Depuis ce matin, Momo de Sinro est enfin en vacances. Évidemment, Momo de Sinro n’est pas son véritable nom : Momo est le surnom de Maurice Monette, Sinro l’abréviation de Saint-Romain-des-Champs, le village où il habite. Mais puisque...
Mothers
- Author:Barcelo, FrançoisSummary:
- Author:Abbott, JeffSummary:
Abbott's go-for-broke style is on full display in Panic, the tale of a man dodging threats on his life after his world is turned upside down. Evan Casher discovers his mother's murdered corpse and is then rescued from certain...
- Author:Diehl, CharlenlSummary:
Out of Grief, Singing is an achingly beautiful account of how a woman comes to terms with the loss of her newborn. After a bewildering series of rapid diagnoses and emergency interventions, Charlene's daughter Chloe is born. But...
- Author:Ballard, Mary FrancesSummary:
Are your mornings spent frantically looking for the misplaced keys or the field trip form? Do you have trouble deciding what to keep and what to let go? Are you too embarrassed by the way your house looks to invite family and friends in...
- Author:Williams-Garcia, RitaSummary:
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their...
- Author:Keener, Jessica BrilliantSummary:
In 1970s Boston, the glossy veneer of 16-year-old Sarah Kunitz's wealthy family is starting to show cracks. Her parents' constant fighting and her mother's prescription pill abuse drive Sarah into two romantic...
- Author:Moyes, JojoSummary:
A great sense of relief washes over widow Isabel Delancey when she inherits the Spanish House. Now she and her two children will have a home after being forced out of London. But the house is coveted by other interested parties, and now...
- 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...
- Author:Van De Water, AnnSummary:
Mommy Memoirs is a delightful journey from pregnancies and births to marriages and a hysterectomy! There are few stones left unturned as author Ann Van De Water describes her hectic life as a mother of three boys in short read-it-and-...
- Author:Hamilton, CathySummary:
'Is that what you're going to wear?' Used indiscriminately for sons, daughters, and husbands, this one is a not-so-subtle attempt to make family members rethink their wardrobe choice. Deciphering the clandestine conspiratorial language...
- 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:Houde, NicoleSummary:
Céleste a 38 ans, mais elle n’est pas une femme comme les autres. Elle a gardé sa naïveté d’enfant et se laisse bercer par la beauté des arbres, des oiseaux et des chats. Elle déborde d’imagination et d’humour et s’invente des histoires...
- Author:Drake, RebeccaSummary:
Four suburban mothers and friends conspire to cover up a deadly crime in this heart-stopping novel of suspense in the tradition of Lisa Scottoline and Lisa Unger. Alison, Julie, Sarah, Heather. Four friends living the suburban ideal....
- Author:Davis, JaneSummary:
This is historical fiction from an award-winning author. Wouldn't you feel cheated if the woman you'd imagined was the villain of your childhood turned out to be someone rather extraordinary? Edwardian Brighton. A wide-eyed girl enters...
- Author:Britt, Fanny, Ouriou, Susan, Morelli, Christelle, Lewis, MarySummary:
Tessa is a thirty-seven-year-old real estate agent living in Montreal. She adores her husband and three young sons, but she's deeply unhappy and questioning the set of choices that have led to her present life. After a surprising run-in...
- Author:Hood-Caddy, KarenSummary:
Robin is distraught over losing her mother and angry at her father for moving the family to a town in cottage country where her eccentric grandmother lives. She claims not to care about anything, but after her dog falls through the ice...
- Author:Rhodes, EvieSummary:
A tough woman from Harlem, 38-year-old Tracie Burlingame strives to keep her four teenaged sons safe from the wrong crowd. Despite her commitment to them, she nevertheless loses her firstborn to the devastation of drug addiction. Then,...
- 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: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:Sanderson, BrandonSummary:
When Alcatraz and Grandpa Smedry make a pilgrimage to the Free Kingdom city of Crystallia, they are shocked to find the city under seige by the Evil Librarians--led by Alcatraz's own mother.