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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After both her career and relationship hit the skids, Imogene is forced to make the humiliating move back home to New Jersey with her eccentric mother and younger brother. Adding further insult to injury, there's a strange man sleeping in her old bedroom, and an even stranger man sleeping in her mother's bed.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Newly divorced Sarah and her teenage daughter Elissa have just moved to the suburbs for a fresh start. But their hopes quickly shatter as they learn that, years earlier, a grisly murder took place next door when a deranged girl killed her parents and disappeared. The girl's older brother Ryan still occupies the house, and when he befriends Elissa, his secretive past could become her worst nightmare.
6) Evening
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters. Constance is a content wife and mother. Nina is a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But her daughters wonder who is Harris and what is his relation to their mother? Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann's life as their mother is tended to by a night nurse as she journeys into her...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of a uniquely independent woman who finds herself newly divorced during the Depression years and struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family. The story explores Mildred's unreasonable devotion to her insatiable daughter Veda, as well as the complex relationship she shares with the indolent men in her life, including her polo-playing lover Monty Beragon and ex-husband Bert Pierce.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
Español
Description
Cuando la hermana que deleitó a sus padres con su fiel abrazo a la cultura mexicana muere en un trágico accidente, Julia, que anhela ir a la universidad y mudarse a una casa propia, descubre por amigos mutuos que su hermana puede no haber sido tan perfecta. como se creía.
When the sister who delighted their parents by her faithful embrace of Mexican culture dies in a tragic accident, Julia, who longs to go to college and move into a home of her...
10) Flightplan
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft that she designed, Kyle Pratt faces every mother's worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berlin to New York. Already emotionally devastated by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew, pilot, and passengers while facing the very real possibility that...
Series
Language
English
Description
1934 version: Two single mothers join together to form a successful business, but find that material success does nothing to stabilize their personal lives.
1959 version: Two single mothers, a down-on-her-luck actress and a homeless woman, attempt to find happiness for themselves and their daughters.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
20 year old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancé, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes according to plan. Now, old loves are re-kindled, new loves...
16) Stella Dallas
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Stella, an uncouth, lower-class woman, marries wealthy, well-bred Stephen Dallas to escape her poor surroundings. When their class differences lead to divorce, she undergoes a self-sacrificing struggle to give their daughter a better life, away from her damaging influence.
17) Al fin en casa
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
When she and her family move from Mexico to the United States, eight-year-old Ana helps her mother adjust to the new situation by encouraging her to learn English.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
"Pan's labyrinth" unfolds through the eyes of Ofelia, a young girl uprooted to a remote military outpost commanded by her new stepfather. Powerless and lonely in a place of great danger, Ofelia lives out her own dark fable as she confronts monsters both otherworldly and human after she discovers a neglected labyrinth behind the family home. There she meets Pan, a fantastical creature who challenges her with three tasks that he claims will reveal her...
19) Estrella de mar
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Todo empezó el día que Paula decidió decir que no. Decir que no era genial. Paula podía hacer lo que quisiera... Pero entonces sucedió...,sucedió que su casa se convirtió en una AUTÉNTICA selva con árboles, lianas, vegetación fondosa... y todos los animales campando a sus anchas."--Lacentral.com
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