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Series
Finding Langston volume 1
Language
English
Description
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
Author
Language
English
Description
Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, she's made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.
5) Tadpole
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In rural Kentucky in 1955, Serilda Collins, single mother of four lively girls, discovers that her orphaned nephew is being subjected to brutality.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First English language edition.
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Buenos Aires. As political violence escalates around them, a young boy and his single mother live together in an apartment in Buenos Aires, which has recently been taken over by Argentina's military dictatorship. The boy returns home one day to find his mother missing-- she is now one of the "disappeared." Years later, now a young man, he is consumed by the burden of his loss, and attempting to reconstruct the memory of his mother. As he subtly gives...
8) Talia Talk
Author
Language
English
Description
Trying to fit in despite having a loud, embarrassing best friend, eleven-year-old Talia becomes a commentator on her middle school's closed-circuit television program and turns the tables on her mother, a talk show host who has been revealing Talia's most humiliating experiences for years.
10) Light from light
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Gifted with sometimes-prophetic dreams and a lifelong interest in the paranormal, Shelia is asked to investigate a potential haunting at a Tennessee farmhouse. It's there she meets Richard, a recent widower who believes his wife may still be with him. The investigation that ensues, which eventually pulls in Shelia's son, Owen, and his classmate Lucy, forces them to confront the mysteries of their own lives.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (584 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Will and Carlton enter the University of Los Angeles, home of the Peacocks--and college life is fly. Gorgeous coeds, their own place, fraternity parties, and even some education.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Childhood tells the story of a misfit child's single-minded determination to become a poet. Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four marriages and goes on to describe her horrible descent into drug addiction, enabled by her gaslighting doctor-husband. The trilogy is drawn from Ditlevsen's own experiences but reads like the most compelling kind...
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