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Author
Language
English
Description
Emma Averell loves her life--her high-powered legal career, her two beautiful children, and her wonderful stay-at-home husband--but it wasn't always so perfect. When she was just five years old, Emma and her older sister went into foster care because of a horrific incident with their mother. Her sister can remember a time when their mother was loving and "normal," but Emma can only remember her as one thing--a monster. And that monster emerged right...
2) Stillwater
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Clement and Angel are fraternal twins separated at birth; they grow up in the same small, frontier logging town of Stillwater, Minnesota. Clement was left at the orphanage; Angel was adopted by the town's richest couple, but is marked and threatened by her mother's mental illness. They rarely meet, but Clement knows if he is truly in need, Angel will come to save him. Stillwater, near the Mississippi River and Canada, becomes an important stop on...
3) So B. It
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York Times Best-selling novel, a young prodigy named Heidi has a lucky streak that has a way of pointing her in the right direction. When a mysterious word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi's thirst for the truth leads her on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A memoir of family, the Holocaust, trauma, and identity, in which Adam Frankel, a former Obama speechwriter, must come to terms with the legacy of his family's painful past and discover who he is in the wake of a life-changing revelation about his own origins. Adam Frankel's maternal grandparents survived the Holocaust and built new lives, with new names, in Connecticut. Though they tried to leave the horrors of their past behind, the pain they suffered...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 401 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic mother who left them to fend for themselves for weeks at a time. Yet through it all they had each other. Rosie, the youngest, is fawned over and shielded by her older sister, Regina. Their mother, Cookie, blows in and out of their lives 'like a hurricane, blind and uncaring to everything in her path'. But when Regina discloses the truth about her abusive mother to her social worker,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Gile's childhood had been spent in doctor's offices; she spent nearly every waking moment at her mother's side. As Nyna grew up, her mother became more and more distant. Carolyn Scott Reybold had been a model in 1947, a friend of Grace Kelly, and even a bridesmaid at her wedding. How had that confident, glamorous woman become the mother Giles knew growing up-- the mother who was now living in a shelter? In her journey to uncover her mother's past,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Anna Chiu is not looking after her brother and sister or helping out at her father's restaurant, she's taking care of her mother, whose debilitating mental illness keeps her in bed most days. Her father's new delivery boy, Rory, is a welcome distraction, and soon Anna is starting to feel like a normal teen. But as her mother's condition continues to decline, her family questions everything they understood about themselves and one another.
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
2023
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
My name is Julia. This is the story of the summer I almost lost my mum, and found a shark older than trees. Don't worry though, that doesn't spoil the ending.
9) Commitment
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of a family whose single mom, fighting mental illness, slowly becomes unable to raise her family, told from the perspective of each of the three children. As the novel opens, a mother drives her eldest son Walter from their home in Los Angeles to the University of California at Berkeley. It will be her last fully responsible act before breaking down completely and being committed to a mental hospital, leaving her children behind. Holding...
Author
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"When Cricket's Aunt Belinda accidentally forgets her in the grocery store, Cricket decides to run away once and for all. But Cricket has to stay close by because even though her mama hasn't been in touch since she disappeared, she'll surely come back. And Cricket has to be there when she does. Because she needs answers" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
ix, 287 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Clear-sighted, darkly comic, and tender, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughters struggle to face the Medusa of generational trauma without turning to stone. Growing up in the New Jersey suburbs of the 1970s and 1980s in a family warped by mental illness, addiction, and violence, Kim Adrian spent her childhood ducking for cover from an alcoholic father prone to terrifying acts of rage and trudging through a fog of confusion...
12) Never simple
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A darkly funny and devastating memoir of growing up in '90s Manhattan with a mentally ill single parent"--
13) Etched in sand: a true story of five siblings who survived an unspeakable childhood on Long Island
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Calcaterra and her siblings endured a series of foster homes and intermittent homelessness in the shadow of the Hamptons. She managed to rise above her past while fighting to keep her brother and three sisters together. An unforgettable reminder that, regardless of social status, the American dream is still within reach for those who have the desire and the determination to succeed.
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In an idyllic Los Angeles neighborhood, where generations of families enjoy deep roots in old homes, the ORourke family fits right in. Miriam and Craig are both artists and their four children carry on the legacy. When their teenage son, Nick, is diagnosed with schizophrenia, a tumultuous decade ensues in which the family careens permanently off the conventional course. Like the ten Biblical plagues, they are hit by one catastrophe after another,...
15) Trowbridge Road
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing...