parent and adult child

Twenty-eight-year-old Manahattan greeting card writer James Fitzroy deals with mized emotions after returning home to Buffalo, New York, for Thanksgiving and finding his Alzheimer's-stricken mother's condition has worsen, his other family members mocking his career path, and his childhood friends who believe he has become a huge success in the big city.

Anna Oh, a middle-age wife, mother and artist, divorces her husband after 27 years of marriage to marry Vivica, the Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success.

A memoir in which the author describes her experiences caring for her father in the final months of his battle with Alzheimer's disease, and shares the insights she gained into his, and her own, life.

Walt Dunmore and Alister Clark, the only members of a bomber crew to survive a plane wreck in Newfoundland, must fight the brutal wilderness to survive and return to their families.

Dani Carter finds herself drawn to another man and dreaming of escape from her troubled marriage and past, and wanting to find out more about the mother who abandoned Dani when she was only seven years old.

Essays by women of gifts from their mothers that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. Individually, the stories get to the heart of their mother-daughter relationship. Collectively, the pieces have a force that feels as elemental as the tides.

After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun, but the members of her dysfunctional family make it difficult.