Three weeks after Mary Lou's husband dies, her 14-year-old daughter runs away. Nearly paralyzed with grief, Mary Lou stays grounded through her job at the Dairy Queen. Then one day, she signs up for a single-parenting class. Armed with...
Mothers and daughters
- Author:Wood, Jane RobertsSummary:
- Author:Rose, Connie BarnesSummary:
Over the years Trish and Ray have forged a stable family life, despite a rocky beginning almost twenty years earlier — living with their friends on a communal farm that ended badly. Now they are all coming to terms with life in their...
- Author:Joseph, DanielleSummary:
I, Cassia Bernard, do solemnly swear to find pure red—my passion—this summer. Dad's passion is art. When he's painting, no one can reach him, not even me. My mom's passion was the ocean. She said the ocean allows you to see whatever you...
- Author:Bentley, TyroneSummary:
With a drug addict mother and a drug lord father, Aphtan learns how to fend for herself at an early age. Being the princess of an empire has its perks-until her father gets arrested. From stealing clothes and food to committing fraud,...
- Author:Linden, DianneSummary:
13-year-old Nell Mackelwain has to share her mother, a Canadian peacekeeper, with the world, when she just wants her home in Edmonton, helping her deal with the bullies at school.
Nell's trying to be understanding about her...
- Author:Ostermiller, DoriSummary:
New England landscape painter-turned-teacher Sylvia Sandon becomes fascinated by the father of one of her students. But she's torn between her desire for this man and her desire to keep her family together.
- Author:Ellis, SarahSummary:
Winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award and the Violet Downey Book Award When Megan finds out why her mother is acting so odd, she is shocked and overwhelmed. Suddenly she is expected to welcome a new half-sister as part of the family....
- Author:Krakauer, RenateSummary:
Only by Blood is a novel of search for roots, mother-daughter love and family reconciliation. A Polish woman receives puzzling news from her mother just before she dies. She wants to fulfill her mother's last wishes, but has...
- Author:Bowen, GailSummary:
""Charlie D is back doing his late-night radio call-in show. It's Halloween—The Day of the Dead. Not a day filled with good memories for Charlie, but the show must go on. His studio guest this evening is Dr. Robin Harris...
- Author:Stewart, LorindaSummary:
On August 23, 2008, Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped outside Mogadishu in Somalia. The kidnappers’ demand was simple: pay millions or Amanda would be killed. For the next 460 days, Amanda’s mother, Lorinda Stewart, did everything in her...
- Author:Gaskell, ElizabethSummary:
As brilliant for its compassion as its art, Gaskell’s socially conscious masterpiece shows the early effects of the Industrial Revolution on both workers and employers through the intelligent eyes of Margaret Hale, whose advocacy for...
- Author:Oksanen, Sofi, Witesman, OwenSummary:
From the international bestselling author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared comes a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother’...
- Author:Cassidy, SaraSummary:
"In this magical middle-grade novel, Odette unlocks a mysterious spell."--
- Author:Gutcheon, Beth RichardsonSummary:
This haunting story bridges two centuries, two mother-daughter relationships, and two tragic love stories in a small town called Dundee on the coast of Maine.
- Author:Robinson, J. JillSummary:
Just as blue eyes or a birthmark may be passed down through the generations, so too are other, far less welcome traits, not all of them physical, but emotional. More in Anger is the poignant story of three generations of women and the...
- Author:Brooks, MarthaSummary:
In 1981, sixteen-year-old Sally McLean is in a car full of teenagers when it plunges through the ice to the bottom of Mistik Lake. Sally is the only survivor. Many years later, Sally's teenaged daughter, Odella, is left wondering...
- Author:Florence, MelanieSummary:
"A young mother, one of the many missing indigenous women, watches over her small daughter as she grows up without her nimama. Together, but separated, they experience important milestones: the first day of school, first dance,...
- Author:Fitzpatrick Dorion, Betty, Farrell Racette,SherrySummary:
The spirited heroine of Betty Dorion's juvenile novel certainly makes the best of things. She forms a close friendship with Rachel, a fellow Cree, and refuses to be bugged by Tanya, a classmate who seems determined to make her life...
- Author:Prosapio, DesireéSummary:
If you found a matchbook with a phone number, would you call? What would you do if a murderer answered? Award-winning writer Desireé Prosapio's suspense novel Matchbook follows the harrowing quest of a most unlikely heroine. Driven into...
- Author:COLLIER, CatrinSummary:
Destitute after the Second World War, Magda Janek settles in the Welsh town of Pontypridd, in the hope of building a new life for herself and her baby daughter, Helena. All Magda has to give Helena are the ambitions she had once...