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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Georgia

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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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

One of . . . Electric Literature’s "Most Anticipated Debuts of Early 2020" • O, The Oprah Magazine’s "31 LGBTQ Books That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2020" • Publishers Weekly’s "Spring 2020 Literary Fiction Announcements" • BuzzFeed's "Most Highly Anticipated Books of 2020" • The Millions's "Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2020 Book Preview" • The Rumpus's "What to Read When 2020 Is Just Around the Corner" • LGBTQ Reads's "2020 LGBTQAP Adult Fiction Preview: January-June" • Lit Hub’s "Most Anticipated Books of 2020" • BookRiot’s "Must-Read Debut Novels of 2020" • Bitch’s "27 Novels Feminists Should Read in 2020" • Harper’s Bazaar's "14 LGBTQ+ Books to Look For in 2020" • NewNowNext’s "11 Queer Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Spring" • Cosmopolitan's "12 Books You'll Be Dying to Read This Summer" • Salon’s "The Best and Boldest New Must-Read Books for May" • Lambda Literary’s “Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books of May 2020” • The Rumpus's "What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Mothers" "A queer tour-de-force . . . Compelling and astonishing."–Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things Intimacy has always eluded twenty-seven-year-old Maggie Krause—despite being brought up by married parents, models of domestic bliss—until, that is, Lucia came into her life. But when Maggie’s mom, Iris, dies in a car crash, Maggie returns home only to discover a withdrawn dad, an angry brother, and, along with Iris's will, five sealed envelopes, each addressed to a mysterious man she’s never heard of. In an effort to run from her own grief and discover the truth about Iris—who made no secret of her discomfort with her daughter's sexuality—Maggie embarks on a road trip, determined to hand-deliver the letters and find out what these men meant to her mother. Maggie quickly discovers Iris’s second, hidden life, which shatters everything Maggie thought she knew about her parents’ perfect relationship. What is she supposed to tell her father and brother? And how can she deal with her own relationship when her whole world is in freefall? Told over the course of a funeral and shiva, and written with enormous wit and warmth, All My Mother's Lovers is the exciting debut novel from fiction writer and book critic Ilana Masad. A unique meditation on the universality and particularity of family ties and grief, and a tender and biting portrait of sex, gender, and identity, All My Mother's Lovers challenges us to question the nature of fulfilling relationships.

All My Mother's Lovers

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Three generations. Seven days. One big secret. The author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake unfolds a mother-daughter story told by three women whose time to reckon with a life-altering secret is running out. Gina Zoberski wants to make it through one day without her fastidious mother, Lorraine, cataloguing all her faults, and her sullen teenage daughter, May, snubbing her. Too bad there’s no chance of that. Her relentlessly sunny disposition annoys them both, no matter how hard she tries. Instead, Gina finds order and comfort in obsessive list-making and her work at Grilled G’s, the gourmet grilled cheese food truck built by her late husband. But when Lorraine suffers a sudden stroke, Gina stumbles upon a family secret Lorraine's kept hidden for forty years. In the face of her mother’s failing health and her daughter’s rebellion, this optimist might find that piecing together the truth is the push she needs to let go...

The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go

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Washington

#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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Great book bundle by Valerie Wilson Wesley.  Fans of hers already know; those who don’t better get this book bundle! #family #motherlessfamilies #mothersanddaughters #runawaywives #triangles #afroamericans #womenmurderers #parentandadultchild Description
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In her triumphant new novel, bestselling author Valerie Wilson Wesley, one of the most respected and acclaimed voices in contemporary African American fiction, poignantly examines the stubborn bonds of family, passion, and a past that insists on repeating itself.

Dani Carter was seven years old -- her sister, Rose, seventeen -- when their beautiful, impetuous mother, Maria, walked out of their lives, abandoning her husband and family for a love affair that would end tragically mere months later. Over the decades that followed, Dani was able to overcome the persistent pain and feelings of betrayal, eventually wedding a successful man and giving birth to a wonderful son. But love has long been missing from her marriage, propelling her into the arms of another and inspiring troubling thoughts of escape. If it were not for the distress caused by the recent death of her father, she might well have already been gone. The sins of the mother, Dani fears, have been visited upon the daughter.

Dani's sister, Rose, never spoke or speaks of their lost parent. And their iron-willed, driven father -- who channeled his shame and anger into phenomenal business success -- always made it brutally clear that he considered his ex-wife to be evil incarnate. But Dani remembers a sweet, funny, vivacious young woman who did everything with exuberant love and tenderness. And now that she finds herself in a similar heartbreaking situation, Dani can't help but wonder who Maria really was.

It's a puzzle that may soon be completed, after a lifetime of searching for missing pieces. Maria, calling herself Mariah, is about to reenter her daughters' worlds -- at a time of emotional confusion and physical chaos -- bearing secrets and bitter truths ... and, perhaps, long-awaited answers to what could possibly drive a mother to sacrifice what was dearest to her heart.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Michigan

Playing my mother's blues & Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do (Valerie Wilson Wesley Book Bundle)

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Book Bundle of Amy Tan’s Books “Saving Fish From Drowning” and “The Joy Luck Club”.  Please note: one hardcover and one paperback which is large print. #fiction #tourists #missingpersons #americans #burma #amytan #mothersanddaughters #chineseamerican #largetypebooks

On an ill-fated art expedition, eleven Americans find themselves deep in the Burmese jungle, where they encounter a tribe awaiting a leader and the mystical book of wisdom that will protect them from the Myanmar military regime.

Saving Fish from Drowning & The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan Book Bundle)

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Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed. A mesmerizing and achingly beautiful debut. 
Winter, 1919. Amanda Starkey spends her days nursing soldiers wounded in the Great War. Finding herself suddenly overwhelmed, she flees Milwaukee and retreats to her family's farm on Nagawaukee Lake, seeking comfort with her younger sister, Mathilda, and three-year-old niece, Ruth. But very soon, Amanda comes to see that her old home is no refuge--she has carried her troubles with her. On one terrible night almost a year later, Amanda loses nearly everything that is dearest to her when her sister mysteriously disappears and is later found drowned beneath the ice that covers the lake. When Mathilda's husband comes home from the war, wounded and troubled himself, he finds that Amanda has taken charge of Ruth and the farm, assuming her responsibility with a frightening intensity. Wry and guarded, Amanda tells the story of her family in careful doses, as anxious to hide from herself as from us the secrets of her own past and of that night. 
Ruth, haunted by her own memory of that fateful night, grows up under the watchful eye of her prickly and possessive aunt and gradually becomes aware of the odd events of her childhood. As she tells her own story with increasing clarity, she reveals the mounting toll that her aunt's secrets exact from her family and everyone around her, until the heartrending truth is uncovered. 
Guiding us through the lives of the Starkey women, Christina Schwarz's first novel shows her compassion and a unique understanding of the American landscape and the people who live on it.


Drowning Ruth

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Danielle Steel Book Bundle Number 3.  Great Danielle Steel collection for the true fans of Danielle Steel.  Good Variety Book Bundle of the bestselling author! #fathersanddaughters #hotel #boardinghouses #westvillage #singlemothers #mothersanddaughters #divorcedwomen #marriedwomen #militarynursing #richpeople

a novel

Hotel Vendome, 44 Charles Street, Southern Lights & A Good Woman (Danielle Steel Book Bundle Number 3)

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Illinois

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Keeping Your Bond Strong Through the Teen Years

Mothers and daughters share, and want, a bond for life--one that can remain positive and grow stronger with each passing year. Sil and Eliza Reynolds have designed a set of tools to assist you in nurturing that bond. If you're locked in a clash of wills or fear the prospect of getting into one, with Mothering and Daughtering you can learn how to build the foundation for a deep and lasting relationship that is a source of support, joy, and love throughout your lives.

Offering you two breakthrough guides in one, Mothering and Daughtering was created to help you find and protect the unique treasure that is your relationship. For moms, Sil addresses the central task of stopping the cycle of separation and anxiety that plagues so many, drawing on her clinical expertise to nurture the skills of listening, boundary setting, mirroring, containing, and more. Turn the book over, and Eliza shares empowering advice to teens looking to keep it real with Mom while also finding strength in their own intuition, friendships, and dreams. Packed with practical exercises, activities, and lifesaving insights gleaned from Sil and Eliza's workshops, Mothering and Daughtering explores these essential topics and more:

Your best friend known as your intuition
* Navigating the treacherous territories of comparison, performance, and perfectionism
* Dispelling the rejection myth
* Sex, positive discipline, and how to prevent a technological take-over
* Winning the body love battle
* Healing your emotional legacy
* Humor, truth, trust, and love--instead of trying to be perfect
* Repairing ruptures and getting to the bottom of misunderstandings
* Locating your fundamental bond that always connects you beneath your daily squabbles
"No one, nowhere, connects just like you," write Sil and Eliza. Whether you are already thriving in your relationship or merely surviving, Mothering and Daughtering is an indispensable resource to honor and strengthen that one-of-a-kind connection through the years ahead.

Mothering and Daughtering

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

A Mother's Guided Journal to Share Her Life & Her Love

Show Mom Your Love and Appreciation by Giving Her the Gift That Tells Her Life Story.




Mom, I Want to Hear Your Story is the perfect way Mothers can share the joys and triumphs of their lives while also creating a cherished legacy.

Imagine reading about the details of her life and journey.

Think of all you will learn about your Mom when you read about all she accomplished and experienced.

Mom, I Want to Hear Your Story will guide your Mother with prompts and questions, making it easy for her to share the stories of her childhood, teens, and adult years. This will be her life, her victories, her challenges, and her lessons.

Bestselling author Jeffrey Mason has created a guided journal that will give your Mother the gift of legacy, and you the gift of knowing her a little bit better. Buy Mom, I Want to Hear Your Story and Give your Mother a gift that will continue to give as the years go by.

"My Mom isn't one to talk about herself, but this wonderful journal had her sharing so many great stories about her life." -Christy Sanders

"This little book created such big memories." -Rhonda Andrews

"I got this one for my Mom and the Dad version for my Father." -Joe Houser

Buy Mom, I Want to Hear Your Story and give your Mother a forever gift.

Mom, I Want to Hear Your Story

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Maryland

A collection of essays and photographs of mothers and daughters.

Daughters and Mothers

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Florida

#nonfiction #memoir #mothersanddaughters #botm

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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#alcoholics #mothersanddaughters #familysecrets #veterinarian



In this compelling and poignant debut novel, a woman skilled at caring for animals must learn to mend the broken relationships in her family....

For veterinarian Geneva Novak, animals can be easier to understand than people. They're also easier to forgive. But when her mother, Helen, is injured in a vodka-fueled accident, it's up to Geneva to give her the care she needs.

Since her teens, Geneva has kept her self-destructive mother at arm's length. Now, with two slippery teenagers of her own at home, the last thing she wants is to add Helen to the mix. But Geneva's husband convinces her that letting Helen live with them could be her golden chance to repair their relationship.

Geneva isn't expecting her mother to change anytime soon, but she may finally get answers to the questions she's been asking for so long. As the truth about her family unfolds, however, Geneva may find secrets too painful to bear and too terrible to forgive.

CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED

House Broken

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Massachusetts

The kitchen gods wife

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New Jersey

This is an ex-library book in great condition, has three library stamps on it (top and bottom edges of the book, and on the title page.) #hardcover #largeprint #mothersanddaughters #travel #greece #france #college #love #family #biography

A Mother-Daughter Story

The authors describe their introspective journeys to Greece and France, during which they reconnected while Sue grappled with midlife challenges and writer's block and Ann struggled with heartbreak and post-college career questions.

Traveling with Pomegranates

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

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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Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

The author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a clear-eyed picture of the new sexual landscape girls face in the post-princess stage—high school through college—and reveals how they are negotiating it. A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. Even in this age of helicopter parenting, the mothers and fathers of tomorrow’s women have little idea what their daughters are up to sexually or how they feel about it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over seventy young women and a wide range of psychologists, academics, and experts, renowned journalist Peggy Orenstein goes where most others fear to tread, pulling back the curtain on the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important possibilities of girls’ sex lives in the modern world. While the media has focused—often to sensational effect—on the rise of casual sex and the prevalence of rape on campus, in Girls and Sex Peggy Orenstein brings much more to the table. She examines the ways in which porn and all its sexual myths have seeped into young people’s lives; what it means to be the “the perfect slut” and why many girls scorn virginity; the complicated terrain of hookup culture and the unfortunate realities surrounding assault. In Orenstein’s hands these issues are never reduced to simplistic “truths;” rather, her powerful reporting opens up a dialogue on a potent, often silent, subtext of American life today—giving readers comprehensive and in-depth information with which to understand, and navigate, this complicated new world.

Girls and Sex

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Kristin Hannah

Summer Island

Ilana Masad

All My Mother's Lovers

Amy E. Reichert

The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go

Elizabeth Strout

My Name Is Lucy Barton

Amy E. Reichert

The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go

Valerie Wilson Wesley

Playing my mother's blues & Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do (Valerie Wilson Wesley Book Bundle)

Amy Tan

Saving Fish from Drowning & The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan Book Bundle)

Christina Schwarz

Drowning Ruth

Danielle steel

Hotel Vendome, 44 Charles Street, Southern Lights & A Good Woman (Danielle Steel Book Bundle Number 3)

Kristin Hannah

Summer Island

Eliza Reynolds; Sil Reynolds

Mothering and Daughtering

Jeffrey Mason

Mom, I Want to Hear Your Story

Lauren Cowen; Jayne Wexler

Daughters and Mothers

Elizabeth Strout

My Name Is Lucy Barton

Adrienne Brodeur

Wild Game

Sonja Yoerg

House Broken

Amy Tan

The kitchen gods wife

Kristin Hannah

Summer Island

Sue Monk Kidd; Ann Kidd Taylor

Traveling with Pomegranates

Elizabeth Strout

My Name Is Lucy Barton

Kristin Hannah

Summer Island

Gabrielle Zevin

Young Jane Young

Peggy Orenstein

Girls and Sex

Elizabeth Strout

My Name Is Lucy Barton