 | Mother Love (Voices of the South)
Publication Date: April 2003| Series: Voices of the South Set in Greensboro, North Carolina, Mother Love is the story of three sisters: their shared history, the complex bonds that unite them, and the contradictory relationship that each has with their passionate and difficult mother, who has recently died.Whenever the sisters are together, they tell one another stories about their mother.The stories can be troubling, terrible, or hilarious, but they always bring the sisters closer and reinforce their mother's continuing presence in their lives.Mother Love is a passionate and deeply moving b...
 |  | The Marriage Menders (G. K. Hall Romance)
Publication Date: June 2000| Series: G. K. Hall Romance Imogen's move to Taunton is an attempt to find a new lease of life for her sinking marriage. Perversely, as her husband repairs the house, she is obsessed with a man whose behaviour becomes increasingly irrational. Alarmed at her daughter's uncharacteristic behaviour, Nina starts investigating. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
|  | Long Gone Anybody
Publication Date: September 1, 2004When you're running away from life, how far do you need to go...? A nineteen-year old runs away from her life and keeps on running. Haunted by the unexplained departure of her mother four years earlier, she is looking and not looking. Adopting one identity after another - female escort, apple-picker, cashier, canvas girl in a travelling circus - she is afraid to slow down for fear of what, or who, may catch up with her. When anonymous postcards start to arrive at every place she goes, she is finally forced to confront the fate of her long-gone mother. Can t...
|  | 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...
|  | The Middle Ages
Release Date: July 23, 2002From the acclaimed author of Crossing Brooklyn Ferry comes a sexy, witty urban love story for the ages. For architect and single mom Jane Larson, life has become a numbing routine. Each morning she ascends from the subway to face the same job she's had for eighteen years: designing chain banks, grocery stores, and dry cleaners. In the evening she goes home to her teenage daughters who are increasingly critical of her. She's lost all interest in relationships and love, and her whole life feels frozen. But when she is suddenly let go from her firm, disaster turns int...
|  | Monkey Bay (Contemporary American Fiction)
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|  | Mothers & Daughters:Irish Short
Publication Date: November 19, 1998A collection of Irish short stories, including: "Cards", where a daughter tries to shock her mother with her bohemianism; and "In Bed", where a mother shows enormous patience in dispelling her daughter's phobia about fleas and dirt. ...
|  | Memory Stones
Publication Date: March 3, 2003Nell, a rare female Master of Wine, enjoys an uncluttered and elegant life in Paris, sharing her days with Lulu - the cantankerous poodle her best friend bequeathed to her as a joke on her deathbed - and sharing her passion for wine with Henri, her lover and married vineyard owner. Until a phone call shatters the peace of her carefully constructed world...It is her daughter's neighbour in Ireland, with news so worrying that Nell can no longer avoid the inevitable. She must return home for the first time in over thirty years. But why has it taken Nell so long to...
|  | Lost Daughters (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)
Publication Date: March 1, 1999| Series: Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England A novel that turns the traditional adoption narrative on its head as it explores how lies move through generations. ...
|  | Mother Flies Hurricanes
Publication Date: December 8, 1999This coming-of-age WWII adventure tells the story of a British woman ferry pilot, as seen through the eyes of her young son. The war unleashes havoc on the life of Andrew Hadley-Trevelyan, transforming him from a naive nine-year-old into a conflict-scarred young man of fourteen. Along the way must cope with bombings, family traumas, fear, loss, exile, and the invasion of his country by overpaid, oversexed, and over-here Yanks.For better or worse, Andrew internalizes the war raging around him and often strikes out in the only way he can, sassing his mother an...
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