should be happy, but she felt incapable of it, emotionally shut down. She knew too that the roots of her inability to feel were deep in her childhood. With some hope of finally facing down her past--of looking clearly at her parents and what she did and did not inherit from them--she returned to California after a decade away, a decade in which she'd honed the practice of apathy. Stray is an account of that remarkable emotional journey. We meet her mother: a depressed alcoholic, now mentally and physically handicapped by a tragic brain aneurysm and living in squalor; and her father: once a successful businessman, now a constantly relapsing crystal meth addict living in halfway homes and shelters. And we are with the author as she remembers and relives the most difficult events of the ten years since she left "home"--betrayals and infidelities, her own problems with drinking, an affair with a married man whose darkness mirrored her own--and as she discovers the bounds of forgiveness, of her parents, but especially of herself"--
- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Danler, Stephanie.; Authors, American; Women authors, American; Children of alcoholics; Children of drug addicts;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Giaci and me : a mother's journey of loving and raising an autistic child / by Miceli, Rita,author.;
- "With more than a half-million global followers on TikTok, Rita Miceli's young adult son Giaci and his sisters are making a big impact. Surrounded by the unconditional love of his family, Giaci invites his fans to be privy to the rich tapestry of the life he leads, sharing everyday activities including housekeeping, finances, and the emotional health of his parents and siblings. In Giaci and Me, author and mother Rita Miceli shares her story to help parents of autistic children be inspired, feel better, and continue their journey knowing they are not alone. A narrative of Rita's innermost thoughts, realizations, and fears, this memoir of perseverance serves as a much-needed resource for caregivers and family members of people with autism. Rita wished for such a book at the beginning of her own journey as a mother of a child with autism, and now she offers to her readers a comprehensive framework that spans decades. From the early days of diagnosis through to the unusual, the exciting, and the uplifting, Giaci and Me shares an empathetic and compassionate perspective that can lead to better support for families living with autism."--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Miceli, Giaci.; Miceli, Rita; Autistic children; Autistic people; Parents of autistic children;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Fighting words / by Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker.;
- Depending on an older sister who protected her when their mother went to prison and their mother's boyfriend committed a terrible act, 10-year-old Della tries to figure out what to do when her older sister attempts suicide."Ten-year-old Della can rely on her older sister, Suki, for anything, but when Suki attempts suicide, Della must seek help and speak out about the sexual abuse they've both suffered at the hands of their mother's boyfriend"-- Provided by publisher.LSC
- Subjects: Sisters; Middle school students; Suicidal behavior; Children of prisoners; Sex crimes; Foster children;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Inventory of a life mislaid : an unreliable memoir / by Warner, Marina,1946-author.; Herxheimer, Sophie,illustrator.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.Marina Warner was born in 1946 to an English father and an Italian mother who had met during the war. In this beautiful memoir, Warner reaches back to their wartime meeting, romance, and the precarious tale of her wilful mother making the difficult move to London. It is also the story of Warner's childhood spent in Cairo, in a time when Egypt was in revolution and tumult, as well as her adolescence and life thereafter.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Warner, Marina, 1946-; Authors, English; Novelists, English;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Summer of '69 [sound recording] / by Hilderbrand, Elin,author.; Bennett, Erin,narrator.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
- Read by Erin Bennett.Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests and determined to be independent, takes a summer job on Martha's Vineyard. Only-son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. Thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother and her worried mother, each of them hiding a troubling secret. As the summer heats up, Ted Kennedy sinks a car in Chappaquiddick, man flies to the moon, and Jessie and her family experience their own dramatic upheavals along with the rest of the country.
- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Families; Nineteen sixties;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The violence : a novel / by Dawson, Delilah S.,author.;
- "A mysterious plague that causes random bouts of violence is sweeping the nation. Now three generations of women must navigate their chilling new reality in this moving exploration of identity, cycles of abuse, and hope. Chelsea Martin appears to be the perfect housewife: married to her high school sweetheart, the mother of two daughters, keeper of an immaculate home. But Chelsea's husband has turned their house into a prison; he has been abusing her for years, cutting off her independence, autonomy, and support. She has nowhere to turn, not even to her narcissistic mother, Patricia, who is more concerned with maintaining the appearance of an ideal family than she is with her daughter's actual well-being. And Chelsea is worried that her daughters will be trapped just as she is--then a mysterious illness sweeps the nation. Known as The Violence, this illness causes the infected to experience sudden, explosive bouts of animalistic rage and attack anyone in their path. But for Chelsea, the chaos and confusion the virus causes is an opportunity--and inspires a plan to liberate herself from her abuser"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Spousal abuse; Violence; Wife abuse; Women;
- Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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- After the bloom / by Shimotakahara, Leslie,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references."Rita Takemitsu is a newly single mother raising her daughter in 1980s Toronto. When her mother, Lily, goes missing, Rita sets out to find her. In the course of her quest, Rita uncovers a host of secrets surrounding her mother's internment at a camp in the California desert during the Second World War and the truth about her mysterious father."--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Mothers and daughters; Japanese Americans; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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