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1361) Mustard seed
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Oberlin, Ohio, 1868. Lisbeth Johnson was born into privilege in the antebellum South. Jordan Freedman was born a slave to Mattie, Lisbeth's beloved nurse. The women have an unlikely bond deeper than friendship. Three years after the Civil War, Lisbeth and Mattie are tending their homes and families while Jordan, an aspiring suffragette, teaches at an integrated school. When Lisbeth discovers that her father is dying, she's summoned back to the Virginia...
1362) All we had: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"[A] portrait of a gritty mother and daughter, living on the edge of poverty, who find an unlikely home amid the quirky residents of small town America" --
"For thirteen-year-old Ruthie Carmichael and her mother, Rita, life has never been stable. The only sure thing is their love for each other. Though Rita works more than one job, the pair teeters on the edge of poverty. When their landlord kicks them out, Rita resorts to her movie-star looks and...
1363) The sweetest hallelujah
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Betty Jewel Hughes was once the hottest black jazz singer in Memphis. But when she finds herself pregnant and alone, she gives up her dream of being a star to raise her beautiful daughter, Billie, in Shakerag, Mississippi. Now, ten years later, in 1955, Betty Jewel is dying of cancer and looking for someone to care for Billie when she's gone. With no one she can count on, Betty Jewel does the unthinkable: she takes out a want ad seeking a loving mother...
1364) A touch of scarlet
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Center Point large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"With only two months before Elizabeth sets sail for London to marry a British lord, she resolves to live a lifetime of adventure. Lucian Griffin, her dearest friend's brother, intends to protect Elizabeth from letting her adventures forever sully her reputation. Soon his earnest fondness gives way to deep affection."--
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades.
1366) Hope Ranch
Pub. Date
©2019.
Language
English
Description
A teen girl has it all--a beautiful ranch, a horse named Faith, and the love of her family. But after the death of her military father, she and her mother are in danger of losing their family ranch, too. With a little help from friends and their majestic white horse, they make a plan to raise enough money to save the ranch while learning to never lose hope, despite all odds.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Ballantine Books trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Nantucket Christmas: From the lighthouse sporting a huge wreath to the Christmas Stroll along its quaint streets, holidays on Nantucket are always magical. However, while the town might be aglow like a scene from Dickens tale, unfortunately for newly married island newcomer Nicole Somerset, Christmas means a dreaded visit from her step-daughter. Headstrong Kennedy brings with her a family of her own--husband Archer and adorable 3 year old son, Maddox--but...
1368) The membranes: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor. Momo prefers to keep to herself, and anyway she's too busy for other relationships: her clients include some of the city's best-known media personalities....
1369) The Paris showroom
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Nazi-occupied Paris, a talented artisan must fight for her life by designing for her enemies. From New York Times bestselling author Juliet Blackwell comes an extraordinary story about holding on to hope when all seems lost. Capucine Benoit works alongside her father to produce fans of rare feathers, beads, and intricate pleating for the haute couture fashion houses. But after the Germans invade Paris in June 1940, Capucine and her father must...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After her parents moved her and her brother to America, Preeti Desai never meant to tear her family apart. All she did was fall in love with a white Christian carnivore instead of a conventional Indian boy. Years later, with her parents not speaking to her and her controversial relationship in tatters, all Preeti has left is her career at a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. But when Preeti receives word of a terrible accident in the city where she...
1371) Chance Harbor
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Catherine and Zoe are sisters, but even their mother, Eve, admits her daughters are nothing alike. Catherine is calm and responsible. Zoe is passionate and rebellious. Nobody is surprised when Zoe gets pregnant, drops out of college, and spirals into drug addiction. One night Catherine gets a call from Zoes terrified daughter, Willow, saying her mother has abandoned her in a bus station and disappeared. Eve blames herself, while Catherine, unable...
1372) Antiques liquidation
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Trouble's on the wind when an auctioneer turns up dead in the new Trash 'n' Treasures cozy mystery - "one of the funniest cozy series going" (Ellery Queen Magazine) Two o'clock in the morning is the perfect time to be asleep. So when long-suffering Brandy Borne is rudely awoken by her eccentric mother, Vivian, and invited on a surreptitious shopping trip, the idea is less than tempting. But if Vivian - Serenity's true-crime writing, septuagenarian...
1373) Turning tide
Author
Series
Legacy of Sunset Cove volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large Print Edition
Language
English
Description
"As the Great War rages on, Sunset Cove continues to feel its impact. Running the small town newspaper, Anna McDowell can't escape the grim reports from the other side of the world, but home-front challenges abound as well. Dr. Daniel is serving the wounded on the front lines. And Katy, expecting her first child, with her husband in the trenches, tries to support the war effort with her Red Cross club. Even as the war winds down the costs are high...
1374) In bloom
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"In Amazing Gracie by Fern Michaels, Gracie Walden is at home in Texas. But there's unexpected turbulence between her mother and her older sister. In Meant to Be by Lori Foster, Cory Creed has decided it's time to leave North Carolina, and Austin Winston, behind. But Austin has finally realized what Cory was once so sure of, and now it's his turn to prove they belong together. In The Mother's Day Crown by Carolyn Brown, Monica Allen still hasn't forgiven...
1375) Little women
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Set in New England during the Civil War, it chronicles the lives and loves of Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, four sisters who must rely on each other for strength in the face of tragedies both large and small, after their father leaves for battle.
1376) Hollow beasts
Author
Series
Jodi Luna volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A New Mexico game warden finds herself in a race war that threatens to get personal. After her husband dies in a climbing accident, Officer Jodi Luna decides to leave Boston and her life in the academy to return to her familial roots. She even arranges to take her uncle Eloy Atencio's position as Rio Truchas County's game warden as he prepares to retire. Jodi is idealistic and proud to be working in an area that's meant so much to her family. Though...
1377) Snap out of it
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"After three marriages and a lot of living, resilient Billie Slate knows exactly what trouble love can bring. Now she's reinvented herself as the Heartbreak Bunny, an on-call performance artist who can heal anyone who's been burned by that four-letter word, LOVE, by hopping about and whisking away sad mementos from their past relationships. Call it magic. Call it peculiar. But her bunny costume is as perfect as her breakup mantra: SNAP OUT OF IT....
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
When Laurie, a nomadic artist, surprises her mother, an elegant perfectionist, with a dream vacation to Paris, which brings an unexpected sparkle to her eyes, mother and daughter unpack a lifetime of secrets and hopes in the City of Light.
1379) La viajera nocturna
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Berlín, 1931: La joven poeta Ally Keller da a luz a solas a Lilith, una niña mestiza. Mientras los Nazis ascienden al poder, Ally sabe que debe mantener a su bebé oculta para protegerla de la ideología de la raza aria promovida por Hitler. Pero a medida que Lilith crece, cada vez resulta más difícil protegerla ... Hasta que un día Ally decide poner en marcha un plan desesperado para enviar a su hija a un lugar seguro al otro lado del...
1380) Splinters of light
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Ten years ago, Nora Glass started writing essays about being a single mother of a six-year-old daughter. Her weekly column made her a household name, and over the years, her fans have watched Ellie grow from a toddler to a teenager. But now Nora is facing a problem that can't be overcome. Diagnosed with a devastating disease that will eventually take away who she is, she is scared for herself, but even more frightened about what this will mean for...
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