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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife, and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind her small daughter, husband, and the animals to which she devoted her life. All signs point to abandonment . . . or worse. Still Jenna--now thirteen years old and truly orphaned by a father maddened by grief--steadfastly refuses to believe in her...
Author
Series
Cape Charade volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Kellen Adams suffers from a yearlong gap in her memory. A bullet to the brain will cause that. But she's discovering the truth, and what she learns changes her life, her confidence, her very self. She finds herself in the wilderness, on the run, unprepared, her enemies unknown--and she is carrying a priceless burden she must protect at all costs. The consequences of failure would break her. And Kellen Adams does not break."--Amazon.
83) Abandoned
Author
Series
Max Revere novels volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Investigative journalist Max Revere takes on her most difficult assignment yet: finding out what happened to her mother, who abandoned Max when she was nine.
84) Blueprints
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Caroline MacAfee is a skilled carpenter, her daughter Jamie, a talented architect. Together they are the faces of Gut It!, a home renovation series on local public television." When life brings sudden changes, both women ask themselves, "Who am I?...as the blueprints they've built their lives around suddenly need revising."--
85) Antiques bizarre
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
While dealing with morning sickness, her bipolar mother, and the citywide antiques bazaar, Brandy Borne must also deal with murder when a ninety-year-old Russian widow donates a priceless antique that is not what it seems.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show returns with a tense and darky comic novel that casts a caustic light on the relationship between mothers and daughters and truth and self-preservation"--
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From author Willy Vlautin comes an exploration of greed and opportunism, set amidst a rapidly gentrifying city-a novel taking place over 48 hours in which a young woman must push herself to her limits to get the security she needs for herself and her family"--
88) Antiques ravin'
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After being elected county sheriff, Vivian Borne deputizes her reluctant daughter to help solve a series of murders centered around the town's Edgar Allan Poe festival.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling author Sarah McCoy, a sun-splashed romp with a rich divorcee and her two wayward daughters in 1970s Mustique, the world's most exclusive private island, where Princess Margaret and Mick Jagger were regulars and scandals stayed hidden from the press..."--
91) Drawing home
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Sag Harbor's most famous resident, artist Henry Wyatt, dies suddenly, Emma Mapson finds herself in a battle against Henry's former business partner, Bea Winstead, when they discover that Henry has left his waterfront home to Emma's teenage daughter, Penny.
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Language
English
Description
"Based on real history and alternating between the story of war widow Alice searching for identity in the 1940s and excerpts from Eleanor Dare's Commonplace Book and the tale of her harrowing survival, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of female history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter"--
95) Summer light
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Single mom and wedding planner May Taylor, guided by the psychic visions of her five-year-old daughter, Kylie, falls in love with professional hockey player and sports legend Martin Cartier, not knowing Martin is hiding a core of rage, heartache, and isolation that threatens their future.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010, ©2009
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Calla Lily Ponder bursts into life--guided by Moon Lady, a protective feminine force--where she thrives in her small Louisiana town until the end of her first love pushes her to Crescent City, where she discovers she has the power of "healing hands" to change lives and end pain.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Ocean Vista on the Jersey Shore with her teenage daughter and her nine-year-old son Daniel, who has bipolar disorder, Olivia must finally embrace the birthright inherited from her mother, Myla, a beautiful and erratic psychic, when Daniel disappears.
98) Night moves
Author
Series
Country club murders volume 12
Publisher
J & M Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Another day, another dead woman in Ellison Russell's study.Only this one claimed to be Mrs. Anarchy Jones.As Ellison juggles mothers, daughter, unhappy wives, and near-miss murder attempts, one thing is clear--someone will go to any lengths to hide the truth.Can Ellison and Anarchy catch a killer before the body count rises? Or will Ellison be the next corpse in the study?
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age and modern family drama, set in the queer underground of late 90s Portland, that explores the complications of belonging--to a city, a culture, and a family--and what happens when those forms can't quite contain who you really are"--
100) The midwife's choice
Author
Series
At home in Trinity volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In small-town Trinity, Pennsylvania, 1831, Martha Cade tries to balance the demands of her calling as a midwife, the delicacy of private information she learns in that role, and the hopes and expectations she has for her daughter and for herself"--
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