Families
- Author:Barker, PatSummary:
- Author:Ripplinger, HenrySummary:
Two years after Jenny Sarsky and her family moved out of Henry Pedersen's life, he still longs for her, their whirlwind romance gone from his life but not his heart. Henry and Jenny are unaware Jennys parents have burned all his...
- Author:Kingsolver, BarbaraSummary:
From Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Bean Trees, and other modern classics, Animal Dreams is a passionate and complex novel about love, forgiveness, and one woman's struggle to find her...
- Author:Ripplinger, HenrySummary:
Henry and Julean couldn't be happier. With a new baby, a new home and Henry's new job, everything is turning out perfectly for the young couple. Or is it? No matter what he does, Henry can't seem to shake the memory of...
- Author:Andersen, Hans ChristianSummary:
Beloved children's classics such as “The Ugly Duckling,” “Thumbelina,” "The Little Match Girl," and “The Princess and the Pea.” By turns heartbreaking and joyous, these are the stories that first taught many of us the glories of...
- Author:Den Hartog, KristenSummary:
"Ruth grew too fast.A young girl over seven feet tall, she struggles to conceal the physical and mental symptoms of her rapid growth, to connect with other children, and to appease her parents, Elspeth, an English seamstress who...
- Author:Snelling, LauraineSummary:
After the loss of her first love, is Ingeborg Strand willing to marry a stranger--however kind--for the promise of a new life in America?
- Author:Shrivastava, MeenalSummary:
As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma's unusual past and that of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family life created by her parents'...
- Author:Kennedy, Robert F.Summary:
With rich detail, compelling honesty, and a storyteller's gift, RFK Jr. describes growing up Kennedy in a tumultuous time in history that eerily echoes the issues of nuclear confrontation, religion, race, and inequality that we confront...
- Author:Parish, HermanSummary:
Amelia Bedelia prend le large. Où va-t-elle? C’est une surprise! Amelia Bedelia et ses parents vont essayer de nouvelles choses (comme la pêche), ils mangeront beaucoup de pizzas (miam) et Amelia Bedelia se fera une nouvelle amie, une...
- Author:Crewe, LesleySummary:
Can you really move forward without putting the past to rest? Grace Willingdon has everything she needs. For fifteen years she?s lived in a trailer overlooking Bras d?Or Lakes in postcard-perfect Baddeck, Cape Breton, with Fletcher...
- Author:Trafford, TylerSummary:
Winner, W.O. Mitchell Award, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction, and Alberta Reader’s Choice Award. Following his mother’s death in 2004, Tyler Trafford discovers an album of old letters and creased photographs that reveal a mother...
- Author:Roth, VeronicaSummary:
Et si une révélation, à l’instar d’un choix, pouvait tout changer? Et si l’amour et la loyauté vous forçaient à faire des choses que vous n’auriez jamais faites? La société basée sur les factions en laquelle Tris Prior croyait est...
- Author:Off, CarolSummary:
Tells the story of a family's desperate attempts to escape Afghan warlords, Taliban oppression, and the persecutions of refugee life, in hopes that both their sons and their daughters could dare to dream of peace and opportunity. And...
- Author:Kuitenbrouwer, KathrynSummary:
September, 1983. Fourteen-year-old Bo, a boat person from Vietnam, lives in a small house in the Junction neighbourhood of Toronto with his mother, Thao, and his four-year-old sister, who was born severely disfigured from the effects of...
- Author:Yoerg, Sonja IngridSummary:
Vermont, 1972. Carole LaPorte has a satisfying, ordinary life. She cares for her children, balances the books for the family's auto shop, and laughs when her husband slow dances her across the kitchen floor. Her tragic childhood might...
- Author:Giangrande, CaroleSummary:
In the morning fog of the North Atlantic, Valerie hears the frenetic ticking of clocks. She’s come from Toronto to hike on the French island of St. Pierre and to ponder her marriage to Gerard Lefèvre, a Montrealer and a broadcast...
- Author:Viorst, JudithSummary:
Viorst relates her experience with having her youngest son and his family live with her.
- Author:Choldenko, GenniferSummary:
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.
- Author:Gaye, Jan.Summary:
On her seventeenth birthday in 1973, Janice Hunter met Marvin Gaye- the soulful prince of Motown with the seductive liquid voice whose chart-topping, socially conscious album What's Going On made him a superstar two years earlier....