Introduces Katy, a ten-year-old girl living in a New York City high-rise apartment. Watch Katy take the subway with one of her parents, attend drama class after school, trick-or-treat in Greenwich Village, and celebrate her birthday with family and friends.
Caitlin and her parents rescue a hen from a lake, name her, and take her home with them; but even after they return her to the farm where she lives, her presence is still felt in Caitlin's family.
the Hatfields and the McCoys : the epic story of murder and vengeance
Alther, Lisa
2012
Looks at the infamous story of the Hatfields and the McCoys and their blood feud that began in 1865 with the murder of Harmon McCoy, a Union soldier, by a Confederate Hatfield relative.
A series of related novels in which four young girls, Misty, Star, Jade, and Cat, who carry heavily guarded pain caused by their families, come together under the care of a therapist, finally baring their secrets.
After losing 150 pounds from bariatric surgery, Stevie Barrett finds that life isn't so easy as a thinner person, as she contends with a jealous friend, bad romantic relationships, and a difficult family dynamic.
After a trip to the wilds of nineteenth-century America with her father, who left England in a jealous fit over her mother's admirer, Ethel returns home, begins a difficult marriage of her own, and slowly feels the need to heal her strained relationship with her mother.
Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.
