Emily Starr is orphaned after her father dies and is sent to live with her snobbish Aunt Elizabeth at New Moon Farms. It is not long before she starts to make new friends, and slowly grows to love her new family and the amazing New Moon...
Domestic fiction
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Author:Montgomery, L. M.Summary: - Author:Montgomery, L M.Summary:
After her father's death, Emily discovers she has Cousin Jimmy and Aunt Elizabeth at New Moon Farm and other new friends. From the author of Anne of Green Gables.
- Author:McCann, Timmothy B.Summary:
Joi Weston was once a popular television actress. Now she feels forgotten as offers of acting jobs disappear, and her husband immerses himself in a political career. Young writer Michael Brockmeir wonders if he will ever emerge from the...
- Author:McEwan, IanSummary:
After a chance meeting, Jed Perry begins to stalk author Joe Rose. Driven by religious zeal and misdirected love, the strange young man will slowly unravel each strand of Joe's life.
- Author:Major-McGraw, ColetteSummary:
La famille Potvin est dispersée. Outre Ernest et la pauvre Adéline, ne reste plus au lac Brûlé que Simon, le plus jeune des enfants. Même si celui qu’on surnomme le vieil ours a décroché un nouvel emploi, le climat n’est pas des plus...
- Author:Kowalski, WilliamSummary:
Kat is a tough, independent woman who makes her living as a professional poker player in this work of fiction.
- Author:Vlassopoulos, TeriSummary:
My father drowned in the Aegean Sea, fifty nautical miles northeast of the port of Piraeus. When it happened, my mother and I were at home in Toronto. It was early evening in Greece, afternoon for us, and I was at school when she found...
- Author:Stevenson, RobinSummary:
Lou's dad has been addicted to painkillers since an accident left him unable to work. He's a good, loving dad, but kind of useless. Lou's mother, Zoe, a successful novelist, abandoned Lou at birth and showed no interest in her until...
- Author:Robertson, RaySummary:
What decades of rent increases and declining readership couldn’t do, a pandemic finally did: Phil Cooper has reluctantly closed his secondhand bookstore and moved his business online. Smoking too much pot and listening to too much...
- Author:Segura, MauriciaSummary:
Alberto Ventura has travelled to Chile to attend the funeral of his father, Roberto. A man hated and loved both by his family and the local people, Roberto was known in the village as an enigma, a rake, a controversial boss, and a quick...
- Author:Bail, MurraySummary:
In order to marry Ellen Holland, a suitor must identify every species of the five hundred trees on her family's property in Australia, a test set by her possessive father. To Ellen's alarm--she is attracted to a young man--an aging...
- Author:Savignac, LinaSummary:
Tome 1 Entre 1910 et 1955, trois femmes issues de milieux différents habitent le village de Sainte-Élisabeth. Menant leur vie en parallèle, elles subissent l’influence de la toute puissante religion qui régissait tout jusqu’à la...
- Author:Nunez, ElizabethSummary:
Peter Ducksworth, a Trinidadian widower of English ancestry, retires to Barbados, believing he will find an earthly paradise there. He decides to divide his land among his three daughters while he is alive, his intention not unlike that...
- Author:Sparks, NicholasSummary:
In the romantic tradition of The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with a story about a chance encounter that becomes a touchstone for two vastly different individuals-...
- Author:Crane, DedeSummary:
Humorous and heartbreaking, wise and demented, Every Happy Family explores the colourful – and sometimes repurposed – fabric of the Wright family. The stories mark turning points in the lives of the individual family members,...
- Author:Roth, PhilipSummary:
The hero of Everyman is obsessed with mortality. As he reminds himself at one point, "I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion when you're seventy-five." But he cannot help himself. He is the ex-husband in three marriages gone wrong. He is...
- Author:Adrian, EmilySummary:
The trauma of childbirth and shock of motherhood compel Amanda to show up unannounced on the doorstep of her estranged best friend, and to trace the tangled roots of friendship and family in her own life.
- Author:Ng, CelesteSummary:
Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet ...
So begins the story in this exquisite debut novel about a Chinese American family living in a small town in 1970s Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their...
- Author:Foer, Jonathan SafranSummary:
Jonathan is a Jewish college student searching Europe for the one person he believes can explain his roots. Alex, a lover of all things American and unsurpassed butcher of the English language, is his lovable Ukrainian guide. On their...
- Author:Basran, GurjinderSummary:
The youngest of six daughters raised by a widowed mother, Meena is a young Indo-Canadian woman struggling to find her place in the world. She knows that the freedom experienced by others is beyond her reach, but unlike her older sisters...
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