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Release Date: July 6, 2006

broken water is a short story cycle of interwoven stories that revolves around a Southern family's secrets, misunderstandings, perceptions, and truths, and creates a rich, four-dimensional experience for the reader.

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• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing (July 6, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1412039045
• ISBN-13: 978-1412039048
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Publication Date: February 1, 2003

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Publication Date: October 1, 1999

Young, beautiful and rich, Lilith Cox embarks on a quest which takes her around the world.

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• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Sterlinghouse Publisher (October 1, 1999)
• Language: English
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Sunday's Child: Gudrun Mebs: 9780440401674: Amazon.com: Books

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Release Date: April 1, 1989

Ten-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.

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Publication Date: 1950 | Series: Bantam Book

WAS SHE LOSING HER LOVER...TO HER DAUGHTER?She had been so sure of Pete's love, but now she was certain that something had gone wrong. Was she too old, too demanding? Had he tired of her face, her physical self so used and soiled in contrast to the sweetness and freshness of Duff's young body? While she was not young, she had a beautiful body, in a way more beautiful than Duff's. The thing about love was that a woman's body need not be young if it had grace nd poise and experience, Duff's body was white and smooth and lithe. But some men like that, she thought suddenly....

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• Language: English
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	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...
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	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...
	Shore Lights Publication Date: September 2, 2003A USA Today Bestselling AuthorLiving under her mother's roof makes Maddy feel like a teenager -- and a sullen misunderstood one at that -- but Maddy is worried about her mother and determined to give her something to smile about, even if it means engaging in a heated on-line auction for an old Russian samovar. Ex-firefighter Aidan O'Malley wanted that samovar for his teenage daughter, and he isn't happy at being outbid. But from a bidding war, a most unlikely -- and romantic -- connection is formed. Both wary and weary, neither Maddy nor Aidan expect to car...
	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. ...
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	Revising Romance a Novel Release Date: May 1, 2004With an ex-husband in the wings and a cantankerous author front and center, editor Elaine Salter is disillusioned witht he idea of romantic involvement. But when she finds herself drawn to local bookseller Nathan Marks, Elaine reassesses her expectations and concludes tht romance isn't dead. It's alive and well, and full of surprises. ...

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Publication Date: September 2, 2003

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Living under her mother's roof makes Maddy feel like a teenager -- and a sullen misunderstood one at that -- but Maddy is worried about her mother and determined to give her something to smile about, even if it means engaging in a heated on-line auction for an old Russian samovar. Ex-firefighter Aidan O'Malley wanted that samovar for his teenage daughter, and he isn't happy at being outbid. But from a bidding war, a most unlikely -- and romantic -- connection is formed. Both wary and weary, neither Maddy nor Aidan expect to care so deeply -- and so quickly -- about each other. But amidst some surprising family secrets, their efforts to give a little girl and an elderly woman their hearts' desires may just give Maddy and Aidan a chance of finding their own.

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	Hangin' out with Cici Publication Date: 1978Teenage Victoria who has a knack for getting into trouble and feels totally misunderstood by her mother, suddenly finds herself back in the forty's and involved with an equally trouble-prone girl who has some very familiar ways. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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	Listening to Billie Release Date: December 12, 1977“She commands her material so well that we are made to believe that her fiction—her plot—is no stranger than our lives.”  --Ms. Magazine   Listening to Billie is a brilliant portrait of a contemporary woman adventurously, decisively embarked on her own life.   We first glimpse Eliza Hamilton Quarles as a blonde boarding-school student, sitting in a sophisticated New York club, listening to Billie Holiday. She is on the brink of her marriage to her older, worldly date. Twenty years later, a mother, divorced, she, tentat...
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	Like Mother, Like Daughter Release Date: July 19, 1994A sweeping saga of four generations of women, played out against a passionate portrait of America in the twentieth century, from "free love" in Greenwich Village to the Summer of Love in San Francisco, from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York to the fires of the London Blitz. Here is the engrossing story of Leah Vogel Lazarus, the matriarch of a family of women whose lives and loves become the rich tapestry of Marcia Rose's most dazzling novel . . . .Leah -- Her gift for words propelled her from New York's Lower East Side into the bohemian life of Gree...
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• Paperback: 415 pages
• Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside (October 1, 2003)
• Language: English
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	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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	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. ...
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	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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• Publisher: Baskerville Publishers (September 1993)
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	Inherited Sins Publication Date: September 16, 2008Told through their diary entries, Inherited Sins is the story of Johnnie Marie Martin, a young woman living on an isolated farm in 1940s west Texas, and Reverend Dan Fletcher, the pastor of the local church. Watching his beautiful wife slip farther and farther away from him after the death of their son, Reverend Fletcher comes to rely on his friendship with Johnnie Marie to battle through his own grief. As he falls in love with her, she reveals her dark past, the abusive and incestuous relationship she had with her father, and the desperate measures she to...
	Hangin' out with Cici Publication Date: 1978Teenage Victoria who has a knack for getting into trouble and feels totally misunderstood by her mother, suddenly finds herself back in the forty's and involved with an equally trouble-prone girl who has some very familiar ways. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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	Hand-me-down Heartache: A Novel Release Date: October 2, 2001New, from the author of Sorority Sisters, a novel about a young woman navigating the sometimes rocky terrain of family, career, and relationships.After graduating from college, Nina Lander moves back in with her parents as she temps and tries to secure a "real" job. She isn't finding it very easy to break into television broadcasting, and her parents' strained marriage has made living at home even more depressing. But when she meets Maurice, a promising basketball rookie, Nina feels as if she's found the one. She is determined to make the relationship w...
	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. ...
	Lithium for Medea (Contemporary American Fiction) Release Date: October 1, 1989| Series: Contemporary American Fiction Lithium for Medea is as much a tale of addiction—to sex, drugs, and dysfunctional family chains—as it is one of mothers and daughters, their mutual rebellion and unconscious mimicry. Here is the story according to Rose—the daughter of a narcissistic, emotionally crippled mother and a father who shadowboxes with death in hospital corridors—as she slips deeply and dangerously into the lair of a cocaine-fed artist in the bohemian squalor of Venice. Lithium for Medea sears us with Rose’s breat...
	Humpback goes north (Smithsonian oceanic collection) Publication Date: 1999| Series: Smithsonian oceanic collection Little Whale's mother must keep her playful, curious youngster out of the harmful paths of big ships, and teach her the wondrous ways of the humpback whale.Set Features:- An informative storyline and colorful illustrations- 32 pages- 6 inch humpback whale stuffed animal- Appropriate for ages: 3-9- Mini book dimensions: 5 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches- Package dimensions: 6 x 6 1/2 x 4 inches --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
	The Gazebo (Hqn Romance) Publication Date: January 1, 2006| Series: Hqn Romance A teenage pregnancy changed "wild child" Deirdre McDaniel's life and dreams. Now that her idealistic daughter has come of age, Deirdre tries to make up for lost time as she struggles to come to grips with the demons of her past and open her heart to Jake Stone. Original. ...
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Release Date: April 19, 1998

The 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.

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• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Thistledown Press; 1 edition (April 19, 1998)
• Language: English
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	Hand-me-down Heartache: A Novel Release Date: October 2, 2001New, from the author of Sorority Sisters, a novel about a young woman navigating the sometimes rocky terrain of family, career, and relationships.After graduating from college, Nina Lander moves back in with her parents as she temps and tries to secure a "real" job. She isn't finding it very easy to break into television broadcasting, and her parents' strained marriage has made living at home even more depressing. But when she meets Maurice, a promising basketball rookie, Nina feels as if she's found the one. She is determined to make the relationship w...
	Earth Circles Publication Date: May 1, 1989On the first day of spring a mother and daughter climb a hill and celebrate the cycles of nature, from the pattern of seed to flower to the rising and setting of the sun. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
	Cinnamon Publication Date: January 2002 Cinnamon loves the shadows, because that's where no one can find her...For Cinnamon, dreaming of imaginary worlds and characters is her only escape from her mother's breakdowns. Her grandmother's overbearing control. Her family's turmoil. But Cinnamon is discovering something special about herself, a gift from deep within that sets her apart: a talent for the theater that would finally give her a chance...to truly escape. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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Publication Date: October 1996 | Series: Allen & Unwin Original Fiction.

A woman's struggle to cast off repression and regain her life.

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• Publisher: Allen & Unwin (October 1996)
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	What You Owe Me Publication Date: January 2002Los Angeles, l945: When Hosanna Clark, newly arrived from the farm fields of Texas, befriends Holocaust survivor Gilda Rosenstein, she opens the door to a new life for them both. Using Gilda's knowledge of cosmetics and Hosanna's energy and determination, they begin producing a line of lipsticks and lotions for black women. The two are more than partners: They are dear friends. Then Gilda suddenly disappears, taking all the assets. Hosanna is doubly betrayed: financially ruined and emotionally bereft. When, years later, she passes away, her small cosmetics compa...
	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....
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