When her parents divorce, seven-year-old Faith finds a friend who supports her--a friend who may be imaginary. Is Faith a prophet or just a troubled little girl? From the acclaimed author of "The Pact" comes a provocative novel about belief, betrayal, and miracles, and the fierce love of a mother for her child.
With wit and intelligence, Steel's new novel explores love in all its guises, taking readers into the lives of three unusual, but wonderfully real couples. Funny, sexy, and wise, "One Day at a Time" is utterly impossible to put down. 336 pp.
Knit Two returns to the Manhattan knitting store Walker; Daughter five years after the death of the store's owner, Georgia Walker. Georgia's daughter, Dakota, is now an eighteen-year-old freshman at NYU, and running the knitting store part-time with help from the members of The Friday Night Knitting Club. Drawn together by their love for Dakota ...
Isabelle Goodrow works in a dead-end job in a self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy, trying to cope with the shame she feels about her affair with Amy's father. When Amy, frustrated by her seemingly unemotional mother, begins her own affair, the relationship between the two deteriorates.
The first book for the millions of daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-involved mothers, "Will I Ever Be Good Enough?" provides the expert advice readers need to overcome debilitating histories and reclaim their lives.
Described by "The Miami Herald" as a breezy, sweetly oddball urban fairy tale, this sequel to the bestselling "Good in Bed" picks up with an older, wiser, and thinner Cannie Shapiro raising her 13-year-old daughter, Joy.
When June's mother dies, she is invited to join a long-standing club of Chinese women who urge her not only to take her mother's place at the mah-jongg table, but also to carry the news of her mother's death to her step-sisters in China. Through the stories of the women and their daughters, the values of different generations are articulated. June ...
Meghann is a no-nonsense Seattle lawyer who doesn't have time for feelings. She leaves that to her sister, Claire, who lives a messy kind of life out in the boonies as a single mother. Now Claire is planning to marry a country musician named Bobby Austin--and at the same time she is diagnosed with a brain tumor. But one of Meghann's many casual ...
In this irresistible follow-up to her "New York Times"-bestselling debut, "Garden Spells," author Allen tells the tale of a young woman whose family secrets--and secret passions--are about to change her life forever.
In this second book in the Sweet Magnolias trilogy by a "New York Times" bestselling author, Dana Sue Sullivan's life is in chaos after she kicks her cheating husband to the curb. When her teenage daughter becomes ill, Dana Sue turns to the one man who may be able to help her daughter. Original.
An instant bestseller in both hardcover and paperback, Hope Edelman's Motherless Daughters explores the myriad ways that losing a mother can affect almost every aspect and passage of a woman's life. First published a decade ago, it is still the book that motherless daughters of all ages look to for understanding and comfort and that they press ...
This "New York Times" bestseller tells an unforgettable story about making bad choices for the right reasons, and the terrible consequences of a lie gone wrong. Delinsky delivers a riveting study of family and a superbly crafted, thought-provoking, novel.
Walker and Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The Friday Night Knitting Club was started by some of Georgia's regulars who gather once a week to work on their projects and to chat. As they knit, they bond; and as they bond, their lives become connected in most unexpected ...
When I was twelve, I made a naive, yet desperate pact with God to keep my ailing mother alive. It was the first time I'd ventured something so brazen--making a contract with the Almighty...So begins the story of Becky Owens, a talented and passionate young pianist on the verge of adolescence when she learns the devastating news of her mother's ...
The much-anticipated sequel to Gruen's poignant debut novel "Riding Lessons" continues the story of Annemarie Zimmer. As she struggles to make peace with her past, an unanticipated event occurs that drastically alters the fragile world of her family.
After fifteen-year-old Mia runs away from home in the middle of the night, her mother, Claire, enters the dark and sinister world of runaways, prisons, and pimps to save her daughter in an inspiring true story of the love and courage that connects mother to daughter. "Come Back" is the true story of how life catapulted fifteen-year-old Mia into ...
Thirteen years ago, one of Daisy Tucker's 3-year-old twins, Jake, disappeared during a cattle roundup at the family ranch in Wyoming--an event that disrupted her marriage to her husband, James. Since then, Daisy has lived with Jake's sister Sage, now 16, in New England, where her own family is from. Now Sage goes back to her father, taking along ...
The evening news proclaims that Corinne Elliots mother has turned herself in to the police in connection with a decades-old kidnapping and murder. Flashbacks reveal a womans desperate choice to go underground and raise a child that isn't hers.
Deborah Tannen is both a serious linguist and a popularizer whose best-selling forays into interpersonal communication are usually shelved in self-help sections of bookstores. In YOU'RE WEARING THAT? Tannen tackles the thorny issue of mother-daughter relationships, and shows that, as she has said before, we "just don't understand." Tannen's ...
Caretta Rutledge abandoned her Southern roots and troubled family long ago. Now, as her own life takes a turn for the worse, Caretta finds herself heading back to the beach house where she spent her childhood summers. There, Caretta renews old acquaintances and reconnects with her ailing mother, learning life's most precious lessons in the process ...
Three women struggle against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom in the summer of 1964 in Tupelo, Mississippi. Despite the difficulties thrust upon them, each will find her own path to independence, understanding, and peace.
Thirteen-year-old Astrid Magnussen has to grow up quickly when her beautiful, mercurial mother murders her lover (with the poison from oleander flowers) and is sentenced to life in prison. Astrid is raised in a series of foster homes--never losing her connection with her dominating and larger-than-life mother. As Astrid learns how to deal with her ...
When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily. A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of "The Lovely Bones" and "Lucky."
What begins as an innocent Girl Scout camping trip quickly turns to a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse when Sheriff Joanna Brady uncovers the body of a murdered woman in the woods.
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