Anno Adelmann, a wealthy widower, is the survivor of two heart attacks. His four scheming daughters all have designs on his inheritance. He decides to have a bit of fun at their expense, but what...
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Author: HAUPTMANN, GabySummary: -
Author: TODD, PenelopeSummary:
It's been a year since Zillah visited Roimata, the place on the wild West Coast which changed her life. Now she's back. Yet this time, not only have Joss and Hep asked along another...
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Author: LYNCH, Sarah-KateSummary:
Wife, mother, backer, lover... no wonder she feels spread thin. It's not easy being the adoring mother of one, living in the middle of the English countryside with a short-sighted goat, a...
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Author: ALI, MonicaSummary:
Nazneen is a teenager forced into an arranged marriage with an older man and misery seems to stretch ahead for her. Fearfully leaving the sultry oppression of her Bangladeshi village, Nazneen...
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Author: GUTERSON, DavidSummary:
A sixteen-year-old runaway, Ann Holmes, is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent. But on a November afternoon, in the foggy woods of North Fork, Washington, the Virgin comes to her,...
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Author: LYNCH, Sarah-KateSummary:
Connie Farrell, a New York restaurant critic, is sitting in a first class seat on her way to Venice for the second honeymoon of a lifetime. There's only one problem, Tom, her high school...
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Author: MACKLER, CarolynSummary:
Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first...
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Author: Marsden, JohnSummary:Written in the form of letters, this novel traces the friendship of two penpals, teenage girls, one of whom is serving time inside. When the letters suddenly cease, it is left to the remaining...
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Author: CATRAN, KenSummary:
For seventeen-year-old Harry and his girlfriend Jessica, World War One is a crusade against the Hun. Harry enlists and is sent to Gallipoli, and Jessica leaves school and trains as a nurse. Their...
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Author: Kidman, FionaSummary:
Jean Batten became an international icon in the 1930s. A brave, glamorous woman, she made a number of heroic solo flights across the world. The newspapers couldn't get enough of her; and yet...
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Author: Vanderstoop, DoreenSummary:
Watershed is a contemporary dystopian novel set in a near-future southern Alberta, which has been ravaged by desert-like conditions, as opposed to the northern part of the province, which is warm...