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Author
Series
Aunties (Jesse Q Sutanto) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then, toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue! When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging...
42) Zenobia July
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Zenobia July, an excellent coder and hacker, investigates a mystery while wrestling with the challenges of a new school, a new family, and presenting her true gender for the first time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
141 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When three girls and their father visit for a week in the summer, it takes Tía Lola to make Miguel forget his unhappiness at the absence of any boys and embrace the adventures that ensue.
Author
Series
Practical magic novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three hundred years, but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger - the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man's life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and...
45) Our Gracie Aunt
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a brother and sister are taken to stay with their mother's sister because their mother neglects them, they wonder if they will see their mother again.
Author
Series
American girl BeForever. Kit, 1934 volume 2
American girl BeForever. Kit 1934 volume 2
A Kit classic volume 2
American girl BeForever. Kit 1934 volume 2
A Kit classic volume 2
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
170 p.
Language
English
Description
"Turning Things Around, the second volume of Kit's classic stories, tells how Kit uses her talents to tackle the challenges brought by the Great Depression"--
47) A silent death
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Spain, 2020. When ex-pat fugitive Jack Cleland watches his girlfriend die, gunned down in a pursuit involving officer Cristina Sanchez Pradell, he promises to exact his revenge by destroying the policewoman. Cristina's aunt Ana has been deaf-blind for the entirety of her adult life: the victim of a rare condition named Usher Syndrome. Ana is the centre of Cristina's world, and of Cleland's cruel plan. John Mackenzie, an ingenious yet irascible Glaswegian...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Single mom Robyn Caldwell needs a new plan for her future. She has always put her family first. Now, with her kids grown, she yearns for a change. But what can she do when her daughter has become the most demanding bride ever, her son won’t even consider college, her best friend is on the brink of marital disaster and her ex is making a monumentally bad decision that could ruin everything?
Take a vacation, of course. Press reset. When her great-aunt...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
First edition
Fountas & Pinnell
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Physical Desc
53 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
While staying with their aunt for a year, three nine-year-old cousins keep busy baking and selling cookies, putting on a poetry and singing performance, and trying to encourage a romance between their aunt and one of their former customers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
86 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Cousins Malia, Ivan, and Dante are visiting their aunt Lucy for the summer. But on their way to Gulf City's water park, they get lost on 13th Street--only it's not a street at all. It's a strange world filled with dangerous beasts. Will the cousins find their way back to Aunt Lucy's?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Little blue envelopes volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ginny Blackstone precipitously travels from her home in New Jersey to London when she receives a message from an unknown man telling her he has the letters that were stolen just before she completed a series of mysterious tasks assigned by her now dead aunt, an artist.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great-aunt's secrets in this sweeping debut, a family saga confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage. In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family's ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin turns a vibrant, permanent cobalt blue. On the same day, the Rummanis' centuries-old soap factory in Nablus is destroyed...
54) Long Lankin
Author
Series
Long Lankin volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their great Auntie Ida in an isolated village in 1958, they discover that they are in danger from a centuries-old evil and, along with village boys Roger and Peter, strive to uncover the horrifying truth before it is too late.
55) Almost paradise
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Ruby Clyde Henderson's life changes the day her mother's boyfriend holds up a convenience store and her mother is wrongly imprisoned for assisting in the crime. Ruby Clyde and her pet pig, Bunny, hide out during the robbery, and then afterward, terrified and very much alone, they find their way to her estranged Aunt Eleanor's home. Aunt Eleanor is an ornery, solitary nun living in the midst of a peach orchard on Paradise Ranch, and...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
131 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1932 when Lily is twelve years old, she is granted her two greatest wishes, to be far from the sister who torments her and to have a horse of her own, but she does not expect either the tragic events that bring this about or their consequences.
Author
Series
Whistle Stop AL volume 02
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, with his mother Ruth, church going and proper, and the fun-loving hell-raiser, his Aunt Idgie. Together they ran the town's popular Whistle Stop Café, known far and wide for its famous 'Fried Green Tomatoes.' And as Bud often said of his childhood, 'How lucky can you get?' But sadly, the railroad yards began to shut down and the town became a ghost town, with...
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Frankie is an orphan (or a reluctant wife). Mave is an autodidact (or the town pariah). Nan is an artist (or the town whore). Each separately haunted, Frankie, Mave, and Nan - with a hound in tow - set out in an Oldsmobile Royale for Abiqui©ð and the desert of Georgia O'Keeffe, seeking an escape from everything they've known.Frankie records the journey in letters to her aunt Mave's dead lover, a linguist named Ruth, sketching out her troubled life...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"All the beloved, irascible Auntie Poldi wanted from her Sicilian retirement was time to enjoy the sunshine, a free-flowing supply of wine, and a sultry romance with Chief Inspector Vito Montana. But then her idyll is rudely disrupted by the last person she wants to see on her doorstep: John Owenya, detective inspector with the Tanzanian Ministry of Home Affairs, who is also her estranged lying cheat of a husband. Not only is John's sudden reappearance...
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