- Browse
- » Your Account
- » List
Author
On Shelf
New Providence Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
FIC Str
1 available
FIC Str
1 available
On Shelf
New Providence Memorial Library - Adult Media
CD FIC Str
1 available
CD FIC Str
1 available
Description
"Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two...
Author
Series
Description
In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the prinicpal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born...
Author
On Shelf
New Providence Memorial Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
BIO McCurdy Mccu
2 available
BIO McCurdy Mccu
2 available
On Shelf
New Providence Memorial Library - Adult Media - Biography
CD BIO McCurdy Mccu
1 available
CD BIO McCurdy Mccu
1 available
Description
"A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life."--Amazon.
Author
On Shelf
New Providence Memorial Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
LARGE PRINT FIC Pic
1 available
LARGE PRINT FIC Pic
1 available
Description
"For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice's old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries...
Author
On Shelf
New Providence Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
FIC Ser
1 available
FIC Ser
1 available
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic In Five Years returns with a moving and unforgettable exploration of the powerful bond between mother and daughter set on the breathtaking Amalfi Coast. "When Katy's mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn't just Katy's mom, but her best friend and first phone call. To make matters worse, the mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano. Katy has been waiting years...
Author
Description
"A senior partner at a prestigious New York law firm, Kate Morgan couldn't be prouder of her three grown children. Tamara, Anthony, and Claire all went to great schools, chose wonderful career paths, and would have made their father proud. A single mother for years after the death of her husband, Kate keeps a tight rein on her family, her career, and even her own emotions, never once asking herself if she truly knows her children . . . or if her hopes...
Author
On Shelf
New Providence Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
FIC Hep
1 available
FIC Hep
1 available
Description
"A twisty, compelling new novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that ends in death... From the moment Lucy met her husband's mother, Diana, she was kept at arm's length. Diana was exquisitely polite, and properly friendly, but Lucy knew that she was not what Diana envisioned. But who could fault Diana? She was a pillar of the community, an advocate for social justice who helped female refugees assimilate to their...
Author
On Shelf
New Providence Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
FIC Weiner
1 available
FIC Weiner
1 available
Description
"Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived since college still looks like she's just moved in. But she's got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club. She's at peace with her plus-size body--at least, most of the time--and she's on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her...
Author
Formats:
Description
Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman convinced that she will die soon, decides to unburden herself by divulging the secrets of those closest to her and to her suspicious, Americanized daughter.
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
New Providence Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
FIC Hoo
1 available
FIC Hoo
1 available
On Shelf
New Providence Memorial Library - Adult Media
CD FIC Hoo
1 available
CD FIC Hoo
1 available
Description
In the spirit of How to Make an American Quilt and The Joy Luck Club comes this novel about friendship and redemption. After the sudden loss of Stella, her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island. Seeking a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days, she little realizes that the circle will change her life. Alice, Scarlet, Lulu, Beth, Harriet, and Ellen welcome Mary into their circle despite her reluctance to open...
11) Secret daughter
Author
Description
Interweaves the stories of a baby girl in India, the American doctor who adopted her, and the Indian mother who gave her up in favor of a son, as two families--one in India, the other in the United States--are changed by the child that connects them.
Author
Series
On Shelf
New Providence Memorial Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
LARGE PRINT FIC Han
1 available
LARGE PRINT FIC Han
1 available
Description
A poignant, evocative story that celebrates the magic of motherhood, the joys of coming home, and the price we so willingly pay for love.
Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria's heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family's restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angie's fortunes will...
Author
On Shelf
New Providence Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
FIC Ste
1 available
FIC Ste
1 available
Description
Having missed much of her children's lives while she built a home-furnishings empire, Olivia Grayson arranges a family vacation in the Mediterranean in the hopes of rekindling ties only to confront painful interpersonal dynamics and unexpected revelations.
Author
The library does not own any copies of this title.
Description
The authors of Christmas Miracles deliver true stories that show just how enduring a mother's remarkable love can be.
Author
Description
For The Love of Jeremy is a memoir inspired by the loss of a son.The story is about Renate LeDuc's family's experience with mental illness and how it intersects with suicide and substance use disorder.As Bipolar Disorder affects one member in each of three generations, join Renate in searching for light through the darkness in this journey. She believes that, sometimes, we need to find the gifts of grief if we are going to survive it.
16) The giving tree
Author
On Shelf
New Providence Memorial Library - Juvenile Fiction - Picture Books
E Sil
2 available
E Sil
2 available
Description
A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return.
Author
Series
Formats:
On Shelf
New Providence Memorial Library - Juvenile Fiction - Easy Reader
J-E BR Eas
4 available
J-E BR Eas
4 available
Description
A baby bird has a number of adventures while looking for its mother after falling out of its nest. For primary grades.
Description
Lorelai and Rory are a mother and daughter who are sharing life's ups and downs in a small town in Connecticut. This heartfelt, humorous drama appeals to young and old alike with it's blend of traditional family issues and hip attitude.
19) Freaky Friday
On Shelf
New Providence Memorial Library - Juvenile Media
JDVD Fre
1 available
JDVD Fre
1 available
Description
A mother and her daughter are always fighting and screaming at each other. Each thinks that the other has it so easy. Then, thanks to a magical fortune cookie, they switch personalities and bodies and discover each other's problems and complications. And they end up gaining a little respect for each other's point of view. But they need to be changed back by Saturday, because the mother is getting married!
20) One perfect lie
Author
On Shelf
New Providence Memorial Library - Adult Fiction
FIC Sco
1 available
FIC Sco
1 available
On Shelf
New Providence Memorial Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
LARGE PRINT FIC Sco
1 available
LARGE PRINT FIC Sco
1 available
Description
"One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being...