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My Son's Story

author: Gordimer, Nadine, Gordimer
A schoolboy playing truant bumps into his revered father coming out of a cinema with a woman.
FIC
year: 1991
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1030

A Patchwork Planet

author: Tyler, Anne
Barnaby Gaitlin, a thirty-year-old who was frequently in trouble as a youth, has been working steadily for eleven years for Rent-a-Back, Inc.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: charities, men, domestic fiction, baltimore (md.), family [X], man-woman relationships [X], family life

A Streetcar Named Desire

author: Williams, Tennessee, Bloom, Harold (ed.)
After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley.
812
year: 2006
copies: 35
call number/section: 812
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Safe Haven

author: Sparks, Nicholas
Katie arrives in the small town of Southport, North Carolina, hoping to hide from her past and avoid raising suspicions, but when she reluctantly begins a relationship with Alex, a widowed store owner with two young children, and befriends her neighbor Jo, Katie is forced to confront the dark secret she is hiding if she wants to put down roots and find true love.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 45
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830

Like Water For Chocolate

author: Esquivel, Laura
When Tita is prohibited from marrying Pedro, he marries Tita's older sister, Rosaura, instead and Tita is crushed.
FIC
year: 1995
copies: 37
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1030

Searching For Caleb

author: Tyler, Anne
Tells the story of Duncan Peck, a restless man with a penchant for moving, his wife Justine, a fortune teller, and her grandfather, Daniel, a man who is on a quest to find the brother who disappeared decades earlier.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: man-woman relationships [X], family [X], man-woman relationship, fiction

White Teeth

author: Smith, Zadie
Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, friends since serving together in World War II, deal with the problems of love, lust, and the other challenges of raising their families in 1970s London.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 960

Kicked Out

author: Goobie, Beth
Sixteen-year-old Dime, having difficulty adjusting to her parents' rules, moves in with her older brother and realizes that if she starts believing in herself others will too.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520
subjects: teenage girls, man-woman relationships [X], family life, teenagers, girls, man-woman relationship, family [X], families

To Be A Man

author: Schraff, Anne E
Trevor feels he is caught between his girlfriend, Vanessa Allen, and his mother and brother, who think Vanessa is not a good influence on Trevor, and realizes he is old enough to make decisions for himself, but is not sure what the right one is.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670

Music In The Night

author: Andrews, V. C
Sixteen-year-old Laura Logan falls in love for the first time with her handsome new neighbor Robert Royce, but her happiness is shaken when her grandmother forbids her to see Robert, and her determination to meet Robert in secret only leads to tragedy.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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Painting Caitlyn

author: Peters, Kimberly Joy
Caitlyn, feeling left out when her mom and stepfather finally succeed in getting pregnant, becomes involved with Tyler, an older boy whose charm and good looks hide a jealous, controlling, and dangerous personality.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: man-woman relationships [X], teenage girls, family [X]

Token

author: Kwitney, Alisa
Shira, a fifteen-year-old who lives with her grandmother and widowed father in a Miami hotel, picks up shoplifting as a new hobby and is caught by a streetwise boy from Spain who becomes her friend, ally, and possibly more as she wrestles with the hardships of growing up.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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Playing With Fire

author: Blake, Emily
Fifteen-year-old Kelly's life is a mess. Her mother is in jail, her best friend betrayed her, and her boyfriend seems too good to be true.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: man-woman relationships [X], revenge, family problems, family [X], man-woman relationship, families

Hopeless Savages

author: Van Meter, Jen
Zero Hopeless-Savage, the daughter of two rock stars, finds high school a little harder than most sixteen-year-olds, and when she finally finds a guy that doesn't think she's a freak, the papparazzi start making trouble before things can heat up.
741.5
year: 2004
copies: 4
call number/section: 741.5
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Platinum Garden

author: Fujita, Maki
The school-wide chase for Kazura ends and the truth behind why Shizuku Magahara started it is revealed, and with the secret out, Kazura and Mizuki are getting closer and both become optimistic about Kazura's ability to heal Mizuki.
741.5
year: 2008
copies: 7
call number/section: 741.5
lexile:
subjects: role-playing, dysfunctional families, man-woman relationships [X], family life, role playing, family [X]

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