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Great-grandmothers

  • The Truth Against the World
    Author:
    Stevenson, Sarah Jamila
    Summary:

    When Olwen Nia Evans learns that her family is moving from San Francisco to Wales to fulfill her great-grandmother’s dying wish, she starts having strange and vivid dreams about her family’s past. But nothing she sees in her dreams of...
  • The things we leave unfinished
    Author:
    Yarros, Rebecca
    Summary:

    Told in alternating timelines, THE THINGS WE LEAVE UNFINISHED examines the risks we take for love, the scars too deep to heal, and the endings we can't bring ourselves to see coming. Twenty-eight-year-old Georgia Stanton has to...
  • The same stuff as stars
    Author:
    Paterson, Katherine
    Summary:

    When Angel's self-absorbed mother leaves her and her younger brother with their poor great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries not only about her mother and brother, her imprisoned father, the frail old woman, but also about a...
  • Me in the middle
    Author:
    Machado, Ana Maria, Merola, Caroline, Unger, David
    Summary:

    One day Isabel finds a box in her mother's closet and, inside, a photograph of a girl dressed in old-fashioned clothes. Ten-year-old Bel is enchanted to discover that the girl is her great-grandmother Beatrice, her Bisa Bea, and that...
  • Kukum
    Author:
    Jean, Michel
    Summary:

    A Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jean's great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic change in an Innu community. Kukum recounts the story of Almanda Siméon, an orphan raised by her aunt and...
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