Janey knows she should be trying to put her academic career on the map, but how? She'll more readily poke fun at than engage in yet another overly dry and theoretical conference. And her husband and their friends simply encourage her...
Families
- Author:Sorensen, SueSummary:
- Author:Royal, PriscillaSummary:
When Baron Herbert returns from crusade he grows increasingly morose and withdraws from his family. When his sons begin to die in strange accidents, questions are asked whether Herbert harbors a dark sin for which God has cursed him....
- Author:Rendell, RuthSummary:
On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When Detective...
- Author:Parr, DeliaSummary:
A widow with family far away, 51-year-old Emma fills her loneliness by caring for her boarding house guests and sharing her own special blend of wisdom and humor. One stormy night, a rap at her door interrupts her musings. The 80-year-...
- Author:Pearson, KitSummary:
When Patricia's mother sends her to her cousins' cottage for the summer, Patricia doesn't want to go. She doesn't know her cousins at all, and she's never been good at camping or canoeing, let alone making new...
- Author:Spruit, JenniferSummary:
When twenty-two-year-old Marla finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, she wishes for a family, but faces precariousness: an uncertain future with her talented, exacting boyfriend, Liam; constant danger from her roommate, Dani, a sometime...
- Author:Curtis, SkySummary:
A Gut Reaction is an entertaining as well as informative true story about the author’s battle to save her son’s life — or at least his large intestine — from a very severe case of Crohn’s disease. With persistence, humour, much...
- Author:Cameron, W. BruceSummary:
Lucas Ray is shocked when an adorable puppy jumps out of an abandoned building and into his arms. Though the apartment he shares with his mother, a disabled veteran, doesn't allow dogs, Lucas can't resist taking Bella home. Bella is...
- Author:Kincaid, Gregory D.Summary:
Summary: Discovering that a local shelter is looking for temporary homes for their dogs over the Christmas holidays, Todd, a developmentally challenged young man, persuades his reluctant family to take in a special canine named...
- Author:Jantunen, JohnSummary:
A chilling portrait of a family--fighting to preserve their humanity in a cruel and merciless world. The collapse of civilization has left the survivors scattered amongst a few settlements along the wilderness fringe of a land ravaged...
- Author:Williams, Vera B.Summary:
A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire. UEB and BANA Braille Grade 2 6 Braille pages .dxb and .brf files for each volume.
- Author:Harrington, LauraSummary:
Billy Flynn always wanted to fly. An attractive young man, a patriot, he is also an artist with pencil and paint and has an abiding affinity for nature. It's 1970 and he cannot resist the call to serve in Vietnam. A year later he is the...
- Author:Bélanger, Pierre-LucSummary:
Ainé d’une famille unie, beau bonhomme et bon joueur de football, Sébastien Tardif a un bel avenir devant lui. Mais un jour, le malheur heurte sa famille de plein fouet, après un grave accident qui plonge la mère dans un profond coma....
- Author:Cousins, DaveSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Laurence Roach just wants a normal life, but it’s far from easy with his little brother who acts like a dog and their depressed alcoholic mother. If Laurence can win the luxury vacation in a local radio contest, he’s...
- Author:Weber, LoriSummary:
Before her plane even touches down in Newfoundland, Cheryl is already plotting her escape. She knows life on this rock will be no better than it was in the other places she’s been forced to live ever since her parents launched their...
- Author:Reisz, KristopherSummary:
Best friends Jane and Holly have jumped into the river off Swallow’s Nest Bluff hundreds of times. But one day, Holly’s jump goes wrong. Her body never comes up, yet something else does—a sad creature of mud, full of confusion and...
- Author:Hoole, Elissa JanineSummary:
For Cassandra Randall, there’s a price to pay for being a secret atheist in a family of fundamentalists—she has nothing good to write on an online personality quiz; her best friend is drifting away; and she’s failing English because she...
- Author:Adderson, CarolineSummary:
These nine razor-sharp stories herald the return of one of Canada’s most accomplished writers to the short story form. Stylistically varied and linguistically confident, here are compulsively readable stories that plumb the complexities...
- Author:Jackson, MarniSummary:
From the author of the best-selling The Mother Zone comes a comic narrative about an over-anxious mother and her 20-something over-adventurous son. Home Free is about the last secret lap of parenting: getting through your kids’ 20s and...
- Author:Collier, Victoria, Collier, JenniferSummary:
Creating a family in the 21st Century presents certain challenges: career couples are waiting longer and discovering infertility issues and gay & lesbian couples are becoming parents through various methods. The authors share their...