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Where can a woman turn when her own life threatens to overwhelm her ability to keep her children safe? New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard takes the readers of her newest novel on a wry and moving journey of loss and healing. Giving advice is what Julieanne does for a living -- every Sunday she doles it out in a column in her local Wisconsin paper. But when it comes to her personal life, Julie herself seems to have missed some clues....
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Elle has been told she's a product of her mother's sinful mistake. Convinced that their granddaughter is infected with evil, her grandparents believe that only the harshest child-rearing methods will prevent Elle from becoming an instrument of the devil. When Elle's mother returns home and tells a different story of her conception, Elle worries her grandparents are right. But with the help of a handsome boy vacationing nearby, Elle is finally about...
4) Room
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Room's not on any map, but to five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It's where he was born and where he and his Ma eat and play and learn. At night, Ma puts him safely to sleep in the wardrobe, in case Old Nick comes. But to Ma, Room is the prison where Old Nick has kept her for seven years since she was nineteen. Through ingenuity and determination, Ma has created a life for herself and her son, but she knows it's not enough for either of...
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"Inside a house live a mother and a child. There are normal things: walks to school, the park, pasta for tea. But there are other things, too: a severed toe on the doorstep; strange mouthfuls of flesh; wolfish snarls and sheep torn limb from limb. It is a house in which doors get chewed and nails scrape along walls. There is a monster in the house, and it is tearing it apart at the seams. But is there also a love so fierce that it cannot be broken?"--Provided...
6) Last rites
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Shirley Wallace and her four sons come to her childhood home in Kentucky with a lifetime of hardship behind them, hoping to find peace and begin their lives anew. Eldest brother Aaron Pope returns to his life as a police officer and is settling in when an investigation into an attempted murder leads him to Dani Owens. Dani came to Kentucky to escape her own dark past, but she witnesses a crime and becomes embroiled in a drama she never expected. ...
7) Chouette
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Tiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. "You think this baby is going to be like you, but it's not like you at all," she warns him. "This baby is an owl-baby." When Chouette is born small and broken-winged, Tiny works around the clock to meet her daughter's needs. Left on her own to care for a child who seems more predatory bird than baby, Tiny vows to raise Chouette to be her authentic self. Even in those times when Chouette's behaviors grow...
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Ukraine, 1943 Lisa Smirnova is on a train from Kiev to Germany, terrified for her life. The train is under Nazi command and its occupants fear it is heading for one of Hitler's rumoured labour camps. In the same moment, Irina Antonova finally finishes work for the day, where she registers the seemingly endless deaths of the people of occupied Kiev. She has a child to care for, and she hasn't seen her husband since he joined the Soviet partisans, who...
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"A brilliant novel whose lead character returns home to their long-estranged mother who is now suffering from dementia. Alani Baum, a non-binary photographer and teacher, hasn't seen their mother since they ran away with their girlfriend when they were seventeen - almost thirty years ago. But when Alani gets a call from a doctor at the assisted living facility where their mother has been for the last five years, they learn that their mother's dementia...
10) The unsettled
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From the author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel--set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama--about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival. From the moment Ida Carson and her eleven-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at Philadelphia's Glenn Avenue Family shelter in 1985, Ida is already plotting a way out. She detests their roach-infested bedroom...
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"A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives-set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San Francisco"--Publisher.
At home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. Thanks to the rigorous direction of their mother, Vivian, they've become...
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"Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a trip to London. The city was a favorite of her mother's, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself reflecting on her mother's life and their relationship. Thoughts of the past meld with questions of the future: Back in New England, the family home is now up for sale, its considerable contents already winnowed. The woman, a writer, recalls all that...
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"A thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past. One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. With little evidence and few leads for the police to chase, the case quickly went cold. However, Isabelle cannot rest until Mason is returned to her--literally. Except for the occasional catnap or small blackout...
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