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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"All children have imaginary friends, Georgina tells herself. It's perfectly normal, and they all grow out of it in the end. But when her seven-year-old son, Cody, tells her about New Granny, the new friend he's met in the park, Georgina is instantly suspicious. Something-call it maternal instinct-tells her he isn't making it up. But maybe Georgina is losing her mind. It wouldn't be the first time, after all. And with her own mother's recent death...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Her whole world hinged on the moment one man jumped. On a perfect summer's day in Paris, tourists on a river trip watch in horror as drama unfolds. A small boy has fallen overboard and disappeared below the surface of the water. As his mother stands frozen to the spot, another passenger jumps. This is the story of how a single act of courage transforms the lives of all those involved: the hero James and his wife Alexa; Holly, the young mother of the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Colorful illustrations and text written in both English and Spanish tell a story about the struggles and experiences in life through a conversation between a mother saguaro and her daughter; and provides information on some of the plants and animals found in the desert.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Ainsley Earhardt reflects on her experiences as a mother and viewing wonders of the world through a child s eyes in this stunning follow up to Take Heart, My Child. So often as we race through life, we need the wisdom and perspective of a child to remind us what is important and what should be celebrated and remembered: the everyday joys and miracles and simple pleasures of life. Our children teach us and awaken our own inner child.
145) Orfeia
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When you can find me an acre of land, Every sage grows merry in time, Between the ocean and the sand Then will you be united again.(Inspired by The Child Ballads 2 & 19) ... So begins a beautiful and tragic quest as a heartbroken mother sets out to save her lost daughter, through the realms of the real, of dream, and even into the underworld itself. But determination alone is not enough. For to save something precious, she must give up something...
146) The perfect family
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Gemma Ballantine is getting ready for work one morning when her eldest child comes running down the stairs, saying the words every mother dreads. The front door is open and her six-year-old daughter has disappeared. Frantic with fear, Gemma starts a nail-biting search for her little girl. After what feels like forever, her mother-in-law Diane finds Katie wandering lost a few streets away. Relieved to have her youngest child back in her arms, breathing...
Author
Series
Books4pocket narrativa volume 251
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
1. edición en books4pocket.
Language
Español
Description
Tres mujeres casadas se conocen en una clase para futuras madres: Becky, chef de un bistro de moda, acosada por una suegra infernal; Aynde, esposa de una estrella de la NBA; y Kelly, una organizadora de eventos obsesionada con planear su vida al milímitro. A ellas se unirá Lia, una actriz que llega a la ciudad dejando atrás su carrera, su marido y una tragedia.
A chef, an event planner, and a basketball player's wife find their marriages and...
151) The secret
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Mary has been nursing a secret. Forty years ago, she made a choice that would change her world for ever, and alter the path of someone she holds dear. Beth is searching for answers. She has never known the truth about her parentage, but finding out could be the lifeline her sick child so desperately needs. When Beth finds a faded newspaper cutting amongst her mother's things, she realises the key to her son's future lies in her own past. She must...
152) The other mother
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Matthew Dicks, the beloved author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, comes The Other Mother, a novel about a teenage boy coping with the rupture of his family by viewing his mother in an unusual light. The one he loves most, is the one he knows least. Thirteen-year-old Michael Parsons is dealing with a lot. His father's sudden death; his mother's new husband, Glen, who he loathes; his two younger siblings, who he looks after more and more now...
153) The fire fox
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Freya and her mum have gone to a little cabin to get away for a while. The light has gone out of their lives since Freya's dad passed away. Freya isn't sure about going sledging, but when she meets a magical fox in the snow, she can't help but follow him into the forest--and on to a thrilling adventure"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Read aloud the story of Little Bear and his friends as they have a big day at the beach, then return home to eat dinner, take their baths, and head to bed, falling gently to sleep alongside your little one. Written by a bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist, this cozy bedtime book uses visualization techniques in the storytelling that encourage children to stretch and even exhaust their imaginations before drifting off into peaceful sleep."...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gifted with an empathic connection to food and wine, Ada, a rogue Chef, goes on the run with her beloved Grand-mère when mysterious assassins ferret her out, and finds her path converging with Solenn, a foreign princess in a strange land and her long-lost mother.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"Every day before Little Fish goes to bed, he says good night to all his friends--Red Fish and Blue Fish, Eye Fish and Sky Fish, Bumble Fish and Upside-Down Fish--before cuddling up with Mommy Fish for a long night's sleep"--
159) Give me the child
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An unexpected visitor. Dr Cat Lupo aches for another child, despite the psychosis which marked her first pregnancy. So when Ruby Winter, a small girl in need of help, arrives in the middle of the night, it seems like fate. A devastating secret. But as the events behind Ruby's arrival emerge - her mother's death, her connection to Cat - Cat questions whether her decision to help Ruby has put her own daughter at risk. Do we get the children we deserve?...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In 1913, Sarah Levine leaves her small village and sails to New York to start a promising new life with her husband, Micha. But all Sarah really wants is what has come so easily to her sisters--a family of her own. Finally, in her new home, her dream comes true...but at a terrible cost. She names the baby girl Liberty after the great statue in the harbor that she saw when she first came to America. From struggling to raise Liberty in a Lower East...
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