mothers and daughters

Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.

Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.

Toni Ashton returns home when her mother, Evie, suffers a massive stroke, and as she tries to put her mother's house in order she uncovers long-buried secrets about Evie, her Aunt Anna, who disappeared fifty years earlier on the eve of her wedding, and a long line of family secrets that have shaped Toni's own life.

Leilani has ideas about life, love and family that clash with those of her traditional Tahitian mother Materena. But Leilani learns that her mother's everyday wisdom and affirming nature will guide her through her most difficult trials.

Gwen Bainbridge's runaway mother sends postcards to her after five years, and Gwen forms a box out of the cards and chants over them hoping that a magic spell will bring her to her mother.

Horse enthusiast Annemarie Zimmer returns to her father's farm to help train horses twenty years after her prized horse was injured.