mothers and daughters

The author shares her experiences having to take care of her mother after the latter had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and describes how her feelings for her mother grew as the effects of the disease took its toll.

Dottie Connell struggles to face the past she has worked fifteen years to forget when she becomes the caregiver of her childhood friend's daughter.

Iris Greenfeder feels a major part of her life is unfinished, so she writes a fairy tale about her mother, and in the process discovers a non-threatening way to deal with her mother's death years earlier.

Miriam, a rigid and self-contained woman, is forced to face her own past in order to move into the future after her beloved nineteen-year-old daughter is killed by a New York police officer in a case of mistaken identity.

Tananarive Due discusses how her mother's involvement in the civil rights movement inspired her to fight for what she believes in.

Max avoids doing her chores until her mother tells her they must be done before she can go skating.

A little girl, after helping her mommy get ready for an evening out, is left with the babysitter and a bright red lipstick kiss as a promise that mom will return.

Max avoids doing her chores until her mother tells her they must be done before she can go skating.

Nia is afraid to tell her mother, who is shy because she speaks little English, that Nia volunteered her to organize a party for the first-graders of Robin Hill School.

Presents an alternative history novel set in the twenty-first century about six different Jewish characters who are posing as "good Germans" in a world where the Nazis have defeated all of their World War Two enemies.