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The story sisters
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Alice Hoffman |
Elv, Claire, and Meg are the Story Sisters, and each has a fate she must meet alone. One on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. At once a com… |
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The not-so-perfect man
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Valerie Frankel |
As far as her family and friends are concerned, Frieda has been the grieving widow for long enough. At 35, she's still (relatively) young, still (adequately) attractive. Her sex drive is very much al… |
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Please, please, please
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Rachel Vail |
Twelve-year-old CJ, an accomplished ballet student, struggles with her conflicting desires to continue her ballet study and please her mother or to quit ballet and finally be like all the other kids … |
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Mama's way
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Helen Ketteman |
Wynona longs for a beautiful new dress to wear to her graduation from sixth grade, even though she knows that her mama cannot afford to buy one for her. |
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Red velvet
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Sandra Byrd |
While comforting her mother after chemotherapy treatments, fourteen-year-old Quinn reads her parent's teen-years diary and determines to help her mother accomplish some forgotten goals. |
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Me, Penelope
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Lisa Jahn-Clough |
“Penelope Yeager is like a lot of sixteen-year-olds—she wants more independence from her crazy mother; she wants to get her driver’s license; and she wants to get out of high school, away from her to… |
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But in the fall I'm leaving
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Ann Rinaldi |
Brie's plan to leave her strict father and go live with her mother, who abandoned her as a baby, is changed when she discovers a horrible secret about her past. |
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All she ever wanted
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Lynn N. Austin |
"Lynn Austin presents a tale of family secrets, forgiveness, and reconcilation in the story of three generations of women: Kathleen, her mother, Eleanor, and her grandmother, Fiona. Each woman left h… |
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The illustrated mum
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Jacqueline Wilson |
A powerful novel of two sisters who have to cope with living in a very dysfunctional household where their tattoo-crazy mum has real difficulties in coping. A new edition with new cover look and intr… |
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The Joy Luck Club
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Amy Tan,Ronald Bass,Jordi Fibla,Tsai Chin,Wayne Wang,Gwendoline Yeo |
Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet we… |
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Find a stranger, say goodbye
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Lois Lowry |
Seemingly a girl who has everything, Natalie, at seventeen, goes in pursuit of her real mother. |
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The awkward age
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Henry James |
Nanda Brookenham is 'coming out' in London society. Thrust suddenly into the vicious, immoral circle that has gathered round her mother, she even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham for … |
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Kinship
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Trudy Krisher |
In 1961 fifteen-year-old Pert, who lives with her mother in Kinship, Georgia, meets her long-absent father and discovers the true meaning of home. |
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The pursuit of the well-beloved ; & The well-beloved
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Thomas Hardy |
Hardy's two versions of a strange story set in the weird landscape of Portland. The central figure is a man obsessed both with the search for his ideal woman and with sculpting the perfect figure of … |
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Five quarters of the orange
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Joanne Harris |
When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous woman they hold responsible for a tragedy during the German … |
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It's going to be perfect
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Nancy L. Carlson |
A mother and her young daughter reflect on the daughter's growing up, including her infancy, potty training, first words, and starting school, noting how nothing has been what the mother expected. |
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Mother's Day Murder
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Leslie Meier |
Two of her four kids may be out of the nest, but Lucy Stone knows only too well that mothering is a lifetime commitment. At least she gets to kick back and enjoy a fancy Mother's Day brunch with her … |
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Plantation
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Dorothea Benton Frank |
The New York Times bestseller—in trade for the first time.Pat Conroy called Dorothea Benton Frank's debut, Sullivan's Island, "hilarious and wise," while Anne Rivers Siddons declared that it "roars w… |
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Jinx
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Margaret Wild |
With the help of her understanding mother and a close friend, Jen eventually outgrows her nickname, Jinx, and deals with the deaths of two boys with whom she had been involved. |
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Mapping the edge
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Sarah Dunant |
People go missing every day. They walk out of their front doors and out of their lives into the silence of cold statistics. For those left behind it is the cruelest of long good-byes.Anna, a self-suf… |
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