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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three “nudges” to change the outcome of events on earth: Daughter Willa is on her third miscarriage;...
Author
Series
Pelican Harbor volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Chief of Police Jane Hardy plunges into the investigation of a house fire that claimed the life of a local woman as well as one of the firefighters. It's clear the woman was murdered. But why? The unraveling of Jane's personal life only makes the answers in the case more difficult to find. Then Jane's fifteen-year-old son is accused of a horrific crime, and she has to decide whether or not she can trust her ex, Reid, in the attempt to prove Will's...
4) Owl babies
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When three baby owls awake one night to find their mother gone, they can't help but wonder where she is. Stunning illustrations from unique and striking perspectives capture the owls as they worry about their mother: What is she doing? When will she be back? What scary things move all around them? Not surprisingly, a joyous flapping and dancing and bouncing greets her return, lending a celebratory tone to the ending of this comforting tale. Never...
Author
Series
Andrea Oliver novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter--a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she's written before. What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all. ? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she's spent her whole life in the small beachside town...
6) Mama's bayou
Author
Publisher
Pelican
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A mother rocks her child to sleep while listening to the sounds bayou creatures make at night.
7) Pouch!
Author
Language
English
Description
A baby kangaroo takes his first tentative hops outside of his mama's pouch, meeting other creatures and growing bolder with each outing. On board pages.
8) Only you
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A little bear describes how much his mother means to him.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Little Pig is determined to get his mother the perfect present for her birthday, but when everything he sees is claimed by another animal, Little Pig gets discouraged until just the right thing seems to suddenly appear.
10) A quilt for baby
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A mother tells her baby about the farm they live on and the various animals there, as she stitches images of their home into a new quilt.
11) I love my mama
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Language
English
Description
A baby elephant describes how he and his mother spend their days together.
12) Dawdle Duckling
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Mama Duck tries to keep Dawdle Duckling together with his siblings, but he wants to dawdle and dream, preen and play, splash and spin.
14) Never far away
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Once a wife, mother, and witness to a gruesome crime, Leah Trenton was extended a miraculous olive branch in the form of the state's protected witness program. But for this second chance at life, Leah would have to leave behind her Midwestern roots to the northernmost tip of Maine. Alone and isolated along the banks of the Allagash River, she is determined to focus on the present, on her reclaimed future, but the demons of her past are relentlessly...
15) City of the Dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Hawk accepts her mother Max's help to prevent vengeful hybrids, amoral scientists, traitorous politicians, and a deadly virus from overwhelming her beloved, polluted city.
In the City of the Dead, life happens in the shadows. That's why a war is brewing against an enemy no one can see. For Hawk, being a hero weighs heavily on her wings. But Hawk and Maximum Ride never back down from a conflict, or from each other, and they argue more than they agree....