Motherless Olivia and Nellie go to live with their elderly Great-Aunt Minty, who knows little about children, but a lot about her overgrown garden. Then one day, Olivia finds an old teacup in a flowerbed, and later, an old story about...
Sisters
- Author:Lisle, Janet TaylorSummary:
- Author:Bennett, SophiaSummary:
When she is spotted by a modeling agency and her beautiful sister falls seriously ill, gangly fifteen-year-old Edwina "Ted" Trout must choose between fame and family.
- Author:Hogarth, AinslieSummary:
Easter Deetz struggles with The Lonely—a debilitating condition that affects all the women in her family. The Lonely makes people sad and it makes them lie. One day, Easter's sister drops a boulder on her in The Woods. As she bleeds to...
- Author:Soucy, Gaetan, Fischman, SheilaSummary:
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches, originally published in French as La Petite Fille qui Aimait Trop les Alumettes, dominated the bestseller lists and captured major media attention when it appeared in Quebec. It was the first...
- Author:Kelly, Erin EntradaSummary:
Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their heartless stepmother in Louisiana, two sisters from the Philippines, twelve-year-old Sol and six-year-old Ming, learn the true meaning of family.
- Author:Gregory, PhilippaSummary:
The Kingmaker’s Daughter is the gripping story of the daughters of the man known as the “Kingmaker,” Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: the most powerful magnate in fifteenth-century England. Without a...
- Author:Egan, JenniferSummary:
Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco...
- Author:Buckley, MichaelSummary:
As the fairytale detectives race through the Book of Everafter searching for their baby brother, they encounter various characters including the Editor and his army of Revisers, who threaten the children with dire consequences if they...
- Author:Dunkle, Clare B.Summary:
In 19th-century England, Kate and her sister Emily return to the family estate after their father dies. There, under the guardianship of a distant uncle, they live in a small lodge with two great-aunts. One evening while out late and...
- Author:Parshall, SandraSummary:
Young veterinarian Rachel Goddard’s world begins to crumble when a client rushes into the animal hospital with a basset hound struck by a car during a thunderstorm. The dog owner’s terrified tot, drenched with rain, loses sight of her...
- Author:PARKER, Una-MarySummary:
Mr and Mrs Henry Granville are preparing to launch their daughters on to the London social scene with an extravagant coming-out ball. The sister's deep jealousy of one another leads to fights between the two, a number of scandals...
- Author:Lansens, LoriSummary:
The story of Rose and Ruby Darlen, conjoined twins born in a rural farming community in 1974. To some they are freaks, monsters or witches. But to most in small-town Leaford, they are just "The Girls".
- Author:Brenner, Jamie, 1971-Summary:
When a tryst with a partner at her firm derails her legal career, Marin Bishop seeks solace in a road trip to Cape Cod with a young woman claiming to be her long-lost half-sister. Full of delicious descriptions of coastal New England...
- Author:Hunt, Angela ElwellSummary:
Three middle-aged sisters--each harboring a secret pain--gather to close up their grandmother's beach house for the final time. Together, they unpack their family baggage and discover the true legacy left behind by a grandma married...
- Author:Demeulemeester, LindaSummary:
In the fourth installment of the Grim Hill series, Cat, Clive, Jasper, and the rest of the crew are back, and everyone is buzzing about Darkmont High’s student exchange to Sweden. For Cat, it means hanging out with her friends in a...
- Author:Buckley, MichaelSummary:
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
- Author:Clayton, DhonielleSummary:
With a price on her head, the evil Queen Sophia out for blood, and no idea whom to trust, Camellia Beaureguard, the former favorite Belle, must race against time to find the ailing Princess Charlotte, who has disappeared without a trace...
- Author:Buckley, MichaelSummary:
After their parents awake from a sleeping spell, Daphne and Sabrina become caught in the middle of a war between the Scarlet Hand and Prince Charming's Everafter army and learn a shocking secret about a deadly enemy.
- Author:Glickman, SusanSummary:
The Discovery of Flight is a novel in two voices about the relationship between two sisters, the older of whom is disabled by cerebral palsy and only able to communicate with assistive technology (she can control her computer by moving...
- Author:Herron, RachaelSummary:
From international bestseller Rachael Herron, comes a book too delightful to put down:The saloon had always looked old-fashioned, but now it resembled a set in a ghost town. The problem was that Adele wasn't in an old western, or a...