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River sing me home / by Shearer, Eleanor,author.;
"Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending ... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. Freedom is just another name for the life they have always lived. So Rachel runs. Away from Providence, she begins a desperate search to find her children-the five who survived birth and were sold. Are any of them still alive? Rachel has to know. The grueling, dangerous journey takes her from Barbados then, by river, deep into the forest of British Guiana and finally across the sea to Trinidad. She is driven on by the certainty that a mother cannot be truly free without knowing what has become of her children, even if the answer is more than she can bear. These are the stories of Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. But above all this is the story of Rachel and the extraordinary lengths to which a mother will go to find her children ... and her freedom"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Mother and child; Slaves;
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The other side of the door [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Botet, Javier,1977-; Callies, Sarah Wayne,1977-; Creran, Logan.; Malcolm, Jax.; Pillai, Suchitra.; Rosinsky, Sofia.; Sisto, Jeremy,1974-; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc,publisher.;
Sarah Wayne Callies, Jeremy Sisto, Sofia Rosinsky, Javier Botet, Logan Creran, Jax Malcolm, Suchitra Pillai.A family lives an idyllic existence abroad until a tragic accident takes the life of their young son. The inconsolable mother learns of an ancient ritual that will bring him back to say a final goodbye. She travels to an ancient temple, where a door serves as a mysterious portal between two worlds. But when she disobeys a sacred warning to never open that door, she upsets the balance between life and death.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Blu-ray disc 50 GB Dual layer, AVC @ 30 MBPS (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.39:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1.
Subjects: Horror films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Mothers and sons; Resurrection; Sons; Supernatural; Rites and ceremonies;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The girls who grew big / by Mottley, Leila,2002-author.;
"Adela is sixteen years old. When she tells her parents she's pregnant, they send her from their home in Indiana to her grandmother's in Padua Beach, Florida, "a town built on y'all bein good now? and babies havin babies, said in the rasp of a loud whisper in the back of a church." There, Adela meets Emory, who has a baby of her own she brings to high school, strapped to her chest; and Simone, ringleader of "the Girls," a group of teenage mothers who hang out with their growing brood in the back of her red truck -- dancing defiantly, breastfeeding, watching the kids and having each other's backs. The town thinks they've lost their way, but really they are finding it: looking for love, making and breaking friendships, navigating the miracle of motherhood and the paradox of girlhood. But before long they will find themselves on a collision course with one another."--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Families; Female friendship; Pregnancy; Teenage girls; Teenage mothers;
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Fancy Dancer / by Michaels, Fern,author.;
Subjects: Brothers; Inheritance and succession; Single mothers; Ballet dancers; Families; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Sleep no more / by Johansen, Iris.;
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Brothers and sisters; Duncan, Eve (Fictitious character); Families; Mothers and daughters; Women sculptors;
© c2012., St. Martin's Press,
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A summer affair [sound recording] / by Hilderbrand, Elin; Keating, Isabel;
Read by Isabel Keating.
Subjects: Love stories; CD Talking books; Fund raising; Parties; Single mothers; Women glassworkers;
© p2008., Hachette Audio,
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The angel tree / by Riley, Lucinda,1965-2021,author.;
Thirty years have passed since Greta left Marchmont Hall, a grand and beautiful house nestled in the hills of rural Monmouthshire. But when she returns to the Hall for Christmas, at the invitation of her old friend David Marchmont, she has no recollection of her past association with it -- the result of a tragic accident that has blanked out more than two decades of her life. Then, during a walk through the wintry landscape, she stumbles across a grave in the woods, and the weathered inscription on the headstone tells her that a little boy is buried here. The poignant discovery strikes a chord in Greta's mind and soon ignites a quest to rediscover her lost memories.
Subjects: Christmas fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Amnesia; Family secrets; Man-woman relationships; Memory; Mothers and daughters;
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Face your fears, little deer / by Jones, Christianne C.; Gómez, Jayri.;
In rhyming text, his mother helps Little Deer face his fear of storms and the dark.
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Board books.; Fear of the dark; Fear; Mothers and sons; Deer;
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Mama, why? / by Wilson, Karma.; Mendez, Simon.;
A sleepy polar bear cub asks his mother questions about the night sky as he gets ready to go to sleep.
Subjects: Bedtime; Mother and child; Night; Polar bear; Sky; Stories in rhyme.;
© c2011., Margaret K. McElderry Books,
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Twilight territory : a novel / by Pham, Andrew X.,1967-author.;
In the Vietnamese fishing village of Phan Thiet in 1942, Tuyet meets and falls in love with Japanese major Yamazaki Takeshi, a wounded veteran with a good heart, but when he risks his life for the Resistance, she and her family are drawn into the conflict, with devastating consequences.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Divorced women; Single mothers; Soldiers; Survival;
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