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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Best Fiction of 2022 - Kirkus Reviews
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: October 10, 2022
Popular Books from 2022, for the Pueblo Chieftain, January 9, 2023
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: October 10, 2022
Popular Books from 2022, for the Pueblo Chieftain, January 9, 2023
Description
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve "American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Language
English
Description
“Imagine if Annie Proulx wrote something like White Oleander crossed with Geek Love or Cruddy, and then add cults, God, motherhood, girlhood, class, deserts, witches, the divinity of women . . . Terrifying, resplendent, and profoundly moving, this book will leave you changed." —T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
Drought has settled on the...
Drought has settled on the...
4) Journey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Left by their mother with their grandparents, two children feel as if their past has been erased until Grandfather finds a way to restore it to them.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Following up her instant New York Times bestseller, A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham delivers a totally gripping thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past in All the Dangerous Things. One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. With little evidence and few leads for the police to chase,...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From her knowledge of when to change a diaper and how to make popsicles to her skills in driving a delivery truck and dancing the polka, a child sings the praises of a special family member.
Author
Publisher
A Tarcher Perigee Book
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xvi, 271 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this important and conversation-starting book, veteran psychoanalyst Erica Komisar offers a provocative and compelling premise: a mother's emotional and physical presence in her child's life--especially during the first three years--means that her child has a greater chance of growing up emotionally healthy, happy, secure, and resilient. When that essential presence goes missing, the child is at higher risk for social, emotional, and developmental...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
After interviewing mothers at the park, the toy store, and the zoo, Maxine decides that her own mother is worth keeping.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"In the thrilling sequel to Bird Box, the inspiration for the record-breaking Netflix film that starred Sandra Bullock and "absolutely riveted" Stephen King, New York Times bestselling author Josh Malerman brings unseen horrors to life. The film adaptation of Malerman's first novel, Bird Box, was watched by over forty-five million Netflix accounts in the first week, the best first seven days ever for a film on the platform. Countless more came to...
12) Nightwatching
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A razor-sharp thriller about a mother forced to the breaking point when her life and the lives of her children are threatened by a stranger"--
14) Last rites
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Shirley Wallace and her four sons come to her childhood home in Kentucky with a lifetime of hardship behind them, hoping to find peace and begin their lives anew. Eldest brother Aaron Pope returns to his life as a police officer and is settling in when an investigation into an attempted murder leads him to Dani Owens. Dani came to Kentucky to escape her own dark past, but she witnesses a crime and becomes embroiled in a drama she never expected....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"If you run away," said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny." A little bunny keeps running away from his mother in this imaginary game of hide-and-seek. Children will be profoundly comforted by this lovingly steadfast mother who finds her child every time. The Runaway Bunny, first published in 1942 and never out of print, has indeed become a classic. Generations of readers have fallen in love with the gentle magic of its...
16) Mamasaurus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Babysaurus is looking for his mamasaurus and meets different prehistoric animals along the way.
Author
Language
English
Description
"'I had but one delusion, which I held onto with all my willpower: we once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I'm doing it over again, this time by words.' In a world created outside of time, Li and the son who died talk about their lives. Deeply intimate and moving, this story cycle of grief captures the love and humor in a relationship which goes on now in a mother's heart, between a mother and child, even as it captures the pain of Li's...
18) Where is Mommy?
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fresh dirt, a kale recipe, and other clues lead a girl to Mommy--in the garden!"--
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