1984 : les émeutes du pain — 2010 : la Révolution du jasmin. Deux périodes tumultueuses vécues à près de trente ans de distance par une mère et sa fille. Nadia quitte sa Tunisie natale pendant les émeutes qui secouent le pays en 1984....
Mothers and daughters
- Author:Mazigh, MoniaSummary:
- Author:Gabaldon, DianaSummary:
In eighteenth-century Scotland, Claire Randall and her raven-haired daughter, Brianna, return to the majestic hills where Claire recalls the love of her life--gallant warrior James Fraser.
- Author:Carey, Janet Lee.Summary:
In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was...
- Author:Greenwood, KerrySummary:
If there’s one thing that Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and proprietor of the Earthly Delights Bakery, can’t abide, it’s people not eating well—particularly when there are delights like her very own, just-baked, freshly buttered...
- Author:Hahn, Mary DowningSummary:
Just before summer begins, thirteen-year-old Ali finds an old photograph. She recognizes the two children in it; one's her mother, the other her aunt Dulcie--but who is the third person, the one who's been torn out of the picture? Ali...
- Author:Singleton, Linda JoySummary:
Oh, wow—I'm my own best friend. Or at least, I'm in her body! Okay, this assignment will be quick and easy. Thanks, Grammy! See, my dead grandmother keeps finding people who have big problems and then I have the freaky experience of...
- Author:Buchan, ElizabethSummary:
Lara is mother to Maudie and stepmother to Jasmine and Eve. She has enough to worry about with Eve's upcoming wedding without an ex-husband embarking on a new marriage and the surprising, late-blooming developments in her own love...
- Author:Belzile, CarmenSummary:
Anne Savoie a toujours eu honte de ses origines modestes. Avec David, son grand amour, elle réalise son rêve: travailler dans l’entreprise de sa belle-famille, gravir les échelons de la société, goûter enfin au luxe et au succès. Puis,...
- Author:Fuller, AlexandraSummary:
This engaging follow-up explores Fuller's parents' childhoods and charts the trajectories of their lives through all the British couple's experiences in war-torn Africa. With the same sharply etched narrative that has...
- Author:Orenstein, PeggySummary:
The author explores her own conflicting feelings as a mother as she protects her offspring and probes the roots and tendrils of the girlie-girl movement and concludes that parents who think through their values early on and set...
- Author:Singh, NaliniSummary:
Nalini Singh presents the first novel in the Hard Play series. Contains mature themes. Sailor Bishop has only one goal for his future – to create a successful landscaping business. No distractions allowed. Then he comes face-to-face and...
- Author:Grigorescu, AlexandraSummary:
An eerie and romantic Southern gothic drama. Gripping, fast-paced, gorgeously written, and with unforgettable characters, Cauchemar tells the story of 20-year-old Hannah, who finds herself living alone on the edge of a...
- Author:Stein, TrissSummary:
In Brooklyn Bones, a crime of the past comes much too close to home when Erica Donato’s teenage daughter Chris finds a skeleton behind a wall in their crumbling Park Slope home. Erica—a young widow, over-age history Ph.D candidate,...
- Author:Forster, GwynneSummary:
Kendra's mom Ginny has let her down her whole life. Yet even now, at 33 years old, Kendra can't say no when her mother asks for help. So, determined to finally distance herself from Ginny's lies, Kendra starts seeing...
- Author:Graziani, E.Summary:
Faith Emily Hansen just wants to be loved and to live without the weight of addiction. But the relief that she gets from being wrapped up in the cozy little cotton ball of heroin is impossible to ignore. Faith’s story starts in her...
- Author:Cross, KatieSummary:
Lexie Greene has always had such a pretty face.Unfortunately, that’s where it seemed to stop. She’s grown up hearing her Mother constantly remind her that she needs to lose weight. And twenty-two-year-old Lexie knows she’s overweight....
- Author:Venema, KathleenSummary:
Bird-Bent Grass chronicles an extraordinary mother–daughter relationship that spans distance, time, and, eventually, debilitating illness. Personal, familial, and political narratives unfold through the letters that Geeske Venema-de...
- Author:Slade, ArthurSummary:
"In the second novel of this series for teen readers, a vampire librarian learns a secret organization is behind her mother's disappearance."--
- Author:Tan, AmySummary:
Au début du XXe siècle à Shanghai, la petite Violet, une enfant au caractère bien affirmé, grandit dans la maison de courtisanes la plus distinguée de Shanghai, un lieu de rencontres tenu par sa mère. Lorsque la situation politique du...
- Author:Divakaruni, Chitra BanerjeeSummary:
The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her...