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Dysfunctional families

  • Fatal charm : the seer, volume 5
    Author:
    Singleton, Linda Joy
    Summary:

    In this vivid fifth volume of The Seer series, Sabine Rose is reunited with her ill grandmother Nona and her friends at Sheridan Valley. But the excitement of curing Nona-and discovering love with someone new-doesn't outweigh the burden...
  • Far from shore
    Author:
    Major, Kevin
    Summary:

    Faced with instability on many sides, and living in an outport community in Newfoundland, fifteen-year-old Chris gropes for direction in a family broken apart by unemployment. Even his easy-going, humorous attitude fails to steady him...
  • Death of a kingfisher
    Author:
    Beaton, M. C.
    Summary:

    When Scotland is hit by the recession, Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices that the Highland people are forced to come up with inventive ways to lure tourists to their sleepy towns. The quaint village of Braikie doesn't have much to...
  • Dark angel
    Author:
    Andrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
    Summary:

    When she moves to Boston to live with her wealthy grandmother, Heaven believes that she has found a place to belong and an opportunity to make something of herself until she begins to realize the terrible truth beneath the glamorous...
  • Burn
    Author:
    Gibson, Heath
    Summary:

    "The best thing to do for someone who thinks he’s lost his whole life is to make him feel like it’s been given back to him. That’s why I can do this. Fire can fix it." William Tucker always does the right thing. He excels at high school...
  • Breaking Faith
    Author:
    Graziani, E.
    Summary:

    Faith Emily Hansen just wants to be loved and to live without the weight of addiction. But the relief that she gets from being wrapped up in the cozy little cotton ball of heroin is impossible to ignore. Faith’s story starts in her...
  • Blueeyed boy
    Author:
    Harris, Joanne
    Summary:

    Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child, timid and dull. But Blue was his mother's favourite. And he was a murderer...
  • Bat summer
    Author:
    Withrow, Sarah
    Summary:

    Terence isn't cool like his best friend, Tom, but at least he's not a weirdo like Lucy, who sees life upside-down and thinks she's a bat. Yet Lucy knows things that other people don't -- about the gaps in life, and seeing things more...
  • Al Capone does my shirts
    Author:
    Choldenko, Gennifer
    Summary:

    A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
  • A thief in the house of memory
    Author:
    Wynne-Jones, Tim
    Summary:

    It has been six years since sixteen-year-old Dec's free-spirited mother, Lindy, disappeared. Dec feels so trapped in the present that he has avoided examining his past. But when an intruder dies in the museum-like family home, the man's...
  • A kestrel for a knave
    Author:
    Hines, Barry
    Summary:

    Experience the gritty realism of Billy Casper's world, as he fights to escape the confines of life in a 1960's Yorkshire mining town by training and flying a hawk.
  • The glass castle : a memoir
    Author:
    Walls, Jeannette
    Summary:

    Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the...
  • Conundrum : a novel
    Author:
    Lakin, C. S.
    Summary:

    Lies may hurt, but the truth can be murder... A happily married man with three small children decides one day he no longer wants to live. He gives himself leukemia, and nine months later is dead. This is the conundrum Lisa Sitteroff is...

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