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Scenes from Provincial Life - J.M. Coetzee
Scenes from Provincial Life opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. We meet a young boy who, at home, is ill at ease with his father and stifled by his mother's unc... -
Saving Max - Antoinette van Heugten
Product DescriptionMax Parkman—autistic and whip-smart, emotionally fragile and aggressive—is perfect in his mother[HTML_REMOVED]s eyes. Until he[HTML_REMOVED]s accused of murder.A... -
Rutland Place - Anne Perry
Things are not what they seem in fashionable Rutland Place, where secrets that are never discussed at tea include murderWhen her mother asks her help in finding a lost locket with ... -
Rebel Fay - Barb Hendee; J. C. Hendee
SUMMARY: Desperate to free his mother from a caste of ruthless elven assassins, Leesil joins his beloved Magiere, the sage Wynn, and their canine protector, Chap, on a difficult jo... -
Pumpkin Eater - Penelope Mortimer; Daphne Merki
Our unnamed narrator is the mother of countless children, also nameless, from several marriages, and the wife of the successful screenwriter Jake Armitage. The Armitages are bui... -
Pretty Little Things - Jilliane Hoffman
SUMMARY: Thirteen-year-old Lainey Emerson is the middle child in a household that police are already familiar with: her mother works too much and her step-father favors his own blo... -
Petals from the Sky - Mingmei Yip
EDITORIAL REVIEW: When twenty-year-old Meng Ning declares that she wants to be a Buddhist nun, her mother is aghast. In her eyes, a nun's life means only deprivation - 'no freedom,... -
Perfect Match - Jodi Picoult
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *What does it mean to be a good mother? How far would you go in the name of love -- and justice?* **Perfect Match** In the course of her everyday work, career-dri... -
Paths not taken - Simon R. Green
FromThe follow-up to Nightingale's Lament (2004) finds John Taylor reeling from the discovery that his mother is the legendary Lilith of biblical times and that she is responsible.... -
Ordeal by Innocence - Agatha Christie
While serving a sentence for killing his mother - a crime he insisted he didn't commit - Jacko Argyle dies in prison. Two years later, the man who could have supported Jacko's alib...