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The remarkable journey of Coyote Sunrise / by Gemeinhart, Dan.;
Twelve-year-old Coyote and her father rush to Poplin Springs, Washington, in their old school bus save a memory box buried in a park that will soon be demolished.
Subjects: Automobile travel; Fathers and daughters; Single-parent families; Grief;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Pepper's rules for secret sleuthing / by McDonald, Briana.;
Amateur detective Pepper Blouse, a rising seventh-grader, cannot resist investigating when her Great Aunt Florence passes away under mysterious circumstances, but strictly following her mother's Detective Rulebook may not be the best plan.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Fathers and daughters; Single-parent families; Death; Great-aunts;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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We have never lived on Earth : stories / by Van Schaik, Kasia,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."'Love in the age of microplastics.' Kasia Van Schaik's debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa. The stories traverse the most intimate, violent, and transforming moments of female experience in a world threatened by ecological crisis. Charlotte navigates relationships-- with lovers, parents, friends, and environments-- as they form and fray. Mother and daughter wait out the end of a bad year in a Mexican hotel; a friendship is tested as forest fires demolish Charlotte's town; a childhood friend disappears while travelling through Europe; and a girl on the beach examines the memories of dying jellyfish. Each story asks: how do we find connection in a world shaped by isolation? How do we accept the new? Written in startling, poetic prose, We Have Never Lived On Earth captures the feelings and experiences of being a woman: physical and psychological threat, creativity, disappointment, objectification, and desire. Calling to mind Alice Munro's precocious Del Jordan and Rachel Cusk's Faye, these powerful portraits of female interiority balance nostalgia, fear, and hope for the future as they tell of the struggle to understand what it means to live on earth."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Short stories.; Linked stories.; Psychological fiction.; Children of single parents; South Africans; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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One perfect lie / by Scottoline, Lisa,author.;
"One perfect lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being lured down a darker path by one of his teammates, a secretly disturbed young man from an affluent family, whose excellent grades and fun-loving manner conceal his violent criminal plans. Add a handsome stranger who comes to town and infiltrates the high school, posing as a teacher but with a hidden agenda all his own. The mix becomes combustible when a beloved faculty member turns up dead as a suicide, in circumstances equally consistent with murder. Only then is the true identity of the fake teacher revealed, and the single mother finds herself engaged in a battle for the future, the soul, and the very life of her only son. One Perfect Lie is a riveting and suspenseful family drama, and by the time you close the book, you will realize that nothing was as it seemed at the beginning"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Single parents; Baseball players; High school teachers; Impostors and imposture; Secrecy;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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One perfect lie [sound recording] / by Scottoline, Lisa,author.; Newbern, George,1964-narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by George Newbern."One perfect lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being lured down a darker path by one of his teammates, a secretly disturbed young man from an affluent family, whose excellent grades and fun-loving manner conceal his violent criminal plans. Add a handsome stranger who comes to town and infiltrates the high school, posing as a teacher but with a hidden agenda all his own. The mix becomes combustible when a beloved faculty member turns up dead as a suicide, in circumstances equally consistent with murder. Only then is the true identity of the fake teacher revealed, and the single mother finds herself engaged in a battle for the future, the soul, and the very life of her only son. One Perfect Lie is a riveting and suspenseful family drama, and by the time you close the book, you will realize that nothing was as it seemed at the beginning"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Single parents; Baseball players; High school teachers; Impostors and imposture; Secrecy;
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Delphine Jones takes a chance / by Morrey, Beth,author.;
"Devoted single mother Delphine Jones is an expert at putting her head down and moving through life one day at a time. Since getting pregnant at sixteen, her circle has only ever included her now eleven-year-old daughter and best friend, Em, and her complicated father whom they live with. But when an opportunity for her to finish school presents itself, Delphine finally does something she hasn't done in years: she takes a chance on herself. Sometimes all it takes is one chance. As Delphine rediscovers her passions and her belief in herself, her circle expands to include an Oscar-winning actress turned teacher, an Eritrean couple running a local café-cum-jazz club, an elderly French widow looking to converse, and a handsome musician who awakens something in Delphine that she thought had been long buried. But as Delphine's eyes and heart start to open, she must also face questions she's stonewalled for more than a decade, questions about Em's father. Is she brave enough?"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Adult students; Fathers and daughters; Mothers and daughters; Self-realization in women; Single mothers; Single women; Single-parent families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Christmas on Reindeer Road / by Mason, Debbie(Novelist);
Determined to give her troubled stepsons a magical holiday, Mallory Maitland is drawn to Chief of Police Gabriel Buchanan, who, despite his attraction to her, risks losing his sons if he gets involved with the only woman who is capable of making this holiday the best ever.
Subjects: Christmas fiction.; Romance fiction.; Single parents; Police chiefs; Widowers; Christmas; Man-woman relationships; Love stories;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Shine! / by Grabenstein, J. J.; Grabenstein, Chris.; Mechanic, Leslie.;
When seventh-grader Piper's father is hired by Chumley Prep, a school where every student seems to be the best at everything, she gets the chance to compete for the prestigious Excelsior Award.LSC
Subjects: Conduct of life; Middle schools; Schools; Contests; Single-parent families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mindy Kim and the Lunar New Year parade / by Lee, Lyla.; Ho, Dung.;
Ages 6-9.LSC
Subjects: Kim, Mindy (Fictitious character); Korean Americans; Single-parent families; Parades;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fixing Delilah / by Ockler, Sarah.;
When Delilah, her mother, and her aunt spend the summer in Vermont settling Delilah's estranged grandmother's estate, long-held family secrets are painfully brought to light and Delilah finally learns some difficult truths about her family's past.LSC
Subjects: Teenagers; Family secrets; Single-parent families; Depression, Mental; Grief; Families;
© 2011, c2010., Little, Brown,
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