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The Giver quartet / by Lowry, Lois.; Lowry, Lois.Giver.; Lowry, Lois.Gathering blue.; Lowry, Lois.Messenger.; Lowry, Lois.Son.;
The Giver -- Gathering blue -- Messenger -- Son.The Giver: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. -- Gathering blue: Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians. -- Messenger: In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand. -- Son: Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.LSC
Subjects: Dystopias.; Control (Psychology); Orphans; People with disabilities; Artists; Community life; Healers; Mother and child; Separation (Psychology);
© [2014], Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
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Skin again / by hooks, bell,1952-2021.; Raschka, Christopher.;
Describes how skin is just a covering that can't tell the story of who a person is.LSC
Subjects: Human skin color; Identity (Psychology);
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Skin again / by hooks, bell,1952-2021.; Raschka, Christopher.;
Describes how skin is just a covering that can't tell the story of who a person is.All ages.LSC
Subjects: Human skin color; Identity (Psychology);
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Mommy love : a mindfulness exercise for mothers and babies / by Verde, Susan.; Stoop, Naoko.;
Includes bibliographical references."As mother and child read Mommy Love, the text provides the reader with the prompts of a mindfulness exercise. Mothers are guided to use their senses to help them bond with their babies notice small details, and ground themselves in the present moment. There are words of encouragement and hope as Mommy and Baby begin their love together. Complete with an author's note, breathing exercises, a gratitude practice, and other resources"--
Subjects: Picture books.; Mother and infant; Mindfulness (Psychology);
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Squirrel-ish / by Edlund, Bambi.;
This hilarious tale, in which a rat sets out to become more squirrel-ish, explores the feeling that the grass is always greener for someone else, and sends a gentle reminder about the joy of being true to yourself.
Subjects: Picture books.; Squirrels; Rats; Self-actualization (Psychology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Little white lies / by Barnes, Jennifer(Jennifer Lynn);
Eighteen-year-old Sawyer accepts her estranged grandmother's bribe to live with her for a year, participate in the debutante season and ball, and possibly meet the father she has never known.LSC
Subjects: Debutantes; Grandmothers; Mothers and daughters; Families; Identity (Psychology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In winter I get up at night / by Urquhart, Jane,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.In the early morning dark, Emer McConnell rises for a day of teaching music in the schools of rural Saskatchewan. While she travels the snowy roads in the gathering light, she begins another journey, one of recollection and introspection, and one that, through the course of Jane Urquhart's brilliant new novel, will leave the reader forever changed. Moving as effortlessly through time as the drift of memory itself, In Winter I Get Up at Night brings Emer and her singular story to life. At the age of 11, she is terribly injured in an enormous prairie storm--the "great wind" that shifts her trajectory forever. As she recovers, separated from her family in a children's ward, Emer gets to know her fellow patients, a memorable group including a child performer who stars in a travelling theatre company, the daughter of a Dukhobor community, and the son of a leftist Jewish farm collective. The children are tended to by three nursing sisters and two doctors, whom the ever-imaginative Emer comes to call Doctor Angel and Doctor Carpenter. Emer's tale grows outwards from that ward, reaching through time and space in a dreamlike fashion, recounting the stories of her mother's entanglement with a powerful yet mysterious teacher; her brother's dawning spirituality, which eventually leads him to the priesthood; the remarkable lives of the nuns who care for her; and the passionate yet distant love affair of Emer and an enigmatic man she calls Harp--a brilliant scientist whose great discovery has forever altered millions of lives around the world. In luminous prose, and with exhilarating nuance and depth, Jane Urquhart charts an unforgettable life, while also exploring some of the grandest themes of the twentieth century--colonial expansion, scientific progress, and the sinister forces that seek to divide societies along racial and cultural lines. In Winter I Get Up at Night is a major work of imagination and self-exploration from one of the greatest writers of our time.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Country life; Families; Interpersonal relations; Life change events; Recollection (Psychology); Women teachers; Women;
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The adult / by Fischer, Bronwyn,author.;
"An engrossing, page-turning story about an introverted student and the mysterious older woman whose unexpected interest in her sparks an insidious, all-consuming love affair. Eighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived for her first year of university in Toronto, leaving her remote, forested hometown for an unfamiliar city. Everyone she encounters seems to know exactly who they are. Chatty, confident Clara from down the hall, who wants to be her friend; intense, determined Rachel from her poetry class, who is going to be a writer. Natalie doesn't know what she wants. She reads advice listicles and watches videos online and thinks about how to fit in, how to really become someone. Just as she is trying to find her footing, she meets Nora, an older woman who takes an unexpected interest in her. Natalie is drawn magnetically into Nora's orbit. She begins spending more and more of her time off campus at Nora's home, enveloped by the intensity of her feelings and the version of adulthood she imagines Nora leads. Worried about how her floormates will react to news of her relationship with a woman, Natalie explains her absence by inventing a secret boyfriend called Paul; she carefully protects the intimate, sacred adulthood she is building for herself. But when it becomes clear that Nora is lying, too, her secrets begin to take an alarming shape in Natalie's life, even as Natalie tries to look away. What, or who, is Nora hiding? The Adult is a startlingly gorgeous and perceptive debut novel examining identity, love, insecurity, desire, and deceit."--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Lesbian fiction.; Novels.; College students; Identity (Psychology); Introverts; Lesbians; Secrecy; Truthfulness and falsehood;
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Girls and their horses / by Brazier, Eliza Jane,author.;
"Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cutthroat mothers, and a suspicious death at a horse show."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Competition (Psychology); Horsemanship; Mothers and daughters; Rich people; Secrecy; Show jumping;
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A dog in Georgia : a novel / by Grodstein, Lauren,author.;
Amy Webb is a chef. Or rather, she was a chef. Somewhere along the way she also became a wife and a stepmother and an emergency contact, and the part of her that was a chef disappeared entirely--along with her sense of self. Which is why she is currently in the republic of Georgia, on a mission to find a lost dog named Angel, and, more importantly, the life's purpose she once took for granted. For months, Amy has escaped by watching Youtube videos of Angel walking the children of Tbilisi to school. When Angel goes missing, Amy volunteers to go find him. The fact that her husband may be having (another) affair and her stepson is away at college probably has something to do with it. Who is Amy, after all, if she's not taking care of other people? But to her surprise, Angel proves elusive, and while she does make friends with a number of stray dogs, what she finds in Tblisi is entirely human. Is she happy in her marriage? What happened to her career? Why doesn't she ever cook anymore, even just for herself? Helping her on this journey of self-discovery is a rebellious teenager, a mysterious and attractive Russian, and several post-Soviet grandmothers. And, of course, the rich food and culture and complicated politics of Georgia itself. After a lifetime of looking away from her own needs and appetites, Amy is forced to confront what she really wants and how to finally find herself--And a dog.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Dogs; Identity (Psychology); Interpersonal relations; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Women;
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