between a mother and her child

Between a Mother and her Child

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Elizabeth Noble, PUBLISHER: Penguin Books, NA

Glenda's Story

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Revell, Glenda, PUBLISHER: Back to the Bible Publishing, Though rejected by her mother and abused throughout her childhood, Glenda triumphed over her circumstances through God's grace and mercy and became a loving, godly mother in spite of her past. A story for all women to read and be encouraged by.

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Mama, I'll Give You the World

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Schotter, Roni / Gallagher, Susan Saelig / Gallagher, S. Saelig, PUBLISHER: Dragonfly Books, Exquisite artwork and an exceptionally tender text showcase the special bond between a mother and her daughter. Every day after school, Luisa goes to Walter's World of Beauty to watch her mama work--cutting, coloring, and curling customers' hair. Before they go home, Mama puts her tip money in a special envelope for Luisa--for college. She wants to give Luisa the world But Luisa has a plan of her own. For Mama's birthday, Luisa wants to give Mama the world.... This touching story of a loving child and a single, hard-working mother is sure to be a favorite of families everywhere.

Dancing with the Cranes

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Armstrong, Jeannette / Hall, Ron, PUBLISHER: Theytus Books, This Book Subtly Presents an understanding of birth, life and death. Chi's mother is soon to have a baby, but Chi's is having a hard time being enthusiastic about her new sibling. Chi' misses her Temma (Grandmother), who has passed away. Chi's mother and father help her to bear the grief of her lost Temma and help her to understand life and death as part of nature. Chi' soon finds herself feeling comforted, knowing her Temma will always be a part of her and looking forward to the new child who will be a part of their lives.

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The Jesus Year

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Krulc, Jani, PUBLISHER: Insomniac Press, The Jesus Year explores the space between joy and tragedy, happiness and despair, sincerity and absurdity. A man falls into the foundation of the city's tallest building, and his sister must reinvent herself before her 33rd birthday; a woman kills her dying mother for the sake of redecorating; a writer seeks out a distance healer for her mysterious illness; a bride witnesses a violent altercation and reconsiders her wedding; a groom dies on his honeymoon; a daughter abandons her mother post-face lift to vacation in Greece; a lawyer confronts her sterility; a mother rejects her husband's gift; and a couple find themselves in an apocalyptic flood while planning their country wedding.In these stories, the banal details of life crash against momentous occasions, revealing what is hidden, and recasting what is already in plain sight.

Deep Down

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Harper, Karen, PUBLISHER: Mira Books, As a child, Jessie Lockwood spent many hours helping her mother, Mariah, count the endangered ginseng plants hidden in the local woods of Deep Down, Kentucky. There she learned to appreciate the tiny Appalachian town--and ginseng's healing powers. Now a PhD, she's made her home in Lexington, even though that meant leaving Deep Down and her beloved mother--and Sheriff Drew Webb, the man she secretly loved. When Jessie is notified that her mother never returned from her last walk in the woods, she comes home to Deep Down--and to Drew. As Jessie and Drew race to find her mother, several suspects emerge: an agent for those who market the herb for its life-giving properties; Mariah's disgruntled suitor; and an old Cherokee desperate to protect the sacred tribal herb. In the mist of legend and fear, only two things make sense to Jessie. At any cost, she is desperate to find her mother. And she can't help falling desperately in love with Drew all over again.

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The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Al-Shaykh, Hanan, PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, In a masterly act of literary transformation, celebrated novelist Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic life and times of her mother, Kamila. Married at a young age against her will, Kamila soon fell head-over-heels in love with another man--and was thus forced to choose between her children and her lover. As the narrative unfolds through the years--from the bazaars, cinemas and apartments of s Beirut to its war-torn streets decades later--we follow this passionate woman as she survives the tragedies and celebrates the triumphs of a life lived to the very fullest.

Y: A Novel

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Celona, Marjorie, PUBLISHER: Free Press, For fans of "White Oleander "and "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," an exquisitely rendered debut about a wise-beyond-her-years foster child searching for a home, entwined with the heartbreaking story of the mother who abandoned her. "Y. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wine glass. The question we ask over and over. Why?""My life begins at the Y..." so opens the story of Shannon, a newborn left at the doors of the local YMCA. Bounced between foster homes, Shannon endures neglect and abuse before she finally finds stability with Miranda, a single mother with a daughter of her own. But as Shannon grows, so do her questions. Who is her true family? Why would her parents abandon Shannon on the day she was born? The answers lie in the heartrending tale of her mother, a headstrong young woman with a flawed and desperate fate, trapped in a tragic series of events that will destroy her family and test the limits of her compassion and sacrifice. Sparkling with wit and surprisingly tender insights, Marjorie Celona's extraordinary novel offers a deeply affecting look at the choices we make and what it means to be a family. As the story builds, present and past converge to shape a unique and lasting story of identity and inheritance. "Y "marks the debut of an astonishing new talent.

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The Edge of Marriage: Stories

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kaplan, Hester, PUBLISHER: University of Georgia Press, In nine stories of tension-filled choices, difficult awakenings, and ironic twists, characters in The Edge of Marriage ride the wavering line between commitments and promises. Full of conflict, betrayal, illness, manipulation, and indecision, these stories portray men and women on the brink of defeat and drastic change. In "Claude Comes and Goes" a husband confesses his sympathy and affection for his wife's dying former lover. "The Spiral" captures the crippling effects of miscommunication and unresolved grief. In "Dyaesthesia" a wife and mother grapples with her feelings about her marriage and her husband after he is maimed in an accident. Characters trapped in troubled relationships and on the edge of society walk along Hester Kaplan's "edge": an out-of-wedlock child, a grown victim of child abuse, the male lover of a married man with AIDS. The title stoW confronts the complexity of friendship, love, and marriage, as a husband faces his wife's emotional breakdown and his own surfacing resentments. This sometimes startling, frequently poignant collection is illuminated by keen insight and tempered with somber hope.

Love, Debra

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hamilton, Fritz, PUBLISHER: Open Hand Pub., 15 year old Debra takes the family Cadillac and runs away from home leaving her sexually abusive father, his mistress, and the grave of her alcoholic mother. Lonely, Debra begins a series of letters to her dead mother revealing her odyssey through the underworld of the streets. Debra then explores alcohol, drugs, and prostitution and meets Richard, the kind, middle-aged night clerk. They head for San Francisco, hoping for a new life. When the letters end, we too have lived through her experiences of addiction, abortion, welfare, and AIDS.

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Chronicles of Air and Dreams

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Villarreal, Rosa Martha, PUBLISHER: Archer Books, A Mexican-American archeologist and her family are caught up in the legends and myths of their Aztec and Maya heritage. The story shifts between present day and the 16th century, and between dreams and reality.

A Daughter's Gift

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hope, Maggie, PUBLISHER: Ebury Press, A heartwarming new saga from the bestselling author of "A Mother's Gift." Elizabeth Nelson is only ten years old when her mother dies in childbirth. With her father gone, the siblings are separate; her Aunt Betty takes baby Kit. Elizabeth and her brother, Jimmy, are sent to a children's home and Alice and Jenny are sent into foster care. Life in the home is hard, but Elizabeth is determined to look after her brother and make a better life for them both. Working as a nurse gives Elizabeth a purpose but she risks everything by falling for local mine owner, Jack Benson. Wounded at Gallipoli, Jack is far above her in wealth and station. Elizabeth cannot marry him and she risks losing her nursing place if there is any hint of impropriety about her conduct. Then Elizabeth learns that her sister, Jenny, has been adopted by an abusive farmer. Torn between her hopeless love for Jack and her sister, must Elizabeth make an extreme sacrifice to reunite her family?

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The African Adventure

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Amis, Andrea L., PUBLISHER: iUniverse, Maria had a shocking childhood in France before her mother brought her to the United States. After her mother remarried their life was good, until her mother's death. Maria's stepfather, a scientist, went to Africa and vanished. When no one else would, Maria went by herself to find him in a country about which she knew nothing. Of course there is the cannibal tribe Maria and a prince are drawn together by extreme dangers. How do they end up in Arabia? What about her stepfather?

A Mother's Promise

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Humphrey, Lisa / Danioth, David, PUBLISHER: Illumination Arts Publishing Company, A lifetime of sharing between mother and child begins with A Mother's Promise, the sacred vow a woman makes as she prepares to bring life into the world. "When you are born, I promise to help you remember all you have forgotten." With elegance, magic and wonder, breathtaking images straight from the heart lend reverence to life's mystery and the spirit within us all... a treasure to be handed down for endless generations to come.

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The Unexpected Letter

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Stahl, Hilda, PUBLISHER: Tyndale Kids, This series has been popular with young girls for over two decades, and the updated series is sure to be a favorite of this generation too. Elizabeth Gail Dobbs ("Libby") is a foster child and the newest member of the Johnson family. Libby's new Christian family leads her to a relationship with God and teaches her about love. Throughout the series Libby learns about the power of prayer, how to love her enemies, and how to rely on God. In #10 "The Unexpected Letter," Libby learns that her birth mother is coming to take her away from the Johnsons, and she panics. How could God let this happen to her?

The Runaway Bunny

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brown, Margaret Wise / Hurd, Clement, PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers, A little bunny keeps runningaway from his mother in an imaginative and imaginary game of verbal hide-and-seek; children will be profoundly comforted by this lovingly steadfast mother who finds her child every time. The Runaway Bunny, first published in and never out of print, has indeed become a classic. Generations of readers have fallen in love with the gentle magic of its reassuring words and loving pictures.

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Wind Child

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Murphy, Shirley Rousseau / Dillon, Diane / Dillon, Leo, PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers, Born to a human mother and the East Wind, Resshie grows up wild and dreaming. She wants to know the wind's secrets and yearns to fly as the wind does. But she is only a human girl and cannot. She tries to capture the movement of the winds in her weavings, which bring her fame among the villagers, but still, Resshie is lonely. The lives of the village girls not for her. Resshie is meant for something special, but how will she ever capture her elusive dreams?

Angel Falls

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Connie Mann, PUBLISHER: Abingdon Press, When her best friend is killed in an explosion, leaving Regina da Silva with her friend s young child, she doesn t realize that the child was as much a target as her friend. Brooks Anderson has been sent to find the child and bring it to the US. When circumstances bring them together in Brazil, they find themselves being pursued by a killer as they protect an orphaned baby. As the danger heightens around them, so does the attraction between Regina and Brooks, despite their differences. Regina and Brooks have both been broken by their violent pasts, but while Regina relies on her faith to deal with her past, Brooks has turned away from God. Will their pasts stop them from realizing their true feelings for each other when their pursuer strives to keep them apart forever? Acquista Ora

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Alice all'inferno

Jane Elliott For little Dani Sinclair life is never easy. Her teenage mother, with a painful past, has disappeared without even bothering to leave a name the child. She is institutionalised and tormented by the other children, and decides to flee. On the

Rebellion

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Roberts, Nora, PUBLISHER: Wheeler Publishing, "Scotland, . Against the bloody background of the Battle of Culloden, another war was waged and won--the price was honor, the victory, love." Scottish beauty Serena MacGregor's hatred of all English began as a child when she watched as a band of Englishmen attacked her mother. Her brother's friend Brigham Langston was no exception to Serena's loathing--despite his supposed loyalty to the Scottish cause... and his good looks. Although Brigham eventually proves himself worthy of the MacGregor family's respect, Serena is still reluctant to abandon her hatred for him and his heritage. But Brigham has other plans. Serena has captivated him with her beauty, her passion for life and commitment to her beliefs--and he refuses to let her antagonistic attitude keep him from winning her. And Serena must learn to open her mind--as Brigham opens his heart--to see the true love awaiting her. Acquista Ora

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Looking for Oliver

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hancock, Marianne, PUBLISHER: Ulverscroft Large Print, While clearing through her late mother's bedroom, Emma finds a thirty-year-old newspaper clipping that her mother had kept, announcing the arrival of a new baby boy. Realizing that the baby must be the son she gave up for adoption, Emma finds herself vividly recalling the stigma of her schoolgirl pregnancy and the pain of her separation from the baby. She becomes transfixed by this link to her first-born, and sets out to search for Oliver, her adopted son -- despite the fact that she now has a husband and two teenage children, who know nothing of her past...

His Unexpected Family (Love Inspired (Large Print))

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Johns, Patricia, PUBLISHER: Love Inspired, Suddenly A Mother When a baby is dropped into her life without warning, Emily Shaw is overjoyed. It's a bit odd that her distant cousin named single Emily as guardian, but she's thrilled all the same. She never thought she'd get to be a mom. Another unexpected blessing is that baby Cora arrives in the arms of police chief Greg Taylor. Despite all three of them instantly bonding, Greg has promised himself he'll never be a father. And now Emily's smooth-talking relative is challenging her right to raise Cora. Will Emily have to make an impossible decision between the child she already loves and the man who loves her?

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The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Koofi, Fawzia / Gourhi, Nadene / Ghouri, Nadene, PUBLISHER: Palgrave MacMillan, The nineteenth daughter of a local village leader in rural Afghanistan, Fawzia Koofi was left to die in the sun after birth by her mother. But she survived, and perseverance in the face of extreme hardship has defined her life ever since. Despite the abuse of her family, the exploitative Russian and Taliban regimes, the murders of her father, brother, and husband, and numerous attempts on her life, she rose to become the first Afghani woman Parliament speaker. Here, she shares her amazing story, punctuated by a series of poignant letters she wrote to her two daughters before each political trip--letters describing the future and freedoms she dreamed of for them and for all the women of Afghanistan. Her story movingly captures the political and cultural moment in Afghanistan, a country caught between the hope of progress and the bitter truth of history.

The Longest Whale Song

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wilson, Jacqueline, PUBLISHER: Corgi Books, Ella's mother ends up in a coma after giving birth to her new baby brother and Ella is forced to make her peace with her new stepdad. At school, she loses a best friend and copes with a bully, but her new friend Joseph shares her enthusiasm for whales and becomes an unexpected source of support. "From the Hardcover edition."

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Caught Out in Cornwall

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bolitho, Janie, PUBLISHER: Allison & Busby, When Rose Trevelyan sees a young girl being carried away by someone who appears to be her father, she thinks nothing of it. Until, that is, the appearance of a frantic mother who cannot find her child. Beth Jones is only four years old, and her mother is adamant that the man Rose saw taking her away must be a stranger.Wracked with guilt for not intervening, Rose once again finds herself entangled in a criminal investigation. As time passes, it becomes clear that the chances of getting Beth back unharmed are very bleak indeed...

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