mothers and daughters

Kate Whouley is a smart, single woman who faces life head-on while Anne is a strong minded accidental feminist. They also happen to be daughter and mother. Always complicated, their relationship isn't simplified when Anne develops Alzheimer's. Kate's memoir to her mother involves healing, acceptance, and love.

Told in alternating voices, a travelogue capturing the changing relationship between a mother and her adult daughter follows their sixteen-city, twelve-country tour during which their adventures and mishaps brought them closer together.

After spending her life moving from place to place with her single mother, pregnant seventeen-year-old Lemon takes a bus to San Francisco to seek the father she never knew, as well as truths about her mother and herself.

Terry grew up the oldest of six girls where she attended twelve schools in eleven years as her stepfather moved his family often so he could continue to get work in the oil fields. Terry's mother was a free spirit, hardly ever at home, and she repeatedly left Terry in charge of the household and her five younger sisters.

Unable to get answers from her mother, sixteen-year-old Liza learns from Karin that while her own actions may have doomed the fairy and human worlds, she may be able to save them with more training, if the Faerie Queen can first be stopped.

Startling, unusual, and irresistibly readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and science fiction, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.

Leah grew up in a privileged upper-middle class world. Her parents spared no expense for her happiness. Then she met Todd. As her parents watched helplessly she fell into drugs, sex, and wild parties. Their divided approach---one as a stern disciplinarian, one giving Leah slack in the hope that she would learn from her mistakes---breaks up their marriage and drives Leah from their home. Leah's twelve-year-old sister, Justine, observes her family's break-up from the shadows and wonders what will happen to her and her parents after Leah's destruction.

Lilith Zeremba, college freshman, and the last Jewish virgin of the title, has a contentious relationship with her complex, feminist Jewish mother. Determined to make her own way in the world of fashion, she is torn by her attraction for Baron Rock, her older teacher, whom she is convinced is a vampire, and Colin Abel, a young artist. Contemporary New York City is the setting for Lilith's drama.

Afraid that there is no way to be both gay and orthodox Jewish, Ellie Gold feels forced to either alter her sexuality or leave her Jewish community until her mother and sister offer alternative concepts of God.

Kaylie Jones is the daughter of Gloria and James Jones, the author of From Here to Eternity, and other books about World War II. She grew up among family friends such as Irwin Shaw, James Baldwin and Willie Morris and socialized with Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Kurt Vonnegut. After her father died when she was sixteen, Kaylie found it increasingly difficult to withstand her mother's shattering criticism as she found solace in alcohol and soon Kaylie was loosing herself to alcohol too. Her memoir is the story of personal evolution and second chances.