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1) Dalva
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Series
Language
English
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Now available in eBook for the first time, Dalva is one of the finest novels by New York Times bestselling, much beloved author Jim Harrison: a beautifully crafted story of one woman's journey to find her son. From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at forty-five she has lived a life of...
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English
Description
"Following up her instant New York Times bestseller, A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham delivers a totally gripping thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past in All the Dangerous Things. 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,...
Author
Series
Little Owl (Paul Friester) volume 2
Publisher
NorthSouth
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Mommy Owl goes out to get Little Owl's favorite food. She makes Little Owl promise to be good and don't let anyone in. She returns and Little Owl won't let her in until she can prove she is Little Owl's true mommy.
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Language
English
Description
In the Great Depression, twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese American boy, has lived at Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage ever since his mother was carried away from their apartment five years ago; when he sees actress Willow Frost, he believes she is his mother, Liu Song.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"No longer content to lay eggs on command only to have them carted off to the market, a hen glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild--and to hatch an egg of her own"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
A dragon finds an abandoned egg and lovingly raises the hatchling as her own, although Little One is very different from the baby dragons, and when disaster strikes it is the small, feathered hatchling that saves the day.
9) Someday
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Language
English
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A mother reflects on the all the milestones, from walking in a deep wood to holding someone else's hand, that her child will achieve during life.
Author
Publisher
A TarcherPerigee Book
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A wise and inspiring guide to creating a happy and healthy blended family by Mashonda Tifrere with contributions from her co-parents--Swizz Beatz and his wife, Grammy-Award winning singer and songwriter Alicia Keys. In January 2010, founder of ArtLeadHer Mashonda Tifrere and music producer Swizz Beatz finalized their divorce. When Swizz married award-winning singer/songwriter Alicia Keys, a new dynamic was born--three adults who loved and were deeply...
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English
Description
"Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come...
15) Cub's big world
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In this picture book about exploring the big snowy world, a tiny polar bear learns that she can be brave--especially with Mom close by"--
20) No nap! yes nap!
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Follow Mommy on her quest to settle Baby down for a nap as Baby dashes from family room to living room, both on the table and under it, through the kitchen and even hiding in the laundry basket"--
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