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Whistle : a novel / by Barclay, Linwood,author.;
"Annie Blunt has had an unimaginably terrible year. First, her husband was killed in a tragic hit-and-run accident, then one of the children's books she's built her writing and illustrating career on ignited a major scandal. Desperate for a fresh start, she moves with her son Charlie to a charming small town in upstate New York where they can begin to heal. But Annie's year is about to get worse. Bored and lonely in their isolated new surroundings, Charlie is thrilled when he finds a forgotten train set in a locked shed on their property. Annie is glad to see Charlie happy, but there's something unsettling about his new toy. Strange sounds wake Annie in the night--she could swear she hears a train, but there isn't an active track for miles--and bizarre things begin happening in the neighborhood. Worse, Annie can't seem to stop drawing a disturbing new character that has no place in a children's book. Grief can do strange things to the mind, but Annie is beginning to think she's walked out of one nightmare straight into another, only this one is far more terrifying ... "--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Good and evil; Grief; Mothers and sons; Railroad trains; Sheds; Small cities; Toys; Women authors;

Whistle [text (large print)] : a novel / by Barclay, Linwood,author.;
"Annie Blunt has had an unimaginably terrible year. First, her husband was killed in a tragic hit-and-run accident, then one of the children's books she's built her writing and illustrating career on ignited a major scandal. Desperate for a fresh start, she moves with her son Charlie to a charming small town in upstate New York where they can begin to heal. But Annie's year is about to get worse. Bored and lonely in their isolated new surroundings, Charlie is thrilled when he finds a forgotten train set in a locked shed on their property. Annie is glad to see Charlie happy, but there's something unsettling about his new toy. Strange sounds wake Annie in the night--she could swear she hears a train, but there isn't an active track for miles--and bizarre things begin happening in the neighborhood. Worse, Annie can't seem to stop drawing a disturbing new character that has no place in a children's book. Grief can do strange things to the mind, but Annie is beginning to think she's walked out of one nightmare straight into another, only this one is far more terrifying ... "--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large print books.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Good and evil; Grief; Mothers and sons; Railroad trains; Sheds; Small cities; Toys; Women authors;

Return of the Trickster / by Robinson, Eden,author.;
PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: TRICKSTER DRIFT, ISBN 9780735273436. In the final installment of the 'Trickster' trilogy, everyone Jared loves is in danger from the dark forces he's accidentally unleashed in their world and soon finds himself at the centre of an all-out war. A horrible place to be for a Trickster whose first instinct is not mischief and mind games but to make the world around him a kinder, safer, place. Eden Robinson is a Haisla/Heiltsuk author who lives in Kitimat, BC.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Paranormal fiction.; Mothers and sons; Tricksters; Supernatural; Witches; Indigenous peoples; Families; Dysfunctional families;

Eso no es gracioso, David! / by Shannon, David,1959-;
David is determined to get laughs out of everyone -- even from those who might not find his antics amusing! From cannonballs into the pool to slurping his spaghetti to telling funny jokes during class, David is a natural comedian. But David learns that not all of his tricks are funny... like sticking things up his nose! Still, this troublemaker will always have the last laugh and, of course, the enduring love of his mom.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Picture books.; Humor in children; Mothers and sons; Conduct of life; Spanish language materials.;

You can run : a novel / by Cleveland, Karen,author.;
"A CIA analyst makes a split-second decision that endangers her country but saves her son--and now she must team up with an answer-hungry journalist she's not sure she can trust in this electrifying thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know. Nothing gets by Jill Bailey. As a CIA analyst, she's in charge of investigating and vetting new sources. Sources like FALCON, who's been on the fast-track to recruitment. He says he's a Syrian defense official attached to a covert biowarfare program--and with a global pandemic fresh in their minds, CIA officials are desperate to use him. It's Jill's job to make sure he is who he claims to be, and that his case officers in the field haven't been duped--or coerced. But before she can get to work, she gets a call. One that's every parent's nightmare. We have your son. And to get him back, Jill does something she thought she'd never do. As it turns out, she isn't the only one with questions about FALCON. Alex Charles, a journalist eager to break the next big story, begins to investigate an anonymous tip: an explosive claim about the CIA's hottest new source. This is the story that Alex has been waiting for. The tip--and a fierce determination to find the truth--leads Alex to Jill, who would rather remain hidden. As the two begin to work together, they uncover a vast conspiracy that will force them to confront their loyalties to family and country. You Can Run is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that will have you asking: What would you do to save the ones you love?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Intelligence officers; Journalists; Mothers and sons; Kidnapping; Extortion;

The day I lost you / by Mancini, Ruth,author.;
All Lauren wants is a new life in Spain. She's suffered an unimaginable loss, but at last she has found a home in the pretty seaside town of Mantilla de Mar. Everyone deserves a new start, and Lauren needs to put her past firmly behind her. Hope has everything: an interesting career as a therapist, an attractive husband, a dream home in the countryside - and, finally, the baby she always longed for. Sam. Her beautiful boy. But Sam has gone missing. o when the police tell her that a woman has been found in Spain with a child matching Sam's description, Hope thinks that her nightmare might be coming to an end. But Lauren is insisting Sam is her baby. She even has his passport and birth certificate to prove it. So what really happened to Baby Sam? And who still has secrets to hide? One child. Two mothers. And a past that won't let them go.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; English; Families; Grief; Missing children; Mothers and sons; Memory; Secrecy;

Our evenings : a novel / by Hollinghurst, Alan,author.;
"Dave Win, the son of a a Burmese man he's never met and a British dressmaker, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities emerge, even as Dave is exposed to the envy and viciousness of his wealthy classmates. Alan Hollinghurst's new novel follows Dave from the 1960s on--through the possibilities that remained open for him, and others that proved to be illusory: as a working-class brown child in a decidedly white institution; a young man discovering queer culture and experiencing his first, formative love affairs; a talented but often overlooked actor, on the road with an experimental theater company; and an older Londoner whose late-in-life marriage fills his days with an unexpected sense of happiness and security"--
Subjects: Gay fiction.; Queer fiction.; Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Actors; Elite (Social sciences); Gay men; Mothers and sons; Race discrimination; Social classes;

You don't have to say you love me : a memoir / by Alexie, Sherman,1966-author.;
Subjects: Biographies.; Alexie, Sherman, 1966-; Authors, American; Indians of North America; Mothers and sons;

Stolen child : a mother's journey to rescue her son from obsessive compulsive disorder / by Gough, Laurie,1964-author.;
"Laurie Gough's son was a regular, bright, unicycle-riding kid, until the day his grandpa died, when a tidal wave of uncontrollable thoughts consumed him. He became an echo of himself, a near-stranger dominated by bizarre rituals dreamed up to bring his grandpa back to life. Gough's family took on the battle against OCD and won."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Gough, Laurie, 1964-; Mothers and sons.; Obsessive-compulsive disorder in children.; Obsessive-compulsive disorder; Obsessive-compulsive disorder;

The music of what happens / by Konigsberg, Bill.;
It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help a Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by the racism and homophobia of those around them.LSC
Subjects: Gay teenagers; Hispanic American teenagers; Homophobia; Racism; Identity (Psychology); Male rape; Mothers and sons; Secrecy;

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