San Antonio College Library

"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her vocation -- something she married into after Joe Davitch spotted her at an engagement party in his family's crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house,...

On Wednesday nights when Grandma stays with Anna everyone thinks she is teaching Anna to read.

When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father.

"When journalist and recently bereaved mother Charlotte 'Charlie' Cates begins having vivid dreams about children in danger, she's sure that she's lost her mind. Yet these are not the nightmares of a grieving parent but warnings that Charlie can't seem to make sense of. After a little boy appears in Charlie's dreams, asking for her help, she finds herself entangled in a world-famous thirty-year-old missing-child case that has never ceased to haunt...

After an adoptive mother tells her daughter all the reasons that she is her "real mother," the young girl realizes that her mother is right, even though they do not look alike.

"From the award-winning, much loved writer: a deeply moving novel about an American woman's place during the Spanish Civil War, the lessons she took from it, and how her story will shape her granddaughter's path. Marian cut herself off from her conservative, wealthy Irish Catholic family when she volunteered during the Spanish Civil War--experiences she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties, she shares her Rhode Island cottage with her granddaughter...

Returning home to care for his family--an ailing grandmother, violent sister, and promiscuous mother--Anthony is unaware of his own advancing schizophrenia and unable to deal with his secret failures.

After the death of her grandmother, a young orphaned girl leaves her house by the cove and begins a journey which leads her to people and experiences that exemplify the wisdom her grandmother had shared with her.

After the death of his grandmother, ten-year-old Spoon tries to find the perfect artifact to preserve his memories of her.

A sweet little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her grandmother.