mothers and daughters

Thirty-eight-year-old Erika Kohut, a piano teacher who lives with her domineering mother, instructs her students at the Vienna Conservatory while harboring secret sexual perversions, and when one of her teenage pupils, Walter, falls in love with her, she demands sadomasochistic rituals of him before allowing him to fully seduce her.

Sisters Margaret, Rose, and Quincy Lansing, returning to their childhood home after their mother is killed in a car accident, are confronted with painful memories, and, as they work through their loss, they find they are able to reconnect with one another and move on with their lives.

A girl who has been brought up in near isolation is thrown into a twisted web of family secrets and religious fundamentalism when her mother dies and she goes to live with relatives she never knew she had.

After being expelled from boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father.

Deborah Monroe and her daughter, Grace, are driving home from a party when their car hits a man running in the dark. Grace was at the wheel, but Deborah sends her home before the police arrive, determined to shoulder the blame for the accident. Her decision then turns into a deception that takes on a life of its own and threatens the special bond between mother and daughter.--From publisher description.

Fourteen-year-old Daphne, spunky and imaginative, has grown up in a London orphanage dreaming she will someday learn the identity of her parents and become a prima ballerina, and when a mysterious package arrives with a pair of stockings and a book inscribed with a riddle, her journey to the truth begins.

A collection of folktales from various cultures illuminate the mother-daughter relationship.

Presents Louisa May Alcott's classic novel that tells the story of the joys and sorrows of the March family in New England during the Civil War; contains introduction, textual and explanatory notes, and chronology.