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The confession (The heritage of Lancaster County ; #2)
By Beverly Lewis. 1997
Katie, now Katherine Mayfield, searches for her birth mother. The journey takes her to the Finger Lakes region of New…
York and into a world of compassion and greed, mercy and betrayal. Meanwhile Katie's first love, Daniel, wants to rekindle their relationship. Sequel to "The Shunning" (DC36967), followed by "The reckoning" (DC36966). 1997. (The Heritage of Lancaster County ; 2)The dictator: a novel
By David Layton. 2017
Aaron, unhappy in middle age, must deal with the reverberations of the financial crisis, his increasingly alienated teenaged daughter and…
the sudden care of his father, Karl, a man he hardly knows, who is descending into Alzheimer’s. Karl is a man who has survived by reinventing himself many times over. Blustering, arrogant, he is convinced that the world is intentionally trying to confuse him, not least his good-for-nothing son. Not like his other son, the one he left behind. If only Karl could remember his name, and where he is, Karl would go and find him. 2017.The crooked heart of mercy
By Billie Livingston. 2016
Maggie is alone. Again. With bills to pay and her husband in a psych ward, she must return to work.…
But who would hire her in the state she's in? Her brother, Francis, is an unlikely priest with a drinking problem and little interest in celibacy. When Maggie takes him in, he knows he may be down to his last chance. And his best shot at healing might lie in helping Maggie and her husband reconnect. 2016.The double life of Liliane: a novel
By Lily Tuck. 2016
As the child of a German movie producer father who lives in Italy and a beautiful, artistically talented mother who…
resides in New York, Liliane's life is divided between those two very different worlds. A shy and observant only child with a vivid imagination, Liliane uncovers the stories of family members as diverse as Moses Mendelssohn, Mary Queen of Scots and an early Mexican adventurer, and pieces together their vivid histories, through both World Wars and across continents. 2016.The drowning season
By Alice Hoffman. 2014
The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a stubbornly suicidal son and a defiant, restless granddaughter, Esther has hired…
a Russian landscaper to watch over the family as well as the grounds of their secluded waterfront estate. But he has been watching Esther, too. And his love for her is growing wild enough to uproot them all. 2014.The emperor of Ocean Park
By Stephen L Carter. 2002
Judge Oliver Garland has just died - or was he murdered? His son, Tal, left with Oliver's cryptic last words,…
must unravel his father's life in order to solve the puzzle of his death. Unaccustomed to being a man of action, Tal must risk his career, his marriage, and even his life to follow the clues. 2002.The home for unwanted girls: a novel
By Joanna Goodman. 2018
In 1950s Quebec, where the French and English barely tolerate each other, Maggie Hughes falls for the French boy next…
door. But Maggie's English father won't have any of it, and when she becomes pregnant at fifteen, he forces her to give baby Elodie up for adoption. Elodie is raised in Quebec's impoverished orphanage system, withstanding abysmal treatment until she earns her freedom at seventeen. As time passes, the stories of mother and daughter intertwine, but never touch, until Maggie realizes she must go in search of her long-lost daughter. Bestseller. 2018.The house gun
By Nadine Gordimer. 1998
Harald and his doctor wife Claudia are faced with a son who has committed the unimaginable, who has disregarded the…
sanctity of human life. The parents and Duncan find themselves in the hands of a flamboyant black advocate, in a country where the death penalty is still on the statute book. 1998.The heather blazing: a novel
By Colm Tóibín. 2012
Eamon Redmond, an Irish judge, wonders where he fits in. He feels alienated from his family, past and present, and…
lately he's not so sure about the legal world. Even his wife questions his commitment. But slowly his repressed memories come to terms with a new order. Perhaps his new grandchild is the missing link. Originally published in 1992, 2012.The holding
By Merilyn Simonds. 2004
Alyson Thomson and Walker move to a farm where the isolation, coupled with the death of their infant daughter, leads…
to tension and conflicts. One day Alyson discovers a journal from a woman who lived on the farm one hundred years earlier, and who shared many of Alyson's problems. 2004.The homecoming (Suffolk Trilogy ; #2)
By Norah Lofts. 1975
A story of fifteenth century rural England. tale unfolds the new adventures of Sir Godfrey Tallboys and the two women…
who love him. His wife, Sybilla, welcoming him home after six long years, learns she must now share their home with the exotic young creature, Tana, who has saved Godfrey's life. It does not take a second glance to see that Tana is about to bear a child. What Sybilla does not know is that the child is Godfrey's. Sequel to: "Knight's Acre" (DC31546). Followed by "The lonely furrow" (DC31547). 1975. (Suffolk trilogy ; 2)The heart does not bend: a novel
By Makeda Silvera. 2002
When Maria Galloway dies, she leaves everything to her spoiled, wayward grandson, Vittorio. Her only granddaughter, Molly, whom she raised…
from infancy, is left to confront the unyielding bitterness Maria harboured against her. As Molly begins to trace the complex interrelationships in her loving but divided family, she recalls her idyllic childhood, spent in her grandmother's sky-blue house in Jamaica. 2002.The hatbox letters
By Beth Powning. 2004
Fifty-two year-old Kate is about to face her second winter since the untimely death of her husband. Her children are…
all grown up and have moved away, leaving her alone in her New Brunswick home. When Kate's sister gives her a collection of hatboxes containing letters from her grandparents' home, she begins to dream of her childhood. But as she reads the letters, she learns a tragic truth about her family's past. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2004.The hero's walk: a novel
By Anita Rau Badami. 2000
Sripathi Rao lives in his crumbling ancestral home in India with his extended family. His daughter left years earlier to…
study in America and remained in Canada after marrying a Canadian man. Then Sripathi receives the news that his daughter and her husband have been killed and that his seven-year-old granddaughter must now come to live with him and the family in India. Canada Reads 2016. Bestseller. 2000.The hiring fair
By Jessica Stirling. 1978
Here is the second part of the saga of the Stalkers, a family determined to survive. In the town of…
Blacklaw, the mine-owner Houston Lamont squeezes the last ounce of profit from his pitmen, until the coalfields erupt in violent and bloody riots. With her father and two brothers dead Mirrin, the restless fire-brand of the family, takes to the road. Sequel to "The spoiled earth" (DC36013), followed by "Dark pasture". 1978.The hippopotamus marsh (Lords of the two lands. #1.)
By Pauline Gedge. 1999
The "Two Lands" of upper and lower Egypt have been under the rule of the Hyksos, invaders from Asia Minor,…
for 200 years. They have exiled and humiliated the Tao family, hereditary kings and queens of Egypt, until they are finally pushed into rebellion. However, after several generations of Hyksos rule, it is often difficult to discern where true loyalty and wisdom lie. Followed by "The oasis" (DC30419). 2000, c1999. (Lords of the two lands ; 1)The goat lady's daughter
By Rosella M Leslie. 2006
In an isolated cabin on the Sunshine Coast, two eccentric sisters find themselves taking in an abandoned baby. Gentle Florrie…
welcomes baby Jen, but wily Mag finds it much harder to accept Jen into her life. Jen grows up torn between the rural lifestyle she loves and her quest for acceptance from her classmates in the nearby town of Sechelt. 2006.The good body: a novel
By Bill Gaston. 2000
Bob Loose Bonaduce is a hockey player who never quite made it to the big time. Now he's decided to…
retire and return to his home province of New Brunswick. Once there, he lies his way into graduate school and attempts to get close to the son he abandoned twenty years earlier. At the same time he has to deal with the fact that he is stricken with multiple sclerosis and may eventually lose control over the body that has taken him so far in life. Some strong language.The green chamber
By David Homel, Martine Desjardins, Fred A Reed. 2018
Louis-Dollard Delorme, his miserly wife Estelle, and his three spinster sisters revere money so much that they have converted their…
residence's "green chamber" into a place of worship and have elevated domestic penny-pinching to an art form. As for the family's heir, Vincent, they intend for him to make a highly profitable marriage - a reasonable prospect, until the day when the house opens its doors to Penny Sterling, a young woman whose means equal only her curiosity. 2018. Uniform title: Chambre verte.The half brother: A Novel
By Kenneth Steven, Lars Saabye Christensen. 2004
Barnum, an award-winning screenwriter, relates the lives of four generations of his Norwegian family. On May 8, 1945, his mother…
Vera, hoping to celebrate the end of World War II with her mother and grandmother, is brutally raped by an unknown assailant. From that crime is born a boy named Fred, a misfit who later becomes a boxer. Barnum, born several years later, and Fred form a bizarre but special relationship. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex and violence. Original Norwegian edition published in 2001. 2004. Uniform title: Halvbroren.