mothers and daughters

A little girl describes all the things she does with her mother who is confined to a wheelchair.

Elizabeth's mother gets a respite from her very noisy girl when Elizabeth pretends to be a dog.

As MCC Berkshire, the mysterious, book-obsessed man helping in Ailsa's mother's antique shop, tells wild stories that persuade customers to buy various items, teenaged Ailsa believes he is a liar but fears that he is not.

The already topsy-turvy life of a seventh-grader is further complicated when her mother, a well-known author of children's books, writes a spicy adult novel.

As she establishes an increasingly close relationship with a couple on a nearby ranch, a young girl comes to realize that there is nothing left between herself and her alcoholic mother.

Seventeen-year-old Ava awakens with amnesia and a feeling that something is wrong with her life, her mother, and her friends but when the mysterious Morgan appears, her flashbacks of life as a spy for a shady government agency begin to make sense.

Valerie Wyatt is the queen of gracious living. Since her long-ago divorce, she's created a successful TV show and reached the pinnacle of her profession, with a camera-ready life in her Fifth Avenue penthouse. So why is she so depressed? Because all the hours with her personal trainer, hairdressers, and cosmetic surgeons can't fudge the truth: Valerie is turning sixty.

Professional baker Ramona Gallagher is a master of an art that has sustained her through the most turbulent times, including a baby at fifteen and an endless family feud. But now Ramona's bakery threatens to crumble around her. Literally. She's one water-heater disaster away from losing her grandmother's rambling Victorian and everything she's worked so hard to build. When Ramona's soldier son-in-law is wounded in Afghanistan, her daughter, Sophia, races to be at his side, leaving Ramona as the only suitable guardian for Sophia's thirteen-year-old stepdaughter, Katie. Heartbroken, Katie feels that she's being dumped again -- this time on the doorstep of a woman out of practice with mothering.

Hilarious and poignant, this is the story of one girl's sometimes funny, sometimes painful path to self-acceptance and to finding her place in the world.