One two Three

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Call Number: Fiction / Frankel, Laurie, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Frankel, Laurie
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Frankel, Laurie	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Frankel, Laurie	4-week checkout	On Hold Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Frankel, Laurie	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Frankel, Laurie	4-week checkout	Due 05-02-2024
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Frankel, Laurie	4-week checkout	Due 05-23-2024

"Mab is the "normal" one, never mind Bourne Memorial High School has banned that term, and besides, she's a stickler for words and definitions and knows normal isn't normal in Bourne. Monday is a stickler for everything else. She doesn't like abbreviations, contractions, lies, typos, or wearing green clothes on yellow days. When the Bourne library shut down--funds desperately needed elsewhere--she stashed the books under her bed, behind the sofa, along the stairs, inside the microwave, and lends them from home. Mirabel's the smart one, the slow one, the stuck one. Much of her body requires augmentation--she needs a wheelchair to navigate the world, a voice app to speak to it--but her right arm and hand work flawlessly. And so do her brain and her heart. Nora gave her girls "M" names with escalating syllables so she'd be able to keep them straight. As if single parenting sixteen-year-old triplets weren't enough, her two jobs--Bourne's only therapist and its only bartender--are both in unusually high demand. And then there's the job she can't let go--lead plaintiff in Bourne's class-action lawsuit against Bison Chemical. Seventeen years ago, the Bison plant was pumping toxic chemicals into Bourne's river. Flowers stopped blooming. Pets got sick, then their owners did too. A generation was born not quite whole. Nora assures her daughters they're perfect just the way they are, but she's still spent their whole lives fighting to make Bison pay. When a new student at Bourne Memorial High turns out to be the grandson of Bison's CEO, everyone realizes that in a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything has. And when Bison announces plans to reopen the plant, the girls take up their mother's cause in a race to find what Bison is hiding and to stop them. Part small-town mystery, part girl-superhero story, One Two Three is Laurie Frankel's specialty, a timely, topical novel about love and family that will make you laugh and cry and laugh again"-- Provided by publisher.

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Another Hit by Frankel submitted by JJM.Deucher on June 16, 2023, 8:33am If you enjoyed Frankel's writing style in This Is The Way It Always Is you will equally enjoy this book! Similar in the sense it is another familial tale and includes a mother grappling with her daughters growing up the subject matter is different and very interesting in our current world as we face the negative consequences of choices made out of corporate greed.

Chemical plant causes problems (no kidding) submitted by hiker15 on August 15, 2023, 10:20pm Three teenage girls have different mental/physical challenges, potentially because of contamination from a chemical plant. The community as a whole is suffering and people are trying their best. But if you want a nice uplifting story, this book isn't it.