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Publication Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Gena Rowlands is Charlie Kate Birch, a fiercely independent family matriarch and maker of homeopathic remedies who lives with her daughter Sophia (Mimi Rogers) and granddaughter Margaret (Susan May Pratt) in North Carolina during WWII. When Margaret falls for a wounded soldier, grandma gently nurtures the relationship, even as she tries to help Sophia heal from a broken heart.
5) Snow cake
Publication Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Recently released from prison, Alex offers a ride to a hitchhiker, only to have her killed instantly when they are involved in a brutal car accident. Alex then approaches the girl's mother, and the events that unfold dramatically change both his life and those of others around him.
Publication Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A mother and her daughter are always fighting and screaming at each other. Each thinks that the other has it so easy. Then, thanks to a magical fortune cookie, they switch personalities and bodies and discover each other's problems and complications. And they end up gaining a little respect for each other's point of view. But they need to be changed back by Saturday, because the mother is getting married!
9) Now, voyager
Publication Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise, where she finds love, which helps her to become her own person.
Publication Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Newly divorced Sarah and her teenage daughter Elissa have just moved to the suburbs for a fresh start. But their hopes quickly shatter as they learn that, years earlier, a grisly murder took place next door when a deranged girl killed her parents and disappeared. The girl's older brother Ryan still occupies the house, and when he befriends Elissa, his secretive past could become her worst nightmare.
11) Panic room
Publication Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg and her daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
Publication Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
As Mitzi Bearclaw turns 25 years old, she is faced with a tragic decision - stay in a big city to pursue her dream of designing hats or leave her boyfriend and return home to her isolated reserve to help her father care for her sick mother. Loyal to her family, Mitzi reluctantly returns to Owl Island to find that not much has changed. Her confidence and modern style clash with the sleepy, slow-paced island; the bullies are the same; the handsome...
13) Mother and child
Publication Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Three women's lives share a common core. They have all been profoundly affected by adoption. At age fourteen, Karen placed a baby for adoption, and has been haunted ever since by the daughter she never knew. Elizabeth grew up as an adopted child. Even though she is a bright and ambitious lawyer, she is a flinty loner in her personal life. Lucy and her husband are just embarking on the adoption odyssey, hoping for the opportunity to become parents....
17) The meddler
Publication Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With a new iPhone, and apartment near the grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori and smother her with motherly love. When the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and...
Publication Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Nona, a consummate 70-year-old Parisienne, a feminist, and a strong and committed single mother of 40-year-old triplets. She is confronted with the surprise of a lifetime she is pregnant! Despite her secret love affair with André -- a mature university professor, he is not the father. But who is, then? Nona's daughters decide to move back into the family apartment to support their mother and unravel this mystery, all while trying to navigate their...
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