mothers and daughters

Lily Dane has returned to Seaview, Rhode Island, where her family has summered for generations. It?s an escape not only from New York?s social scene but from a heartbreak that still haunts her. Here, among the seaside community that has embraced her since childhood, she finds comfort in the familiar rituals of summer. But this summer is different. Budgie and Nick Greenwald?Lily?s former best friend and former fianc??have arrived, too, and Seaview?s elite are abuzz. Under Budgie?s glamorous influence, Lily is seduced into a complicated web of renewed friendship and dangerous longing. As a cataclysmic hurricane churns north through the Atlantic, and uneasy secrets slowly reveal themselves, Lily and Nick must confront an emotional storm that will change their worlds forever?.

"In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester's father but her mother, a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the South, who made the most enduring mark on the town"--Amazon.com.

"Enduring whispers about her absent mother's alleged merrow origins after her father drowns, twelve-year-old Neen questions her identity as she becomes increasingly torn between the worlds of the sea and her island home"--OCLC.

With no family to go to after her mother is killed by a bus, fifteen-year-old Melon Fouraki clings to a family fairy tale in order to survive her grief.

Joan and Melissa Rivers had one of the most celebrated mother-daughter relationships of all time. The Book of Joan is full of funny, poignant, and irreverent observations, thoughts, and tales about the woman the whole world knew.

"Millie is a fabulous cook, but at the Enchanted Forest School, Millie struggles in the unfamiliar social environment, while encountering fellow students of magical races, making new friends, and discovering that her mother's style of magic isn't the only one available"--Publisher's description.

A little girl is reassured as her mother explains about the baby growing inside her "magic room.".

Following a bloody civil war, young Ofelia enters a world of unimaginable cruelty when she moves in with her new stepfather, a tyrannical military officer. She discovers a mysterious labyrinth in her imagination and meets a faun who sends her on a path to save herself and her ailing mother.

Eva takes a walk with her mother and encounters a range of mysteries: from gravity, to life cycles, to the vastness of the universe. She learns that it's okay to say "I don't know," and she discovers that there are some things even adults don't know-- mysteries for everyone to wonder about together!.

Harassed at her middle school, not taken seriously at home, and with a "perfect" older brother, Matthew, to live up to, thirteen-year-old Claire has always felt like her life was cursed--then one morning, when she are her beloved father are talking at breakfast, her father suddenly falls over with a stroke, and suddenly everything changes.