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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Ohio

A Novel

Struggling comedienne Ruby Bridge confronts the legacy of her mother's abandonment while a secret from the past of Nora Bridge, now a syndicated columnist known for her moral advice, draws the two women together.

Summer Island

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

River Bend, Michigan, is the kind of small town most can't imagine leaving but three women couldn't wait to escape. When each must return - Linda Williams, never sure what she wants; her mother, Paula, always too sure; and Beth DeWitt, one of River Bend's only black daughters, now a mother of two who'd planned to raise her own children anywhere else - their paths collide under Beth's father's roof.

The House of Deep Water

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#actors #biography #singers #mothersanddaughters #autographed #signededition slight shelf wear on dust jacket

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Mother, Daughter, and Other Roles I've Played

This heartwarming and funny memoir from a beloved actress tells the story of a mother and daughter whose narrative reflects American cultural changes and the world's shifting expectations of women.



From Golda to Ginsburg, Yentl to Mama Rose, Tallulah to the Queen of Mean, Tovah Feldshuh has always played powerful women who aren't afraid to sit at the table with the big boys and rule their world. But offstage, Tovah struggled to fulfill the one role she never auditioned for: Lily Feldshuh's only daughter.



Growing up in Scarsdale, NY in the 1950s, Tovah--known then by her given name Terri Sue--lived a life of piano lessons, dance lessons, shopping trips, and white-gloved cultural trips into Manhattan. In awe of her mother's meticulous appearance and perfect manners, Tovah spent her childhood striving for Lily's approval, only to feel as though she always fell short. Lily's own dreams were beside the point; instead, she devoted herself to Tovah's father Sidney and her two children. Tovah watched Lily retreat into the roles of the perfect housewife and mother and swore to herself, I will never do this.



When Tovah shot to stardom with the Broadway hit Yentl, winning five awards for her performance, she still did not garner her mother's approval. But, it was her success in another sphere that finally gained Lily's attention. After falling in love with a Harvard-educated lawyer and having children, Tovah found it was easier to understand her mother and the sacrifices she had made during the era of the women's movement, the sexual revolution, and the subsequent mandate for women to "have it all."



Beloved as he had been by both women, Sidney's passing made room for the love that had failed to take root during his life. In her new independence, Lily became outspoken, witty, and profane. "Don't tell Daddy this," Lily whispered to Tovah, "but these are the best years of my life." She lived until 103. 



In this insightful, compelling, often hilarious and always illuminating memoir, Tovah shares the highs and lows of a remarkable career that has spanned five decades, and shares the lessons that she has learned, often the hard way, about how to live a life in the spotlight, strive for excellence, and still get along with your mother. Through their evolving relationship we see how expectations for women changed, with a daughter performing her heart out to gain her mother's approval and a mother becoming liberated from her confining roles of wife and mother to become her full self. 



A great gift for Mother's Day--or any day when women want a joyous and meaningful way to celebrate each other. 

Lilyville (Signed Copy)

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Michigan

My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

On a hot July night on Cape Cod, at the age of 14, Brodeur became a confidante to her mother's affair with her husband's closest friend. Malabar came to rely on her daughter to help, but when the affair had calamitous consequences for everyone involved, Brodeau was driven into a precarious marriage of her own, and then into a deep depression. In her memoir she examines how the people close to us can break our hearts simply because they have access to them, and the lies we tell in order to justify the choices we make. -- adapted from jacket

Wild Game

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Georgia

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Estranged from her mother and her sister for thirty-five years after a series of dramatic events, Ginny Young arrives at a reunion that reveals the family she thought she knew

What We Keep

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#hardcover #nonfiction #mothersanddaughters #imperfectending #zoefitzgeraldcarter

Pennsylvania

A Daughter's Tale of Life and Death

• Wrenching, provocative, and surprisingly funny: After twenty years of living with terminal illness, Zoe’s mother decided to end her life—and asked her three daughters for their assistance. For months, the decision drags on as her mother changes her methods and schedule, and the negotiations stir up old memories, sibling rivalries, and questions about family loyalty. Eventually there is compromise and courage and Zoe’s mother has her happy — if imperfect — ending.. • A controversial subject—assisted suicide: Zoe and her sisters struggle to accept the imminent death of their mother, circling around the same questions: Who will help her? Will they go to jail? Can they bear to let her die alone? With a doctor prescribing lethal doses of sleep medication, a visit from a member of the Hemlock Society’s “Final Exit Network,” and the temptations of overdosing on morphine, the issues and people in Imperfect Endings are at the center of the debate on assisted suicide. . • An award-winning new voice: An acclaimed journalist, Zoe won first place in the 2008 Pacific Northwest Writers’ Association literary contest and was a finalist at the San Francisco Writer’s Conference for Imperfect Endings . .

Imperfect Endings

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#paperback #mothersanddaughters #fiction #general #women #relationships

Arizona

ÒSLY, EXHILARATING . . . HILARIOUS.Ó ÑPeople (Book of the Week) Ê This is the story of five women . . . Ê Meet Rachel Grossman. SheÕll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything. Ê Meet Jane Young. SheÕs disrupting a quiet life with her daughter, Ruby, to seek political office for the first time. Ê Meet Ruby Young. She thinks her mom has a secret. SheÕs right. Ê Meet Embeth Levin. SheÕs made a career of cleaning up her congressman husbandÕs messes.Ê Ê Meet Aviva Grossman. The Internet wonÕt let her or anyone else forget her past transgressions.Ê Ê This is the story of five women . . . . . . and theÊsex scandal that binds them together.Ê Ê From Gabrielle Zevin, the bestselling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, comes another story with unforgettable characters that is particularly suited to the times we live in now . . . Ê

Young Jane Young

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Texas

The Secret Life of Bees

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Vermont

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New York

Minnesota

In the tradition of "The Secret Life of Bees" and "The Joy Luck Club," this moving and heartwarming debut explores what it means to be a mother, a daughter, and a family.

Raising Hope

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#paperback #fiction #mothersanddaughters #family #romance #goodreads #kristinhannah 

Virginia

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Wyoming

#paperback #fiction #realityshow #relationships #mothersanddaughters. Paperback in excellent condition. No page folds or creases. Only read once. 

North Carolina

What do a suburban mom, her troubled daughter, divorced brothers, former child stars, born-again Christians, and young millionaires have in common? They have all been selected to compete on LOST AND FOUND, the daring new reality show. In teams of two, they will race across the globe--from Egypt to England, from Japan to Sweden--to battle for a million-dollar prize. They must decipher encrypted clues, recover mysterious artifacts, and outwit their opponents to stay in play. Yet what started as a lark turns deadly serious as the number of players is whittled down, temptations beckon, and the bonds between partners strain and unravel. The question now is not only who will capture the final prize, but at what cost.

Lost and Found

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New Jersey

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a novel

A mercy

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A sensual novel follows a woman as she returns to the French village where she lived as a girl during the German occupation.

Five Quarters of the Orange

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A new edition of this award-winning modern classic, with an introduction by Tayari Jones (An American Marriage), an excerpt from the never before seen follow-up, and discussion guide. 
  
Pakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle’s, estimation, but she’s also the brightest. Rozelle—beautiful, charismatic, and light-skinned—exercises a violent hold over her children. Fearing abandonment, she pulls them from school at the age of twelve and sends them to earn their keep for the household, whether in domestic service, in the fields, or at “the farmhouse” on the edge of town, where Rozelle beds local men for money. 
  
But Tangy Mae has been selected to be part of the first integrated class at a nearby white high school. She has a chance to change her life, but can she break from Rozelle’s grasp without ruinous—even fatal—consequences?


Darkest Child

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#paperback #fiction #bestseller #elizabethstrout #abuse #familytrauma #literaryfiction #mothersanddaughters 

Colorado

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys. Soon to be a Broadway play starring Laura Linney produced by Manhattan Theatre Club and London Theatre Company • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The New York Times Book Review • NPR • BookPage • LibraryReads • Minneapolis Star Tribune • St. Louis Post-Dispatch Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn’t spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy’s childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy’s life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two daughters. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable. Praise for My Name Is Lucy Barton “A quiet, sublimely merciful contemporary novel about love, yearning, and resilience in a family damaged beyond words.”—The Boston Globe “It is Lucy’s gentle honesty, complex relationship with her husband, and nuanced response to her mother’s shortcomings that make this novel so subtly powerful.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A short novel about love, particularly the complicated love between mothers and daughters, but also simpler, more sudden bonds . . . It evokes these connections in a style so spare, so pure and so profound the book almost seems to be a kind of scripture or sutra, if a very down-to-earth and unpretentious one.”—Newsday “Spectacular . . . Smart and cagey in every way. It is both a book of withholdings and a book of great openness and wisdom. . . . [Strout] is in supreme and magnificent command of this novel at all times.”—Lily King, The Washington Post “An aching, illuminating look at mother-daughter devotion.”—People

My Name Is Lucy Barton

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Indiana

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Nebraska

A mother's faith reflected in her daughter's mental illness

When Heather was nineteen months of age, her parents Steve and Leslie Byers wondered at her volatile mood swings -- moods later discovered to be associated with a mental illness called bipolar. This book chronicles the years of frustration the Byers family experienced as they fought an enemy they struggled to name, as they overcame mounting obstacles, and as they ultimately came to a place of discovery and healing. Through the years of Heather's manic-induced rages and suicidal depressions, follow the daily pressures her family experienced in coping with the challenges of the educational system, and the juvenile court system, and experience the agony of being forced to give up custody of a little girl because her parents could not afford proper treatment. Leslie struggled to understand why God would allow such a terrible illness to befall a child and cause such anguish for her family. Ultimately, she learned what happens within us when we open ourselves to the very real effects of faith and prayer. The Byers's greatest achievements came from their spiritual growth, their deepening awareness of God's love, what is really important in family relationships, and acceptance. Heather brought them this gift. Reading Heather's Rage will help anyone look at mental illness with new eyes, greater acceptance, and better understanding. For those in similar situations, there is the added reassurance that they are not alone and that there is hope to be found in even the most difficult moments. For all of us, there is the knowledge that through adversity we can become better people. Book jacket.

Heather's Rage

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Kristin Hannah

Summer Island

Jeni McFarland

The House of Deep Water

Tovah Feldshuh

Lilyville (Signed Copy)

Adrienne Brodeur

Wild Game

Kristin Hannah

Summer Island

Elizabeth Berg

What We Keep

Zoe FitzGerald Carter

Imperfect Endings

Gabrielle Zevin

Young Jane Young

Sue Monk Kidd

The Secret Life of Bees

Kristin Hannah

Summer Island

Elizabeth Berg

What We Keep

Katie Willard

Raising Hope

Kristin Hannah

Summer Island

Gabrielle Zevin

Young Jane Young

Carolyn Parkhurst

Lost and Found

Elizabeth Berg

What We Keep

Toni Morrison

A mercy

Elizabeth Berg

What We Keep

Joanne Harris

Five Quarters of the Orange

Delores Phillips

Darkest Child

Elizabeth Strout

My Name Is Lucy Barton

Kristin Hannah

Summer Island

Leslie Byers

Heather's Rage

Kristin Hannah

Summer Island