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Family secrets

  • The house of unexpected sisters
    Author:
    McCall Smith, Alexander
    Summary:

    Precious Ramotswe learns valuable lessons about first impressions and forgiveness in this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are approached by their...
  • The glass harmonica
    Author:
    Wangersky, Russell
    Summary:

    Winner of the 2010 BMO Winterset Award When retiree Keith O'Reilly witnesses the murder of his neighbour by a pizza delivery man one night during a snowstorm, a unique series of stories begins to unfold. As the narrative seamlessly...
  • The girl on the cliff
    Author:
    Riley, Lucinda
    Summary:

    Presents the emotionally affecting tale of a young woman, Grania, who flees heartbreak in New York for her family home on the coast of Ireland. Wandering along a cliff edge in the middle of a storm, Grania meets Aurora, a girl fated to...
  • The gathering
    Author:
    Enright, Anne
    Summary:

    The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his...
  • The Gatekeeper's Son
    Author:
    Fladmark, C.R.
    Summary:

    Junya’s grandfather is a billionaire who keeps the secret to his success hidden in a heavily guarded safe.His mother is a martial artist who wields a razor-sharp katana—and seems to read his mind. And a mysterious girl in a Japanese...
  • The forever summer
    Author:
    Brenner, Jamie, 1971-
    Summary:

    When a tryst with a partner at her firm derails her legal career, Marin Bishop seeks solace in a road trip to Cape Cod with a young woman claiming to be her long-lost half-sister. Full of delicious descriptions of coastal New England...
  • The fledglings : a novel
    Author:
    Homel, David
    Summary:

    For Bluma Goldberg, the teenaged daughter of a Jewish bootlegger, Prohibition-era Chicago is the furthest place one can get from law and temperance. Her first steps into womanhood are made all the more uncertain by the dangers of her...
  • The first principles of dreaming
    Author:
    Goobie, Beth
    Summary:

    It's 1977, and Mary-Eve Hamilton (Mary for the Mother of God, Eve for the mother of mankind) is plodding through her final year at Eleusis High School. Mary-Eve's mother, famed prophetess at the Waiting for the Rapture End Times...
  • The fallen gatekeepers : book two in the gatekeeper's son series
    Author:
    Fladmark, C.R.
    Summary:

    Alternate worlds. Venomous lizard-men. Japanese schoolgirl-warriors. Family expectations. Being a teenager with a destiny is hard work.It’s been months since sixteen-year-old Junya survived his savage battle with the Evil Ones, but now...
  • The deception of Livvy Higgs
    Author:
    Morrissey, Donna
    Summary:

    For two traumatic days, Livvy Higgs is besieged by a series of small heart attacks while the ghost of her younger self leads her back through a past devastated by lies and secrets. Tending to Livvy during her illness is her young next-...
  • The conjoined
    Author:
    Lee, Jen Sookfong
    Summary:

    Longlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award

    A masterful and gripping novel from “an undeniably talented writer” (Globe and Mail)

    On a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica...
  • The color of our sky : a novel
    Author:
    Trasi, Amita
    Summary:

    Mukta is a ten-year-old lower-caste girl who is to become a temple prostitute. Attempting to escape her fate, she becomes a house servant for an upper-middle-class family in Mumbai. There she discovers a friend in the family's high...
  • The bride's house
    Author:
    Dallas, Sandra
    Summary:

    Dallas' novel traces the experiences of three generations of women who live in a Victorian Colorado house, from Nealie, a hired girl torn between two suitors; to motherless Pearl, whose grieving father sabotages her happiness; to...
  • The breath of dawn
    Author:
    Heitzmann, Kristen
    Summary:

    Morgan Spencer is shattered in the wake of his wife's death. After two years of mourning on his brother's ranch, Morgan meets Quinn Riley, and hope blossoms that he could love again. But Quinn is fleeing a dangerous man bent...
  • The boat house
    Author:
    Oldfield, Pamela
    Summary:

    A gripping murder mystery set in Henley-on-Thames - 1912, Henley-on-Thames. Twenty-four-year old Marianne Lefevre is pleased to be taken on as a governess in the affluent Matlowe household. The young twins Emmie and Edie are bright and...
  • The Blacks of Cape Town A Novel
    Author:
    Davids, C. A.
    Summary:

    Historian, Zara Black, is far from home, trying to come to terms with her family's past. The unearthing begins with her grandfather who concealed his race to escape the harsh realities of the diamond mines before ultimately changing his...
  • The Authentics
    Author:
    Nazemian, Abdi
    Summary:

    Iranian-American Daria and her friends call themselves the Authentics, because they pride themselves on always keeping it real. But Daria soon learns something shocking about her past. Can she figure out how to stay true to herself?
  • The apothecary's daughter
    Author:
    Klassen, Julie
    Summary:

    Lillian longs to soar beyond her provincial limits. After enjoying London's sophisticated society and the attentions of wealthy suitors, Lilly returns home to help her ailing dad. Determined to resurrect his apothecary business,...
  • Tangled up in you
    Author:
    Gibson, Rachel
    Summary:

    Maddie Dupree's mother was once the other woman in a love triangle with Mick Hennessy's parents. It ended tragically. When Maddie returns to Truly, Wyoming, after a long absence, sparks fly between her and Mick. But can white-...
  • Sylvie and the Christmas ghost
    Author:
    Lee, Foxglove
    Summary:

    Every family has its ghosts... It's December 1994 and Sylvie's spending Christmas in a small Canadian town where her father is renovating the creepy old house he grew up in. The mansion is haunted, according to local lore. Townsfolk are...

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