Central Skagit Library District

A mother reflects on the all the milestones, from walking in a deep wood to holding someone else's hand, that her child will achieve during life.

'B-18'--Spine.

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.

"If you liked Big Little Lies, you'll want to crack open [Little Broken Things]." —Southern Living

An unforgettable and moving novel about an affluent suburban family whose carefully constructed façade crumbles with the unexpected arrival of an endangered young girl.
I have something for you.

When Quinn Cruz receives that cryptic text message from her older sister Nora,...

"A mother's memoir of her transgender child's odyssey, and her journey outside the boundaries of the faith and culture that shaped her"--

"Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a trip to London. The city was a favorite of her mother's, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself reflecting on her mother's life and their relationship. Thoughts of the past meld with questions of the future: Back in New England, the family home is now up for sale, its considerable contents already winnowed. The narrator, a writer, recalls all that...

An aging apple-seller pretends to be rich in order to help her daughter marry into a wealthy family, assisted by an assortment of gangsters in her comic charade.

When a child wakes up feeling sick, she is treated to a dose of Mommy Medicine, which includes a cup of hot chocolate, a cozy bubble bath, and unlimited cuddles.

"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....

"When you can find me an acre of land, Every sage grows merry in time, Between the ocean and the sand Then will you be united again.(Inspired by The Child Ballads 2 & 19) ... So begins a beautiful and tragic quest as a heartbroken mother sets out to save her lost daughter, through the realms of the real, of dream, and even into the underworld itself. But determination alone is not enough. For to save something precious, she must give up something...