Ever since Kalagan's recent appearance in Mineral Wells, the Magic Misfits know that a showdown with the vicious magician is imminent. But first, can Ridley Larsen finally master her temper and put her magic to good use?
Mothers and daughters
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Author:Azam, Alec, Harris, Neil PatrickSummary: - Author:Jemisin, N. K.Summary:
At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times) This is the way the...
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Author:Laveau-Harvie, VickiSummary:"...A searing, brilliantly-written memoir about a destructive and cunning mother; reads like a novel..." --Margaret Atwood via Twitter. In this award-winning memoir, two sisters reckon with the decline and death of their outlandishly...
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Author:Bridge, KristaSummary:A gripping debut teeming with drama and scathing insight into the world of an all-girl private high school. For years, Audrey Brindle has dreamed of attending George Eliot Academy, the school where her mother, Ruth, has taught for a...
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Author:LAURENCE, MargaretSummary:In The Diviners, Morag Gunn, a middle aged writer who lives in a farmhouse on the Canadian prairie, struggles to understand the loneliness of her eighteen-year-old daughter. With unusual wit and depth, Morag recognizes that she needs...
- Author:Phillips, DeloresSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Tangy Mae tells of the brutal physical and mental abuse that her mother inflicts on her and her ten siblings.
- Author:Gaylin, AlisonSummary:
The USA Today bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of Never Look Back and If I Die Tonight plumbs the dark side of justice and the depths of diabolical revenge in this propulsive novel of psychological suspense that melds the...
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Author:Cabot, Meg.Summary:With her upcoming nuptials to PI Cooper Cartwright only weeks away, Heather's already stressed. When a pretty junior turns up dead, and every student in the dorm where she works is a possible suspect, Heather thinks it can't get any...
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Author:Quiviger, PascaleSummary:This novel by Scotiabank Giller Prize nominee Pascale Quiviger is about the bonds of friendship; the ties between mothers and daughters; the act of creation itself. It's a magical, intricately wrought work of art that reveals layer upon...
- Author:Weiner, JenniferSummary:
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new novel about love, family, friendship, secrets, and a life-changing journey. Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place....
- Author:Shields, CarolSummary:
Charleen is a divorcee in her mid-thirties, with a son whom she loves, a blossoming relationship with a man, and friends who care about her. Charleen wonders how her life turned out the way it did. Is she a failure?
- Author:Novak, BrendaSummary:
"A page-turner with a deep heart."--Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of Girls of Summer. How do you start a new chapter of your life when you haven't closed the book on the previous one?Eighteen months ago...
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Author:Hamilton, JaneSummary:As the incessant bickering between her troubled husband and her abusive mother reaches a violent climax, Ruth must find a way to survive.
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Author:Wilhelmy, Audrée, Ouriou, SusanSummary:Reminiscent of Gaétan Soucy’s The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches and William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Audrée Wilhemy’s The Body of Beasts is a startling, gorgeously written novel that tells the story of the Borya family...
- Author:Robards, KarenSummary:
A celebrated singer in WWII occupied France joins the Resistance to save her family from being killed in a Nazi prison. Familial love lasts forever, and Genevieve is willing to risk everything for it.
- Author:Weiner, JenniferSummary:
Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter is rebelling, her husband can be...
- Author:Hannon, IreneSummary:
When two distant sisters are reunited in their hometown one summer, they are forced to come to grips with mistakes from their past and learn how to forgive, let go, move on--and love again.
- Author:McMurtry, LarrySummary:
Aurora Greenway is a widow, and likes being pursued by her suitors. She is about to become a grandmother and life seems to be speeding by.
- Author:Leavitt, SarahSummary:
What do you do when your outspoken, passionate, and quick-witted mother starts fading into a forgetful, fearful woman? In this powerful graphic memoir, Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer's disease transformed her mother Midge -...
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Author:De Vries, Maggie, Kun, Janice, Gould, HeatherSummary:This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Ally isn't able to live with her mother. Instead she lives far, far away, on the other side of the country, with her gram and great-aunt. But one summer Ally goes to stay with...
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