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Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
'A gripping story of the unravelling of a mother's secrets as her daughter searches for answers to a decades-old mystery of a local girl's disappearance. Evocative, suspenseful and beautifully written. I couldn't put it down.' Adrienne Chinn 'I was hooked from the very first page. The emotional layers of this beautifully written book are woven together seamlessly. Absolutely superb!' Clare Marchant 'An absolutely fascinating tale of a fractured family,...
2) Birthright
Author
Publisher
Top Reads Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
To protect her secrets, a woman refuses to acknowledge the child she left behind fifty years ago and a half a world away. Claire travels halfway across the globe from Southern California to Ireland to find the reasons Norah, her biological mother, gave her up. Norah is equally determined to avoid revisiting the painful time in her life and the devastating decision she was forced to make. Even with a loving husband and family, she still carries the...
Publisher
Demeter Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This is a wonderful and insightful collection of stories and reflections of mothers on the connection with their own mother after becoming a mother themselves. The chapters are primarily autobiographical and are told through a range of lens, be it a graphic chapter or the more literary. An author outlines Anishinaabeg ceremonial practices that honour and represent maternal connections, and others demonstrate how art and craft can both assist in working...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written in a series of letters to the daughter of a friend, Love and Friendship tells of a young girl's path to betrayal, by way of a seemingly ecstatic marriage. It is accompanied by The Three Sisters, another expertly crafted epistolary novel. When a noble youth arrives unannounced to request the hand of the matchless Laura, it seems their future is one of contentment and bliss -- that is until his family learn of the marriage and, one by one, reject...
7) Memory Road
Author
Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Despite knowing it's a mad idea, Lily agrees to take her mother on one last road trip around the UK, in this new novel by the bestselling author of His Other Woman.
This trip will be challenging because Lily's mother can no longer be described as "just a bit forgetful": Moira has started talking to imaginary friends and singing ABBA songs in public, and last week she began emptying boxes of cereal onto the floor in the supermarket.
Lily is...
8) Mermaids
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A teenager follows along as her mother moves from town to town--and man to man--in this coming-of-age novel: “Both hilarious and tragic . . . a radiant debut.” -- The New York Times Book Review The inspiration for the cult-classic film starring Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci, and Cher, this novel is narrated by Charlotte Flax, a fourteen-year-old helplessly dragged by her mother from place to place, brief affair to brief affair. When they settle...
9) Starfish
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The author of Mermaids reunites the unforgettable women of the Flax family decades later: “Its plot twists will make you laugh--after you wipe away tears.” --Sally Koslow, author of The Real Mrs. Tobias Now in her early forties with a grown son and two grandchildren, Charlotte Flax has never forgotten the year she spent as a teenager in Grove, Massachusetts, with her mother and little sister. When she finds out that their old house there, one...
10) Vanquished
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When Hana's mom is diagnosed with the mutation, she confesses to Hana she doesn't know what will happen if she dies. Fischer, a medic at the hospital, implies there is Someone who can help but religion's been outlawed. Hana embarks on a dangerous journey, seeking the answers Fischer insists are available. But when the truth is uncovered, will Hana stick to what she's been taught? Or will she join the rebellion and take a stand against an oppressive...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This bestselling bittersweet story of love and second chances takes place over the course of a single summer day . . . or does it? The only child of eccentric academics who never married, Laura Lewis was an undergrad at Oxford when she met Ben Patterson. They shared an idyllic few months of passion, only to go their separate ways when Ben ended their relationship. Two decades later, Laura is a self-employed accountant with a history of unfulfilling...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This heartfelt story grabs the reader from the very start and doesn't let go. Psychological thrillers fans won't want to miss this one."-Publishers Weekly
She has to time to save one of her daughters. Only one. Can she choose?
When Lizzie's car crashes with her two daughters inside, she faces a terrible choice. And when she recovers from her injuries, she must deal with the impact of that tragedy and the police investigation into it. As Lizzie...
13) What We Owe
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize This novel, barely 200 pages long, is impossible to pin down or categorize. It's about mothers and daughters, nation and exile, and the way forward with hope and pain. It is a masterpiece." -- Tayari Jones, "My culture fix," The Times (UK) A gut punch of a novel that asks us to consider: what do we pass on to our children? What do we owe those we love? And without roots, can you ever truly be free? Nahid has...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
New York Times Bestseller: A "monumental" saga of four ordinary American women from the author of The Blackboard Jungle (The New York Times Book Review). Amanda, a small-town minister's daughter with hopes for a musical career, and Gillian, a hot-tempered aspiring actress from the Bronx, met at college. A decade later, one is happily married to an ambitious lawyer while the other is entangled in a passionate but troubled affair with a young man who's...
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
This warm-hearted story of a mother's love for her spirited young daughter is told beautifully by Newbery Medal–winning author Beverly Cleary.
Ramona Quimby is no longer seven, but not quite eight. She's "seven and a half right now," if you ask her. Not allowed to stay home alone, yet old enough to watch pesky Willa Jean, Ramona wonders when her mother will treat her like her older, more mature sister, Beezus.
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A life in pieces. A hundred-year-old journal. And a chance for love to be reborn. Olivia Ward arrived in Bethlehem Springs alone—with no job, no home, and no money—after her manipulative ex-husband used his power and wealth to destroy everything. Six years later, the peaceful life she rebuilt is once again turned upside down when she learns that her fifteen-year-old daughter, Emma, will be coming to live with her. The reunion should...
17) The diary
Author
Language
English
Description
The adult daughters of Elizabeth Marshall set out to learn the truth when they discover a diary written by their mother, who is near death following a stroke, in which she tells of the painful choice she made as a young woman between two men.
Author
Language
English
Description
Now a major motion picture directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Paul Mescal, and Peter Sarsgaard
Another penetrating Neapolitan story from New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults.
Leda, a middle-aged divorcée, is alone for the first time in years after her two adult daughters...
Another penetrating Neapolitan story from New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults.
Leda, a middle-aged divorcée, is alone for the first time in years after her two adult daughters...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Forgiveness can be hard to come by... An unputdownable new novel from bestseller Samantha Tonge How far would you go to make amends? When Emma fled her home at Foxglove Farm, she'd let down and hurt those who cared for her most. But now, two years later, she's ready to face up to her past; she's ready to go back. But Emma's unannounced return causes more problems than she could have foreseen. The people she knew and loved aren't ready to forget,...
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