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Lily Rosewood has lived with her grandmother since her dad's death a year ago. She and Gram have always been close--Gram's role as chair of their family's luxury coat business has inspired Lily's love of fashion, and Lily hopes to follow in Gram's footsteps one day. Then Gram dies suddenly, and Lily's world is upended. Gram's quarter of a billion dollar fortune is missing, and Lily has been banned from the manor she and Gram shared. But Gram has always...

Written like a crooked Métis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women and bison as they reach for the stories that could remake their worlds and rebuild their futures. Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means. Allie, Carter's mother, is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to...

Faced with the loss of their beloved dog, Cody, brothers Jake, fourteen, and Taylor, twelve, set out to find their grandmother living off the grid in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and discover a lumber company trying to harass her off her property.

In 1999 Texas, Lia Cope, when her grandmother Mineko moves in, connects with her over stories of the Turtle House in Japan and the secrets they both carry, and when Mineko is forced to live in an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life.

Abby Hunter's very different grandmothers both come to take of her and her siblings while her parents are out of town.

Walking to her grandmother's home to help make warak enab, Lina discovers many ways to hear snow, from the scrape of a shovel on a sidewalk to the quiet pats of snowman-building. Un día nevado, una visita a la abuela, tiempo cocinando juntas y un espacio para pausar y descubrir el mundo a tu alrededor se reúnen en este libro perfecto para leerse y compartirse en un acogedor día de invierno.

"It’s spring cleaning season in Canton, and Amy Allen, along with her sister, Tracy, and their cousin, Robin, are organizing a city-wide garage sale. All the proceeds will be donated to one of their grandmother’s favorite charities, the Blessings Children’s Foundation. But as they are searching the attic for items to sell, they uncover what could be their most shocking discovery yet. Inside an old kitchen cabinet, Amy finds a...

Harry's grandmother, Big Girl, teaches him the power of love for self and community.

"Grieving and newly single Molly Anderson begs the wealthy Frost family, owners of Hydrangea House, to allow her to run the inn for one last summer before they shut it down. She vows to give the final guests a summer to remember by the sea. It's what Beverly--who worked uncomplainingly for the Frosts her whole life--would have wanted. But when an elderly woman checks in claiming to know a secret about Beverly's true connection to the Frost family,...

Rainey's grandmother makes a startling request: Take me home. To Ireland, the country she fled post-World War II. Though they're inseparably close, Rainey knows few of her grandmother's secrets. Until they arrive at Aisling-the majestic estate on the southern coast of Ireland where her grandmother was raised-and Rainey discovers a collection of seventy-year-old letters in a trunk. Dublin, 1945. The Germans surrender, celebrants crowd the streets,...