Cecilia is obsessively in love with her teacher, Mr. Dahl. Yet she never guesses that what she dreams of could actually happen. Cecelia's mother Dora wants the good life. She and her husband moved to Dartmoor so their children...
Mothers and daughters
-
Author:Briscoe, JoannaSummary: -
Author:Flowers, CatherineSummary:When her daughter is convicted of negligent homicide and goes to prison, Mavis is forced to raise her granddaughter, who is the result of her husband's betrayal.
- Author:Griggs, Vanessa DavisSummary:
Pastor George Landris and his one true love Johnnie Mae have faced many obstacles on their journey to the altar, and now they are finally about to be married. But when Landris is planning the wedding, his fiancée gets wrapped up in the...
- Author:Little, BenildeSummary:
Twenty-six-year-old Aisha Branch has always gotten what she wants. Now she's getting an incredibly wealthy, white husband--unless self-made black man Miles changes enjoying a richly deserved sexual re-awakening. And her grandmother...
- Author:Hoffman, AliceSummary:
When Teresa was a little girl, she dreamed of dark-eyed, fearless heroes on white horses who would sweep her away. But now, as the grown-up Teresa negotiates life and love, she begins to understand that fairy tales don't always come...
-
Author:Reichert, Amy.Summary:While Rose's mother has a "quick chat" on the telephone, Rose is supposed to get ready for bed but finds she is hosting a party instead.
-
Author:Semple, MariaSummary:Bernadette is a frightfully intelligent wife and mother whose intense allergy to Seattle specifically, and to people in general, has driven her to hire a virtual assistant in India to execute even her most basic tasks. Then her daughter...
- Author:Oke, JanetteSummary:
Beth Thatcher returns home from her first year as a schoolteacher in the mining town of Coal Valley and steps into a whole different world. Her life back among her wealthy Eastern family is a stark contrast to her primitive life in the...
- Author:Forster, GwynneSummary:
Career jounalist Marge Hairston and her three loving children, Drogan, Cassie, and Sharon, are about as close as a family can be. After her husband died, Marge was left to raise the children on her own. She persevered, while at the same...
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
When Jana McGuire returns from a mission trip to Africa only to find her pastor husband has taken all their money and left with his secretary, she is devastated. Left with no worldly possessions, Jana is forced to seek help from her...
-
Author:Bowen, GailSummary:When a judge's body is found in Wascana Park, Joanne and friend Hilda Mc Court must determine if the judge had come to regret the harsh sentences she had handed down, or was she getting senile? She had left two wills and the murder...
- Author:Gaffney, PatriciaSummary:
Après Les quatre Grâces, Patricia Gaffney offre cette merveilleuse histoire de solidarité entre mères et filles, et un portrait attendrissant de l’amour immense qui les unit. Veuve depuis peu, Carrie est plongée dans une grave...
- Author:Arbour, Marie-ChristineSummary:
À travers l’amour, l’admiration et le rejet, ce roman décrit la fascination qu’exerce une mère sur sa fille. Prise en otage par elle, celle-ci se mesure à ses propres peurs face au sexe et aux hommes. Déçue et trompée, mais toujurs en...
-
Author:Sutherland, SuzanneSummary:2016 Junior Library Guild Selection 2016 VOYA Top Shelf Fiction Selection CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2016) — Commended She’s with the band, whether she likes it or not. Victoria Mahler is the sixteen-year-old only...
- Author:Ferrante, ElenaSummary:
Following her mother's mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her native Naples searching for the truth about her family. A series of mysterious telephone calls leads her to compelling and...
- Author:Kidd, Sue MonkSummary:
The authors describe their introspective journeys to Greece and France, during which they reconnected while Sue grappled with midlife challenges and writer's block and Ann struggled with heartbreak and post-college career questions...
- Author:Oke, JanetteSummary:
When Sarah Perry loses her husband, she resolves that the best thing she can do for her young daughter Rebecca is send her off to a "proper" boarding school. And, years later, when Rebecca returns home, the distance between...
- Author:Pupek, JayneSummary:
Eleven-year-old Ellie Sanders is forced to grow up quickly when her pregnant mother develops health problems and her father's attentions become diverted by a teenage produce peddler. To escape, Ellie creates a secret world of her...
- Author:Compton, ValerieSummary:
Shortlisted, Thomas Head Raddall Award. When Stella disappears, leaving her toddler and husband behind, her mother Sonia, a widowed farm wife and former lighthouse keeper, struggles to face the possibility that her daughter may not have...
-
Author:Bissoondath, NeilSummary:This beautiful novel from the acclaimed, award-winning author of A Casual Brutality and The Innocence of Age, joins politics and love in a powerful story set in both the Caribbean and Canada. Neil Bissoondath draws us...
Pages
