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Author
Series
Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Grace is invited for a visit with her father and his new family in Africa.
2) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Description
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
3) White girl
Author
Publisher
Sono Nis Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
235 p. : port. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Where are the children? volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Now, more than four decades since readers first met Nancy and her children, comes the thrilling sequel to the groundbreaking book that set the stage for future generations of psychological suspense novels. A lawyer turned successful podcaster, Melissa has recently married a man whose first wife died tragically, leaving him and their young daughter, Riley, behind. While Melissa and her brother, Mike, help their mom, Nancy, relocate from Cape Cod to...
6) White noise
Author
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 1985 National Book Award from the author of "Zero K" Winner of the National Book Award, "White Noise" tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event," a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
paperback
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A single mother has sheltered her son for many years at the private school where she works as an English teacher, but she is beginning to unravel as secrets from her past catch up with her.
8) After Anna
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nobody cuts deeper than family... Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble that is brewing....
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After her mother's attempted suicide, thirteen-year-old Anna goes to live with her father and his new family, and learns to navigate the shifting loyalties of middle school friendships.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Abi moves with her father and new stepfamily into an eerie old house, something magical makes her books more real and brings a not-so-imaginary friend to stepbrother Louis.
12) Mosquitoland
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, Mim confronts her demons on a thousand-mile odyssey from Mississippi that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane"--
13) Betty before X
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm
Language
English
Description
"Beloved novelist Marcia Willett continues to captivate readers with her inspiring novels about family, friendship, and love. In Postcards from the Past Siblings Billa and Ed share their beautiful, grand old childhood home in rural Cornwall. With family and friends nearby, and their living arrangements free and easy, they seem as contented as they can be. But when postcards start arriving from a sinister figure they thought belonged well and truly...
15) My ex-life
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"David Hedges is having an unusual midlife crisis. His boyfriend, Soren, has left him for an older man. His job is exasperating. As his life reaches new lows, his weight reaches new highs. Across the country, Julie Fiske isn't having a much better time herself. Carol, the woman (younger, of course) that Henry, her second husband, left her for, is downright likable--more likeable than Henry was. Her sullen teen daughter adamantly refuses to apply to...
16) Any other family
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
354 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new novel about three very different adoptive mothers who face the impossible question: What makes a family? Though they look like any other family, they aren't one--not quite. They are three sets of parents who find themselves intertwined after adopting four biological siblings, having committed to keeping the children as connected as possible. At the...
Author
Language
English
Description
""Commonwealth is the story of two broken families and the paths their lives take over the course of 40 years, through love and marriage, death and divorce, and a dark secret from childhood that lies underneath it all""--
""The acclaimed, bestselling author--winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize--tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Wedding bells are ringing, a family is reunited, and new love is blooming--for better or worse--in this captivating novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Island House and Secrets in Summer. A few years after losing her beloved husband, Alison is doing something she never thought she would do again: getting married. While placing the finishing touches on her summer nuptials, Alison is anxious to introduce her fiance, David, to her...
Author
Language
English
Description
Life is meant to be savored, but that's not easy with no family, limited prospects and a past you'd rather not talk about. Still, Callie Smith doesn't know how to feel when she discovers she has a brother and a sister - Malcolm, who grew up with affection, wealth and privilege, and Keira, a streetwise twelve-year-old. Callie doesn't love being alone, but at least it's safe. Despite her trepidation, she moves into the grand family home with her siblings...
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