From the best-selling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel about what happens to a group of obsessed recreational swimmers when a crack appears at the bottom of their local pool...
Mothers and daughters
- Auteur:Otsuka, JulieSommaire:
- Auteur:Spalding, Amy.Sommaire:
Seventeen, fashion-obsessed, and gay, Abby Ives has always been content playing the sidekick in other people's lives. While her friends and sister have plunged headfirst into the world of dating and romances, Abby's been happy...
- Auteur:Doller, TrishSommaire:
One of the few bright lights in Rachel Beck's life is her job at a Miami Beach luxury hotel--until she's fired for something she didn't do. As a single mom, Rachel knows she needs stability, and fast. On impulse, Rachel...
- Auteur:Vermette, KatherenaSommaire:
From the bestselling author of The Break comes a staggering intergenerational saga that explores how connected we are, even when we're no longer together—even when we"re forced apart. Cedar has nearly forgotten what her family looks...
- Auteur:Wilson, JacquelineSommaire:
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Jacqueline Wilson's favourite character, Tracy Beaker, who lives in a children's home. Ten-year-old Tracy is smart and full of energy but more than anything she wants love. In "The...
- Auteur:Ibbotson, EvaSommaire:
After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in...
- Auteur:Whittall, Zoe.Sommaire:
It's taboo to regret motherhood. But what would happen if you did? Shifting perspectives and time periods, The Spectacular is a multi-generational story exploring sexuality, gender and the weight of reproductive freedoms, from the...
- Auteur:Suk, SarahSommaire:
Perfect for fans of They Both Die at the End and You've Reached Sam, this gripping, atmospheric YA novel follows a teen with a mysterious condition that transports her to the past when she smells certain scents linked to specific...
- Auteur:Williams, SheilaSommaire:
Elise Armstrong, Carmen Bradshaw, and DeeDee Davis meet in a yoga class. Though vastly different, these women discover they all have one thing in common: their mothers have recently passed away. Becoming fast friends, the trio make a...
- Auteur:Harvey, Kristy WoodsonSommaire:
Leaving fans "practically [begging] for a sequel" (Bookpage), critically acclaimed author Kristy Woodson Harvey returns with the second novel in her beloved Peachtree Bluff series, featuring a trio of sisters and their mother...
- Auteur:Silverthorne, JudithSommaire:
12-year-old Emily travels back in time again in this sequel, to discover a secret locked in her grandmother's soon-to-be-sold stone house.
Twelve-year-old Emily Bradford travels back in time to discover a secret about her...
- Auteur:Cowan, JustineSommaire:
Justine had always been told that her mother came from royal blood. The proof could be found in her mother's elegance, and in a cryptic letter hinting at her claim to a country estate. After her mother's death, overcome with...
- Auteur:Candlish, LouiseSommaire:
Kate divorces Alistair after 10 years of marriage, swearing off relationships altogether. But that was before she rented the extra space in her flat to the charming Davis Calder, who soon endears himself to Kate and her teenage daughter...
- Auteur:Hearon, ShelbySommaire:
Ellen Marshall is in her second marriage, now the mother of a 12-year-old son with her first husband Franklin and a four-year-old daughter with her current husband John. Ellen is growing tired of John's constant need for everyone's...
- Auteur:Thayne, RaeAnneSommaire:
Olivia Harper is unfulfilled at work and in her love life. When she hears that her mother Juliet has been injured in a car accident, she has no choice but to pack up her life and head home to beautiful Cape Sanctuary on the Northern...
- Auteur:Stachniak, EvaSommaire:
During the reign of Louis XV, impoverished teenage girls are sent to a villa to be trained as potential courtesans for the King. Beautiful and canny Veronique arrives at the school of mirrors and quickly becomes a favorite of the King....
- Auteur:Neilson, EmilySommaire:
A sweet and celebratory story of a girl's first time marching with her two moms at Pride One day in June, Emily takes the train into the city with her two moms to attend the Rainbow Parade. She loves how all the people marching...
- Auteur:Chiaverini, JenniferSommaire:
Sylvia Bergstrom Compson resolves to find several heirloom quilts that have vanished. Traveling far and wide, she discovers fascinating truths about her mother, who died when Sylvia was only a child.
- Auteur:Ivory, JudithSommaire:
Accepting the challenge to convert brash, handsome, incorrigible Mick Tremore into a gentleman in only six weeks, Lady Edwina Bollash is concerned less with her abilities than with resisting the man's considerable charms.
- Auteur:Moyes, JojoSommaire:
The only place Suzanna Peacock finds comfort is her shop, which provides a haven for the misfits in town. But she is forced to confront events of the past and her family that have been haunting her for so long. And she discovers that...