 | Sunday's Child
Release Date: April 1, 1989Ten-year-old Jenny's new foster mother dosen't live up to her expectations until Jenny discovers that there are more important things in life than lavish gifts and fancy homes. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
 |  | The Women of Eden
Publication Date: April 15, 2002Eden is a culture where women and men worship a Great Mother Goddess and live in harmony with each other until a patriarchal warrior society invades their world and a clash of cultures begins. Erde, high priestess of the Goddess, her daughter Eve, and granddaughter Cain, are caught up in murder, intrigue and adventure. ...
|  | After Lydia
Publication Date: April 1995Returning home for the celebration of her grandmother's eightieth birthday with an erstwhile lover her family dislikes, Vickie is haunted by the mysterious circumstances surrounding her mother's death and comes to question her ties to her family. ...
|  | Summer in Tuscany
Publication Date: August 2002Gemma Jericho is an overworked New York doctor with a handful of a teenaged daughter and a mother who worries that Gemma has no life. So when her mother Nonna receives a mysterious letter telling her about an even more mysterious inheritance in Tuscany, the three of them throw caution and convention to the wind: they leave for Italy. What they encounter is a crumbling old village and a town divided: half believe Nonna's villa belongs to Ben Raphael, an unnervingly handsome American. As cultures clash, gossip soars and intrigue unfolds, Gemma is caught up in the m...
|  | Waterborne
Publication Date: April 30, 2002Waterborne is a preternatural tale of the Atlantic layered with the textures, colours, and voices of the sea.Stella Maris Goulding is the unwanted child of a teenage mother and a usually absent father. She has grown up in Elsinore, a Newfoundland fishing village, loved and cared for only by her grandmother. Her mother clearly hates her, belittling and abusing her without remorse while cultivating her own beauty. Stella adores her mother and blames herself for the failings with which her mother charges her. The legacy of Stella’s unhappy childhood is an em...
|  | 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...
|  | Ten Good Seconds of Silence: A novel
Publication Date: March 1, 2002Lilith Boot's life changes forever the night she drowns the flowers in her parents' garden. Frightened by their daughter's odd behaviour, and her recent pronouncements of psychic visions, the Boots send Lilith to a Vancouver mental hospital. It is there that she becomes pregnant, giving birth after her discharge. Years later, Lilith uses her visions to help Toronto police find missing children. At the same time, her own daughter, Lemon, struggles to distinguish herself from her quirky mother. Searching for her identity, she sets off across the country in search...
|  | A Woman of Our Times
Release Date: September 1, 1990From the author of "Strangers", "The White Dove" and "Bad Girls, Good Women", this is a story of money and the effects it can have. Bored Harriet meets an ex-POW who gives her a game of his own invention. She realizes its potential and soon earns a fortune - but she is changed fundamentally. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | 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...
|  | That's What Friends Are for: A Novel
Publication Date: June 1997| ISBN-10: 1577341112 | ISBN-13: 978-1577341116While sharing zany adventures with her drop-dead gorgeous stage mother and trying to help an anorexic friend, seventeen-year-old Veronica, a budding journalist, experiences a spiritual awakening. ...
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