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The story of three very different women whose lives intersect in incredible ways, including a thirteen-year-old cyberbullying victim, a mother longing for her lost daughter, and a 1920s Irish domestic with a secret.

Eleven-year-old tomboy Livie is sure that she is responsible for the accident that has put her mother into a coma, so, trying to make amends, she travels through the Louisiana swamps to get a spell that will make her mother well again.

Violet Minturn, a half-Chinese, half-American courtesan who deals in seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and the men who have shaped her.

Edie Burchill travels to Middlehurst Castle, the longtime residence of the Blythe spinsters, to seek out information about her mother, who was billeted there as a thirteen-year-old during World War II, and winds up finding out more than she imagined.

After her father suffers a stroke, fifteen-year-old Lou must relocate from Alberta to Victoria to live with her mother Zoe, a successful novelist who abandoned Lou at birth and showed no interest in her until she was twelve.

Nan worries about the secrets she's keeping from her fourteen-year-old daughter, Bay.

Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.

"What if Belle's mother cursed the Beast? ... When Belle touches the Beast's enchanted rose, memories flood through Belle's mind, memories of a mother she thought she would never see again.

Vanessa, the quiet middle child of a set of three beautiful sisters, is struggling to hold her family together as her mother travels between San Diego and Mexico, receiving treatments for leukemia that are banned in the U.

Seventh-grader Annabelle's mother is a hoarder, and their whole house is full of canned goods, broken toys, fabric, and old newspapers--but when a pile of newspapers (organized by weather reports) falls on Annabelle's younger sister Leslie and their mother is more concerned about the newspapers, it sets off a chain of events that brings their fix-it-all grandmother in and Annabelle realizes that if there is any hope for change she can not isolate herself and keep her family's problems secret.

"To prove to her mother, a famous opera singer dealing with depression after losing her singing voice, that she can handle the grueling life of an actress, Ingrid must survive a wilderness camp"--OCLC.

When Dara finds her birth certificate, she is puzzled to find two strange names on it, but when her mother, Mellie, reveals that she is transgender and transitioned when Dara's biological mother died soon after Dara's birth, Dara is stunned and angry--and she sets off with her friend Sam, in search of the grandparents she never knew existed (and who may be able to fund her tennis career), and the family secrets she can only guess at.

What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura.

Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft accepts her estranged grandmother's six-figure bribe to live with her for a year and to participate in the debutante season and ball, in order to possibly meet the father she has never known.

"Perdita Lee may appear to be your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are.