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Between the fast-paced New York City, a rural Mississippi town, and a charming Pennsylvania college campus filled with secrets, two young girls learn the consequences of growing up too quickly. Set in alternating sections two decades apart, the parallels between their lives and the unavoidable collision that is bound to happen is revealed. Father Figure is an emotional story filled with mystery, romance, and suspense.

Thirteen-year-old Matt is spending the holidays at the dilapidated Woodhall mansion where his spirited step-sister Caroline works as cook. In a faded rose garden, Matt meets Alix, proud old Madame Ayre’s granddaughter, and is introduced to the tension-filled relationship between the embittered mother and her crippled son Theo.

As kids, Mark and his cousin, Talia, spent many happy summers together at the family cottage in Ontario, Canada, but a fight between their parents put an end to the annual event. Living on opposite coasts - Mark in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Talia in Victoria, British Columbia - they haven’t seen each other in years. When their grandfather dies unexpectedly, Mark and Talia find themselves reunited at the cottage again, cleaning it out while the family decides what to do with it.

It’s bad enough that estranged cousins Becka and KJ must see each other at their grandfather’s funeral, but when he leaves them a bucket list of places to visit together over the summer so they can earn their inheritance, it seems like things are about to get much worse. However, with each trip the cousins complete, like riding mules into the Grand Canyon or encountering a bear and a hot tour guide at Yellowstone, they steadily learn about each other and begin to trust one another - that is, until the truth behind Grandpa’s bucket list and their family feud is revealed.

Newly adopted Lexi Michaels is taking her first real vacation as she, twin brother Levi, adoptive brother Chad, and new cousin Jen head to Haiti where their dad, a pediatrician, will be volunteering in an island clinic. But who is the man who displays such hatred for the Michaels when they arrive at their resort? Is an attempted burglary as random as it appears? Will Jen ever accept the newcomers to the family?

What are the chances on a cay off the shores of Belize of running into the best friend of the man who killed Ava's brother? What if this best friend had a message? Could it have the power to heal Ava's heart? It's been 20-some years since Zack was murdered; why can't Ava let it go? She had forgiven his killer. There was still something that needed to be changed, something she needed to believe in to lead her the rest of the way through the process of forgiveness.

Simon Peters (whose family pet name is Piglet) is a teenager whose father has just died. At school, in English, they are just starting to study Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, and this starts to give Simon the idea that, as in Hamlet, his father’s death was not natural but that he was, in fact, murdered by his uncle, in collusion with his mother.

Quando il papà di Giulia scompare, lasciando un inquietante messaggio, all'improvviso cambia tutto. Tra le difficoltà da affrontare e da risolvere c'è l'affitto da pagare e la necessità di fare i conti con la dura realtà dell'essere poveri. Giulia trova nella madre una grande alleata e, quando la ragazzina scoprirà che il papà si è cacciato in un guaio davvero grosso, potrà contare anche sull'aiuto del suo pestifero fratellino. Ma perché suo padre ha raccontato tante bugie prima di sparire? La tenacia e il coraggio sono gli elementi indispensabili.

Hold onto the past or embrace the future? Addy Arden lives in a land called denial. After losing her dad in a car accident, she’d rather pretend things are okay than be crushed by grief and guilt. Her friends buy the fake smiles and her mom doesn’t seem to notice...or care. And Addy is doing great until she’s paired with Vincent Castello, the most intimidating senior at Greenville High, for a class project. Interview a random classmate and write a report on them. Should be easy, right? Not by a longshot.

In 1874, Ivy Steele's deafness is more than a handicap. It's a disease. Surrounded by a family that doesn't understand her, she's learned to cope and find solace where she can. Then, the unexpected happens. Her aunt dies, and her uncle sends her away to rejoin her father's family in Montana. Left to fend for herself, after the companion hired to escort her abandons her, 16-year-old Ivy faces continual hardship and danger. Several men see an unaccompanied Ivy as a flower ripe for the picking, and things only get worse when masked men hold up their stagecoach.

In this story, events beyond their control compound two families’ separations. In a world where knowing what’s right and what’s wrong gets muddled, love always points in the right direction. The trick is hearing its voice and following its pleas. These families, struck by disasters at Christmas time, must make difficult decisions to keep their families together and love alive. Follow their stories and side with the Christmas spirit and its unyielding pull to keep families together. You have to believe in magic, and magic has to believe in you.

Andy Sharpe just wants to keep her head down and get through her senior year. Then, she discovers her freshman sister has a crush on the boy next door - neighbors the Sharpe girls have been warned never to have anything to do with! Before September even arrives, Andy finds herself the director of the school play Romeo and Juliet, with her kid sister and the boy next door in the starring roles.

Ever since his mother left, life hasn’t been easy for Heath Wellington III. Between his father’s (Junior’s) bouts with alcoholism and literary rejection, and Heath’s own wrongful suspension from school, there hasn’t been all that much to be thankful for. But following the tragic death of estranged grandfather Senior, father and son alike stand to inherit a life-changing fortune...with one catch.

Der Islandurlaub mit ihrer neuen Patchworkfamilie ist genauso anstrengend wie Kari sich das vorgestellt hat. Doch als ihr ein silberner Falke begegnet und sie ins Reich Isslar gebracht wird, verändert sich alles. Ehe Kari sich versieht, steckt sie mitten in einer magischen Welt voller Trolle, Eisdrachen und Elfen, in der Geysire über das Schicksal entscheiden und ein geheimnisvoller junger Mann über die Vulkane der Insel herrscht. Doch warum ist sie hier?

Pollyanna, maman de trois bambins s'installe avec Jimmy Pendleton dans un nouveau quartier de la banlieue de Boston. Continuera-t-elle son jeu du contentement ?

Fred Thorne must shoulder the full care and protection of his sisters after a fire leaves them homeless and friendless. He sets out to follow the last advice given to him by his great-aunt: take the girls to Menevace to the refuge home. But the road to Menevace is fraught with bandits, famine, and unknown dangers.

Life is pretty bad when you’re jealous of an old mutt and an autistic brother, Benjamin thinks to himself. If only he knew how to talk to girls, he could achieve both his goals: get a reasonably hot-looking girlfriend and thus get respect from his wrestling teammates. But communication doesn’t come easy in the McDowell family.

Sixteen-year-old Petter loved his life. It was normal. Unfortunately, that fact is currently past tense. Now, he is sitting on a plane moving across the world towards an unknown future, and into his inbox drops an email from his father. That alone would not be remarkable for most people. For Petter though, it rather is, since his father passed away weeks earlier. Together with Max, the math tutor turned friend, they explore an adventure put together by his father from beyond the grave.

Sadie Slade is reeling from the sudden death of her older brother Jeremy, who was in his first year of medical school. Sadie is struggling to live up to the overbearing expectations of her surgeon father Dr. Jeffrey Slade. Sadie is shocked to receive an email from her brother’s old account. She believes it is a mistake or scam, until Jeremy reveals personal details about her life that only he would know.

Malgré les moqueries de son grrraaand Charles de frère, Marion s'est mise aux claquettes et ça swingue ! Elle aime ça, elle adore ça, rien ni personne ne l'arrêtera... Personne, vraiment ? Dans la vie très trépidante de Marion (alias Miss Cata) les répliques piquent et l'humour claque. Lecture par l'auteur de "Tap clac top" : l'une des 276 histoires courtes de Marion et Charles, héros préférés des 10/15 ans (Je Bouquine).