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2) Room
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Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
6) Just for you
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A little creature tries and tries to do something special for his mother but something always seems to go wrong.
7) Owl babies
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Three owl babies whose mother has gone out in the night try to stay calm while she is gone.
8) Snow bears
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When three little bears play in the snow, they pretend to be "snow bears" and their mother goes along with the game.
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In this satisfying page-turner from "the queen of beach reads" (New York Magazine), a Nantucket novelist has one final summer to protect her secrets while her loved ones on earth learn to live without their golden girl. On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she's...
13) Son
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When the young girl washes up on their shore, no one knew she had been a Vessel. That she had carried a Product. That it had been carved into her belly. Stolen. Claire had had a son. She was supposed to forget about him, but that was impossible. When he was taken from their community, she knew she had to follow. And so her journey began. But here in this wind-battered village Claire is welcomed as one of their own. In the security of her new home,...
17) In a blue room
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Alice wants everything in her bedroom to be blue before she falls asleep.
19) My mom
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A child describes the many wonderful things about "my mom," who can make anything grow, roar like a lion, and be as comfy as an armchair.