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Author
Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Kristina Olsson' s mother lost her infant son, Peter, when he was snatched from her arms as she boarded a train in the hot summer of 1950. Young and frightened and trying to escape a brutal marriage, she was not prepared for this final blow, this breathtaking punishment. She would not see her son again for nearly forty years. Kristina was the first child of her mother' s second, much gentler marriage and, like her siblings, grew up unaware of the...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Desperate times and darker mysteries abound in this extraordinary historical thriller With their savings rapidly running out, and the world turning against them, John and his mother are pursued by bailiffs and forced to move. Taking refuge with the Isbister family, they flee upon discovering a shocking dark side to their hosts. But then their luck seems to change when they discover the hospitable Miss Quilliam. And a way out of debt and disaster...
3) Ruth
Author
Language
English
Description
Ruth is a young orphaned girl who works in a sweatshop. Mrs. Mason, Ruth's boss, runs the sweatshop in a respectable manner, earning a sterling reputation among her employees and society. However, the comfort and acclaim of Ruth's job is threatened when she attends a ball to repair any dresses that get torn during dancing. There, she meets an aristocratic man named Henry Bellingham, who is infamous for his immoral treatment of women and frivolous...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times best-selling author of Love & Respect comes the definitive book for mothers and sons. Love is important but it is respect that is the key to your son's heart. As Emerson Eggerichs transformed millions of marital relationships with a biblical understanding of love and respect, he now turns these principles to one of the most important relationships of all, a mother and her son. The idea of moms respecting their sons may sound...
5) One More Day
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Don't look away No one wants to be the mother whose child disappears. It's unthinkable, the stuff of nightmares. But when she turns her back to pay a parking meter, Carrie Morgan becomes that mother. Ben is gone, and more than a year later, it's clear that he is never coming back. Until he does ... for just twenty-four hours, before once again vanishing from his crib without a trace. Rumors start to circulate through Carrie's small town. Whispers...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Two friends, two sons, two shocking and intense love affairs ... Roz and Lil have been best friends since childhood. But their bond stretches beyond familiar bounds when these middle-aged mothers fall in love with each other's teenage sons-taboo-shattering passions that last for years, until the women end them, vowing to have a respectable old age. With Adore, Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, once again proves her unrivaled...
7) No Good Deed
Author
Series
Saga of the redeemed volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cursed with a magic ring that forbids skullduggery, Tyvian Reldamar's life of crime is sadly behind him. Now reduced to fencing moldy relics and wheedling favors from petty nobility, he's pretty sure his life can't get any worse. That is until he hears that his old nemesis, Myreon Alafarr, has been framed for a crime she didn't commit and turned to stone in a penitentiary garden. Somebody is trying to get his attention, and that somebody is playing...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger shortlisted author ‘A dark, haunting tale with an emotional gut punch that stays with you long after the final page. Amanda Cassidy is an unflinching storyteller.’ Lisa Jewell, author of The Family Upstairs When she re-lives this night, over and over, Nancy will wonder if she’d just gone upstairs a few minutes earlier, what might have been… A devastating fire. A grieving mother. A picture-perfect...
9) Called Out
Author
Series
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Jen Doyle is back with another hot and heartfelt home run of a contemporary romance. Fans of Jill Shalvis should prepare to swoon over Jack and Lola's HEA. Jack "Ox" Oxford is used to being alone. Granted, when you screw over your friends, being alone isn't always a choice. Playing for the Chicago Watchmen is a last-ditch effort to save his career ... and right some of his past wrongs. He's not expecting a warm reception, but he's also not expecting...
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A touching and funny novel of a dysfunctional family and one man's struggle to both get away from them and to hold them close ( Publishers Weekly ). In the summer of 1969, twelve-year-old Seth lives with his unstable mother, Ruth, and his brother and sister in a two-bedroom apartment in New Jersey. His father lives with his new wife in a ten-room houseand has no interest in Seth and his siblings. Seth is dying to escape from his mother's craziness...
Author
Series
Lavender tides novel volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Enter in to a brand new series from bestselling author Colleen Coble! !The View From Rainshadow Bay, opens with a heart-pounding, run-for-your-life chase. This book will stay with you for a long time, long after you flip to the last page. - 4 STARS, RT Book Reviews Prepare to stay up all night with Colleen Coble. Coble's beautiful, emotional prose coupled with her keen sense of pacing, escalating danger, and very real characters place her firmly at...
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Charming, warm and uplifting... there is so much to love about this book." -- Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of This is How It Always Is A triumphant and touching debut about the unlikeliest superstar you'll ever meet. Twelve-year-old Norman Foreman and his best friend, Jax, are a legendary comedic duo in waiting, with a plan to take their act all the way to the Edinburgh Fringe. But when Jax dies, Norman decides the only fitting...
13) Warlock
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This "sort of detective story" by the New York Times bestselling novelist offers "farcical, reflective, luscious, gritty [and] stylish entertainment" ( The New York Times ). As a Boy Scout, Johnny Lundgren was given the nickname Warlock. Now, at forty-two years of age, Johnny has decided to take up that moniker again. It might be an odd name for an unemployed business executive living in Traverse City, Michigan. But perhaps it fits his new job working...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Two people who share a past--and a determination to protect one little boy--find themselves facing off with a killer! Kansas City has no better guardian than Sawyer Kincaid. The decorated police officer has a family legacy to uphold and a reputation that none could rival. Until one distress call ignites the most personal case of his career. He'd saved Melissa Teague's life once--long before she had a son. The boy would be safe with Sawyer, but she...
15) Crossfire
Author
Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
'Luke could almost count the pig's strides as it closed in ... His father lay frantic in the dust, scarcely able to raise his head ... The pig would kill him.'Like father, like son. Luke's dad is a hunter, a rifleman, a hard man, everything Luke wants to be. So when he's invited to join his father on a forbidden hunting trip, Luke eagerly accepts.Guns, killing, danger, adventure. It's a boy's dream come true. But adventures don't always go as planned,...
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this delightful new Regency romance from New York Times bestseller Candace Camp, a feisty commoner and a ruthless aristocrat spar in all the right ways.
Noelle Rutherford would do anything for her young son, Gil. A fiercely independent woman recently widowed, Noelle is determined to raise Gil alone. After all, her late husband Adam Rutherford married her for love, which infuriated his aristocratic family. Gil is Noelle's whole world, and she...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
An evocative, poignant saga of four people trapped-and ultimately destroyed-by their addictions Sara Goldfarb is devastated by the death of her husband. She spends her days watching game shows and obsessing over appearing on television as a contestant-and her prescription diet pills only accelerate her mania. Her son, Harry, is living in the streets with his friend Tyrone and girlfriend Marion, where they spend their days selling drugs and dreaming...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A son is tasked with an impossible decision in this poignant, astutely observed portrait of a family in crisis from the author of The Ice Storm While visiting his mother, Billie, who suffers from a degenerative neurological disease that has left her paralyzed and unable to speak, Dexter "Hex" Raitliffe learns that his stepfather, Billie's husband and caretaker, has left her. Alone and incapable of living on her own, Billie makes an unfathomable request...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A strange twist of fate brings Elizabeth Jones face to face with her idol, the brilliant, eccentric historian Margaret Rosenberg, at the Copenhagen Airport. An even stranger accident makes Elizabeth the esteemed scholar's new private assistant. But luck can go from good to bad in an instant -- and less than twenty-four hours later, the great lady is kidnapped by persons unknown. Suddenly desperate in a foreign land, Elizabeth must cast her lot with...
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