Monica
62) House of cotton
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn't have much to look forward to. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, by her predatory landlord, by the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night while working at her dead-end gas station job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia's luck around. He offers her a lucrative "modeling" job at his family's funeral...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
“Sparkling . . . it’s all systems go for a wonderful romance . . . a charming story told with large doses of love and humour.”
–The Australian Women’s Weekly
Eva Kennedy is in a rut. After seven years of working at her uncle’s Dublin delicatessen, her artistic aspirations have slipped by the wayside and her latest relationship has fizzled. Whatever happened to the Eva who was going to be someone? Hoping...
–The Australian Women’s Weekly
Eva Kennedy is in a rut. After seven years of working at her uncle’s Dublin delicatessen, her artistic aspirations have slipped by the wayside and her latest relationship has fizzled. Whatever happened to the Eva who was going to be someone? Hoping...
65) Love is you & me
Author
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal that love, whether between a parent and child, best friends, or even a dog and a mouse, is the greatest gift of all.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Little sisters and little brothers all long for the same few things when it comes to their older siblings: a turn to play, a place on the team, a chance to shine. Little Brothers & Little Sisters starts with four pairs of siblings in and around an apartment complex, each expressing through play and daily life the many gripes and pitfalls of younger siblings. Subtly, the narrative shifts to reflect the good things that come with having an older sibling:...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Ruby and Ned gather eggs from their hens and ride their red truck to deliver the eggs--to the farmer's market, the restaurant, the school, the grocery story, and the bakery. The baker uses the eggs in her yummiest cookies--and gives them to Ruby and Ned!
A fun story with maps and mazes shows children where their food comes from"--
70) From from: poems
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems reflects the experiences of Asian Americans and the problem of creating an Asian American identity while influenced by Westerners' ideas about Asians.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Small wonder that, at nine years old, Monica Holloway develops a fascination with the local funeral home. With a father who drives his Ford pickup with a Kodak movie camera sitting shotgun just in case he sees an accident, and whose home movies feature more footage of disasters than of his children, Monica is primed to become a morbid child. Yet in spite of her father's bouts of violence and abuse, her mother's selfishness and prim denial, and her...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
“An endearing and humane story about a family and its sticky web of secrets and misunderstandings . . . one of those rare books you could recommend to anyone and know that they’ll love it.”
–The Australian Women’s Weekly
Harriet Turner knows all about journeys. She’s arranged hundreds of them for her family’s travel agency. Now Harriet is joining her adopted sister, Lara, to lead a group through the...
–The Australian Women’s Weekly
Harriet Turner knows all about journeys. She’s arranged hundreds of them for her family’s travel agency. Now Harriet is joining her adopted sister, Lara, to lead a group through the...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Templeton family takes up residence in an imposing and long-empty manor in the countryside of Victoria, Australia, the locals begin to buzz with gossip. The seven Templetons moved from England and seem unusual, peculiar even—especially when they begin to lead tours through the stately home while dressed in period costume. No one is more intrigued by the family than their neighbors, single mother Nina Donovan and her son, Tom. Though...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lainey Byrne is a master at controlled chaos, juggling her hectic, demanding job, her chef boyfriend with his crazy hours, and her roiling family with all its daily dramas. But her life truly threatens to spin out of control when her aunt May, who owns a B&B in Ireland, passes away. In order for the Byrnes to collect their inheritance, someone from the family must take over Aunt May’s business for a year. And apparently that someone is Lainey.
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Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy takes you back to the Lancaster Prep world with a sizzling enemies-to-lovers, new adult romance.Wren Beaumont is many things.
Beautiful.
Smart.
Sweet.
Innocent.
At Lancaster Prep, the girls love her. They all want to be her friend. Only I see Wren for who she really is.
A repressed little virgin who keeps her feelings locked up so tight she's probably close to bursting.
...Author
Publisher
Healthy Living Publications
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Monica Aggarwal and Jyothi Rao help readers take an honest assessment of their energy, lifestyle, dietary habits, and mental state and provide a series of interventions for reclaiming health. In-depth explanations of the dangers of stress and the benefits of microbiomes on not only digestive health but also general well-being show how common dietary and lifestyle changes can make a dynamic difference. The authors also bring a broader understanding...
79) Colman
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
After Juniper and her companions find that the Cornwall, England, castle where she was raised as a princess has been destroyed, they devise a plan to use magic to oppose the oppression of the evil Meroot and the Gray Knight and to restore the authority of Prince Brangwyn.
Author
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A creative nonfiction story of how, during the Great Depression, seven-year-old Ruby's family leaves their Oklahoma home to seek work in California, where Ruby meets Dorothea Lange, who takes a photograph that becomes known as "Migrant mother." Includes historical note.