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Mothers and daughters
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Auteur:Stewart, LorindaSommaire:On August 23, 2008, Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped outside Mogadishu in Somalia. The kidnappers’ demand was simple: pay millions or Amanda would be killed. For the next 460 days, Amanda’s mother, Lorinda Stewart, did everything in her...
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Auteur:McFadden, Bernice L.Sommaire:Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most importantly, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and it causes her to dig into her family...
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Auteur:Gaskell, ElizabethSommaire:As brilliant for its compassion as its art, Gaskell’s socially conscious masterpiece shows the early effects of the Industrial Revolution on both workers and employers through the intelligent eyes of Margaret Hale, whose advocacy for...
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Auteur:Oksanen, Sofi, Witesman, OwenSommaire:From the international bestselling author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared comes a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother’...
- Auteur:Kamal, SheenaSommaire:
Two years ago, Bonnie was kidnapped by the wealthy Zhang family. Though Nora rescued her, she made a powerful enemy in Dao, a mysterious triad enforcer and former head of the Zhangs' private security. Now Dao is out for revenge, and she...
- Auteur:Cassidy, SaraSommaire:
Resourceful fourteen-year-old Odette is on the move again, traveling as a stowaway on a cheese cart with her hapless mother, Anneline. They are in Burgundy, France, in 1799, fleeing yet another calamity caused by Anneline (who is prone...
- Auteur:Siegel, AlisaSommaire:
"Based on a true story. On a freezing cold winter night, nine-year-old Konisola and her mother step off a plane in Canada, having left Nigeria with nothing but the clothes on their backs. They are running for their lives, having...
- Auteur:Gutcheon, Beth RichardsonSommaire:
This haunting story bridges two centuries, two mother-daughter relationships, and two tragic love stories in a small town called Dundee on the coast of Maine.
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Auteur:Robinson, J. JillSommaire:Just as blue eyes or a birthmark may be passed down through the generations, so too are other, far less welcome traits, not all of them physical, but emotional. More in Anger is the poignant story of three generations of women and the...
- Auteur:Thompkins-Bigelow, JamilahSommaire:
A khimar is a flowing scarf that my mommy wears. Before she walks out the door each day, she wraps one around her head. A young girl plays dress-up with her mother's headscarves, feeling her mother's love with every one she...
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Auteur:Olsen, SylviaSommaire:When Molly learns a talent competition is coming to town, her friend Murphy (A Different Game, Murphy and Mousetrap) becomes her manager. Molly is certain she is a good singer, she has been singing in her head for as long as she can...
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Auteur:Brooks, MarthaSommaire:In 1981, sixteen-year-old Sally McLean is in a car full of teenagers when it plunges through the ice to the bottom of Mistik Lake. Sally is the only survivor. Many years later, Sally's teenaged daughter, Odella, is left wondering...
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Auteur:Florence, MelanieSommaire:"A young mother, one of the many missing indigenous women, watches over her small daughter as she grows up without her nimama. Together, but separated, they experience important milestones: the first day of school, first dance, first...
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Auteur:Fitzpatrick Dorion, Betty, Farrell Racette,SherrySommaire:The spirited heroine of Betty Dorion's juvenile novel certainly makes the best of things. She forms a close friendship with Rachel, a fellow Cree, and refuses to be bugged by Tanya, a classmate who seems determined to make her life...
- Auteur:Brossard, Nicole, Queyras, Sina, Fulton, AllegraSommaire:
First published in 1987, Nicole Brossard's classic novel returns in a new edition. A seminal text in Canadian and feminist literature, Mauve Desert is a must-read for readers and writers alike. This is both a single novel and three...
- Auteur:Prosapio, DesireéSommaire:
If you found a matchbook with a phone number, would you call? What would you do if a murderer answered? Award-winning writer Desireé Prosapio's suspense novel Matchbook follows the harrowing quest of a most unlikely heroine. Driven into...
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Auteur:COLLIER, CatrinSommaire:Destitute after the Second World War, Magda Janek settles in the Welsh town of Pontypridd, in the hope of building a new life for herself and her baby daughter, Helena. All Magda has to give Helena are the ambitions she had once...
- Auteur:Chaikin, Linda LeeSommaire:
Son mariage à Rogan Chantry est tout ce qu’Evy Varley avait espéré, jusqu’à ce qu’elle apprenne qu’elle est enceinte au retour de la lune de miel. Craignant que Rogan refuse qu’elle voyage dans sa condition, Evy décide de lui cacher la...
- Auteur:Castoro, LauraSommaire:
Recently widowed, Thea has become a successful business woman and is now rekindling a love affair with a former star athlete-turned pastor. Meanwhile, Jesse struggles with her mixed race heritage as she tries to fit in at college.
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