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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Enjoy unforgettable characters and irreverent laughs in the Regency series that launched the career of New York Times bestselling author Katie MacAlister You think you've got troubles? As a spy for the Crown, Lord Harry Rosse faced clever and dangerous adversaries-but it's his five offspring who seem likely to send him to Bedlam. At his wits' end, he's advertised for a wife and found one, but perhaps he should have been a bit more forthcoming on certain...
42) Family of lies
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe weaves a stunning portrait of a family immersed in deceit, and the women whose happiness depends on the secrets they keep. After growing up poor in Texas, Vera Lomax used every gold-digging trick in the book to land a rich husband. Now living in the lap of luxury in San Francisco, her only job is to fawn over her much-older husband, so it's been easy for her to balance a life of shopping and affairs with...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of a woman who stepped into the shoes of another mother taken too soon, who learned along the way that she'd need to find her own stride in the journey her new family would walk together--a story of how love and loss are not opposites but cohabitants in family life, and how family is the richest inheritance of all.
Author
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"'Be kind and have faith.' Ella Troyer strives to abide by her mother's final words, although life in the small Amish town of Echo Creek isn't always easy. Her new stepmother, Linda, treats her coldly, and her two stepsisters, Drusilla and Anna, delight in gossip and laziness. After her father's death, Ella's stepsisters are free to attend youth singings while Ella stays at home to manage the household chores, rarely seeing another soul. Until one...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Now that Squishy has been living with her father in Melbourne for some time she has grown close to her "bonus" sisters, the twins Vee and Jesse, but she is still not sure about their mom, her father's new wife. Squishy is newly fixated on astronauts and space travel, and she has a new mystery to solve: who is the "spacewoman" across the street, why is she building a rocket on the roof of her apartment building, and how are they going to get through...
47) Nissa's place
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thirteen-year-old girl in Depression-era Louisiana grapples with her mother moving to Chicago, her father remarrying, and finding where she belongs.
Ever since Nissa Bergen's father Ivar remarried, Nissa has felt like a stranger in her own home, clinging to her memories of her free-spirited mother, Heirah Rae, who moved to Chicago to escape the conformity of small-town Louisiana. To make matters worse, Nissa's not ready for the physical changes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
530L
Physical Desc
102 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Daisy Meyer is angry and frustrated with her world: her German American town, New Ulm, is under surveillance, her father's newspaper was forced to shut down for criticizing the United States' entry into World War I, her beloved older sister Elsie's fiancé is deployed to France, and she deeply resents her stepmother--but worse is coming, because this is October 1918, and influenza is about to descend on her home and family, and it...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
375 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"At sixteen, Mina's mother is dead, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone--has never beat at all, in fact, but she'd always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass. When she moves to Whitespring Castle and sees its king for the first time, Mina forms a plan: win the king's heart with her beauty, become queen, and finally know...
50) Wild cards
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from two viewpoints, Derek Fitzpatrick, kicked out of boarding school, must move with his stepmother to her childhood home in Illinois, where he meets Ashtyn Parker, who may be able to achieve her dream of a football scholarship with bad boy Derek's help.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The town of Opum Oppidulum is home to the freezing Lake Beluarum and its rumored monster. On an island at the center of the lake is an asylum from which no one has ever escaped. So how will Rex, whose father, Ambrose Grammaticus, has been imprisoned there under false pretenses, prove that Ambrose is not insane? And if Rex can free his father, will his evil stepmother drive them both to madness?
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As summer beckons, Evie's family gathers once more at the beautiful old riverside house they all adore. But when Evie discovers a secret that threatens their future, a shadow falls over them all: this summer by the river could be their last together"--
Evie loved the house. The bright, sunny rooms looking across the river; the terraced gardens with fruit trees growing against the high stone walls; the scent of lavender at the end of a hot day. As...
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
High school senior Sam lives at the beck and call of her self-obsessed step-mother Fiona and her wicked step-sisters. With her sights set on attending Princeton, Sam finds her less-than-sparkling social life wonderfully complicated when she meets her Prince Charming online. But when her cyber soul mate turns out to her high school's ultra-popular quarterback Austin, Sam makes a mad dash back to reality. Fearing rejection if her secret is revealed,...
54) Liar
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Single dad Ben is doing his best to raise his children alone, with the help of his devoted mother Judi. Life isn't easy, but Judi's family means everything to her and together, they manage. Then Ben meets Amber. Everyone thinks this is a perfect match for Ben, but Judi isn't sure... there's just something about Amber that doesn't add up. Ben can't see why his mother dislikes his new girlfriend. And Amber doesn't want Judi anywhere near her new family....
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking way of understanding the tensions that define relations between women and their stepchildren. Half of all women in the United States will live with or marry a man with children. And what woman with stepchildren has not--in order to defuse the often overwhelming challenges of the role--referred to herself as a "stepmonster"? Wednesday Martin unlocks the emotional mysteries of why stepmothers think and feel and act the way they do....
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirty-six-year-old Grace McAllister never longed for children. After meeting Victor Hansen, divorced father of two, Grace decides she could learn to be an excellent part-time step mom. How hard could it be, since the kids live with their mother, Kelli? At thirteen Ava Hansen has been the one taking care of her emotionally unstable mother and her little brother. Ava still has hope that her parents would get back together and they could be a family...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
550L
Physical Desc
109 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
This You Choose adventure is told from three different perspectives--White Snow is a secret agent in Good Prince's army, looking for a computer with secret codes for a bomb; Mrs. White desperately searches for her runaway daughter Snow; and Charming, towed by his seven loyal sleddogs, goes to rescue his friend and mentor Meteorologist Snow-White, who is trapped in a raging blizzard in the Arctic--the reader chooses which plot to pursue.
59) Me and Ms. Too
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
For as long as Molly can remember, it's always just been her and Dad. Dad, who likes to splash in the pool, who likes to spin at the park, who bakes the best cookies around. But that was before Dad married Ms. Too. Ms. Too doesn't like to splash. She doesn't like to spin. And she can't bake anything. "But Molly, you used to love Ms. Too." That was before, when she was Molly's favorite librarian. Now everything has changed. But as Molly and Ms. Too...