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The Joy Luck Club

author: Tan, Amy
The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 250
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930

Ya-yas In Bloom

author: Wells, Rebecca
Follows the childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood of Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie from the time they first meet in the 1930s through their many experiences and years of friendship.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: grandparent and child, mothers and daughters [X], female friendship [X], middle aged women, catholic women, louisiana

The Sugar Queen

author: Allen, Sarah Addison
Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini finds her uneventful life turned upside down when Della Lee Baker shows up in Josey's secret hideaway and starts to challenge Josey to change her life and discover the world beyond her sheltered home.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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Breathing Room

author: Elam, Patricia
The long friendship between two African-American women, Norma and Moxie, becomes strained when Norma, anguished over the death of her second child and her husband's withdrawal, begins an affair with a white man, and Moxie's teenage daughter becomes involved with a young thug.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: african american women, female friendship [X], mothers and daughters [X], adultery, washington (d.c.)

Steel Magnolias

author: Harling, Robert, Queen Latifah
Presents the script of a 1988 play about a group of women in Chinquapin, Louisiana, who learn to draw upon their underlying strength and love to meet the challenges of life.
812
year: 1988
copies: 4
call number/section: 812
lexile:
subjects: female friendship [X], mothers and daughters [X], diabetes in pregnancy, pregnancy, women, louisiana

The Memory Garden

author: Rickert, M
Nan worries about the secrets she's keeping from her fourteen-year-old daughter, Bay.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mothers and daughters [X], family secrets, female friendship [X]

Wunderland

author: Epstein, Jennifer Cody
"East Village, 1989. Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse.
FIC
year:
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mothers and daughters [X], female friendship [X], germany, east village (new york, n.y.), historical fiction

A Friend Is A Gift You Give Yourself

author: Boyle, William
An unlikely trio of women in New York find themselves banding together to escape the clutches of an unhinged Mafia enforcer.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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6 Times We Almost Kissed (and One Time We Did)

author: Sharpe, Tess
Penny and Tate have often clashed, despite their mothers' epic friendship; but now that they are living in the same house, beset by medical crises and Penny's problems dealing with the trauma of her father's death, they have to come to terms with their true feelings for each other.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
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