mother-daughter relationship

Suzie's stay in a mental hospital helps her tear down the walls of a devastating psychological prison she calls "the box.".

When thirteen-year-old Sherry Baldwin's essay wins a magazine contest, she, her father, and best friend Junie go to Hollywood, where she helps her ghost-detective mother and another ghost investigate a series of burglaries.

During a blizzard, Madison digs in the attic and finds letters and photographs which give her insight into her mother, and also uncovers a photo album that causes her to reexamine her long-ago friendship with Poison Ivy.

After she is accused of playing a role in her best friend's death, a young woman battles depression, anger, guilt, loneliness, and the problems of her own family as well as those of the families of her old friends.

On her sixteenth birthday Claire discovers strange things happening and when her mother reveals their family secret which explains the changes, Claire feels her world, as she has known it to be, slowly slipping away.

Willa, a romantic girl who wants a father, tries to find a husband for her mother, Cape Cod's most popular wedding planner.

Famous radio talk-show host Nora Bridge calls upon her estranged daughter Ruby for help after being involved in a serious car accident, and is thrilled when Ruby agrees, not realizing her youngest daughter has taken on the job simply to gather material for a tell-all book that will destroy Nora's career.

"The three Babcock sisters must travel to a Mexican clinic across the border so their mother, ill with leukemia, can receive alternative treatments. The sisters' world is about to shatter under the weight of an incomprehensible betrayal"--Provided by publisher.

"When a mysterious package is sent to her, Cassandra Blackwell arrives in Oxford with one mission: to uncover the truth about her mother's dark past. Raised in America, with no idea that her mother had ever studied at the famed college, Cassie is plunged into the glamorous, secretive life of Raleigh College: a world of ancient tradition, privilege--and murder? Beneath the hallowed halls of this university, a dark society is shaping our world, feeding on the unwary, and will stop at nothing to keep its grip on power..."--OCLC.

Brooke Shields discusses her and her mother's life.