"In this travelogue of self-discovery, Jane Christmas brings her wickedly irreverent style to a new mother-daughter experience. Since the beginning of time, mothers and daughters have had notoriously fraught relationships. "...
Mothers and daughters
- Author:Christmas, JaneSummary:
- Author:BROOKNER, AnitaSummary:
Eighteen year old Maud is invited to spend the summer in her aunt's large country house where she meets two men, one beautiful and ruthless, the other a quiet dreamer, both of whom will profoundly affect her life.
- Author:Forster, GwynneSummary:
Coreen Treadwell heads a prominent social welfare agency, but she is haunted by her past. Raped and impregnated as a teenager, she gave up her baby, Frieda, without ever seeing her. The legacy of violence continues in her daughter'...
- Author:Schraff, Anne E.Summary:
Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-esteem to name a few. More than...
- Author:Armstrong, LuanneSummary:
In I’ll Be Home Soon, Luanne Armstrong takes the reader on a tension-filled ride as Regan, a young girl living in the inner city, searches for her mother who has mysteriously disappeared. Homeless but by no means hapless, Regan is on...
- Author:Bluman, Barbara RuthSummary:
This Holocaust memoir crosses generations. In I Have My Mother’s Eyes, Barbara Ruth Bluman chronicles her mother’s dramatic journey from Nazi-occupied Poland to western British Columbia, where her legacy lives on. Bluman sets an urgent...
- Author:Simmons, D. BryantSummary:
THE MORROW FAMILY SAGA BEGINS...At just seventeen years old, Belinda finds herself orphaned and alone. When the handsome, self-assured Ricky Morrow proposes marriage she agrees without a second thought. A decision she will soon come to...
- Author:Bouchet, AmandaSummary:
The destiny Catalia "Cat" Fisa has spent her entire life running from has finally caught up to her. But in order to truly accept her fate and become Queen of Thalyria, Cat and her dedicated husband Griffin Sinta will have to go to war...
- Author:Rosenfelt, DavidSummary:
"Jamie Wagner is a young lawyer who is happy to be flying under the radar at a large firm doing background research for the partners. It's not that he isn't smart. He is. It's just that hard work, the whole legal...
- Author:Binchy, MaeveSummary:
Clara Casey, separated mother of two, had been hoping for a more glamorous post than the shabby, run-down inner-city cardiac clinic. Ania had never intended to leave her beloved Poland, but after the love of her life abandons her, life...
- Author:Sheldon, MarySummary:
Unable to cope with the demands of her husband and mother-in-law, Maggie leaves them and Alexis, her 8-year-old daughter, behind to live a reclusive life in Paris. Told by her father that her mother never loved her, Alexis can never...
- Author:Still, JenniferSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2012 Aqua Lansdowne Prize for Poetry
Winner of the 2012 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba WriterA linguistically inventive exaltation, a wild ride down into the privacies, the here-and-...
- Author:Baggio, AllisonSummary:
Eleven-year-old Maya Devine has grown up with a warped view of reality. For one, she sees colour around people’s bodies and can sometimes hear what’s going on inside their heads. These insights make everyone a bit more interesting, but...
- Author:Due, TananariveSummary:
Two generations of Civil Rights activists tell their stories in alternating chapters, spanning the 60s and 70s. During the course of their seperate and remarkable journeys, the two women find themselves incarcerated and on the front...
- Author:Shapiro, Linda ApplemanSummary:
Psychotherapist Linda Appleman Shapiro tells her story as an immigrant daughter who grew up on the top floor of a small home in 1940s Brooklyn and struggled to understand her mentally ill mother.
- Author:Lang, SarahSummary:
Arranged as a mother’s survival guide to her daughter, For Tamara is a touching and inventive long poem about surviving and thriving from the author of The Work of Days.It seems simple: a long letter, from a mother to a daughter,...
- Author:Citra, BeckySummary:
Growing up in the ?50s with a single mother and no father, Hope is a loner with a wonderful imagination. The letters she writes to her imaginary friend, Grace, help her cope with the difficult times in her life - her mother's sad days,...
- Author:Rudin, PhyllisSummary:
Evie Troy, an impulsive and funny young Jewish woman, has a tendency to overcomplicate things. And that can get her into trouble. When her dying friend Jean-Gabriel, a successful and controversial francophone writer, cons her into...
- Author:Lemaire, HuguetteSummary:
C’est avec enthousiasme que Huguette Lemaire nous livre son premier livre, Enveloppez-moi de vos ailes… Elle s’est laissée tenter par la merveilleuse aventure qu’est l’écriture pour nous transporter dans l’univers d’une femme qui doit...
- Author:Hearon, ShelbySummary:
Terrell has asked her sister Ella to conceal Terrell's adulterous affair from the family. When Terrell dies in a plane crash just hours later en route to meet her lover, the lie takes on a life of its own, and Ella eventually finds...