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by
Shireen Dodson
(91)
Summary: Combining the practical with the personal, "The Mother-Daughter Book Club" tells the story of 10 mothers and their preteen daughters and how their relationships were enriched through a monthly...
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BOOK
Call #: 372.41 DOD
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The Joy Luck Club [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/28346@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Follows the story of four lifelong friends, whose lives are filled with joy and heartbreak, and shows how their experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for each of their children.
DVD
Call #: DVD DRAMA JOY
Location: DVDs Drama
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Bonnie Jo Campbell
(1,641)
Summary: Named by the Guardian as one of our top ten writers of rural noir, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen observer of life and trouble in rural America, and her working-class protagonists can be at once...
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BOOK
Call #: F CAMPBELL
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Amy Chua
(51,366)
Summary: Traces the rewards and pitfalls of a Chinese mother's exercise in extreme parenting, describing the exacting standards applied to grades, music lessons, and avoidance of Western cultural practices.
BOOK
Call #: 306.8743 CHU
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Karyl McBride
(8,538)
Summary: The first book for daughters who have suffered the abuse of selfish, self-involved mothers. This book provides the expert assistance you need in order to overcome this debilitating history and...
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BOOK
Call #: 616.8585 MCB
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Mamma mia! [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/190485@2x.jpg)
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Summary: 20-year-old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiance, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her...
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DVD
Call #: DVD MUSICAL MAMMA
Location: DVDs Musical
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Yours and mine [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/236834@2x.jpg)
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by
Debbie Macomber
Summary: "Yours and Mine": Marriage is an experience that single mom Joanna Parsons doesn't plan to repeat, no matter what her daughter thinks. Tanner Lund feels the same way. Like Joanna, he got divorced...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F MACOMBER
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Coleen Paratore
Series:
Wedding Planner's Daughter Series
(5,655)
Summary: Willa, a romantic girl who wants a father, tries to find a husband for her mother, Cape Cod's most popular wedding planner. Twelve-year-old Willa Havisham is a classics reader, a cherry-cordial...
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BOOK
Call #: J F PARATORE
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Fool me once [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/67675@2x.jpg)
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by
Fern Michaels
(2,707)
Summary: When her mother, who supposedly died in childbirth, leaves her a vast fortune with a caveat regarding a crime committed years ago, Olivia Lowell turns to a handsome young lawyer for help in understanding who her mother really was.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F MICHAELS
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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Summary: Join the celebration, sing and dance, and discover how it all began! Ten years after Mamma Mia! The Movie premiered, you're invited back to the magical Greek island of Kalokairi in an all-new musical...
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BLU-RAY
Call #: BLU MUSICAL MAMMA
Location: Blu-rays Musical
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Mamma mia [DVD]! Here we go again](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/193555@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Join the celebration, sing and dance, and discover how it all began! Ten years after Mamma Mia! The Movie premiered, you're invited back to the magical Greek island of Kalokairi in an all-new musical...
more »
DVD
Call #: DVD MUSICAL MAMMA
Location: DVDs Musical
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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by
Elaine Hussey
(407)
Summary: "In 1969, the first footsteps on the moon brighten America with possibilities. But along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a category five storm is brewing, and the Blake sisters of Biloxi are restless for...
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BOOK
Call #: F HUSSEY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ayana Mathis
Summary: From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's...
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BOOK
Call #: F MATHIS
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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(128)
Summary: Discover all of Chilli's mum skills from playing Grannies, dancing, and taking care of Bluey and Bingo. She even makes brushing their teeth and fur fun in this adorable and hilarious book. And, most...
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BOOK
Call #: J P STORIES BLUEY
Location: Junior Picture Books - Stories
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Rae Meadows
(583)
Summary: Samantha's mother has been dead almost a year when the box arrives on her doorstep. In it, she finds recipe cards, keepsakes, letters -- relics of her mother Iris's past. But as Sam sifts through...
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BOOK
Call #: F MEADOWS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
J. Randy Taraborrelli
(2,951)
Summary: "Do you know what the secret to happily-ever-after is?" Janet Bouvier Auchincloss would ask her daughters Jackie and Lee during their tea time. "Money and power," she would say. It was a lesson...
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BOOK
Call #: 973.92 TAR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jodi Picoult
(168,361)
Summary: "Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife, and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving...
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BOOK
Call #: F PICOULT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Katie Hafner
(2,835)
Summary: The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner's memoir of the year she and her mother Helen spent working through, and triumphing...
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BOOK
Call #: B HAFNER
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Joanne Harris
(35,329)
Summary: When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous Mirabelle Dartigen - the woman they still hold responsible...
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BOOK
Call #: F HARRIS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kaira Sturdivant Rouda
(8,971)
Summary: "The perfect home. The perfect family. The perfect lie. Jane Harris lives in a sparkling home in an oceanfront gated community in Orange County. It's a place that seems too beautiful to be touched by...
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BOOK
Call #: F ROUDA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Michelle Miller
(370)
Summary: Though Michelle Miller was an award-winning broadcast journalist for CBS News, few people in her life knew the painful secret she carried: her mother had abandoned her at birth. Los Angeles in 1967...
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BOOK
Call #: B MILLER
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Belonging [CD book] : a daughter's search for identity through loss and love](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/275364@2x.jpg)
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by
Michelle Miller
Summary: Though Michelle Miller was an award-winning broadcast journalist for CBS News, few people in her life knew the painful secret she carried: her mother had abandoned her at birth. Los Angeles in 1967...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK B MILLER
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Marianne Fredriksson
(6,803)
Summary: As Anna sits by her mother's deathbed she begins to study old diaries, letters, and photographs in an attempt to understand why her past was kept hidden from her.
BOOK
Call #: F FREDRIKSSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Honey, baby, mine [CD book] : a mother and daughter talk life, death, love (and banana pudding)](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/275373@2x.jpg)
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by
Laura Dern
Summary: Award-winning actresses and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the kind of women who draw strength from their lifelong friendships with other women, and most of all, from each other....
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK B DERN
Location: Adult CD Books Biography
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Laura Dern
(106)
Summary: Award-winning actresses and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the kind of women who draw strength from their lifelong friendships with other women, and most of all, from each other....
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BOOK
Call #: B DERN
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sally Hepworth
(16,815)
Summary: "All their lives, Alice Stanhope and her daughter Zoe have been a family of two, living quietly in northern California. Zoe has always struggled with crippling social anxiety and her mother has been...
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BOOK
Call #: F HEPWORTH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kelly Corrigan
(16,974)
Summary: A memoir that examines the bond -- sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine -- between mothers and daughters. When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB B CORRIGAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 6 of 15
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by
Kelly Corrigan
(16,993)
Summary: A memoir that examines the bond -- sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine -- between mothers and daughters. When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly...
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BOOK
Call #: B CORRIGAN
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jamie Ford
(17,582)
Summary: Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her...
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BOOK
Call #: F FORD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The many daughters of Afong Moy [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/262194@2x.jpg)
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by
Jamie Ford
Summary: Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F FORD
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
details
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by
Sarah Cornwell
(2,323)
Summary: Returning home to Ocean Vista on the Jersey Shore with her teenage daughter and her nine-year-old son Daniel, who has bipolar disorder, Olivia must finally embrace the birthright inherited from her...
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BOOK
Call #: F CORNWELL
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Thao Thai
Summary: When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she's last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly...
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BOOK
Call #: F THAI
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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