mothers and daughters

When her imagined perfect life with her estranged mother begins to unravel, fourteen-year-old Apple finds comfort in reading and writing poetry.

Why would a mother ever abandon her child? And is an abandoned child destined to grow up and make the same mistake? These were some of Melissa Cistaro's questions after her mother drove off without explanation one summer. Decades later Melissa finds herself at her dying mother's bedside with six days to find answers, fearful that she could do the same to her own little girl. Then she discovers a cache of letters her mother wrote but never sent and stumbles on the answers she'd been seeking.

Kimberly Meyer gave birth to her first daughter, Ellie, during her senior year of college. The Bohemian life of exploration she had once hoped to lead was lost in the responsibilities of single motherhood. For years mother and daughter were haunted by the facts of Ellie's birth. So Kimberly and Ellie, now a college student herself, set off on a pilgrimage to bond and rediscover who they are. In their quest for meaning they left behind the rhythms of ordinary life in Houston, Texas and dedicated a summer to retrace the footsteps of Felix Fabri, a medieval Dominican friar. They journeyed to exotic destinations infused with mystery, spirituality, and rich history---to Venice, Greece, Cyprus, Israel, the Sinai Desert, Palestine, Cairo, and Alexandria. Along they way they learned the wisdom of what the desert taught: carry only what you need, burn what can't be saved, and leave the remnants as an offering.

Lindsey Allen, seventeen, aspires to be an astronomer but her eccentric mother decides they must move to Los Angeles to become psychics to the stars, and soon Lindsey must either betray her mother or her new mentor.

"High school junior Sophie has always had the burden of taking care of her mother, who has bipolar disorder, but after her mother's hospitalization she must learn to cope with estranged family and figure out her own life"--Provided by publisher.

The summer that her father falls in love with Emma, Jenny Bohner is just turning eleven, Jenny was three when her mother died, and since then Brannon Bohner has traveled with his daughter from one seasonal job to another, picking up girlfriends along the way. Somehow Emma is different, traveling with them from Idaho to Kentucky, filling Jenny with hopes of a real family. But something still troubles her, surfacing through years of memories--tempting her from within boxes Jenny has been told never to touch, filled with hidden mementos from long ago. Inside Jenny will find answers that will compel her to face the hard truth that she no longer can ignore.

Judy Webster is raised by a flower-child mother Cassie and her husband Kirk. He gradually abandons the '60s ideals and enters the legal field and eventually files for divorce and gets custody of his daughter. As Judy grows up, she and Cassie must decide how to be a part of each others' lives.

Calla Lily Ponder bursts into life -- guided by Moon Lady, a protective feminine force -- where she thrives in her small Louisiana town until the end of her first love pushes her to Crescent City, where she discovers she has the power of "healing hands" to change lives and end pain.

On her seventeenth birthday, Selkie discovers that the Boston that she knows is only an elaborate enchantment constructed to conceal that she is a half-faerie princess believed to be a child of prophecy, destined to destroy the faerie court's grip on the supernatural world.

In the days before the Russian Revolution, twelve-year-old Feodora sets out to rescue her mother when the Tsar's Imperial Army imprisons her for teaching tamed wolves to fend for themselves.