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When she is confined to a nursing home after a series of debilitating strokes, Ruth Tyler struggles to accept the loss of her independence.

Jeremy is shocked to find that the theatre mannequins of elderly women his mother has put together are not what they seem.

Bruna is the youngest of seven children, living an idyllic life in a small Italian village in northern Tuscany.

Alex is seventeen years old and she feels her life has come to an end.

Poppy, the zany character from A Monster in My Cereal, A Ghost in My Mirror, and Witch’s Brew, is back. But this time, Poppy is miserable.

Boomer women are passing yet another milestone — RETIREMENT!

Ryan finds his freedom in the water, where he is not bound by gravity and his wheelchair.

A unique and much-needed collection, The Smart Princess takes readers inside the fantasies, dreams and disappointments of young people who are Deaf.

Seventeen-year-old Maddie has always felt a hole in her life, but she has finally found a way to fill it with her quest to mold her body into her ideal, thinnest shape.

The true story of the ship St. Louis, which left Germany in May 1939 full of Jewish passengers seeking refuge in Cuba. Denied port in Cuba, the US, and finally Canada, the St.

When Tamara Levine received her breast cancer diagnosis, in a state of shock, she decided to inform her friends and colleagues by writing to them.

It's 1977, and Mary-Eve Hamilton (Mary for the Mother of God, Eve for the mother of mankind) is plodding through her final year at Eleusis High School.

Based on the true story of two sisters sheltered from the Nazis by a group of Catholic nuns during World War II.

Her name is Sadie, but she might as well be called Fostergirl. Grouphomegirl. That’s how everyone thinks of her. Sadie doesn’t care. In fact, she’d be happier if they didn’t think of her at all.

Thirteen-year-old Rabia, along with her mother and younger brother, flee Afghanistan and the brutal Taliban for Pakistan.