Izzy Spellman's hostile takeover of her family's firm, Spellman Investigations, isn't going as planned. Her parents are on strike, her sister Rae is acting suspicious, and the bills are piling up fast. So when Izzy is...
Dysfunctional families
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Author:Kelly, Erin EntradaSummary:Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their heartless stepmother in Louisiana, two sisters from the Philippines, twelve-year-old Sol and six-year-old Ming, learn the true meaning of family.
- Author:Black, MilleniaSummary:
Leslie Cavanaugh enjoys the perfect life in West Palm, Florida. She has the best husband, daughter, and career anyone could ask for. Yet when her shameful past is exposed, she and everyone she holds dear are soon caught in a dramatic...
- Author:Hoffman, AliceSummary:
The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a suicidal son and a defiant granddaughter, Esther has hired a Russian landscaper to watch over the family and the grounds of their waterfront estate. But he has been watching Esther, too. And...
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Author:Yates, J. DylanSummary:Jules Finn and Szaja Trautman know that sorrow can sink deeply—so deeply it can drown the soul. Growing up in her parents' crazy hippie household on a tiny island off the coast of Boston, Jules's imaginative sense of humor is the weapon...
- Author:Ellis, SarahSummary:
Jessica knew that the family meeting Dad had called for that evening probably wouldn't be good news. Family meetings usually meant Mum talking a lot and then the whole family getting involved in some project that left everything in a...
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Author:Van Draanen, WendelinSummary:Two thirteen-year-old boys share neighborhood adventures, complaints about their older sisters, family secrets, and even guilt that bind them together in a special friendship.
- Author:Toten, TeresaSummary:
Dans Plus que Blonde, Sophie Kandinsky, 16 ans, assiste à l’éclatement de son univers: papa quitte la maison pour devenir sobre; maman se replie sur elle-même; Luke, son premier amour, est contraint de se marier; elle se sent...
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Author:Gelbwasser, MargieSummary:Two families. Four teens. A summer full of secrets. Every summer, hidden away in a lakeside community in upstate New York, four teens leave behind their old identities... and escape from their turbulent lives. But when he’s back in...
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Author:Lohans, AlisonSummary:Short-listed for the 2011 Saskatchewan Book Awards: Children’s Literature Award and Regina Book Award Who is the girl staring out of the old photograph? Every time Alyssa Dixon looks at it, even by accident, she finds herself on an Iowa...
- Author:Pitcher, AnnabelSummary:
Ten-year-old Jamie Matthews has just moved to the Lake District with his dad and his teenage sister Jasmine for a "fresh new start." Five years ago, his sister's twin, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. His parents are wrecked by...
- Author:Evaristo, BernardineSummary:
Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. A husband, father, grandfather--he is also secretly gay. When his marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington wants a divorce, but after a lifetime of fear and deception,...
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Author:Camilla GibbSummary:"Thelma is not yet six years old at the outset of this tale, and already the world shows no promise of accomodating itself to her desires. Still, Thelma tries - by asking practically every adult she meets to adopt her. Not that she...
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Author:Robinson, J. JillSummary:Just as blue eyes or a birthmark may be passed down through the generations, so too are other, far less welcome traits, not all of them physical, but emotional. More in Anger is the poignant story of three generations of women and the...
- Author:Lanoue, LillianSummary:
La crise économique a entraîné plus que son lot de misères au Québec. Les Dansereau de St.John-Iberville, comme on appelait Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu en ce temps-là, n’en seront pas épargnés. Dans ce contexte, quelle vie peut espérer la...
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Author:DeKeyser, StacySummary:What would you do? As far as I'm concerned, there's no excuse not to be decent... Especially when you're responsible for a kid. It just figures that 15-year old Victoria's dad fails once again to be at the train station like he's...
- Author:Sontag, RachelSummary:
Traces the author's journey of recovery after a childhood marked by her mentally ill father, a respected suburban doctor with an obsessive need for control that caused him to torture his wife and children about the most minute...
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Author:Guenther, LisaSummary:As a long, hot Saskatchewan summer dawns, Darby Swank's life is forever changed when she finds her beloved aunt floating dead in a lake. All at once, her blinders are lifted and she sees the country lifestyle she's always known in a...
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Author:Summary:Frances Price--tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature--is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son, Malcolm, is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development....
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Author:Citra, BeckySummary:Growing up in the ?50s with a single mother and no father, Hope is a loner with a wonderful imagination. The letters she writes to her imaginary friend, Grace, help her cope with the difficult times in her life - her mother's sad days,...
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