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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

A child living in the Arctic learns that a mother's love is unconditional.

When their father is killed in a plane crash, twins Kara and Lizzie are taken from the step mother who loves them into the hands of their greedy relatives.

Twelve-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief.

"Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her-before her mother, Lina, stepped in. Soon after, Adrian was dropped off at her grandparents' house in Maryland, where she spent a long summer drinking lemonade, playing with dogs, making a new best friend-and developing the stirrings of a crush on her friend's ten-year-old brother. Lina, meanwhile, traveled the country promoting her fitness brand...

A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.

Every Tuesday Lola and her mother visit their local library to return and check out books, attend story readings, and share a special treat.

"After spending a few years abroad, Julia returns to Mexico. She settles in the house of her mother, Catalina, following the traces of her past as a way of reunion with herself. On her return, she will meet Silvia, a young pregnant woman who lives in a foster home waiting for the moment to give birth and give her child to other parents. Between the three women, an unexpected game of mirrors will be established that will place us in front of some of...

A story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families, the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered....

"At thirty-nine, Josie Bordelon's modeling career as the 'it' black beauty of the '90s is far behind her. Now director of admissions at San Francisco's most sought-after private school, she's chic, single, and determined to keep her seventeen-year-old daughter, Etta, from making the same mistakes she did. But Etta has plans of her own--and their beloved matriarch, Aunt Viv, has Etta's back. If only Josie could manage Etta's future as well as she manages...