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Par Billie Livingston. 2016
Maggie is alone. Again. With bills to pay and her husband in a psych ward, she must return to work.…
But who would hire her in the state she's in? Her brother, Francis, is an unlikely priest with a drinking problem and little interest in celibacy. When Maggie takes him in, he knows he may be down to his last chance. And his best shot at healing might lie in helping Maggie and her husband reconnect. 2016.Par Lily Tuck. 2016
As the child of a German movie producer father who lives in Italy and a beautiful, artistically talented mother who…
resides in New York, Liliane's life is divided between those two very different worlds. A shy and observant only child with a vivid imagination, Liliane uncovers the stories of family members as diverse as Moses Mendelssohn, Mary Queen of Scots and an early Mexican adventurer, and pieces together their vivid histories, through both World Wars and across continents. 2016.Par Alice Hoffman. 2014
The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a stubbornly suicidal son and a defiant, restless granddaughter, Esther has hired…
a Russian landscaper to watch over the family as well as the grounds of their secluded waterfront estate. But he has been watching Esther, too. And his love for her is growing wild enough to uproot them all. 2014.Par Stephen L Carter. 2002
Judge Oliver Garland has just died - or was he murdered? His son, Tal, left with Oliver's cryptic last words,…
must unravel his father's life in order to solve the puzzle of his death. Unaccustomed to being a man of action, Tal must risk his career, his marriage, and even his life to follow the clues. 2002.Par David Homel, Fred A Reed, Monique Proulx. 2003
Florence doesn't like writers, books, dogs, alcohol, old people, pleasure, or love, only her partner Zeno - though she'd never…
admit it. The two of them run an Internet business that puts lesser known writers and artists back in the limelight. Zeno sends Florence to find his favourite author, the mysterious Pierre Laliberté, in this novel of literature and the people who create it. Strong language. Canada Reads 2004. 2002, 2003. Uniform title: Cœur est un muscle involontaire.Par Deborah Ellis. 2004
Binti and her siblings are orphaned when their father dies of AIDS. Split up and sent to relatives all over…
Malawi, they suffer increasing hardship. But Binti is not about to give up; she will look outside herself and find a new way to be special. For junior and senior high readers. 2004.Par Joanna Goodman. 2018
In 1950s Quebec, where the French and English barely tolerate each other, Maggie Hughes falls for the French boy next…
door. But Maggie's English father won't have any of it, and when she becomes pregnant at fifteen, he forces her to give baby Elodie up for adoption. Elodie is raised in Quebec's impoverished orphanage system, withstanding abysmal treatment until she earns her freedom at seventeen. As time passes, the stories of mother and daughter intertwine, but never touch, until Maggie realizes she must go in search of her long-lost daughter. Bestseller. 2018.Par Nadine Gordimer. 1998
Harald and his doctor wife Claudia are faced with a son who has committed the unimaginable, who has disregarded the…
sanctity of human life. The parents and Duncan find themselves in the hands of a flamboyant black advocate, in a country where the death penalty is still on the statute book. 1998.Par Eleanor Lowenton Clymer. 1983
Caroline is exploring her new country home when she discovers an old painting of an extraordinary horse. Her whole family…
becomes involved in unraveling the mystery of the animal's identity and fascinating history. For grades 4-7. 1983.Par Colm Tóibín. 2012
Eamon Redmond, an Irish judge, wonders where he fits in. He feels alienated from his family, past and present, and…
lately he's not so sure about the legal world. Even his wife questions his commitment. But slowly his repressed memories come to terms with a new order. Perhaps his new grandchild is the missing link. Originally published in 1992, 2012.Par Merilyn Simonds. 2004
Alyson Thomson and Walker move to a farm where the isolation, coupled with the death of their infant daughter, leads…
to tension and conflicts. One day Alyson discovers a journal from a woman who lived on the farm one hundred years earlier, and who shared many of Alyson's problems. 2004.Par Norah Lofts. 1975
A story of fifteenth century rural England. tale unfolds the new adventures of Sir Godfrey Tallboys and the two women…
who love him. His wife, Sybilla, welcoming him home after six long years, learns she must now share their home with the exotic young creature, Tana, who has saved Godfrey's life. It does not take a second glance to see that Tana is about to bear a child. What Sybilla does not know is that the child is Godfrey's. Sequel to: "Knight's Acre" (DC31546). Followed by "The lonely furrow" (DC31547). 1975. (Suffolk trilogy ; 2)Par Makeda Silvera. 2002
When Maria Galloway dies, she leaves everything to her spoiled, wayward grandson, Vittorio. Her only granddaughter, Molly, whom she raised…
from infancy, is left to confront the unyielding bitterness Maria harboured against her. As Molly begins to trace the complex interrelationships in her loving but divided family, she recalls her idyllic childhood, spent in her grandmother's sky-blue house in Jamaica. 2002.Par Beth Powning. 2004
Fifty-two year-old Kate is about to face her second winter since the untimely death of her husband. Her children are…
all grown up and have moved away, leaving her alone in her New Brunswick home. When Kate's sister gives her a collection of hatboxes containing letters from her grandparents' home, she begins to dream of her childhood. But as she reads the letters, she learns a tragic truth about her family's past. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2004.Par Anita Rau Badami. 2000
Sripathi Rao lives in his crumbling ancestral home in India with his extended family. His daughter left years earlier to…
study in America and remained in Canada after marrying a Canadian man. Then Sripathi receives the news that his daughter and her husband have been killed and that his seven-year-old granddaughter must now come to live with him and the family in India. Canada Reads 2016. Bestseller. 2000.Par Jessica Stirling. 1978
Here is the second part of the saga of the Stalkers, a family determined to survive. In the town of…
Blacklaw, the mine-owner Houston Lamont squeezes the last ounce of profit from his pitmen, until the coalfields erupt in violent and bloody riots. With her father and two brothers dead Mirrin, the restless fire-brand of the family, takes to the road. Sequel to "The spoiled earth" (DC36013), followed by "Dark pasture". 1978.Par Pauline Gedge. 1999
The "Two Lands" of upper and lower Egypt have been under the rule of the Hyksos, invaders from Asia Minor,…
for 200 years. They have exiled and humiliated the Tao family, hereditary kings and queens of Egypt, until they are finally pushed into rebellion. However, after several generations of Hyksos rule, it is often difficult to discern where true loyalty and wisdom lie. Followed by "The oasis" (DC30419). 2000, c1999. (Lords of the two lands ; 1)Par Gary Paulsen. 1992
Fourteen-year-old John Barron must take 6,000 sheep up to the summer pasture where he's to care for them by himself…
for three months. Although he is not sure he can handle the job, John feels he has no choice: his father must remain in town, and the hired man must tend the rest of the ranch. John's father made the trip at age fifteen, and his great-grandfather claimed their vast spread when he was only eighteen. For junior, senior and older readers. 1992.Par Ronald Koertge. 1992
Fifteen-year-old Gabriel is continually embarrassed by his teacher/writer father, but when he goes to live with him in Los Angeles…
in an apartment complex full of unusual characters, Gabriel gains new insights into himself and his father. For junior and senior high readers. c1992.Par Rosella M Leslie. 2006
In an isolated cabin on the Sunshine Coast, two eccentric sisters find themselves taking in an abandoned baby. Gentle Florrie…
welcomes baby Jen, but wily Mag finds it much harder to accept Jen into her life. Jen grows up torn between the rural lifestyle she loves and her quest for acceptance from her classmates in the nearby town of Sechelt. 2006.