 | Running Away
Publication Date: July 31, 2008Isabel finally has it all: a rising career as a TV producer, a warm relationship with Marshall, the man who wants to marry her, and a tenuous rapport with her rebellious teenage daughter, Denny. But in the blink of an eye, everything changes. When Denny Runs away, Isabel's world falls apart. Marshall is incapable of understanding her anguish over her daughter's disappearance, and just when she needs him most, he, too, runs away. Alone, Isabel must deal with the mounting pressures of a competitively cutthroat job, her anxiety over Denny's whereabouts, and the my...
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|  | Nina, the Bandit Queen
Publication Date: April 3, 2012In a part of town so beaten down that even prostitutes and drug dealers have written if off, Nina Dolgoy imagines that if the local pool wasn't boarded up, her little daughters could use it to burn off their wayward energy and avoid falling into utter degradation. So the bitterly self-proclaimed "welfare queen" leads her neighbours on a fundraising, pool-fixing community-improvement campaign that proves the sad old adage that no good deed ever goes unpunished.The only way Nina can think to raise money herself is by robbing a bank. Unfortunately, she isn't very ...
|  | Souvenir of Cold Springs
Release Date: August 7, 2001One family's secrets, betrayals, and hopes, woven together through four generations into a brilliant tapestry of memory and love. . Margaret Neal, a junior at Harvard, drops out after discovering she is pregnant. At loose ends, and feeling like a disgrace to her parents and to herself, she has to get away. For the money to buy a ticket out of town, she appeals to her Aunt Nell, the family matriarch, a no-nonsense ex-schoolteacher who seems to have nothing in her life but her cat, her daily bran cereal and prunes, a big old house full of stuff nobody wants, and rel...
|  | On a Day Like Today
Publication Date: September 1, 2008In this novel from Thorne, one woman's whole world is about to change. After Eleanor is involved in a near-fatal car crash, her daughter returns home to care for her. Under these most difficult of circumstances, the two women are forced to reassess what they mean to each other. ...
|  | North and South
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|  | The Places Where Names Vanish
Release Date: April 19, 1998The Places Where Names Vanish explores the frightening, encoded, and potentially explosive realities of Quebec and Montreal as seen by Ecuadorean expatriates.Marta longs for escape from her impoverished village, where she is pulled between traditionalism, spiritualism, Catholicism, and a dirty, brutal reality. The Places Where Names Vanish is a wonderfully evocative, subtle and heartfelt novel, which concentrates on one brave human spirit, but raises more questions than any sociological expose. ...
|  | My Sisters (Premier Fiction Series)
Publication Date: April 2009| Series: Premier Fiction Series When sisters Margaret, Rose, and Quincy Lansing receive the tragic news that a car accident has claimed the life of their mother, they must return to their childhood home - and to one another's company. Although they are shocked and heartbroken, none of the Lansing sisters is eager to be back. For the painful memories they thought they'd left behind have suddenly resurfaced...The Lansings were never a close or loving family. And each sibling had long ago found her own means of escape-Margaret into her lab work, Rose into her "perfe...
|  | No Place of Angels
Publication Date: June 1, 1998Carys Beddows has never understood why her mother hates her so much. Certainly jealousy plays a part—Maria believes that young Ryder Tempal would be hers if her daughter was out of the way, and she throws Carys out of the house. Maria continues with her vicious schemes until fate intervenes. ...
|  | Once Upon a Wedding
Release Date: July 9, 2002Mom, Dad, I'm getting married.What do you do when your daughter tells you the big news? If you're Camille Delonga, you fight the urge to go lie down for a year or so ... and then you do what any self-respecting mother of the bride would -- you march right out and buy a sky-high stack of bridal magazines. Once upon a Wedding In award-winning author Kathleen Eagle's astonishing and warm new novel, we see just what happens to Camille, her family, and her friends when her beautiful and young daughter, Jordan, speaks those unforgettable words. After all, weddings are a t...
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