Willy May, former beauty queen, chooses exclusive Mustique to build her post-divorce life, and is soon in its inner circle. But beneath its decadence, the island's dark side shifts her relationship with her daughters.
Mothers and daughters
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Author:McCoy, SarahSummary: - Author:Simon, NinaSummary:
New York Times Bestseller - Reese's Book Club Pick. Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door. "I just loved how intriguing the mystery is but also the dynamics between a grandmother, a mother, and a teenage...
- Author:Gutcheon, Beth RichardsonSummary:
This haunting story bridges two centuries, two mother-daughter relationships, and two tragic love stories in a small town called Dundee on the coast of Maine.
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Author:Robinson, J. JillSummary:Just as blue eyes or a birthmark may be passed down through the generations, so too are other, far less welcome traits, not all of them physical, but emotional. More in Anger is the poignant story of three generations of women and the...
- Author:Thompkins-Bigelow, JamilahSummary:
A khimar is a flowing scarf that my mommy wears. Before she walks out the door each day, she wraps one around her head. A young girl plays dress-up with her mother's headscarves, feeling her mother's love with every one she tries on....
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Author:Olsen, SylviaSummary:When Molly learns a talent competition is coming to town, her friend Murphy (A Different Game, Murphy and Mousetrap) becomes her manager. Molly is certain she is a good singer, she has been singing in her head for as long as she can...
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Author:Brooks, MarthaSummary:In 1981, sixteen-year-old Sally McLean is in a car full of teenagers when it plunges through the ice to the bottom of Mistik Lake. Sally is the only survivor. Many years later, Sally's teenaged daughter, Odella, is left wondering...
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Author:Florence, MelanieSummary:"A young mother, one of the many missing indigenous women, watches over her small daughter as she grows up without her nimama. Together, but separated, they experience important milestones: the first day of school, first dance, first...
- Author:Kinsella, SophieSummary:
Shopaholic Becky is at her wits end with her 2-year-old daughter, Minnie, who is wreaking havoc everywhere she goes and has a penchant for shopping just like her mother. When a huge financial crisis hits she plans a suprise party for...
- Author:Jean, EmikoSummary:
In this brilliant new novel by from Emiko Jean, the author of the New York Times bestselling young adult novel Tokyo Ever After, comes a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny, and utterly heartwarming novel about motherhood, daughterhood,...
- Author:Trethewey, Natasha D.Summary:
A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a...
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Author:Sorbie, AnneSummary:This is a story of family, of death, and of the art of living. It is also the story of the ties that bind a mother to a daughter and the dynamics that govern their love. Shaped as a memoir, shared by Sarah Flett and her daughter Rhegan...
- Author:Goupil, MylèneSummary:
Mélie habite seule avec sa mère toujours fatiguée, loin de sa famille restée à l’autre bout du monde, et surtout loin de son papa dont elle ne sait rien. Lorsque Mélie trouve un téléphone intelligent dans le parc, elle commence à...
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Author:Fitzpatrick Dorion, Betty, Farrell Racette,SherrySummary:The spirited heroine of Betty Dorion's juvenile novel certainly makes the best of things. She forms a close friendship with Rachel, a fellow Cree, and refuses to be bugged by Tanya, a classmate who seems determined to make her life...
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Author:Brossard, Nicole, Queyras, SinaSummary:First published in 1987, Nicole Brossard's classic novel returns in a new edition. A seminal text in Canadian and feminist literature, Mauve Desert is a must-read for readers and writers alike. This is both a single novel and three...
- Author:Prosapio, DesireéSummary:
If you found a matchbook with a phone number, would you call? What would you do if a murderer answered? Award-winning writer Desireé Prosapio's suspense novel Matchbook follows the harrowing quest of a most unlikely heroine. Driven into...
- Author:Danticat, EdwidgeSummary:
A touching tale of parent-child separation and immigration, from a National Book Award finalist After Saya's mother is sent to an immigration detention center, Saya finds comfort in listening to her mother's warm greeting on...
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Author:COLLIER, CatrinSummary:Destitute after the Second World War, Magda Janek settles in the Welsh town of Pontypridd, in the hope of building a new life for herself and her baby daughter, Helena. All Magda has to give Helena are the ambitions she had once...
- Author:Qu, AnnaSummary:
A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant's journey to an American future. As a teen, Anna Qu is...
- Author:Chaikin, Linda LeeSummary:
Son mariage à Rogan Chantry est tout ce qu’Evy Varley avait espéré, jusqu’à ce qu’elle apprenne qu’elle est enceinte au retour de la lune de miel. Craignant que Rogan refuse qu’elle voyage dans sa condition, Evy décide de lui cacher la...
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