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It's been seven years since Connecticut widow Jennifer Blake's three-year-old daughter, Debbie, vanished, but she's never given up hope of finding her. Then comes the call from a wealthy dowager a continent away: Corinthea Arles saw Debbie's picture and believes the girl living in her own home on Vancouver Island could be Jennifer's long-lost child. From the moment Jennifer sets foot on the sprawling Arles estate, she discovers a place far darker...
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Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1986]
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English
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Sue Miller's critically acclaimed bestseller about a woman torn between motherhood and sexuality. Recently divorced, Anna Dunlap has two passionate attachments: her daughter, four-year-old Molly, and her lover, Leo, the man who makes her feel beautiful-and sexual-for the first time. Swept away by happiness and passion, Anna feels she has everything she's ever wanted. Then come the shocking charges that would threaten her new love, her new "family"....
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Revelations about a seemingly ordinary mother force her adult children to reexamine their lives in this “absorbing novel about family secrets” (The Dallas Morning News).
Laura Bartone anticipates her annual family reunion in Minnesota with a mixture of excitement and wariness. Yet this year’s gathering will prove to be much more trying than either she or her siblings imagined. As...
Laura Bartone anticipates her annual family reunion in Minnesota with a mixture of excitement and wariness. Yet this year’s gathering will prove to be much more trying than either she or her siblings imagined. As...
4) Rejoice
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Baxter family series. Redemption volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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The Baxters is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Roma Downey and Ted McGinley.
A story of unspeakable loss and the overwhelming miracle of new life from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “heart-tugging and emotional” (Romantic Times) life-changing fiction, co-authored with Gary Smalley.
A Terrible Tragedy
Brooke and Peter are struggling in their...
A story of unspeakable loss and the overwhelming miracle of new life from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “heart-tugging and emotional” (Romantic Times) life-changing fiction, co-authored with Gary Smalley.
A Terrible Tragedy
Brooke and Peter are struggling in their...
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Twelve Times Blessed comes a novel of the breakdown of a family and of healing after a loss
Giving advice is what Julianne Ambrose Gillis does for a living-every Sunday she doles it out to clueless people she doesn't know, in a column in her local Wisconsin paper. But when it comes to her personal life, Julie seems to have no insight whatsoever. She has worked hard to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the wind-swept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children and the terrible pain has begun to heal--until the morning when she looks in the backyard for her little boy and girl and finds only one red mitten. She knows...
9) Just for you
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A little creature tries and tries to do something special for his mother but something always seems to go wrong.
11) Goodnight Lulu
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Bloomsbury Children's Book
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When her mother tucks her in for the night, Lulu the chicken worries what would happen if a bear or a tiger or an alligator should come in during the night.
12) Mi mamá
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Annick Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
Español
Description
Describes the activities that a mother and child would participate in together.
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English
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Susanna Miller loses custody of her eleven-month-old son, Tyler, but rather than turning the little boy over to her ex-husband and his new wife, she goes on the run. She dyes her hair, changes her name, and escapes from Boulder, Colorado, leaving behind everyone she knows, including Linc Sebastian, the man who has been her best friend since childhood and who knows her better than anyone. Susanna lands in Annapolis, Maryland, alone, frightened, and...
14) It's snowing!
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A mother shares the magic of a snowy night with her baby.
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Chester Raccoon (Picture books) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Chester Raccoon is worried that his mother does not have enough love for both him and his new baby brother.
16) Room
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
18) Mom pie
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Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Because their mother seems too busy preparing for company, Christopher and Robbie cook up the idea of a Mom pie to serve as her surrogate.
20) Mommy hugs
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Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
Description
A loving mother counts the hugs she gives her baby throughout the day.
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