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1) Unless
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
“Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.”
Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her modest...
Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her modest...
Author
Publisher
CNIB
Language
English
Description
Lucy Nolan is a golden girl who has grown up in a happy loving home. The one thing she still wants is to marry Jack Hanson. When he proposes Lucy is ready to give up everything to be with him. Then, on the eve of the wedding, tragedy strikes and Lucy must realize that Fate can be cruel. 1996.
3) Mackerel sky
Author
Publisher
CNIB
Language
English
Description
After a twenty-year absence, Guy Vidoq is returning home to meet his daughter for the first time. He discovers his mercurial daughter, Isabelle, has been raised in a bizarre, cloistered environment by her libertine mother, Martine, who is now living with a young man, Harry, roughly the age of their daughter. Furthermore, Guy soon discovers that the entire household is deeply enmeshed in a counterfeiting operation that produces fake American currency...
4) Buddha Da
Author
Publisher
CNIB
Language
English
Description
Anne Marie's Da, a Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. So when he first takes up meditation at the Buddhist Centre, no one takes him seriously, but as Jimmy becomes more involved in a search for the spiritual, his beliefs start to come into conflict with the needs of his wife, Liz. Cracks appear in their apparently happy family life, and the ensuing events change the lives of each family member.
Author
Publisher
CNIB
Language
English
Description
When Sophie's life-long friend Riba faces the challenge of caring for her gravely ill daughter, Riba pins all of her hopes on alternative methods of treatment. Sophie is torn between her loyalty to Riba, and her fears that Zelda will not get the help she needs. To complicate matters more, Sophie and Riba's husband find themselves drawn to eachother. Time is running out for everyone. 2002.
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