Mahmood and his wife, Fereiba, live a happy middle-class life until their country is engulfed in war and the Taliban rise to power. Mahmood becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is murdered. Forced to flee Kabul with her...
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Author:Alfano, MichelleSummary:No parent is prepared for the moment when her daughter comes out to her--not as a lesbian, but as a person whose physical gender is out-of-keeping with his emotional and psychological gender-identity. In Michelle Alfano's intimate...
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Author:King, StephenSummary:On a brisk autumn day, a 13-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: His father is gone, his mother is...
- Author:Nudelman, MerleSummary:
The poems in this book trace the emotional and spiritual journey of a woman whose beloved son dies after an arduous battle with cancer. Nudelman explores the nexus between art, healing, and truth. As the woman gradually climbs out of...
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Author:Bellows, Melina GerosaSummary:There are 80.5 million women of all ages answering to the moniker "Mom," according to the U.S. Census Bureau. After writing The Fun Book for Couples, which incidentally was the bestselling Valentine's Day book for two of the nation's...
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Author:Andersen, Marguerite, Winkler, DonaldSummary:The Trillium Award-winning autobiographical novel "La mauvaise mere" by Marguerite Andersen is now in English. Prolific author Marguerite Andersen traces the important moments of her life in this honest and harrowing examination of...
- Author:Schellenberg, AngelineSummary:
Winner of the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry, the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for best first book and the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer. Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for Poetry.
Linked poems that uncover the...
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Author:Kalluk, CelinaSummary:In this bedtime poem, written by Inuit throat singer Celina Kalluk, an Inuit mother sings to her Kulu--or baby--about animals and other elements in their Arctic world and the gifts they bring to the child, from the summer sun's warm...
- Author:Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It's where he was born, where he and his Ma eat and play and learn. But to Ma, it's the prison where she's been held for seven years. Jack's curiosity is building-and...
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Author:Soderstrom, MarySummary:Gloria Murray's daughter jokes that Gloria would have sold her first born to further her musical career - a reproach closer to the truth than anyone but Gloria suspects. Gloria, born just before the Great Depression, knows from the...
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Author:LEE, TanithSummary:Trapped in the dreary Angels Academy for Young Maidens by her tyrant father, sixteen-year-old Artemesia Blastside plans her escape. She intends to return to the seafaring life she once led with her mother, a notorious pirate, killed six...
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Author:Hamilton, CathySummary:'Is that what you're going to wear?' Used indiscriminately for sons, daughters, and husbands, this one is a not-so-subtle attempt to make family members rethink their wardrobe choice. Deciphering the clandestine conspiratorial language...
- Author:Rivest, ClaudetteSummary:
Tous les parents font de leur mieux pour donner les soins essentiels à leurs enfants. Mais cela suffit-il pour permettre à l’enfant de s’épanouir et d’être heureux? Dans ce livre, j’ai mis beaucoup d’attention à répondre aux questions...
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Author:Dewdney, AnnaSummary:At bedtime, a little llama worries after his mother puts him to bed and goes downstairs.
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Author:Averbeck, Jim.Summary:Alice wants everything in her bedroom to be blue before she falls asleep.
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Venetia suddenly finds herself a single mother of three and must bring every ounce of wit and resource into play as she strives to hold together her newly lopsided family. Through her diary we read about pink shoes, fake fur, piglets,...
- Author:Elmquist, Laurie, Robinson, Shantala, Gould, HeatherSummary:
This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. From a carrier, a baby peers out at the trail. Leaves rustle overhead, and a turtle stretches toward the sun. Everything shimmers with light, including the jeweled wings of a...
- Author:Scott, GenevieveSummary:
An Atlantic Books Today Editor's Pick. Lorna always wanted to stand out, but her career as a competitive swimmer was cut short by a knee injury. Cara, her daughter, tries hard to blend in, but when she has to fill in for her...
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