Eighth-grader Molly's ability to throw a knuckleball earns her a spot on the baseball team, which not only helps her feel connected to her recently deceased father, who loved baseball, it helps in other aspects of her life, as well...
Mothers and daughters
- Author:Cochrane, MickSummary:
- Author:Bird, SarahSummary:
A single mom and her seventeen-year-old daughter learn how to let go in that precarious moment before college empties the nest.
- Author:Bridge, KristaSummary:
"A gripping debut teeming with drama and scathing insight into the world of an all-girl private high school. For years, Audrey Brindle has dreamed of attending George Eliot Academy, the school where her mother, Ruth, has taught for a...
- Author:LAURENCE, MargaretSummary:
In The Diviners, Morag Gunn, a middle aged writer who lives in a farmhouse on the Canadian prairie, struggles to understand the loneliness of her eighteen-year-old daughter. With unusual wit and depth, Morag recognizes that she needs...
- Author:Phillips, DeloresSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Tangy Mae tells of the brutal physical and mental abuse that her mother inflicts on her and her ten siblings.
- Author:Cabot, Meg.Summary:
With her upcoming nuptials to PI Cooper Cartwright only weeks away, Heather's already stressed. When a pretty junior turns up dead, and every student in the dorm where she works is a possible suspect, Heather thinks it can't...
- Author:Shields, CarolSummary:
Charleen is a divorcee in her mid-thirties, with a son whom she loves, a blossoming relationship with a man, and friends who care about her. Charleen wonders how her life turned out the way it did. Is she a failure?
- Author:Hamilton, JaneSummary:
As the incessant bickering between her troubled husband and her abusive mother reaches a violent climax, Ruth must find a way to survive.
- Author:Hannon, IreneSummary:
When two distant sisters are reunited in their hometown one summer, they are forced to come to grips with mistakes from their past and learn how to forgive, let go, move on--and love again.
- Author:McMurtry, LarrySummary:
Aurora Greenway is a widow, and likes being pursued by her suitors. She is about to become a grandmother and life seems to be speeding by.
- Author:Leavitt, SarahSummary:
"What do you do when your outspoken, passionate, and quick-witted mother starts fading into a forgetful, fearful woman? In this powerful graphic memoir, Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer's disease transformed her mother...
- Author:De Vries, Maggie, Kun, Janice, Gould, HeatherSummary:
This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Ally isn't able to live with her mother. Instead she lives far, far away, on the other side of the country, with her gram and great-aunt. But one summer Ally goes to stay with...
- Author:Haines, RayanneSummary:
Isabella Caro, born in Florence at the de-occupation of Italy in WW2 is a woman shaped by the resilience of her country and a thirst for knowledge. In this fictional Novel-in-Verse we take a journey through one woman's life, told...
- Author:Dugan, MelanieSummary:
When she is confined to a nursing home after a series of debilitating strokes, Ruth Tyler struggles to accept the loss of her independence. Suddenly, having endless hours to sit and think, she begins to face the issues in her life she...
- Author:Moore, Meg MitchellSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Natalie Gallagher is trying to escape: from her parents' ugly divorce and from the vicious cyber-bullying of her former best friend. Adrift, confused, she is a girl trying to find her way in a world that seems to...
- Author:Razzell, MarySummary:
While the rest of the world anticipates a victorious end to the Second World War, sixteen-year-old Sheila Brary finds life in a remote British Columbia outport suffocating and isolating. A household full of brothers, a philandering...
- Author:IHIMAERA, WitiSummary:
Stroppy teenager Skylark O'Shea is on holiday with her mother at a town on the coast. But all is not what it seems. What is the threat facing the town and the birds of the forest? Where do the two old charismatic Maori women Hoki...
- Author:Friddle, MindySummary:
When her husband dies on the eve of their impending European vacation, housewife Emma Hanley watches her dreams of world travel vanish even as she becomes more immersed in the lives of her two living children.
- Author:Lavery, JohnSummary:
No writer in Canada today is more in love with the English, and French, languages than John Lavery. That love is gloriously requited. In inventive, incantatory prose, Sandra Beck, his long-awaited first novel, paints a very unusual...
- Author:STEEL, DanielleSummary:
At eleven, Pip MacKenzie's life has already been touched by tragedy - a terrible accident that plunged her mother, Ophelie, into inconsolable grief. But on a foggy summer day, on a beach near San Francisco, Pip meets someone who...