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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change. When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life--her young daughter, playmate to Juliette's own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war,...
2) Upside down
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Language
English
Description
"Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law is a Hollywood icon. Radiant at sixty-two, she is the epitome of glamour and a highly respected artist. But her success has come at a price: She has a strained relationship with her daughter, Morgan, who at thirty-eight still blames Ardith for putting her career before being a mother. Morgan is a successful plastic surgeon in New York City--and the distance from Ardith's Bel Air mansion is not lost on either of them....
4) Dirty thirty
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Stephanie Plum, Trenton's hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough. Local jeweler Martin Rabner wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a. Nutsy), who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds out of his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man, Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice arrested for robbing the same jewelry store on the same...
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Language
English
Description
Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter, both champion riders, vowed to never, ever, go up against one another. Until the tense, harrowing competitions leading to the Paris Olympics. Mother and daughter share a dream: to be the best horsewoman in the world.
7) Lady Bird
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year.
8) Little women
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
9) Snatched
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When her boyfriend dumps her before their exotic vacation, a young woman persuades her ultra-cautious mother to travel with her to paradise, with unexpected results.
12) Mislaid
Author
Language
English
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Description
A sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional new voice-the author of the acclaimed The Wallcreeper-about the making and unmaking of the American family that lays bare all of our assumptions about race and racism, sexuality and desire. Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and...
13) Valentine
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
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Description
While waiting for her mother to come home from work on Valentine's Day, Heather helps her grandmother rescue a newborn lamb and bake a special cooky.
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Language
English
Description
"After her marriage ends, one woman's struggle to pick up the pieces finally leads to a new beginning but is the past truly behind her? It's been nearly six years since Julia Jones had her heart broken. After her husband became involved with another woman, she did everything she could to save their marriage, to no avail. Their two daughters continue to stand by Julia in the wake of their father's behavior--and they've had a tough time getting along...
16) Love, Santa
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When she was five years old, Lucy wrote her first letter to Santa and left it by the plate of cookies; when she was eight, she wrote her last Santa letter--and left it on her mother's pillow.
Publisher
Lionsgate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Hunted by mysterious forces, a young woman with supernatural abilities must go on the run when her powers are discovered. With nowhere else to go, she flees back to her family and the farmhouse she abandoned long ago. There, while being pursued by the local Sheriff, she begins to mend the broken relationships with her mother and daughter.
18) Annika: Season 1
Series
Annika volume season 1
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
DI Annika Strandhed, the speedboat-driving head of Glasgow's newly-formed Marine Homicide Unit, juggles baffling cases and a rebellious teenage daughter. Joined by DS Michael McAndrews, Annika's old colleague; DC Blair Ferguson, the forensic brains behind the unit; and DS Tyrone Clarke, the new cop at the station. A police procedural with wit, Annika delighted critics during its recent UK broadcast. 'The dialogue is so droll and the performances so...
20) Liar, liar
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Language
English
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Description
A "woman searches for the mother she hasn't seen in twenty years, and uncovers a nightmare of greed and deception"--Jacket
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