mothers and daughters

When she is sent to the small town in South Dakota where she had lived briefly with her great-grandmother after her father's death, fourteen-year-old Mattie must sort out her confused feelings about why she is there.

Brie's plan to leave her strict father and go live with her mother, who abandoned her as a baby, is changed when she discovers a horrible secret about her past.

In 1868, twelve-year-old Emma and her widowed mother move to a tiny mining town in Colorado Territory to start a newspaper, but someone is determined to scare them away.

Elizabeth Gaskell's nineteenth-century novel about class, labor, and religious conflicts in northern England, and the southern woman who moves there, falls in love with the local mill's owner, and has sympathy for the plight of his workers.

Cassie's daughter Erin, who identifies closely with her grandmother Abby, wants to be an actress more than anything in the world, but is disappointed that her parents do not approve of her working in the television medium.

A young girl tells about the summer of 1912 in the city of Toronto when her sister got sick, her mother worried about losing her job, and the dippers, a furry dog-like creature with wings, came up out of the nearby Don River.

Happy when she leaves home to set up her own burrow, Phoebe Dormouse soon begins to feel a little lonely and not as content in her independence especially when her mother doesn't seem to miss her.

Losing her home when her owner passes away, Prudence the brown tabby cat is taken in by her former owner's grieving daughter, who maintains a meticulously organized life to avoid the pain of past losses and memories about her dynamic relationship with her mother.

Vampire Jane Jones, neither rich nor beautiful nor popular, is tired of struggling with an overprotective mother and an allergy to blood, but suddenly two boys, one vampire and one human, are interested in her, and she has learned of a possible cure for her condition.

Beth Morehouse is anticipating her best Christmas ever with her Christmas tree farm prospering, her daughters and her dogs doing well, and her new relationship with vet Ted Reynolds showing romantic promise, but her Christmas plans are complicated when someone leaves a basket filled with puppies on her doorstep, and her daughters Bailey and Sophie invite their dad, Beth's ex-husband, Kent, to Cedar Cove for Christmas, hoping for a mom-and-dad reunion.