What To Do About Alice?
An illustrated biography of Alice Roosevelt Longworth that focuses on her experiences while her father was president of the United States.
920
year: 2008
copies: 61
call number/section: 920
lexile: 800
subjects: longworth, alice roosevelt, roosevelt, theodore, children of presidents, legislators' spouses, women, daughters [X], presidents
Lost Time
Violynne, the twelve-year-old daughter of missing archaeologists on the planet Lindos, must solve the puzzle of her parents' disappearance before the dictatorial Arbiter captures her and forces her to do his bidding.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
Mothers And Daughters
A selection of poems that explore the bond between mothers and daughters, grouped by stages of life, from pregnancy to partings.
811.5
year: 2001
copies: 3
call number/section: 811.5
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subjects: mothers and daughters, american poetry, mothers, daughters [X], mother-daughter relationship
What My Father Gave Me
A collection of essays in which seven daughters discuss their relationships with their fathers, both positive and negative, including one woman's account of her father's abandonment and the impact this had on her teenage years and another's struggle to watch her father on picket lines during the Great Depression.
306.87
year: 2010
copies: 5
call number/section: 306.87
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Getbackers
GetBackers Ginji Amano and Ban Mido, two friends with unusual powers who are in the business of retrieval, are hired to find a supposedly good-luck statue of a cat, not realizing the real object of desire is a computer disk coveted by a crooked doctor who is in the business of selling human organs on the black market.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Getbackers
Ben and Ginji encounter MakubeX's "wire dolls," humans that are controlled by computer programs, while making their way through the Infinite Fortress.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Reconstructing Amelia
Kate is in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter's exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: mothers and daughters, private schools, cheating (education), suicide, guilt, daughters [X], single parents
Circle Of Gold
Mattie is determined to get her mother a beautiful gold pin for Mother's Day, even though she has not saved enough money and has just lost her job.
FIC
year: 1994
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610
subjects: mothers and daughters, single-parent family, babysitters, death, daughters [X], mother's day, gifts, money, mother-daughter relationship, single-parent families, african americans
Black, White, And Jewish
Rebecca Walker discusses how she dealt with her mixed heritage and remained true to both her African-American and Jewish cultures.
920
year: 2002
copies: 10
call number/section: 920
lexile:
subjects: walker, rebecca, walker, alice, racially mixed people, daughters [X], african american women, jewish women
Mistaken Identity
Two families, who became part of a national news story when it was discovered that their daughters were misidentified after a tragic car accident, leaving one family grieving while another cared for a comatose child, share how their faith helped them overcome the emotional upheaval of the accident and its aftermath.
617.4
year: 2010
copies: 3
call number/section: 617.4
lexile: 820
subjects: van ryn, don, cerak, newell, traffic accidents, mistaken identity, traffic accident victims, daughters [X], fort wayne (ind.), gaylord (mich.), spiritual biography
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
A king offers the choice of one of his daughters in marriage to the man who can discover why the twelve young women, supposedly safe in their rooms, wear through their dancing shoes every night.
398.2
year: 2003
copies: 2
call number/section: 398.2
lexile: 890
Life Lessons My Mother Taught Me
Andrea Young shares the lessons she learned from her mother, Jean, about truth, love, integrity, faith, and the importance of balancing family with career and career with service to the larger community.
920
year: 2000
copies: 1
call number/section: 920
lexile:
subjects: young, jean childs, young, andrea, young, andrew, african american women, african american mothers, daughters [X]
Girls Will Be Girls
Offers parents a comprehensive overview of the emotional and physical challenges girls ages six to sixteen face in today's changing world.
305.23
year: 2002
copies: 1
call number/section: 305.23
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Making Toast
Roger Rosenblatt recounts how he and his wife struggled to accept a new sense of normal after their daughter Amy died of an asymptomatic heart condition and they moved in with Amy's husband to help care for the couple's three children.
921
year: 2011
copies: 3
call number/section: 921
lexile:
subjects: rosenblatt, roger, grandparent and child, grandparents as parents, grief, daughters [X], grandparent-grandchild relationship
Kayak Morning
"In [his earlier book] 'Making Toast', Roger Rosenblatt shared the story of his family in the days and months after the death of his thirty-eight-year-old daughter, Amy.
921
year: 2012
copies: 2
call number/section: 921
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