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English
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The four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in love after forty years--match wits, harbor grudges, and recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they've built. When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, they are blithely ignorant of all that's to come. By 2016, their four radically different daughters are each in a state of unrest: Wendy, widowed young, soothes...
2) Together
Author
Publisher
Random House Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
A parent and baby polar bear have a fun-filled, loving day together in their cheerful Arctic home, as the big bear reassures the little bear that they will be best friends forever. You'll love snuggling up with your little one and this adorable and soothing picture book celebrating togetherness, friendship, and the unbreakable bonds of family.
3) Hold tight
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just how far parents will go to protect their kids? When their son Adam is implicated in the death of his classmate, Tia and Mike Baye install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent.
4) The Farm
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After learning his mother was committed to a mental hospital, Daniel receives a call from her, claiming that his lying father is part of a crime conspiracy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a tale spanning twenty-five years, a doctor delivers his newborn twins during a snowstorm and, rashly deciding to protect his wife from their baby daughter's affliction with Down Syndrome, turns her over to a nurse, who secretly raises the child.
6) Owen
Author
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Owen's parents try to get him to give up his favorite blanket before he starts school, but when their efforts fail, they come up with a solution that makes everyone happy.
Author
Publisher
Unbridled Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When a dust storm engulfs her Colorado town and pink snow blankets the streets, a heartbreaking decision faces Ruby Cole, a girl who counts birds: She must abandon her baby or give in to her father, whom she nicknames Lord God, and marry a man more than twice her age who already has two wives. She chooses to run, which sets in motion an interlocking series of actions and reactions, upending the lives of an equestrian police officer, pawnshop riffraff,
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Language
English
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Description
"Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Scott Freeman a college professor grounded in the rational and practical, he becomes uneasy after finding an anonymous love letter hidden in his daughter's room. But the reality of Ashley's plight far exceeds Scott's worst suspicions. One drink too many had led Ashley, a beautiful, bright art student, into what she thought was just a fling with a blue-collar bad boy. But now, no amount of pleading or reasoning can discourage his phone calls, ardent...
11) Sing them home
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
The three grown Jones children are forced to return to their childhood home upon the death of their father, which forces them to revisit memories of their mother, Hope Jones, whose tragic death has impacted each of their lives greatly.
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Philosopher and new mother Isabel Dalhousie is distracted from her new son and recent marriage proposal by two paintings with unusual characteristics that lead Isabel to believe they may be fake.
14) Tuck-in time
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At bedtime, a parent carefully checks baby's body from head to toe, encouraging gentle play.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Noah wants to go home. A seemingly easy request from most four year olds. But as Noah's single-mother, Janie, knows, nothing with Noah is ever easy. One day the pre-school office calls and says Janie needs to come in to talk about Noah, and no, not later, now - and life as she knows it stops. For Jerome Anderson, life as he knows it has stopped. A deadly diagnosis has made him realize he is approaching the end of his life. His first thought - I'm...
16) Little Truck
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"Little Truck is setting out to explore! He's going fast, climbing hills, and braving tunnels, being just the right amount of careful along the way. But no matter how far he goes, his caring parent is never far behind"--
17) Infernal devices
Author
Series
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In the distant future, when fifteen-year-old Wren Natsworthy, bored with life in Anchorage, steals an Old-Tech book for a Lost Boy, she sets off a sequence of events that leads her parents, Tom and Hester, back into battle with old enemies and new.
Author
Series
Children of exile volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old girl raised in a foster village is returned to her biological parents, and discovers home is not what she expected it to be.
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