Books with title My Sister, My Sorrow

Beth Manning’s sister, Janna, is perfect. At least that’s how it seems to Beth. More than anything, Beth wishes for something to make herself as special as Janna. Then, after her fourteenth birthday, Beth gets her wish in a terrible way: She develops leukemia, cancer of the blood. Beth’s disease takes its toll on her family, especially Janna. Suddenly Janna isn’t acting like the perfect older sister anymore. Then at Hope House, a place for kids with serious illnesses, Beth meets Eliot, a cancer survivor who understands the fear of pain and sickness. With Eliot’s support, Beth is able to show Janna, her parents, and herself that perfection isn’t nearly as important as love.

Anna Dufresne lives in a factory that eats children. If the brutal machines don't kill Anna, her guardians' neglect and abuse surely will. The only thing this abandoned teen wants is out. But the factory is inside a stone fortress, on an island, where people are sent to be forgotten. It serves as a dumping ground—both for orphans who are not welcome at finer institutions, and for nuns who have disgraced the Church. The walls of Saint Frances du Chantal's Orphan Asylum hum with secrets and buried scandal.In the catacombs below the factory, something long dead, something almost forgotten, stirs. It offers Anna a key, and promises freedom, if she will seek it out when she escapes. She knows her plan will endanger the other children, but Anna cannot resist the call of freedom.Her escape attempt triggers a chain reaction of chaos, shaking the orphanage to its foundation and laying bare its deadly secrets. As Anna flees into the night, she discovers that the evil nuns were the least of her worries. The swirling mist of the island hides terrors more dangerous than she could ever imagine.*Warning: This story contains sinister nuns, morally ambiguous witches, unhinged orphans, and an industrious living dead thing.*Interview with the Author:Q1: Is this a book about evil nuns verses witches?The book has evil nuns and witches for sure, but what is more terrifying is the creature living in the catacombs below the orphanage.Q2: Creature? What kind of creature?It’s an awful undead mistake of magic, and it wants Anna.Q3: Can you tell us about the main character Anna?Anna is a teen abandoned by her father. She is fraught with guilt over her role in her brother’s murder and her mother’s suicide. At the factory, she is responsible for fifteen younger girls. She is desperate to escape but is torn between freedom and loyalty to her girls.Q4: Can you tell us a little about the setting?This story takes place in an orphanage hidden away in the foggy, brooding coastal islands of Washington state. It is set in the early 1900’s. The children are expected to earn their keep by making shoes in a factory full of menacing machinery.Q4: What genre is Sisters of Sorrow?It has elements of horror (Lord of the Flies) with the adventure of a Spielberg movie (Goonies) and a little bit of dark fantasy thrown in.*A Novel of Magic, Madness and Survival... with very Peculiar Children*

Beth Manning’s sister, Janna, is perfect. At least that’s how it seems to Beth. More than anything, Beth wishes for something to make herself as special as Janna. Then, after her fourteenth birthday, Beth gets her wish in a terrible way: she develops leukemia, cancer of the blood. Beth’s disease takes its toll on her family, especially Janna. Suddenly Janna isn’t acting like the perfect older sister anymore. Then at Hope House, a place for kids with serious illnesses, Beth meets Eliot, a cancer survivor who understands the fear of pain and sickness. With Eliot’s support, Beth is able to show Janna, her parents, and herself that perfection isn’t nearly as important as love.

Anna Dufresne lives in a factory that eats children. If the brutal machines don't kill Anna, her guardians' neglect and abuse probably will. The only thing this abandoned teen wants is out. But the factory is inside a stone fortress, on an island, where people are sent to be forgotten. It serves as a dumping ground -- both for orphans who are not welcome at finer institutions, and for nuns who have disgraced the Church. The walls of Saint Frances du Chantal's Orphan Asylum hum with secrets and buried scandal. In the catacombs below the factory, something long dead, something almost forgotten, stirs. It offers Anna a key, and promises freedom, if she will seek it out when she escapes. She knows her plan will endanger the other children, but Anna cannot resist the call of freedom. Her escape attempt triggers a chain reaction of chaos, shaking the orphanage to its foundation and laying bare its deadly secrets. As Anna flees into the night, she discovers that the evil nuns were the least of her worries. The swirling mist of the island hides terrors more dangerous than she could ever imagine.

"Harrowing, heart-wrenching, and ultimately hopeful, Sisters In Sorrow is a gripping tale of human survival in the face of relentless inhumanity." ―Lesley Livingston, award-winning author of The Valiant trilogy Even telepaths have secrets. . . . Raima’s an orphaned escapee of the Martian sex trade with blood on her hands and nowhere to go. She doesn’t care about advancing humanity’s quest for genetic perfection, but when she’s offered a job as a test subject for a medtech company, she’s not in a position to refuse. Being paid to exploit her body is a relationship she understands all too well. Then she meets Qi, a fellow lab rat, and finds a new kind of relationship she knows nothing about. Qi nurses Raima back to health after daily injections leave her bedridden and when she recovers, she finds she can hear Qi’s thoughts. The experiment has left her and the other survivors with telepathic powers. Surrounded by Qi’s consciousness and bathed in her tenderness, Raima finds the courage to face her past and begin healing. She wants nothing more than to learn about love with Qi. But the company has no intention of letting its telepathic guinea pigs leave the facility ever again―unless they’re inside body bags. Her future with Qi, their very lives, depend on escape. The survivors’ leaders, twin sisters Marie and Manon, have a plan, but Raima feels the menace in their minds and knows they’re hiding something. When technicians execute a survivor who happens to be the twins’ enemy, Raima finds evidence that the researchers’ minds have been manipulated by the twins. With Qi’s support she turns the others against them and becomes their new leader. Now the escape is set and Raima is ready to give anything to save her new family and her love―even her life.

Fourteen-year-old Riko manages to get her delicate older sister Sif and herself to their remote Pacific island home, where an American scientist who falls in love with Sif and discovers her connection with an underwater race creates complications in Riko's life.Fourteen-year-old Riko manages to get her older sister Sif and herself to their Pacific island home, where an American scientist who falls in love with Sif discovers her connection with an underwater race

Fourteen-year-old Riko manages to get her delicate older sister Sif and herself to their remote Pacific island home, where an American scientist who falls in love with Sif and discovers her connection with an underwater race creates complications in Riko's life.Fourteen-year-old Riko manages to get her delicate older sister Sif and herself to their remote Pacific island home, where an American scientist who falls in love with Sif and discovers her connection with an underwater race creates complications in Riko's life