Beth's plans for a great Christmas are hampered by a basket filled with puppies that she finds on her doorstep and by her daughter's plans to reunite their parents.
Penny's childhood was spent in the shadows of her mother's business schemes. It fell to Lorna, her mother's acquaintance, to take care of the lonely girl, but the rejection always cut deep. When Penny turns 16 and tragedy strikes, Lorna's cousin Maureen, a feisty ex-stripper from London, strides into her life. Penny determines to make her own way in the world and, with Maureen, throws herself into a new life on the grimy streets of Soho.
As the Depression hits N.E. England, Hannah Casey's life is turned upside down. Since her father's death, Hannah and her mother Miriam have lived with her aunt and uncle. Aunt Aggie has been bedridden for years and Miriam is now mistress of the house. But as Hannah's beauty develops, she catches her uncle's roaming eye. Escaping to her friend Naomi's house whenever she can, she begins to court Naomi's handsome brother. But when she finally flees from home, it is the taciturn Jake, Naomi's older half-brother, who shines through as her protector.
The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her generosity soon proves dangerous after the girl makes a single, unforgivable misstep. Years later, Sabitri's own daughter Bela, haunted by her mother's choices, flees abroad with her political refugee lover -- but the America she finds is vastly different from the country she'd imagined. As the marriage crumbles and Bela is forced to forge her own path, she unwittingly imprints her own child, Tara, with indelible lessons about freedom, heartbreak, and loyalty that will take a lifetime to unravel.
When Bonnie runs away from home she leaves her mother Grace and sister Rita heartbroken. Each of their lives are in turmoil but their love for each other will see them through the most troubled of times.
Clara is forced to flee her home as the Nazis invade the beautiful island of Guernsey.Separated from her mother, far away from anything familiar, she is at the mercy of a cruel shopkeeper. Clara is worked like a dog, but the warmth of her Blackpool friendships will go far to save her. Julia just wants to find her beloved daughter -- but the trials of war will keep them far apart.They will meet again -- but the war will change everything for mother and daughter.
When Autumn returns to her hometown, she runs into a previous boyfriend and old feelings resurface. But should she hold out hope for the return of her missing husband?
Call No.
R Nov
ISBN
9781799960300
Accession No.
2021194
Member Library Holdings
CPL c.3 11/21
NVD c.2 11/21
VPL c.1 11/21
Publisher
Don Mills, Ontario, Canada : Harlequin Audio, 2021
It is the early 1980s and fifteen-year-old Libby is obsessed with trees. One night, while driving home, her mother, exhausted and overwhelmed with the fighting in the backseat, pulls over and orders Libby's little sister Ellen to walk home. What none of this family knows as they drive off leaving a twelve-year-old girl on the side of the road five miles from home with darkness closing in, is what will happen next.
When Polly Pritchard learns that her husband has been killed in action, she brings up their young daughter Emmie alone. To make ends meet she gets a job at the Cherry Ballroom in West London and it is here that she meets James, a Canadian airman, and they fall in love. But then Polly's husband turns up, very much alive...Life is even harder for Polly after the war; James has gone; her husband is involved in a criminal gang; and their daughter suffers from an illness that leaves her deaf. But Polly's spirit remains strong and with courage and determination she finds the happiness she and her daughter deserve.
Ruth Utagawa, daughter of lepers but not afflicted herself, is taken from an orphanage and adopted by a Japanese family, the Watanabes, who move from Hawaii to Northern California, where they start a strawberry farm in the early 1920s. In Florin, near Sacramento, they encounter prejudice in the form of Sheriff Dreesen, who wishes the Japanese would all move back to their homeland. Ruth comes of age during the Great Depression; she falls in love with a young man named Frank Harada, and together they open a popular diner. Then the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and, in the wake of FDR's Executive Order #9066, Ruth and her family are forcibly relocated to the internment camp at Manzanar, where they undergo a daily struggle for survival. At war's end, Ruth and her fellow internees must begin the equally difficult task of picking up their lives and starting anew. Then, Ruth receives a letter from her birth mother, Rachel. Their reunion forms the third act of this deeply moving novel.
The cat who swallowed more than a canary ...A lifetime of craving cuddlier companionship than her hectoring mother has led fortyish Bettina Bilby to board her neighbors' felines -- an expectant tabby, a pampered blue-eyed Balinese, a depressed ginger Persian with a cod-liver-oil addiction, and Adolf, an imperious mouser with a patchwork face -- for a long holiday weekend. But a freak storm sets the pigeon among the cats: a carrier bird downed on the doorstep with a tiny load of large, flawless diamonds. And Bettina's dilemma escalates as Adolf gobbles up one of the gems and a succession of elegant but shifty strangers prowl the gardens, offending the cats and bringing in their wake backdoor bloodshed and murder.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Faith Mitchell embarks on a danger-filled quest to rescue her kidnapped mother. But as Faith's search deepens, she uncovers a deadly conspiracy of bribery, police corruption, and murder.
Miranda Lovage and her mother have a blazing row when Arabella tells her daughter that she can no longer afford their present lifestyle. When she awakes next morning, she finds that her mother has disappeared. Miranda raises the alarm but everyone is baffled, and when searches fail to discover Arabella's whereabouts, Miranda is forced to live with her unwelcoming Aunt Vi and cousin Beth.
Miranda Lovage and her mother have a blazing row when Arabella tells her daughter that she can no longer afford their present lifestyle. When she awakes next morning, she finds that her mother has disappeared. Miranda raises the alarm but everyone is baffled, and when searches fail to discover Arabella's whereabouts, Miranda is forced to live with her unwelcoming Aunt Vi and cousin Beth.
After bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor, 14-year-old Lucy Takeda and her mother, Miyako, are rounded up -- along with thousands of other innocent Japanese-Americans -- and taken to the Manzanar prison camp where they endure abuse and harsh living conditions until Miyako makes the ultimate sacrifice.
Love at first sight, on an ice floe, on a dream cruise. The sound of wedding bells soon after. Impossibly romantic, or so it seems... For mother-of-the-bride Grace, it is anything but. Years of caring for her beautiful and unpredictable daughter Leonie have left her wise and worn. As she watches what began as a hopeful break away for mum and daughter become a tale of newfound passion between Irish beauty and besotted American male, she braces herself for drama to follow. As Grace picks up the pieces of her life after unseen events leave her reeling, she soon faces her own tough decisions. But will Grace manage to let love in?
In Paris, 1958, Grace Kelly's royal wedding dress is still all the rage in fashion circles. Rose, a seamstress at a famous atelier, has just been entrusted with sewing another gown in its image. But when Rose finds herself in love with the bride's handsome brother, she must decide what matters most: love or security. Janowitz focuses on the importance of tradition, new and old, and the power of a dress to fulfill even the most impossible of dreams.
Call No.
F Jan
ISBN
9781094098302
Accession No.
2020283
Member Library Holdings
SPL c.1 07/20
WV c.2 07/20
CPL c.3 07/20
Publisher
Don Mills, Ontario, Canada : Harlequin Audio, 2020
Lauren, Jenna, their mother, Nancy, and Lauren's daughter, Mack, are not so close. But when they are thrown together for a summer on Martha's Vineyard, these very different women must relearn how to be a family. And while unraveling their secrets might be their biggest challenge, the rewards could be infinite.
Call No.
F Mor
ISBN
9781538516966
Accession No.
2018634
Member Library Holdings
CPL c.3 08/18
SPL c.2 08/18
VPL c.1 08/18
Publisher
Don Mills, Ontario, Canada : Harlequin Audio, 2018
It's 1944, combat in the Pacific is intensifying, and Violet Iverson and her daughter, Ella, are piecing their lives back together one year after her husband vanished. Together, they try to find camaraderie with other women by opening a pie stand for the soldiers training on their Hawaiian island. But as suspicions about Violet's husband's loyalties surface, Violet suspects Ella knows something. But Ella seems too scared to talk.
Call No.
HR Ack
ISBN
9781538509746
Accession No.
2018147
Member Library Holdings
NVD c.1 03/18
NW c.2 03/18
Publisher
Don Mills, Ontario, Canada : Harlequin Audio, 2018
Jenn and Greg have been married for fourteen years and are enjoying the last week of their annual summer holiday in Deià, a village in Majorca. Their days are languorous and it's the perfect summer idyll--until Greg's teenage daughter, Emma, arrives with her new boyfriend, Nathan. What follows, over the course of seven days, is a brilliantly paced fever dream of attraction between Jenn and Nathan as it gets harder and harder for Jenn to stifle her compulsion.
