#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind, or to craft a new space. Helen Knott's debut memoir, In My Own Moccasins, wowed reviewers, award juries, and...
Families
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Auteur:Baker, DeirdreSommaire:When eleven-year-old Becca returns to her grandmother's rustic cottage for another summer, she finds herself seeing her beloved island in new ways. A hunting owl mistakes a bobbing ponytail for prey. A cozy sleepover on the beach...
- Auteur:Lord, CynthiaSommaire:
Newbery Honor-winning author Cynthia Lord has written a sensitive and accessible book about the challenges of fitting in when you know you're a little different. On the last night of summer, Emma tags along with her game warden father...
- Auteur:Brenna, BeverleySommaire:
A new middle grade novel from the author of the Michael L Printz Honor Book, The White Bicycle.
Ten-year-old Harris is still dealing with the death of his parents three years after the accident. To make matters worse, Grampa...
- Auteur:Poitras, JacquesSommaire:
Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award and Best Atlantic Published Book Award. Shortlisted, BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and National Business Book Award. For the first time, the fully documented story of the...
- Auteur:Wang, Qian JulieSommaire:
An incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world. "Extraordinary - Consider this remarkable memoir a...
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Auteur:Hughes, AlisonSommaire:Beatrice struggles to manage her hopelessly disorganized family in an effort to make a professional start in her new neighborhood.
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Auteur:Pearson, KitSommaire:One summer will change everything. For as long as she can remember, Maisie has spent her summers on Kingfisher Island. She and her beloved cousin Una run wild, and Maisie feels the warm embrace of her big, extended family. This summer...
- Auteur:Arnold, Elana K.Sommaire:
Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed Bat) has been the caretaker for Thor, the best skunk kit in the world... but the last day of third grade is quickly approaching, and Thor is almost ready to be released into the wild. The end of school...
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Auteur:Haigh, JenniferSommaire:Born and raised on Bakerton's Polish Hill, the five Novak children come of age during wartime, a thrilling era when the world seems on the verge of changing forever. The oldest, Georgie, serves on a minesweeper in the South Pacific and...
- Auteur:Smith, JulianaSommaire:
Olive Moore has been avoiding her hometown for three years now. But a phone call with her mom has her agreeing to spend the holidays back home with her family, she lets it slip she will be bringing a boyfriend with her. The only problem...
- Auteur:Johns, JessicaSommaire:
When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears. Night after night,...
- Auteur:GRACE, PatriciaSommaire:
Tawera and his sister are inseparable, in a relationship that is impossible for others to share. In fact his whole whanau is bonded by secrets, a genealogy stitched together by shame, joy, love and sometimes grief. Patricia Grace's...
- Auteur:Jalaluddin, UzmaSommaire:
Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded that her...
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Auteur:Larson, TaraSommaire:Sean Morgan is wealthy, good-looking and smart, so the world should be his oyster, but nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, Sean’s the one stuck in the tiny shell his rich, conservative family forced him into. He’d love to...
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Auteur:Lendrum, BonnieSommaire:Families who would want to honour a parent’s request to not die in hospital, encounter obstacles that can defeat even accomplished health professionals. Autumns’ Grace is a story that spans a ten-month period as the Campbell...
- Auteur:Kleinhuis, HarrySommaire:
Jack is 14 going on 15. For the past seven years, he and his younger brother and sister, and his mother and father, have lived in a remote cabin on the Athabasca River west of Edmonton. It's the late 1930s, and the river is almost...
- Auteur:Dunn, Claire RossSommaire:
At Last Count is a novel that flips between the protagonist's broadly appealing coming-of-age journey and her complicated inner adult world as a woman living with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Auteur:Cooper, AndersonSommaire:
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a...
- Auteur:Keane, Mary BethSommaire:
A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the friendship between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, and the power of forgiveness. Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are two...
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