Using scraps cut from the family's old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her family's life.

"The bittersweet inheritance of their grandmother's rustic lakeside resort in north Texas reunites three estranged sisters in a novel of family, trust, and forgiveness"-- "When they were growing up, Dana, Harper, and Tawny thought of themselves as "sometimes sisters." They connected only during the summer month they'd all spend at their grandmother's rustic lakeside resort in north Texas. But secrets started building, and ten years have passed since...

At a Christmastime family reunion in England's Lake District, mathematician and inventor Henry Rathbone investigates an accidental death that, upon second glance, does not seem so accidental.

Lizzie lives alone with her mother, but she wishes she had other relatives, so she "adopts" a grandmother and others to make her own large family.

Mama Provi takes chicken and rice to her sick granddaughter Lucy who lives upstairs.

"Pinmei, a storyteller's granddaughter, must find the Luminous Stone that Lights the Night to rescue her grandmother, who has been kidnapped by the Tiger Emperor"--

After the sudden death of her husband, Carrie is forced to deal with her grief and help her fifteen-year-old daughter come to terms with life without her father.

Passenger pigeon hatchlings, thought to be extinct, are discovered in Grandmother's room after she departs on a voyage to Greenland.

Tom's grandmother is very forgetful and repeats herself often, but as long as he is there to help her, everything works out just fine. Sometimes Tom's grandmother forgets the way home from the market, or that Tom's name is Tom and not Roy. But Tom do