mother-daughter relationship

Suspecting that her overworked nurse mother has been enmeshed in a boyfriend's petty criminal schemes, fifteen-year-old Lynn Marie engages in online flirtations and hides a troubled AWOL soldier in the storage space of her home.

When the school Grace works at catches fire from arson, she races in to save her seventeen-year-old daughter, Jennifer. Grace and Jennifer find themselves outside of their bodies watching hospital staff try to save them. Grace is determined to find the arsonist and protect her family, especially Jennifer who is still in danger.

Marta Schneider, hoping to prove her father wrong in his prediction that she will never be more than a servant, leaves her home in Switzerland to pursue her dream of owning an inn, but she must make many sacrifices when she marries Niclas Waltert in Canada and begins her own family, and in her efforts to make her children strong, finds herself behaving more like her abusive father than her loving mother, especially with her daughter, Hildemara Rose.

Carolyn had formed a stronger bond with her grandmother than with her mother, Hildie, and after a family tragedy, Carolyn cuts all ties and joins the counterculture of San Francisco in the 1960s. She reluctantly returns home to try and rebuild her life and help raise her own daughter, May Flower Dawn but, ironically, Dawn forms a stronger bond with her grandmother Hildie than with Carolyn. It causes another family rift and Dawn vows to mend the bridge between grandmother, mother, and herself. Includes a short biography of the author, black-and-white photos, and a discussion guide.

Leigh Churchill, the mother of a high school senior, tries to protect her daughter Kara from an angry public who sees her tragic traffic accident resulting in the death of a younger girl as something that should have been severely punished.

After suffering years of neglect, Sayre Bellavia wonders if her addict mother, who is now lying near death in a hospital, ever loved her.

Three sisters deal with tragedy after the oldest, Elv, who was sexually abused by a stranger as a child, succumbs to drug addiction and a mental breakdown, the middle sister, Meg, falls ill, and the youngest, Claire, tries to cope with her feelings of guilt over what happened to Elv.

Tells the story of Ruth Cole, looking in on three stages of her life, the first in the summer of 1958 when she is four and her parents are estranged; next in the fall of 1990 when Ruth, unmarried, has a thriving literary career but no personal success; and finally in the autumn of 1995 when she falls in love for the first time.

Catherine Lloyd Burns reflects on her relationship with her mother and the profound impact loss has played on their lives and relationships.

As Beccah learns about her mother's tragic past, she discovers her own strength and begins to understand the precious gifts her mother has given her.