n his sixth form year, Matthew 'Spider' Trent must make decisions regarding his future with little guidance from his family, but the opportunity to enter a piano competition gives him a focus and provides the direction he...
Mothers and sons
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Author:TAYLOR, WilliamSummary: - Author:Apostolides, MarianneSummary:
Because fear can transform into confidence, recklessness, the kind of power you can't imagine until you're inside it. And then, once you've felt it, you can't feel alive when it's gone. Sophrosyne. You understood this feeling. I know...
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Author:Jenkins, Glenna LandriganSummary:In Somewhere I Belong, we meet young P.J. Kavanaugh at North Boston Station. His father has died, the Depression is on, and his mother is moving them back home. They settle in, and P.J. makes new friends. But the P.E.I. winter is harsh...
- Author:Gaston, BillSummary:
Sans donner d’explications, Evelyn quitte précipitamment son mari et sa riche résidence en banlieue de Toronto pour se rendre sur la côte ouest au chevet de Claude, son ex-amant québécois qu’elle n’a plus revu depuis des années. Claude...
- Author:Beverley, Jo.Summary:
A year ago in 1815, Laura Gardeyne lost her dashing husband, Hal, in a riding accident. Now she must raise her young son at the Gardeyne estate, since he is heir to its fortune. But after Hal's brother fathers a male child, Laura...
- 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:Sherrod, Leslie J.Summary:
In her most chilling challenge yet, Sienna St. James believes she has come face to face with the terrorist responsible for the carnage in her hometown. Taking him on as a client in her therapy practice may be the only way to prove to...
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Author:Todd, JackSummary:Set in mythical Belle Coeur County in a time not too far from our own, Rose & Poe gloriously re-imagines Shakespeare's The Tempest from the point of view of Caliban and his mother. Rose and her giant, simple son,...
- Author:Picoult, JodiSummary:
District Attorney Nina Frost and her husband, Caleb, face a nightmare when they discover that their young son Nathaniel has been molested, a trauma that has left him mute, terrified, and unable to reveal the identity of his attacker....
- Author:Crichton, HollySummary:
On September 3, 2010, the RCMP in Grande Prairie, Alberta, received a 911 call from Mat Crichton about a shooting on a local farm. Seconds later, miles from home, Holly Crichton got a shocking call from her son. "I just shot Dad,...
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Author:Carpenter, DavidSummary:Three men conceive an immoderate heat for Glory, a single parent and waitress at Pie City. She, on the other hand, has pretty much had it with men. Glory and her young son Bobby are just trying to get through the winter in Saskatoon....
- Author:Hof, Marjolijn, Prins, Johanna H., Prins, Johanna W.Summary:
A Society of School Librarians International (SSLI) Honor Book. Fay was adopted when he was a baby. He knows only that his birth mother escaped the war in Bosnia and that he arrived in his new home with nothing more than a squeaky toy...
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Author:Frey, CeceliaSummary:Manfred Weiszl who lies dying of cancer in an upper room of a grand old Toronto house. The action of the novel is precipitated when Manfred wishes to see Rupert his son before he dies and Rupert refuses to cooperate. However, ...
- Author:Beckett, SamuelSummary:
Molloy is less a novel than a set of two monologues narrated by Molloy and his pursuer Moran. In the first section, while consumed with the search of his mother, Molloy lost everything. Moran takes over in the second half, describing...
- Author:Goudreault, David, Sutcliffe, JCSummary:
My mother was always committing suicide. She started out young, in an amateur capacity. But it didn't take long for Mama to work out how to make psychiatrists take notice, and to get the respect reserved for the most serious cases....
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Author:Morris, WinifredSummary:Fourteen-year-old Alex struggles to rise above the life events which seem to conspire against him, from a mother who lies, to a probation officer who won't give him a break, to bullies at his new school.
- Author:Robertson, CarmenSummary:
Albertine, sa fille Nicole et sa petite fille Laura, ont en commun une vie amoureuse remplie de soubresauts. Carmen Robertson, dont la plume est bouleversante et efficace, nous plonge habilement au cœur des épreuves et des joies de ces...
- Author:Dumitrescu, AlinaSummary:
Dans son village de la République socialiste de Roumanie, une petite fille recueille soigneusement les cadavres d’insectes. Les ruches qui cernent la maison rebutent les agents de la police secrète, qui espacent leurs visites. Ici, la...
- Author:Ferguson, Trevor, Raoult, Marie-MadeleineSummary:
Chassés de l’asile de Lougain, Sparrow Drinkwater et son excentrique mère entreprennent un périlleux voyage vers la Nouvelle-Orléans où ils découvrent qu’une force obscure dirige et manipule leur vie. Sparrow se retrouve bientôt seul à...
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Author:Christie, MichaelSummary:Will's mother is a fiercely loving yet wildly eccentric agoraphobe who drowns in panic at the thought of opening the front door. Their world is rich and loving, full of art, experiments, and music-- but confined to their small house....
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