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The Paris showroom / by Blackwell, Juliet,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In Nazi-occupied Paris, a talented artisan must fight for her life by designing for her enemies. From New York Times bestselling author Juliet Blackwell comes an extraordinary story about holding on to hope when all seems lost. Capucine Benoit works alongside her father to produce fans of rare feathers, beads, and intricate pleating for the haute couture fashion houses. But after the Germans invade Paris in June 1940, Capucine and her father must focus on mere survival-until they are betrayed to the secret police and arrested for his political beliefs. When Capucine saves herself from deportation to Auschwitz by highlighting her connections to Parisian design houses, she is sent to a little-known prison camp located in the heart of Paris, within the Lévitan department store. There, hundreds of prisoners work to sort through, repair, and put on display the massive quantities of art, furniture, and household goods looted from Jewish homes and businesses. Forced to wait on German officials and their wives and mistresses, Capucine struggles to hold her tongue in order to survive, remembering happier days spent in the art salons, ateliers, and jazz clubs of Montmartre in the 1920s. Capucine's estranged daughter, Mathilde, remains in the care of her conservative paternal grandparents, who are prospering under the Nazi occupation. But after her mother is arrested and then a childhood friend goes missing, the usually obedient Mathilde finds herself drawn into the shadowy world of Paris's Résistance fighters. As her mind opens to new ways of looking at the world, Mathilde also begins to see her unconventional mother in a different light. When an old acquaintance arrives to go "shopping" at the Lévitan department store on the arm of a Nazi officer and secretly offers to help Capucine get in touch with Mathilde, this seeming act of kindness could have dangerous consequences"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Mothers and daughters; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Momma's going to march / by Maruno, Jennifer,1950-; Rosas, Vivian.;
"We're going to a peaceful protest because ... Momma's going to march! Momma's Going to March follows several children over time as they accompany their mothers to different peaceful protest marches, where they advocate for the environment, freedom, equality, peace, and clean water. They help make signs and banners, decorate wagons, carry flags, and beat drums. Momma shows them that advocacy can be fun ... and that they can do it, too! With accessible text and engaging artwork, Momma's Going to March will empower a generation of young activists. Includes an author's note, brief descriptions of a select number of historical marches, and further information on the use of signs, flags, banners, drums and more in peaceful protests."--
Subjects: Picture books.; Protest movements; Activism; Political participation; Mother and child;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Owner of a lonely heart : a memoir / by Nguyen, Bich Minh,author.;
"From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement. At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. Beth's mother stayed--or was left-behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent less than twenty-four hours together. Owner of a Lonely Heart is a memoir about parenthood, absence, and the condition of being a refugee: the story of Beth's relationship with her mother. Framed by a handful of visits over the course of many years--sometimes brief, sometimes interrupted, sometimes with her mother alone and sometimes with her sister--Beth tells a coming-of-age story that spans her own Midwestern childhood, her first meeting with her mother, and becoming a parent herself. Vivid and illuminating, Owner of a Lonely Heart is a deeply personal story of family, connection, and belonging: as a daughter, a mother, and as a Vietnamese refugee in America"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Nguyen, Bich Minh.; Immigrants; Mothers and daughters; Vietnamese Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A woman's battles and transformations / by Louis, Édouard,author.; Aw, Tash,translator.; translation of:Louis, Édouard.Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme.English.;
Includes bibliographical references.Late one night, Édouard Louis got a call from his forty-five-year-old mother: "I did it. I left your father." Suddenly, she was free. This is the searing and sympathetic story of one woman's liberation: of mothers and sons, of history and heartbreak, of politics and power. It reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives--and with the possibility of escape. Sharp, short, and fine as a needle, it is a necessary addition to the work of Édouard Louis, "one of France's most widely read and internationally successful novelists" (The New York Times Magazine).
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Louis, Édouard; Authors, French; Mothers of authors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The littlest bear / by Shields, Gillian.; Lovsin, Polona.;
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Subjects: Polar bear; Bear cubs; Wolves; Wolves; Mother and child; Friendship;
© 2011., Macmillan Children's Books,
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel / by Semple, Maria.;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Mystery Fiction.; Missing persons; Mothers and daughters; Phobias; Women architects;
© 2012., Little, Brown and Company,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Forever Birchwood / by Daniel, Danielle.;
Wolf lives in a northern mining town where she spends her days exploring with her three best friends: Penny, Ann, and Brandi. The girls's treehouse hideaway, Birchwood, is Wolf's favourite place on earth. As summer arrives, Wolf and her friends find plastic orange bands wrapped around the trees near their cherished hangout spot, and their once stable friendship starts to unravel. Can the girls stay together long enough to save their special place?LSC
Subjects: Tree houses; Mothers and daughters; Grandmothers; Friendship; Environmentalists; Logging;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Mad honey : a novel / by Picoult, Jodi,1966-author.; Boylan, Jennifer Finney,1958-author.;
"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her finalyear of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can't help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet at times, she wonders if she can she trust him completely ... Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. But she would be lying if she didn't acknowledge the flashes of his father's temper in him, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he's hidden more than he's shared with her"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Recipes.; Novels.; Bee culture; Divorced women; Family violence; Mothers and sons; Trials (Murder);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 5
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Mad honey [sound recording] : a novel / by Picoult, Jodi,1966-author,narrator.; Coon, Carrie,1981-narrator.; Taw, Key,narrator.; Boylan, Jennifer Finney,1958-author,narrator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
Read by Carrie Coon and Key Taw, with notes read by the authors."Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can't help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet at times, she wonders if she can she trust him completely ... Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. But she would be lying if she didn't acknowledge the flashes of his father's temper in him, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he's hidden more than he's shared with her"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Psychological fiction.; Recipes.; Bee culture; Divorced women; Family violence; Mothers and sons; Trials (Murder);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Triceratops stomp / by Patkau, Karen.;
A nest of baby triceratops dinosaurs are born deep in the forest. They begin scampering and playing, and when a T-Rex threatens the babies, their fierce mother scares it away.LSC
Subjects: Triceratops; Dinosaurs; Mother and child; Animal defenses;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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