A masterful achievement: a joint coming-of-age story and an achingly poignant portrait of the strange, painful, ultimately life-sustaining bonds between sisters. Lark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for...
Motherhood
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Author:Ohlin, AlixSummary: -
Author:Ohlin, AlixSummary:All her life, Lark Brossard has felt invisible, overshadowed by the people around her: first by her temperamental mother, Marianne; then by her sister, Robin, a brilliantly talented pianist as wild as the animals she loves; and finally...
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Author:Delisle, Jennifer BoweringSummary:Deriving explores infertility, motherhood, and family, while troubling the colonial legacies of the English language and Canadian identity. A feminist exploration of ancestral and etymological origins, Jennifer Bowering Delisle's...
- Author:Wong, TeresaSummary:
In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet. Equal parts heartbreaking and funny, Dear Scarlet...
- Author:Liew, Jamie Chai YunSummary:
Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award winner: an Asian woman traces her mother's past journey in order to learn who she really is and where she belongs. When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family,...
- Author:Deslauriers, StéphanieSummary:
Tout le monde sait comment on fait les bébés, mais les mamans… on les fait comment? La première année de ta vie de mère ne ressemblera sans doute pas à celle que tu as imaginée. Mais elle sera la tienne, et tu peux la rendre parfaite… à...
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Author:Scottoline, LisaSummary:A successful pediatrician believes she is finding her balance after a devastating divorce. She's newly engaged and her daughter is happy again after a period of turmoil on losing her stepfather in the divorce. But the relative...
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Author:McNair, ChristineSummary:A charm can protect, inflict or influence.Charm, the second collection by poet Christine McNair, considers the craftwork of conception from a variety of viewpoints—from pregnancy and motherhood, to how an orchid is pollinated, to...
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Author:Greene, HaleySummary:You may have heard of some of the "joys" of being pregnant, but you will be glad you didn't know everything after reading Are You KIDing Me? Here are 51, not so funny things that can happen during pregnancy, with a humorous spin....
- Author:Crewe, LesleySummary:
For the first time, bestselling novelist, columnist, and humorist Lesley Crewe's finest newspaper columns are collected in one place. Not merely razor sharp, Lesley's wit is also ocean wide, taking in everything from the humiliations of...
- Author:Freedman, ArielaSummary:
When Hannah accompanies her husband and small children to Jerusalem for the year, she becomes fascinated with a group of expat women at her son's daycare, as well as a young Palestinian woman named Jenna. As she grows close to Jenna she...
- Author:Elliott, AliciaSummary:
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction* *Named a Globe and Mail and CBC Best Book of the Year* From the bestselling author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground comes a mind-bending, gripping novel about Native...
- Author:Hooper, KimSummary:
A couple brimming with the hope of a new pregnancy. A woman coming to terms with the truth behind her adoption. A husband trying to save his marriage from the despair of infertility. These are just a few of the stories in All the Acorns...
- Author:Proulx, SheaSummary:
When Alice was born her mother only found time to draw her while she napped. Gradually Alice is multiplied in a tapestry of selves, both large and small, while an overarching narrative whispers through the pages, musing on the meeting...
- Author:Nelson, AdibaSummary:
With a new baby with medical needs and a slew of hardships, Adiba Nelson set out on a reckoning that was just as generational as it was personal. Along the way, she never loses her heart or her humor.
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Author:Macdonald, Ann-MarieSummary:Mary Rose MacKinnon is a successful author of YA fiction doing a tour of duty as stay-at-home mom while her partner, Hilary, takes a turn focusing on her career. She tries valiantly to balance the (mostly) solo parenting of two young...
- Author:Ferner, BrandySummary:
April is a thoughtful yet sarcastic mother of two who tries her best to be a caring, connected mom in a middle-class culture where motherhood has become relentless. April rages at modern motherhood's impossible pressures, her husband's...
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Author:Sorensen, SueSummary:Janey knows she should be trying to put her academic career on the map, but how? She'll more readily poke fun at than engage in yet another overly dry and theoretical conference. And her husband and their friends simply encourage her...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
In this latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's ever-delightful and perennially best-selling series, amateur sleuth and philosopher Isabel Dalhousie is called upon to help when a matchmaker begins to question her latest match. A...
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