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A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.

Love is a mortal sin, and the secrets of the past are deadly. Plunge into the third installment novel in the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and “prepare to be hooked” (Entertainment Weekly)now with a gorgeous new cover, a map, a new foreword, and exclusive bonus content! City of Glass is a Shadowhunters novel.To save her mothers life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhuntersnever mind...

While at the beach, Mary and her mother see letters, numbers, colors, shapes, and more.

Magic passed down through generations. An island where strange things happen. One summer that will become legend. Practical Magic meets Nova Ren Sumas Imaginary Girls and Laura Rubys Bone Gap in this lush, atmospheric novel by acclaimed author Katrina Leno. Georgina Fernweh waits impatiently for the tingle of magic in her fingersmagic that has touched every woman in her family. But with her eighteenth birthday looming at the end of this summer, Georgina...

When Lottie persuades her mother to let her wear her sparkly gold dress to school, their day becomes very special.

Although she sometimes resents her mother's work as a witch, a young girl decides to keep her mother just the way she is.

Ingrid, who spent her childhood traveling throughout Europe with her opera star mother, fights against a normal life and endeavors to prove that she has the strength to follow her dreams during a summertime wilderness survival trek for at-risk teens.

A child living in the Arctic learns that a mother's love is unconditional.

A girl looks at old photographs with her mother, trying to figure out what her mother feels most grateful for in her life.