There was rarely a time when Phoenix Yuan-Whyller's mother, Rain, didn't live with her. Even when Phoenix got married, Rain, who followed her from China to Toronto, came to share Phoenix's life. Now at the age of eighty-three, Rain's unexpected death ushers in a heartrending separation. Struggling with the loss, Phoenix comes across her mother's suitcase, a memory box Rain had brought from home. Inside, Phoenix finds two old photographs and a decorative...

When Billy was a young boy, he was abused by his mother. His mother cheats on his father and she ends up killing his father. For years Billy is kept in the attic while she and her lover start a "new" family. Billy's mother becomes pregnant and has a daughter. She is treated with love, a love which Billy has never experienced. After years in the attic, Billy comes out and brutally murders his mother and her lover. Now living in Billy's childhood home,...

Everyone must make way for Elmo and his five ducklings as he leads them all over town in a search for their missing mother.

Typing up positive-thought messages for a self-help guru isn't exactly Daphne's idea of dream job. But to regain custody of her nine-year-old son, she's willing to try. A few weeks later, when that same self-help guru asks her to take care of 100 endangered parrots, Daphne is willing to try that too. What ensues is a hilarious, heartbreaking tragicomedy involving the love of her life, the landlady from hell, three house painters, a flock of passenger...

A Southern soccer mom (Reba) learns her married daughter isn't going to be moving out of the house with her husband and baby. Reba accepts a job working for her ex-husband. No matter how hard she tries to make family life run smoothly, she learns there is no way to please everyone.

A young mother in desperate need of a job begins to work as a paralegal and stumbles across a toxic situation in groundwater which develops into a monumental lawsuit against a giant corporation; a famous film star falls in love with an ordinary guy when she visits his book shop to buy a book; two former spies, now corporate operatives for different companies, plan a double-cross of their employers to get rich; after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan,...

Showcasing everyday moments of love between mother and child, this adorable rhyming board book, filled with animal characters, helps little ones learn their ABCs while celebrating Mom.

A five-year-old narrates a story about his life growing up in a single room where his mother aims to protect him from the man who has held her prisoner for seven years since she was a teenager.

When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him.

"Celebrate super moms everywhere with this exciting board book that highlights all the ways in which moms are real-life everyday superheroes who always make sure the world keeps turning!" --publisher's website