Jewel is the story of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass. In the backwoods of Mississippi, a land of honeysuckle and grapevine, Jewel and her husband...
Mothers and daughters
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Auteur:Lott, BretSommaire: - Auteur:Lamarche, ClaudeSommaire:
«J’ai cinq ans et j’m’ai tué», a dit un personnage célèbre. Rafaëlle aussi a cinq ans, mais elle ne s’est pas tuée. Du moins, pas encore. Rafaëlle est une fillette exceptionnelle. Dotée d’une intelligence et d’une sensibilité hors du...
- Auteur:Mokeddem, MalikaSommaire:
Selma Moufid raconte les voyages qu'elle a entrepris pour parler à sa mère et tenter de briser enfin le silence. Cette confrontation la renvoie à une réalité cruelle : si sa génitrice n'est qu'une pâle figure de Médée, d'autres femmes l...
- Auteur:Winston, SherriSommaire:
Ten-year-old Jada Sly is an artist and a spy-in-training. When she isn't studying the art from her idols like Jackie Ormes, the first-known African American cartoonist, she's chronicling her spy training and other observations in her...
- Auteur:Macomber, DebbieSommaire:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -After her marriage ends, one woman's struggle to pick up the pieces finally leads to a new beginning but is the past truly behind her? #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber explores the...
- Auteur:Pinborough, SarahSommaire:
Forty-year-old Emma has a good life until she begins displaying symptoms her insane mother once did: lost time and an inability to sleep. Now she must unravel the past to protect the present.
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Auteur:Christmas, JaneSommaire:In this travelogue of self-discovery, Jane Christmas brings her wickedly irreverent style to a new mother-daughter experience. Since the beginning of time, mothers and daughters have had notoriously fraught relationships. "Show me a...
- Auteur:BROOKNER, AnitaSommaire:
Eighteen year old Maud is invited to spend the summer in her aunt's large country house where she meets two men, one beautiful and ruthless, the other a quiet dreamer, both of whom will profoundly affect her life.
- Auteur:Williams, Kenneth T.Sommaire:
In Care is about a mother's quest to get her children out of foster care. Janice Fisher has not had an easy life. She worked the streets as a teenager, was addicted to cocaine, and had her first daughter taken from her when she was...
- Auteur:Grimaldi, VirginieSommaire:
Et si le bonheur se trouvait juste sous nos yeux ? Anna, 37 ans, croule sous le travail et les relances des huissiers. Ses filles, elle ne fait que les croiser au petit déjeuner. Sa vie défile, et elle l'observe depuis la bulle...
- Auteur:Forster, GwynneSommaire:
Coreen Treadwell heads a prominent social welfare agency, but she is haunted by her past. Raped and impregnated as a teenager, she gave up her baby, Frieda, without ever seeing her. The legacy of violence continues in her daughter's...
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Auteur:Schraff, Anne E.Sommaire:Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-esteem to name a few. More than...
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Auteur:Armstrong, LuanneSommaire:In I’ll Be Home Soon, Luanne Armstrong takes the reader on a tension-filled ride as Regan, a young girl living in the inner city, searches for her mother who has mysteriously disappeared. Homeless but by no means hapless, Regan is on...
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Auteur:Kuhn, SarahSommaire:When Kimi travels to Japan to escape her problems, she quickly learns more about the mother she left behind and realizes she must figure out where her own heart lies.
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Auteur:Bluman, Barbara RuthSommaire:This Holocaust memoir crosses generations. In I Have My Mother’s Eyes, Barbara Ruth Bluman chronicles her mother’s dramatic journey from Nazi-occupied Poland to western British Columbia, where her legacy lives on. Bluman sets an urgent...
- Auteur:Callender, KherynSommaire:
Twelve-year-old Caroline is a Hurricane Child, born on Water Island during a storm. Coming into this world during a hurricane is unlucky, and Caroline has had her share of bad luck already. She's hated by everyone in her small...
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Auteur:Simmons, D. BryantSommaire:THE MORROW FAMILY SAGA BEGINS...At just seventeen years old, Belinda finds herself orphaned and alone. When the handsome, self-assured Ricky Morrow proposes marriage she agrees without a second thought. A decision she will soon come to...
- Auteur:Maas, Elizabeth Wiggs, Wiggs, SusanSommaire:
Here is the all-too-true tale of a mother and daughter collaborating on life's ultimate celebration, a dream wedding. Join mother and daughter as they wade through piles of flowers and favors, grueling gown decisions, and the cold...
- Auteur:Anthony, TreySommaire:
Claudette still can't forgive her mother, Daphne, for leaving. For six years of her childhood, Claudette and her sister Valerie were left with their grandmother while their mother moved from Jamaica to Canada to start a new chapter...
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Auteur:Mazigh, Monia, Reed, Fred A.Sommaire:Unwilling to endure a culture of silence and submission, and disowned by her family, Nadia leaves her native Tunisia in 1984 amidst deadly violence, chaos, and rioting brought on by rising food costs, eventually emigrating to Canada to...
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