Given hours to report to an internment camp when Nazis occupy France, a Jewish-Russian émigré places her young daughter in the care of a trusted governess before an unexpected opportunity to escape to America leads to a heartbreaking...
Mothers and daughters
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Author:Landau, AlexisSummary: -
Author:Sugiura, MisaSummary:Seventeen-year-old CJ doesn't buy into her aunt Hannah's romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be...
- Author:Abdou, AngieSummary:
From the author of Canada Reads finalist The Bone Cage . Includes research on the shy child, parent-child bonding, social media issues, and the benefits of outdoor activity and nature immersion. Disillusioned with overly competitive...
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Author:Bar-el, DanSummary:Princess Jill excels at jousting, fencing, skating and long-distance spitting. Her brother, King Jack, loves baking and spending time with Little Bo Peep and her sheep. So what's a princess to do when she receives a mysterious letter...
- Author:Henderson, AlexisSummary:
A young woman living in a rigid, repressive society discovers dark powers within herself, with terrifying and far-reaching consequences, in this stunning, feminist fantasy debut. In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet's word is law,...
- Author:Enright, AnneSummary:
An incandescent novel from one of our greatest living novelists (The Times) about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women. Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil...
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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...
- Author:Hepditch, EmilySummary:
On the coast of rural Newfoundland, Hannah Fitzgerald's mother has lived her life in near total isolation. When Hannah returns to the lonely saltbox house to prepare her mother for the transition into assisted living, her childhood home...
- Author:McMahon, JenniferSummary:
The New York Times bestselling author of Promise Not to Tell returns with a simmering literary thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters . . . sometimes too unbreakable. West...
- Author:Gale, PatrickSummary:
In her forties, independent Parisian Laura Lewis relocates to Winchester to care for her ailing mother. There she encounters Ben, a former--now married--lover whose home life is far from what he thought it would be.
- Author:Johnson, JaneSummary:
Mother and daughter Magdalena and Mila acquire a house in the White Valley of Cornwall in the summer of 1954. Magda has grand plans to restore the house to its former glory as a venue for glittering parties. Her grown daughter, Mila,...
- Author:Hardy, ThomasSummary:
Jocelyn Pierston, a sculptor is detemined to find his ideal in womanhood. Just as it seems that he has found his heart's desire, disillusionment sets in and his burning love turns to ashes. Returning to Portland, he meets the young...
- Author:Brenner, JamieSummary:
Meryl Becker is living a mother's dream. Meg, the oldest of her three beautiful daughters, is engaged to a wonderful man from one of the country's most prominent families. Of course, Meryl wants to give Meg the perfect wedding...
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Author:Paratore, ColeenSummary:Willa, a romantic girl who wants a father, tries to find a husband for her mother, Cape Cod's most popular wedding planner.
- Author:Mackintosh, SophieSummary:
Once upon a time, damaged women came here to be cured. We took them in, fed them glasses of our clean, good water, let them scream at the waves till their lips split like ripe fruit. Now no one is left but my sisters and me. King died a...
- Author:Julavits, HeidiSummary:
A power struggle between a leading student at an elite institute for psychics and her jealous legendary mentor culminates in the student being forced to relive her mother's suicide during a brutal psychic attack.
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Author:Monroe, MarySummary:Mama Ruby stole her best friend's baby girl, ran off to Florida, and raised her as her own. Maureen is the center of Mama Ruby's world, and she will do anything to protect her and their life together. Now Maureen wants to know what the...
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Author:Egan, CatherineSummary:Eliza, is growing in her magical powers, but can she learn quickly enough to stop the horrid Kwellrahg from killing her mother?
Eliza, now fourteen, has been studying magic and gaining a reputation for her power. She has much yet...
- Author:French, NicciSummary:
"Nicci French is a specialist in the kind of evil that burrows from within." -New York Times Book Review. In this new heart-pounding standalone from the internationally bestselling author that People calls "razor sharp,...
- Author:Grayson, PattiSummary:
"Blisse has guarded the family secret for her entire childhood. No one can know the origin of her unconventional birthday gifts. Her mother, Ina, has insisted that Blisse never tell a soul – believing it’s the only way to keep her...
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