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Flight : a novel / by Strong, Lynn Steger,1983-author.;
A novel told through the shifting voices of a family gathering for Christmas in upstate New York after the death of their beloved matriarch. At odds over the settling of her estate, the group is forced to come together unexpectedly when a local mother and daughter need help. Flight is a novel of grief, shame, ambition, joy, and the American safety net.--
Subjects: Christmas fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Mothers; Siblings;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Raising Trump / by Trump, Ivana,author.;
The former wife of Donald Trump reflects on her life, from her childhood in communist Czechoslovakia and successes as a businesswoman to her views on motherhood and the ways her ex-husband's election has changed their children's lives.
Subjects: Biographies.; Trump, Donald, 1946-; Trump, Ivana.; Businesswomen; Children of presidents; Mothers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Told you so / by Neeley, Mayci,author.;
"Mayci Neeley and the women of MomTok burst into the centre of pop culture when Hulu's 'The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' took the world by storm. But the show barely scratched the surface of Mayci's personal story. From becoming a mom at 20, to losing her son's father in a tragic car accident, to going back to college as a single mother, she's only ever given us glimpses of the challenging things she's been through. Now, finally, she's ready to tell us everything."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Neeley, Mayci.; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.; TikTok (Electronic resource); Internet personalities; Latter Day Saints; Latter Day Saint women; Women television personalities;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Welcome home, stranger : a novel / by Christensen, Kate,1962-author.;
"'Christensen is a forceful writer whose ... prose is visceral and poetic ... She is a portrait artist, drawing in miniature, capturing the light within.'-San Francisco Chronicle. From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home-reluctantly-to Maine after the death of her mother. Can you ever truly go home again? An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she's a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large and small, she thinks her life is in free fall-until she's summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother's death. Then things really fall apart. Surrounded by a cast of sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreakingly serious characters-an arriviste sister, an alcoholic brother-in-law and, most importantly, the love of her life recently married to the sister's best friend-Rachel must come to terms with her past, the sorrow she has long buried, and the ghost of the mother who, for better and worse, made her the woman she is. Lively, witty, and painfully familiar, this sophisticated and emotionally resonant novel from the author of The Great Man holds a mirror up to modern life as it considers the way some of us must carry on now"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Homecoming; Interpersonal relations; Mothers; Women journalists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Pull of the Stars A Novel [electronic resource] : by Donoghue, Emma.aut; cloudLibrary;
THE NEW #1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WONDER AND ROOM  Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and Room.  In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined together. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders—Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney.  In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, caregivers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work.  In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds. 
Subjects: Electronic books.; Medical; Historical;
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Dancing in the mosque : an Afghan mother's letter to her son / by Qādirī, Ḥumayrā,1979 or 1980-author.; Stanizai, Zaman,translator.;
'Dancing in the Mosque' is an exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mothers unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. A Dewey Diva Pick.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Qādirī, Ḥumayrā, 1979 or 1980-; Women social reformers; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hera / by Saint, Jennifer,author.;
"From the #1 internationally bestselling author of Ariadne, Elektra, and Atalanta, a propulsive, empowering retelling of Hera, reclaiming her as a feminist hero Even the gods must have their queen. When the immortal goddess Hera and her brother Zeus overthrow their tyrannical father, she dreams of ruling at his side. But as they establish their reign on Mount Olympus, Hera begins to see that Zeus is just as ruthless and cruel as the father they betrayed. While Zeus ascends, Hera is relegated to the role of wife and mother, a role she never wanted. She was always born to rule, but must she lose herself in perpetuating this cycle of violence and cruelty? Or can she find a way to forge a better world? In this enthralling retelling, Greek mythology's most famous and maligned goddess finally tells her own story, as power, passion, and divine strength collide in the heart of Olympus"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Mythological fiction.; Novels.; Hera (Greek deity); Zeus (Greek deity); Goddesses, Greek; Gods, Greek; Man-woman relationships; Queens; Sex role; Siblings;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Out of mind : a novel / by Bergen, David,1957-author.;
"In Out of Mind, David Bergen delves into the psyche of Lucille Black, mother, grandmother, lover, psychiatrist, and analyst of self, who first appeared in Bergen's bestselling novel The Matter with Morris. Although adept at probing the lives of others, Lucille has become untethered, caught between duty and desire, between the demands of family and her own longing. Her ex-husband Morris betrays her by publishing a memoir about the aftermath of their son Martin's death in Afghanistan. She travels to Thailand to attempt to extricate her youngest daughter from the clutches of an apparent cult leader. And she is invited to the south of France to attend the marriage of a man whom she rejected a year earlier. Negotiating with herself about her altered role in the lives of her family and friends, Lucille circles the globe -- and herself. In this brilliant and subtle evocation of vulnerability and loss, Bergen traces one woman's quest to reform her identity, reminding us that the unexpected is always lying in wait."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Women psychiatrists; Interpersonal relations; Identity (Philosophical concept);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Spare [text (large print)] / by Harry,Prince, Duke of Sussex,1984-author.;
"It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling--and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Large type books.; Harry, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1984-; Princes;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Spectacular things : a novel / by Dorey-Stein, Beck,author.;
"Mia and Cricket have always been close. The gifted daughters of a young single mother, the "Lowe girls" are well-known in the small Maine town they call home. Each sister has a role to fill: The responsible and academically minded Mia assumes the position of caregiver far too young, while Cricket, a bouncing ball of energy and talent, seems born for soccer stardom. But the cost of achieving athletic greatness comes at a steep price. As Mia and Cricket grow up, they must grapple with the legacy of their mother's secret past while navigating their own precarious future. Can Mia allow herself to fall in love at the risk of repeating a terrible history? Will Cricket's relentless chase of a lifelong goal drive her sister away? When does loyalty become self-sabotage?"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Families; Secrecy; Single mothers; Sisters;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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