"The Jewish mother feels her job isn't done even after death. You're never too dead to be a Jewish mother." –Mallory Lewis, daughter of Shari Lewis * What do Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Jon Stewart, Bette Midler,...
Mothers
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Author:Winston-Macauley, MarnieSummary: -
Author:Korzan, Mary Rita SchilkeSummary:"When I wrote a tribute for my mother years ago, I never anticipated it would take a worldwide journey. Nonetheless, that is exactly what happened. The story I am about to share with you may read like fiction. I can assure you, there is...
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Author:Connor, LeslieSummary:Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts...
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Author:Guevara, GlynisSummary:At ten, Melody Sparks, better known as Baby Girl, is excited to move to the tropical island of Trinidad with her single-parent dad, but she silently longs for her mother, a woman she can’t recall ever meeting and doesn’t have a photo of...
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Author:Ghaffari, RabeahSummary:In 1979, just before the Iranian Revolution, Bibi, wife of a retired judge, struggles to keep her family and entire househld together amidst their differing hopes for a new Iran.
- Author:Livingston, BeckySummary:
In 2010 a brain tumour took the life of Becky Livingston's daughter, Rachel. Twenty-three years old and an avid traveller, it was her dying wish to keep traveling. Eighteen months later, still reeling from her loss, Livingston sets...
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Author:White, SusanSummary:"It is the late 1960s, and the world of twelve-year-old Ruth Iverson pretty much revolves around her friends, a boy she likes, The Monkees and spending time with her dad, doing special stuff like watching the Toronto Maple Leafs win the...
- Author:Jensen, LizSummary:
After recuperating from a horrendous car accident, Gabrielle Fox longs to rebuild her life and begins a new job at a psychiatric hospital for violent children. But when she meets a patient named Bethany, Gabrielle is intrigued by her...
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Author:Bowen, GailSummary:A young woman hands her baby to a perfect stranger - the daughter of Delia Wainberg, a lawyer in the same firm as Joanne Kilbourn's husband - and disappears. One close look at the child suggests a family relationship, and soon the...
- Author:Clare, KerrySummary:
A CNQ Editors' Book of the Year. A Dropped Threads-style anthology, assembling original and inspiring works by some of Canada's best younger female writers — such as Heather Birrell, Saleema Nawaz, Susan Olding, Diana Fitzgerald Bryden...
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Author:Lisle, Janet TaylorSummary:Motherless Olivia and Nellie go to live with their elderly Great-Aunt Minty, who knows little about children, but a lot about her overgrown garden. Then one day, Olivia finds an old teacup in a flowerbed, and later, an old story about...
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Author:Court, DillySummary:" In the quiet of a warm summer's evening, two young mothers are forced to give up their babies. Whilst Kate grows up knowing only poverty and servitude, Josie's world is one of privilege and luxury. Despite the...
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Author:Hughes, SusanSummary:Moving with her father to a remote island off the coast of nineteenth-century Nova Scotia after the death of her mother, Ellie struggles with grief and loneliness in spite of a new friendship until she bonds with a wild stallion whose...
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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:Hays, SharonSummary: -
Author:Springer, NancySummary:Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.
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Author:Connolly, JohnSummary:Mourning the loss of his mother, David finds comfort in the books she left behind. But soon the make-believe world of the books melds with David's reality, and the figments of his imagination become startlingly real. Suddenly, he...
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Author:Bergen, DavidSummary:"Born in 1930 in a small town outside Winnipeg, beautiful Hope Koop appears destined to have a conventional life. Church, marriage to a steady young man, children - her fortunes are already laid out for her, as are the shiny modern...
- Author:Hansen, EmmaSummary:
"A moving, candid account of one woman's experience with stillbirth. Emma Hansen is 39 weeks and six days pregnant when she feels her baby go quiet inside of her. At the hospital, her worst fears are confirmed: doctors explain...
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Author:Metcalfe, GaydenSummary:Discusses the joys and trials of being the daughter of a demanding mother whose goal is to raise children with good manners and proper religion.
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