mothers and daughters

After their father's death, the three Stoddard girls travel with their mother back to the family farm where they struggle to survive during the Dust Bowl and put all of their faith in the success of a wildcat oil well.

On a trip home to visit her parents, Khorii happens upon a derelict spacecraft drifting in space, its crew the subject of a deadly plague; and now Khorii is in a race against time to find the perpetrators and a cure before it destroys everyone.

Ginger Lee moves to New York to escape her controlling mother and life in Milwaukee, but when her mother thinks Ginger needs help running her life, she shows up on Ginger's doorstep, causing a series of hilarious, and embarrassing, encounters.

Back in San Francisco for her senior year in high school, seventeen-year-old Cyd attempts to reconcile with her boyfriend, Shrimp, making some girlfriends and beginning to feel more a part of her family in the process.

Follows the childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood of Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie from the time they first meet in the 1930s through their many experiences and years of friendship.

Stella Sparrow, the latest in a long history of Sparrow women to have special gifts, discovers on her thirteenth birthday that she can see the future, an ability that has both positive and negative effects on her life and her family members.

The Freitags, a family of elitist German Jews, are thrown into turmoil in the winter of 1939 when daughter Lala falls for her uncle's new assistant, Joe Farkas, and hints for him to take her to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season, but Joe sets his sights on Lala's cousin, Sunny.

March Murray returns to her New England hometown with her teenage daughter, supposedly to attend the funeral of her old housekeeper, but in the back of her mind March knows she is headed for a reunion with Hollis, the boy she has loved since childhood.

Six-year-old Turtle Green witnesses a freak accident drawing her and her mother into a conflict of historic proportions.

Her mother, her foster guardian, and fourteen-year-old Rainbow comment on the state of things as she prepares to return to a foster home for yet another stay.