Louie and Dahlia Moscatelli chose to be foster parents, but to boys only. Then their lives are irrevocably changed when a six-year-old indigenous girl comes to live with them.
Domestic fiction
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Author:Francis, PatrySummary: - Author:Isaac, Brian ThomasSummary:
It's 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior. Grace, her friend Isabel...
- Author:Nason, RielSummary:
Shortlisted for the New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction. A novel of absence and adolescence by the author of the award-winning The Town That Drowned. It's 1977. Seventeen-year-old Violet is left behind by her parents to manage their...
- Author:Raney, DeborahSummary:
Unearthing a lost memory may cause Bryn to lose everything she holds dear-- but could it also set her free? The night the homeless shelter burned to the ground, five heroic firefighters died at the scene. Now their survivors must find a...
- Author:Meacham, LeilaSummary:
Aly Kingston has only ever loved one man: Marshall Wayne. But she put all of those childish dreams behind her ages ago when the Waynes left town. Her father's victory at foreclosing on the Wayne family farm, the betrayal written all...
- Author:Castillo, ElaineSummary:
How many lives fit in a lifetime? When Hero De Vera arrives in America--haunted by the political upheaval in the Philippines and disowned by her parents--she's already on her third. Her uncle gives her a fresh start in the Bay Area, and...
- Author:Chao, GloriaSummary:
At seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth grade was part of her parents' master plan. Now a freshman at MIT, she is on track to fulfill the rest of this predetermined future: become a doctor, marry a preapproved...
- Author:Plante, DavidSummary:
A daughter of Jewish refugees searches for love and a spiritual home in this novel by the National Book Award-nominated author of Difficult Women. Brought up in a secular household on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Nancy Green knows...
- Author:Jones, TayariSummary:
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together,...
- Author:Paleja, ShekharSummary:
It’s 1947 in Lahore, and the Sharma family is forced to flee their home during the violence of the Partition of India. As the train tracks measure the ever-growing distance between Varoon and his mother, who vanished during the panic to...
- Author:Taylor, PatrickSummary:
An Irish Country Welcome is a charming entry in Patrick Taylor's internationally bestselling Irish Country series. In the close-knit Northern Irish village of Ballybucklebo, it's said that a new baby brings its own welcome. Young doctor...
- Author:Davis, JaneSummary:
Mother and daughter: the most precious bond in the world. At six years old, Belinda Brabbage has amassed a wealth of wisdom and secret worries. She knows all the best hiding places in her Worlds End flat, how to zap monsters with her...
- Author:Al-Nakib, MaiSummary:
Sara thought teaching philosophy at Kuwait University was temporary, and yet inertia kept her there. Then she's accused of blasphemy for teaching Nietzsche, and must reconcile her place in the world.
- Author:Snelling, LauraineSummary:
After the loss of her first love, is Ingeborg Strand willing to marry a stranger--however kind--for the promise of a new life in America?
- Author:den Hartog, KristenSummary:
Ruth grew too fast. A young girl over seven feet tall, she struggles to conceal the physical and mental symptoms of her rapid growth, to connect with other children, and to appease her parents, Elspeth, an English seamstress who lost...
- Author:Pearson, KitSummary:
Thirteen-year old Polly is following in her sister's footsteps to a boarding school in Victoria. Will her sister's new secret tear her family apart again?
- Author:Keyes, MarianSummary:
Unlike the rest of her family in Ireland, Maggie Walsh has always done the right thing - that is until the day she leaves her husband and takes refuge with her friend Emily, a screenwriter in Los Angeles - a city where even the palm...
- Author:Winter, KathleenSummary:
Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a...
- Author:Fenton, AndreSummary:
Annaka has always hated her first name. That's why, when her mother packed her up at age seven and moved from Yarmouth to Halifax, she decided she would go by Anna. Now Anna is back in Yarmouth after the death of her beloved Grampy, and...
- Author:Montgomery, L. M.Summary:
Anne, a young orphan from the fictional community of Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia (based upon the real community of New London), is sent to Prince Edward Island after a childhood spent in strangers' homes and orphanages. Marilla and Matthew...
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