mothers and daughters

Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything.

Izzy and Ellie felt both shame and pride in their loony mother's crazy stunts, but when she commited suicide on her forty-first birthday, the young girls' lives were shattered, and as they reach their own forty-first birthdays, they must come to terms with their mother's legacy.

Seventeen-year-old Molly, her mother in a hospice and her father having deserted the family years earlier, is forced to go live with her older sister Amanda, and even though the two girls have always had an explosive relationship and have never been close, they must find a way to overcome their differences and learn to support one another.

Tells the story of Hydeia Broadbent and her adoptive parents Patricia and Loren, looking at how their lives changed when they learned Hydeia had been infected with HIV at birth, discussing the family's efforts to prove doctors wrong when they predicted Hydeia would not live past the age of five, and examining her work, now as a teenager, as an AIDS activist.

Joanna Brady, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, embarks on a very personal investigation when she believes her daughter Jenny may be next on the list of a murderer who killed Jenny's tentmate just days after the two girls stumbled across a dead heiress while on a scouting trip.

The love between John Vanderberg, the rebellious son of a wealthy New York family, and Anita Aldon, the free-spirited daughter of a California ranchero, is threatened by the conservatism of Anita's mother, a staunch believer in Victorian rules of genteel conduct.

Discusses the issues that often lead to conflict between mothers and daughters with the inset of the teenage years, and offers advice on how to solve problems and develop a close mother/daughter relationship.

In a poor Mexican village, Erandi surprises her mother by offering to sell her long, beautiful hair in order to raise enough money to buy a new fishing net.

As she is preparing a special angel food cake for her mother's birthday, a girl is surprised by three angels who have dropped in for a taste.

Shannon looks forward to a class trip to Paris--until she finds out her mother wants to chaperone the trip. Now Shannon is furious.