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In Our Mothers’ House

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Patricia Polacco
Publication Details
Book, Philomel Books, 2009
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Description
Marmee, Meema, and the kids are just like any other family on the block. In their beautiful house, they cook dinner together, they laugh together, and they dance together. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Mothers · Juvenile fiction · Family life · Lesbians · Homosexuality · Fiction · Polacco, Patricia
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CHILD LIT (LOWER) Easy P762i NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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CHILD LIT (LOWER)	Easy P762i	NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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Mistik Lake

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Martha Brooks
Publication Details
Book, 1st American ed, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
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Seventeen-year-old Odella is haunted by family secrets. Odella tries to hold her family together, but when her mother runs off, the family is left reeling. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Secrets · Juvenile fiction · Interpersonal relations · Mothers · Icelanders · Canada · Fiction · Manitoba · Brooks, Martha, 1944-
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CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 B8733m AVAILABLE

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CHILD LIT (LOWER)	804 B8733m	AVAILABLE

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Torch

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Cheryl Strayed
Publication Details
Book, Houghton Mifflin, 2005
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When Bruce announces news of his own plans, it comes as a shock not only to Claire and Joshua but also to the townspeople who have watched this unusual family grow and have come to love them. Publishers Weekly Cheryl Strayed’s award-winning stories and essays have appeared in more than a dozen magazines, including the New York Times Magazine, Allure, Self, The Sun, and Nerve. Widely anthologized, her work is featured in The Best New American Voices 2003 and has been selected twice for The Best American Essays. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Women in radio broadcasting · Fiction · Cancer · Patients · Mothers · Death · Cancer in women · Minnesota · Strayed, Cheryl, 1968-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3619.T744 T67 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3619.T744 T67 2005	AVAILABLE

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Leaving Home : A Novel

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Anita Brookner
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Random House, 2005
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Once settled in a small Paris hotel, Emma befriends Fran (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Young women · Fiction · Mothers and daughters · Female friendship · British · France · Mothers · Death · Women scholars · London (England) · Brookner, Anita
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR6052.R5816 L43 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR6052.R5816 L43 2005	AVAILABLE

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To The Lighthouse

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Virginia Woolf ; with an introduction by Julia Briggs
Publication Details
Book, Knopf, 1992
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English · Scotland · Fiction · Loss (Psychology) · Mothers · Death · Summer resorts · Married people · Lighthouses · Widowers · Skye, Island of (Scotland) · Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR6045.O72 T6 1992 AVAILABLE
(UPPER LEVEL) PR6045.O72 T6 1992 c.2 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR6045.O72 T6 1992	AVAILABLE
(UPPER LEVEL)	PR6045.O72 T6 1992 c.2	AVAILABLE

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A Long Stay In A Distant Land : A Novel

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Chieh Chieng
Publication Details
Book, 1st U.S. ed, Bloomsbury, 2005
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Description
A hilarious and inventive first novel tracing three generations of a death-stalked Chinese-American family in Orange County, California The Lums are cursed: ever since Grandpa Melvin was inspired to join the U.S. army after watching a Popeye movie and-as family lore has it-unleashed a “relentless rain of steel death” upon the Nazis, Lum after Lum has been doomed to an untimely demise, be it by tainted cheeseburger or speeding ice cream truck. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Chinese American families · Fiction · Americans · China · Hong Kong · Mothers · Death · Missing persons · Young men · Orange County (Calif.) · Hong Kong (China) · Chieng, Chieh
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3603.H547 L66 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3603.H547 L66 2005	AVAILABLE

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The Great Inland Sea

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by David Francis
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Book, MacAdam/Cage Pub, 2005
Description
Day’s mother died with her eyes wide open in 1947, near Maude, New South Wales. Day watched his father drop her body into the red earth wrapped in a feed sack. Day’s journey took him to America, traveling as groom for a horse called Unusual. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Australians · United States · Fiction · Maternal deprivation · Mothers · Death · Horse grooms · Horse racing · Race horses · Australia · Francis, David, 1957-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR9619.4.F73 G74 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR9619.4.F73 G74 2005	AVAILABLE

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The Patron Saint Of Red Chevies : A Novel

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by Kay Sloan
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Book, Permanent Press, 2004
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Blues musicians · Crimes against · Fiction · Women singers · African American teenage girls · Murder victims’ families · Mothers · Death · Sisters · Gulf Coast (Miss.) · Berkeley (Calif.) · Sloan, Kay
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3569.L544 P38 2004 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3569.L544 P38 2004	AVAILABLE

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Nuruddin Farah
Publication Details
Book, Riverhead Books, 2004
Description
Jeebleh is returning to Mogadiscio from New York for the first time in twenty years. Though they have not seen each other in two decades, Jeebleh knows from their childhood that his friend-a virtual brother, who remained in Somalia when Jeebleh left-will need Jeebleh to step in. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Americans · Somali · Fiction · Political refugees · Somali Americans · Mothers · Death · Abduction · Mogadishu (Somalia) · Farah, Nuruddin, 1945-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR9396.9.F3 L56 2004 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR9396.9.F3 L56 2004	AVAILABLE

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A Year And A Day

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Leslie Pietrzyk
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, William Morrow, 2004
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But in the world that “genuine and fully developed talent” (Washington Post) Leslie Pietrzyk paints, every moment she chronicles is revealed through the kaleidoscope of loss, stained by the fact that Alice’s mother, Annette, without warning, apology, explanation, or note, deliberately parks her car on the railroad tracks, in the path of an oncoming train. Lonely and confused, Alice absorbs herself in her mother’s familiar rituals, trying to recapture their connection — only to be stunned by the sound of her mother’s voice speaking to her clear as day as she flips Sunday-morning pancakes. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Teenage girls · Fiction · Spiritualism · Mothers · Death · Maternal deprivation · Grief · Pietrzyk, Leslie, 1961-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3566.I428 Y43 2004 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3566.I428 Y43 2004	AVAILABLE

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Down There By The Train : A Novel

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Kate Sterns
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Shaye Areheart Books, 2003
Description
Levon Hawke is a kind, gentle fellow who has been in prison for a hapless and almost comical misunderstanding. Drawn in by Obdulia?s overbearing father and her octogenarian femme fatale of a stepmother, Hawke tries to resist their scheme to involve him in a comic yet gruesome conspiracy to cure Obdulia of her grief. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Ex-convicts · Fiction · Mothers · Death · Single women · Stepmothers · Islands · Sterns, Kate
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR9199.3.S785 D6 2003 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR9199.3.S785 D6 2003	AVAILABLE

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Swan : A Novel

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Frances Mayes
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Broadway Books, 2002
Description
By the #1 bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, Bella Tuscany and In Tuscany, Swan is a haunting novel set in the deep South — a resonant tale of long-buried family secrets and mysteries brought suddenly to light. Beautifully evoking the rhythms and idiosyncrasies of the deep South while telling an utterly compelling story of the complexity of family ties, Swan marks the remarkable fiction debut of one of America?s best-loved writers. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Mothers · Death · Fiction · Exhumation · Georgia · Mayes, Frances
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3563.A956 S93 2002 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3563.A956 S93 2002	AVAILABLE

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Sacrament Of Lies

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Elizabeth Dewberry
Publication Details
Book, BlueHen Books, 2002
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Children of governors · Fiction · Fathers and daughters · Mothers · Death · Married women · Louisiana · Dewberry, Elizabeth
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3572.A936 S24 2002 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3572.A936 S24 2002	AVAILABLE

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The Dearly Departed : A Novel

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Elinor Lipman
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Random House, 2001
Description
Everyone in King George, New Hampshire, loved Margaret Batten, part-time amateur actress, full-time wallflower, and single mother to a now-distant daughter, Sunny. The death of Margaret, side by side with her putative fiance, brings Sunny back to the scene of her unhappy adolescence, to the community that remembers her solely, nervously, as “the girl who golfed.” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Women golfers · Fiction · Mothers · Death · Brothers and sisters · Funeral rites and ceremonies · New Hampshire · Lipman, Elinor
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3562.I577 D43 2001 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3562.I577 D43 2001	AVAILABLE

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The Tiny One

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Eliza Minot
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999
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Mothers · Death · Fiction · Mothers and daughters · Minot, Eliza
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3563.I4745 T56 1999 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3563.I4745 T56 1999	AVAILABLE

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