Ten-year-old Jim and his parents are on a journey from New York City to a lake in eastern Ontario during the last hot days of August. What unfolds is a completely enveloping story that spans a few pivotal years of his youth. Moving from...
Mothers and sons
- Author:Hay, ElizabethSummary:
- Author:Leyner, MarkSummary:
In this utterly unconventional, autobiographical novel, Mark Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a mall. Besides Mark's mother, who's driven him to the mall and introduces him before he begins, and a few employees of fast food...
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Frances Price--tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature--is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son, Malcolm, is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development....
- Author:ALBOM, MitchSummary:
In an inspirational debut novel by the author of Tuesdays with Morrie, Charles "Chick" Benetto, grieving over the death of his mother, uses alcohol as a crutch to deal with his loneliness, isolation, and depression and the...
- Author:LAWRENCE, D. H.Summary:
E il racconto della vita di un giovane che diventa adulto in una piccola, ristretta communita mineraria inglese. Con uno sguardo attento ai particolari e alla psicologia dei personaggi, Lawrence analizza il rapporto di Paul Maorel con...
- Author:Thomas, H. NigelSummary:
In Fate's Instruments, picking up the story from where Paul's brother Jay left it in No Safeguards, Paul, an aspiring writer, marries Carlos, with whom he lived in Guatemala, and brings him to Montreal. Things go wrong from...
- Author:Clarke, BrockSummary:
Clarke introduces nine-year-old Miller, who becomes convinced that his father--who left without explanation--must have run away to join the military, and is now lying comatose in a VA hospital. Thinking a visit from his father's...
- Author:Clark, Heather A.Summary:
A testament to the healing power of unconditional love.
Widely acclaimed for her emotionally powerful stories that capture the real lives of women, Heather A. Clark, bestselling author of Chai Tea Sunday, tackles the...
- Author:Marquis, SergeSummary:
«Maman, c’est quoi l’ego? Ce genre de question me mettait hors de moi à l’époque où l’ambition me tenait lieu de cœur. Mais un jour, il y a eu ce séisme dans mon crâne. Après, je n’ai plus jamais été la même.» Passionnée par le cancer...
- Author:G'Orge-Walker, Pat.Summary:
Delilah is in for a few surprises when she decides to come to the rescue of her long-estranged son Jesse--whose wife just died--and her granddaughter Tamara.
- Author:Marti LeimbachSummary:
- Author:Sanschagrin, Joceline, Brignaud, PierreSummary:
Caillou voudrait être l’amoureux de maman. Par l’entremise d’une histoire, papa lui explique que c’est impossible.
- Author:Quindlen, AnnaSummary:
After she runs away from her abusive husband, Fran Benedetto lives in fear of discovery, yet also with increasing confidence, freedom, and hope, as she struggles to create a new life for herself and her son.
- Author:Trafford, TylerSummary:
Winner, W.O. Mitchell Award, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction, and Alberta Reader’s Choice Award. Following his mother’s death in 2004, Tyler Trafford discovers an album of old letters and creased photographs that reveal a mother...
- Author:Johnson, CraigSummary:
When a lost Mormon boy wanders into Absaroka County, Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire teams up with feisty deputy Victoria Moretti and longtime friend Henry Standing Bear on a high plains scavenger hunt that leads them to a violent...
- Author:Swanson, Ruby RemendaSummary:
Ruby Swanson's memoir about her son coming out as gay at the age of sixteen, how she responded, how she learned to accept and celebrate her son's sexuality, and how she became a public advocate for equality and acceptance of...
- Author:Toole, John KennedySummary:
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