The sunrise

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Joanne Serling

"A searing portrait of suburbia, friendship, and family strained by a devotion to false appearances. In an idyllic suburb, four young families quickly form a neighborhood clique, their friendships based on little more than the ages of their children and a shared sense of camaraderie. When one of the couples, Paige and Gene Edwards, adopt a four-year-old girl from Russia, the group's loyalty and morality is soon called into question. Are the Edwards unkind to their new daughter? Or is she a difficult child with hidden destructive tendencies? As the seams of the group friendship slowly unravel, neighbor Nicole Westerhof finds herself drawn further into the life of the adopted girl, forcing Nicole to re-examine the deceptive nature of her own family ties, and her complicity in the events unfolding around her"--

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Mazo de la Roche

Adeline Whiteoak is at the height of her sway as a vigorous and domineering matriarch of 80. Augusta and her sons, Nicholas and Ernest, are now middle-aged and her younger son, the handsome and indolent Philip, is father to the younger trio at Jalna. Meg is in the midst of an unhappy love affair and Renny, a fiery youth, is full of his first passion. The story turns now to the feud between him and his grandmother, and Cousin Malahide from Ireland.

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Mary Brigid Barrett

A little boy recounts the events of his family's busy day, from waking up, getting dressed and off to day care, until his Daddy picks him and his baby brother up and brings them home.

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Gus Lee

Kai Ting grows up in a Mandarin family that fled to San Francisco, isolated from American culture until a stepmother treis to erase every vestige of China from the household.