Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children--Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, six--in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain is challenging for Letty, especially as Luna desperately misses...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Arab American Heritage Month (kids)
Arab American Heritage Month (Youth)
Muslim American Heritage Month (kids)
Youth - Arab American Heritage Month
Arab American Heritage Month (Youth)
Muslim American Heritage Month (kids)
Youth - Arab American Heritage Month
Formats
Description
Illustrations and prose inspired by the Quran celebrate a mother's love and hopes for her child.
64) Downfall
Author
Series
Sam Capra novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Compelled to assist a beautiful woman who whispers a plea for help in his San Francisco bar, former CIA agent Sam Capra is pursued by authorities and a secret network of successful people who owe their wealth and power to a mysterious and dangerous Faustian figure.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
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
Language
English
Description
A runaway mother's dilemma. Susanna Miller of Colorado loses custody of her baby daughter because of a stint in a mental home. She absconds with her to Maryland and resumes life under an assumed name. The dilemma comes when she learns of a serial killer's next move. If she goes to the police she risks losing her daughter. By the author of Reflection.
68) Good bad girl
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Our Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises. Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth. Edith...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"It is wartime in German-occupied Poland. A mother hides with her five-year-old daughter, a musical prodigy whose slightest sound may cost them their lives. The girl is forbidden from making a sound, so the yellow bird sings. He sings whatever the girl composes in her head: high-pitched trills of piccolo; low-throated growls of contrabassoon. Music helps the flowers bloom. When the daisies grow abundant, the bird weaves a garland for the girl to wear...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2023 FPPL Latine/Hispanic Heritage Month Reading List
Adult - Hispanic Heritage Month
Back to School
More Lists...
Adult - Hispanic Heritage Month
Back to School
More Lists...
Description
"When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly black public school on the east side to move across town to a nearly all-white high school on the west, the community rises in outrage. For two students, quiet and aloof Gee and headstrong Noelle, these divisions will extend far beyond their schooling. As their paths collide and overlap over the course of thirty years, their two seemingly disconnected families...
71) Pirate boy
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
As Colin imagines himself in a series of adventures beginning with joining a pirate crew, his mother assures him that she will always be there to help if he needs her.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This powerful, moving story—which has already touched more than seven million through a viral video created by the Whittington family—is a mother's first-hand account of her emotional choice to embrace her transgender child.
When Hillary and Jeff Whittington posted a YouTube video chronicling their five-year-old son Ryland's transition from girl to boy, they didn't expect it to be greeted with such fervor. Beautiful and moving,
...74) Tweak, tweak
Author
Language
English
Description
While out for a walk, Mama Elephant answers her child's questions about a monkey, a frog, a songbird, a butterfly, and a crocodile, all the while teaching about Little Elephant too.
75) The others
Series
Language
English
Description
Grace, a devoutly religious mother, has moved with her family to a mansion on the English coast, awaiting her husband's return from the war. Her two children both suffer from a rare photosensitivity disease that renders them extremely vulnerable to sunlight, prompting the rule of having only one door open in the house at a time. When one of the children claims to see ghosts, Grace at first believes her newly-arrived family of eccentric servants to...
Author
Language
English
Description
With rhyming text, this soothing bedtime book is an ode to baby birds everywhere and sleepy children home safe in their own beds. As a mother describes to her child how many species of birds nest, from pigeons on concrete ledges to owls in oak tree boles to swallows above barn doors.
77) Unraveled
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
As Cole grows older, his baby blanket still means a lot to him until it unravels, and then he is ready to give it up--but is his mother?
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Black History Month 2023 (WPL-ADULT)
Little Black Library
Mental Health Awareness Month - Nonfiction
More Lists...
Little Black Library
Mental Health Awareness Month - Nonfiction
More Lists...
Description
In this stylish and complex memoir, Laymon, an English professor at the University of Mississippi and novelist (Long Division), presents bittersweet episodes of being a chubby outsider in 1980s Mississippi. He worships his long-suffering, resourceful grandmother, who loves the land her relatives farmed for generations and has resigned herself to the fact of commonplace bigotry. Laymon laces the memoir with clever, ironic observations about secrets,...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request