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Sripathi Rao is unsatisfied by his life and feels he has let his wife and children down, but when his daughter and her husband are killed in a car accident, Sripathi becomes the guardian of the granddaughter he has never met, and when the silent little girl moves in, he realizes he has been given a second chance to redeem himself.
11) Maggie Cassidy
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In Jack Kerouac's teenage years his friends gave him a nickname that was prescient and stuck with him throughout his life-Memory Babe. Kerouac was able to conjure up scenes from his childhood and adolescence that astounded his friends with their precision and detail. This talent was to serve him well as a novelist, enabling him to recall long segments of conversation that he could instantly pound out on his typewriter. Maggie Cassidy is one of Kerouac's...
14) After the bloom
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"Rita Takemitsu is a newly single mother raising her daughter in 1980s Toronto. When her mother, Lily, goes missing, Rita sets out to find her. In the course of her quest, Rita uncovers a host of secrets surrounding her mother's internment at a camp in the California desert during the Second World War and the truth about her mysterious father."--
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1992: French-Canadian factions renew Quebec's fight to gain independence. V�eronique Fortin, daughter of a radical separatist convicted of kidnapping and murdering a prominent politician in 1970, has embraced her father's cause. Then she falls for James Ph�enix, a journalist of French-Canadian heritage who opposes Quebec separatism. Their love affair is as passionate as it is turbulent. His sister, Elodie Ph�enix, one of the Duplessis Orphans,...
18) Wild life
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"The Plan was simple: find a cure for the cancer that nearly took her sister's life. But for Zoey Fong, something about The Plan isn't working anymore. Maybe it's her unsuccessful research, maybe it's burnout. But when a crucial tissue sample accidentally winds up in the hands of a very distracting--and disarmingly handsome--visitor, Zoey jumps at the chance to follow him home to retrieve it. Davy Hsieh's rugged island estate is no manicured suburban...
19) The lost garden
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In which horticulturist Gwen Davis has fled the Blitz in London for a rundown estate in Devon as a volunteer with the Women's Land Army. There, she must organize a group of young women who are to grow food for the war effort. Posted on the estate as well is a Canadian regiment awaiting orders for the front. These 3 months together are a time of rural escape for them and a time of change for Gwen, who, for the first time, experiences true friendship,...
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