by Rosie Harris (2007)
A mother will do anything to protect her child ... Karen and Tudor Morgan have moved from a small mining community to the bustle and noise of Cardiff in search of a new life. Tudor longs to be a star entertainer and so Karen gets a job, leaving her husband to look after their young daughter Delia, doing stints at clubs in the evening, whenever he can get them. Until one day Tudor is arrested for begging and Karen is horrified to learn that he has been busking during the day and taking three-year-old Delia with him to collect the money. When Tudor comes out of prison he gets an honest job but soon he is back to his old ways. On the run, his life of petty crime quickly turns into something far more sinister and it is all Karen can do to ensure she and her daughter survive.
Dori Hillestad Butler
For 13 year old Samatha,life consists of too many unanswered questions. Why as her father not tried to contact her all these years? How could he have allowed her twin sister to drown in the old Clearwater quarry when they were only three? And how can Samatha's mother expect her to accept some man she hardly knows as her new father? Samatha already has a father out there. Somewhere.
Benilde Little
Having turned her family upside down with her extravagant wedding plans and her rich white fiance, Aisha Branch unexpectedly falls in love with another man, an event that rekindles family tensions and forces Aisha to make a difficult choice.
Sayed Kashua
A young journalist, recently married and with a new baby, is seeking a quieter life away from the city and has bought a large house in his parents' hometown, an Arab village in Israel. Nothing is as he remembers: everything is smaller, the people petty and provincial and the villagers divided between sympathy for the Palestinians and dependence on the Israelis. Suddenly and shockingly, the village becomes a pawn in the power struggles of the Middle East. When Israeli tanks surround the village without warning or explanation, everyone inside is cut off from the outside world. As the situation grows increasingly tense, our hero is forced to confront what it means to be human in an inhuman situation.
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Cathy Kelly
Grace is devastated when her husband dies and she is left to run the family business. But this death will also have unexpected impacts on two of the company's employees.