When her husband dies on the eve of their impending European vacation, housewife Emma Hanley watches her dreams of world travel vanish even as she becomes more immersed in the lives of her two living children.
Mothers and sons
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Auteur:Friddle, MindySommaire: - Auteur:Sherrod, Leslie J.Sommaire:
In her most chilling challenge yet, Sienna St. James believes she has come face to face with the terrorist responsible for the carnage in her hometown. Taking him on as a client in her therapy practice may be the only way to prove to...
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Auteur:Todd, JackSommaire:Set in mythical Belle Coeur County in a time not too far from our own, Rose & Poe gloriously re-imagines Shakespeare's The Tempest from the point of view of Caliban and his mother. Rose and her giant, simple son,...
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Auteur:Grant, VickiSommaire:MacIntyre, son of firebrand lawyer Andy MacIntyre, smells something fishy about one of his mother's cases. And it's not just that there are sea lice in the coffee. When Cyril starts investigating the death of a millionaire inventor, he...
- Auteur:Van Pelt, ShelbySommaire:
A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! "Remarkably Bright Creatures is a beautiful examination of how loneliness can be transformed, cracked open, with the slightest touch from another living thing." - Kevin Wilson,...
- Auteur:Van Pelt, ShelbySommaire:
Staying busy has helped Tova cope ever since her son disappeared decades ago. So when her husband dies, she takes a job at the aquarium, where she meets Marcellus, an octopus that deduces what happened to her son.
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Auteur:Grant, VickiSommaire:Quid Pro Quo is a high-stakes, fast-moving legal thriller about real people, and funny people at that. Cyril MacIntyre's mother is a twenty-eight-year-old ex-street kid who drags her son to all her law school classes, then proceeds to...
- Auteur:Roth, PhilipSommaire:
Told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, this novel draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy.
- Auteur:Picoult, JodiSommaire:
District Attorney Nina Frost and her husband, Caleb, face a nightmare when they discover that their young son Nathaniel has been molested, a trauma that has left him mute, terrified, and unable to reveal the identity of his attacker....
- Auteur:Valente, Catherynne M.Sommaire:
From New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente comes an inventive new fantasy following a boy journeying away from the only home he's ever known and into the magical realm of the dead in order to fulfill a bargain for...
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Auteur:Fitch, ShereeSommaire:Julian’s parents separated when he was a baby and he is still angry and hurt. His mother has had relationships since, all of which have ended disastrously, but this time it seems serious. Jean-Paul looks like he might be the real thing...
- Auteur:van Staalduinen, BrentSommaire:
During a sweltering summer, Dills must come to terms with a horrific crime and the parent he loves who committed it. Dills and his mom have returned to Hamilton, her hometown, hoping to leave the horrors of Windsor behind. But it's...
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Auteur:Nielsen, SusinSommaire:From beloved Governor General Literary Award-winning author Susin Nielsen comes a touching and funny middle-grade story about family, friendship and growing up when you're one step away from homelessness. Felix Knuttson, twelve, is an...
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Auteur:Carpenter, DavidSommaire:Three men conceive an immoderate heat for Glory, a single parent and waitress at Pie City. She, on the other hand, has pretty much had it with men. Glory and her young son Bobby are just trying to get through the winter in Saskatoon....
- Auteur:Kakwinokanasum, JosephSommaire:
For Hunter Frank, the summer of '79 begins with his mother returning home only to collect her welfare cheques for the last two months. When his older sister escapes their northern BC town and his brother goes to fight forest fires,...
- Auteur:Taylor, Drew HaydenSommaire:
A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger ... and a band of marauding raccoons. Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle -...
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Auteur:Hof, Marjolijn, Prins, Johanna H., Prins, Johanna W.Sommaire:A Society of School Librarians International (SSLI) Honor Book. Fay was adopted when he was a baby. He knows only that his birth mother escaped the war in Bosnia and that he arrived in his new home with nothing more than a squeaky toy...
- Auteur:Clerson, DavidSommaire:
Une femme passant ses étés seule dans un chalet en Mauricie reçoit la visite de son fils disparu depuis plus de dix ans. Jour après jour, il lui raconte sa vie d'errance ainsi que sa vision hallucinée du réel tandis qu'ils...
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Auteur:Frey, CeceliaSommaire:Manfred Weiszl who lies dying of cancer in an upper room of a grand old Toronto house. The action of the novel is precipitated when Manfred wishes to see Rupert his son before he dies and Rupert refuses to cooperate. However, ...
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Auteur:Beckett, SamuelSommaire:Molloy is less a novel than a set of two monologues narrated by Molloy and his pursuer Moran. In the first section, while consumed with the search of his mother, Molloy lost everything. Moran takes over in the second half, describing...
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