family

In Los Angeles there lives a family with strong family bonds that gives random acts of goodwill and kindness to improve the lives of the people in this poor and sometimes violent community.

After the death of her father and a sudden move back to Canada in 1985, Freya feels disoriented until she meets Garren and begins remembering their shared past, despite the efforts of some people to keep them from learning the truth.

Siddalee Walker, a successful theater director, is thrown into a void of uncertainty when she has a falling out with her mother, Vivi, over a New York Times article in which Vivi is characterized as an abusive parent, and the Ya-Yas, Vivi's gang of lifelong girlfriends, conspire to restore the mother-daughter relationship.

Born with bird wings into a family cursed to be foolish in love, sixteen-year-old Ava delves into her family's past hoping to understand her unusual nature and learn to fit in with her peers, but she is ill-prepared for what she discovers.

Believing he has killed his grandfather, Zane Guesswind heads for his mother's grave to kill himself, driving the Plymouth Barracuda his father left behind and meeting mysterious characters along the way who help him discover who he really is.

Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life.

Fourteen-year-old Kevin is a hard worker, so when his income is cut off he begins a series of businesses, from poker games to selling snacks, earning money to take a girl to a dance, but his partners soon tire of his methods.

Presents the text of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel about a family living under the curse of a man who was hanged for witchcraft; and includes background information on the story, and a selection of critical reviews and essays.