#hardcover #christian #mother #catholicmother #christianmom 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Florida

A Special Story for Mothers

"Nicole Johnson shows how being in the background of others' lives isn't necessarily less important"--Provided by publisher.

The Invisible Woman

6cc6c415-4e66-4512-b00d-f9f5cb8aabc7-1

Richard Scarry

NEW BOOK NEVER READ WONDERFUL XMAS GIFT FOR LUCKY CHILD

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Richard Scarry introduces toddlers to the nursery rhymes of Mother Goose! Featuring his unmistakable art (now restored to its original glory) and fifty of Mother Goose's most beloved rhymes, Scarry's timeless collection, now celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, is a must-have for readers of all ages.

Richard Scarry's Best Mother Goose Ever

a6f866e9-9163-4fe6-985a-339ec7efa115-1

Oregon

When a little girl and her mother take a lovely autumn walk together, Mom's small observations--and gentle humor--convey a big, special sentiment.

It's a golden, windy autumn day, and a mother a daughter set out walking among the swirling leaves. As they wend their way, they share little adventures--spying a kitten, seeing the trees zigzag with streaks of color, catching some floating milkweed, watching the setting sun color the clouds. Throughout their walk, the girl keeps urging her mother to "say it" with more and more persistence. What could "it" be? From a sterling picture-book team comes a quiet story that shows the many ways love is expressed in the small moments shared between parent and child.

Say It!

b8ccd3c1-45bf-4dcb-bcbd-4448b455fa1d-1

#hardcover #mom #mothersday #mother p4msvd

Massachusetts

"In this loving homage to mothers everywhere, the best-selling author has masterfully paired his insightful prose with humorous animal photography that quicky and succinctly sums up his narrative's loving nuances."--

The Incredible Truth about Motherhood

6341cbcb-79f1-4f03-978f-c954ed95e1a7-1

Nevada

A Novel

Having set aside her own life in her support of her parents, husband, and children, Helen Knightly confronts the realities of the choices that were imposed upon her during a harrowing twenty-four-hour period of death and revelation. By the author of The Lovely Bones. 750,000 first printing.

The Almost Moon

ebdb25b7-9a27-40ac-bf4b-403994b02853-1

5⭐️

hardcover #demilovato #nonfiction #autobiography #biographies #memoirs #mother 

New Jersey

Before she was mother to global superstar Demi Lovato, she was just Dianna Hart.
Dianna tells her story from the very beginning in this complete and genuinely affecting memoir.

She had big plans of becoming a country music star, but her life went in a different direction than her dreams. She developed an eating disorder early in life to gain a sense of control in her strict upbringing. As she continued to struggle with body image and her obsession with being perfect her entire adult life, she was also met with other difficult situations. Her husband and father of her two eldest daughters, Dallas and Demi, had his own troubles that effected the entire family. She coped with alcohol and pills, forming a long-lasting addiction.

She's had terrible lows but also some great highs as she watched her daughters break out in Hollywood to become strong, empowered young women.

As a mother caring for daughters with addictions while continuing to battle her own, Dianna offers a unique perspective. And as a family, they have survived everything life has thrown at them and come away from it stronger than ever.

Dianna tells her story of living through and surviving adversity--with tremendous strength, love and faith.

Falling with Wings: a Mother's Story

d1678ba4-8e7d-43fe-94b1-11be3e65ea05-1

Candace Flynt

Oklahoma

Mother Love

84bbf520-30c4-4c3d-91c5-ff5729aaece3-1

#hardback #lds #mormon #seagullbooks #mother 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Real World Reflections on Growing into Motherhood

SUB TITLE:Real World Reflections on Growing into Motherhood

The Mother in Me

37118a50-a193-4b5e-b102-74093998b06d-1

Connecticut

A Child's Alphabet

The love between a mother and her child is precious and everlasting. No two relationships are the same, yet there are shared experiences and memories to which every mother can relate. From the warm embrace of a hug to the soft whispers of encouragement, some of the many ways a mother expresses her love can be found in M is for Mom: A Child's Alphabet. A is for the Arms that hug and hold me tight. While in those arms I see your face and know I'm in my favorite place. Tender, evocative artwork provides an unforgettable backdrop as mother and child embrace, learn, and love...from A to Z. Educator/author Mary Ann McCabe Riehle has motivated students and adults to follow their dreams and tell their stories. A featured speaker at reading and writing conferences, she hopes that M is for Mom will encourage readers of all ages to honor and cherish special times together. Mary Ann lives in Dexter, Michigan. Chris Ellison has illustrated both children's picture books and adult fiction for the past 16 years. M is for Mom is his fifth book for Sleeping Bear Press. Other titles include The Lucky Star and Let Them Play (a 2006 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People). Chris lives in Petal, Mississippi. 

M Is for Mom

fb440fe7-546f-4521-a9bf-53b4b2531ede-1

#hardcover #fiction #historical #drama #emotional #family #mother #son 

Pennsylvania

The Kept

81bb0b58-5a7a-43d9-8fa2-d6b33cb2a2f4-1

#hardcover #1960 #mother #daughter #nightclub #love

Ohio

Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s Chicago jazz scene, a highly ambitious and stylish literary debut that combines the atmosphere and period detail of Amor Towles' Rules of Civility with the emotional depth and drama of The Memory Keeper's Daughter, about a talented but troubled singer, her precocious ten-year-old daughter, and their heartbreaking relationship.

It is the early 1960s, and Chicago is a city of uneasy tensions--segregation, sexual experimentation, free love, the Cold War--but it is also home to one of the country's most vibrant jazz scenes. Naomi Hill, a singer at the Blue Angel club, has been poised on the brink of stardom for nearly ten years. Finally, her big break arrives--the cover of Look magazine. But success has come at enormous personal cost. Beautiful and magnetic, Naomi is a fiercely ambitious yet extremely self-destructive woman whose charms are irresistible and dangerous for those around her. No one knows this better than Sophia, her clever ten-year-old daughter.

For Sophia, Naomi is the center of her universe. As the only child of a single, unconventional mother, growing up in an adult world, Sophia has seen things beyond her years and her understanding. Unsettled by her uncertain home life, she harbors the terrible fear that the world could end at any moment, and compulsively keeps a running list of practical objects she will need to reinvent once nuclear catastrophe strikes. Her one constant is Jim, the photographer who is her best friend, surrogate father, and protector. But Jim is deeply in love with Naomi--a situation that adds to Sophia's anxiety.

Told from the alternating perspectives of Sophia and Naomi, their powerful and wrenching story unfolds in layers, revealing Sophia's struggle for her mother's love with Naomi's desperate journey to stardom and the colorful cadre of close friends who shaped her along the way.

Sophisticated yet poignant, Last Night at the Blue Angel is an unforgettable tale about what happens when our passion for the life we want is at sharp odds with the life we have. It is a story ripe with surprising twists and revelations, and an ending that is bound to break your heart.

Last Night at the Blue Angel

deb3b884-2120-44a4-a774-1d37f5a94526-1

Stephen Krensky

Retired school library book. Previous owner’s information has been blackened out on the inside of the front and back cover. Interior pages are in like new condition.

Missouri

A snake dreams up an unusual Mothers Day gift

Mother's Day Surprise

c1facc2a-3c8f-45e2-8cc0-f0d058d29ddc-1

DJ is complete with typical shelf wear and a couple of small tears.  Book feels as if never read, as spine is still tight and square. Cover corners are still sharp. (J1) ———— **SUMMARY** From beloved bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the enthralling saga of three generations of extraordinary women--of the fate that befalls them, and the choices that define their lives…

IN THE NAME OF LOVE.
Orphaned after the death of her mother, well-bred Audra Kenton rose from selfless nurse to servant of an affluent suffragette, to a fiercely independent bride whose passionate marriage was overtaken by an unforeseeable tragedy. Now Audra has but one dream--to bestow upon her brilliantly artistic daughter, every opportunity that she was denied…

AT THE HEART OF AMBITION.
Given the world, the stubborn Christina has forsaken the wishes of her noble mother to forge the career of her choice--that of a glittering Manhattan fashion empire she hopes to bequeath to her own daughter. But in young and beautiful Kyle stirs a spirit that is inherently headstrong, equally independent, and just as ironically resistant to the sacrifices made in the name of love.

FOR THE SAKE OF A DREAM.
From the picturesque Yorkshire Dales to the haute couture luxuries of Paris and London to the bittersweet respite of home and family, three women face stunning betrayals and astonishing reversals of fate as each brings her own intimate struggle to their need of personal success and to a triumphant and heartening understanding of devotion, duty, and destiny. #motherlylove #motherdaughter #drama #mother #bradford #fiction #adventure #comingofage 

Texas

Act of Will (1986)

Susannah Marren

Lainie Smith Morris is perfectly content with her life in New York City: she has four children, a handsome surgeon husband, and good friends. This life she has built is shattered, however, when her husband Charles announces he has accepted a job in Elliot, New Jersey, and that the family must relocate. Lainie is forced to give up the things she knows and loves.

Though Charles easily adapts to the intricacies of suburban life, even thriving in it, Lainie finds herself increasingly troubled and bored by her new limited responsibilities, and she remains desperate for the inspiration, comfort, and safety of the city she called home. She is hopelessly lost--until, serendipitously, she reconnects with an old friend/rival turned current Elliot resident, Jess. Pleased to demonstrate her social superiority to Lainie, Jess helps her find a footing, even encouraging Lainie to develop as an artist; but what looks like friendship is quickly supplanted by a betrayal with earth-shattering impact, and a move to the suburbs becomes a metaphor for a woman who must search to find a new home ground in the shifting winds of marriage, family, career, and friendship.

Between the Tides is an engrossing, commanding debut from tremendous new talent Susannah Marren.

Between the Tides

3c79fdc8-973d-4175-9515-d428ac518872-1

#hardcover #memoir #beautifulboy #mother #son #comingofage #boy #nonfiction #robertleleux slight flaw on first page at top (see pic) otherwise book is in excellent like new condition 

Kansas

In the Dear John letter Daddy left for Mother and me, on a Saturday afternoon in early June 1996, on the inlaid Florentine table in the front entry of our house, which we found that night upon returning from a day spent in the crème-colored light of Neiman's, Daddy wrote that he was leaving us because Mother was crazy, and because she'd driven me crazy in a way that perfectly suited her own insanity.


In a memoir studded with delicious lines and unforgettable set pieces, Robert Leleux describes his East Texas boyhood and coming of age under the tutelage of his eccentric, bewigged, flamboyant, and knowing mother.

Left high and dry by Daddy and living on their in-laws' horse ranch in a white-pillared house they can't afford, Robert and Mother find themselves chronically low on cash. Soon they are forced into more modest quarters, and as a teenaged Robert watches with hilarity and horror, Mother begins a desperate regimen of makeovers, extreme plastic surgeries, and finally hairpiece epoxies---all calculated to secure a new, wealthy husband. 

Mother's strategy takes her, with Robert in tow, from the glamorous environs of the Neiman Marcus beauty salon to questionable surgery offices and finally to a storefront clinic on the wrong side of Houston. Meanwhile, Robert begins his own journey away from Mother and through the local theater's world of miscast hopefuls and thwarted ambitions---and into a romance that surprises absolutely no one but himself.

Written with a warmth and a wicked sense of fun that lighten even the most awful circumstances,The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy is a sparkling debut. 

The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy

99ab03dc-a528-474f-8c97-14671d549951-1

#mom #celebratemothers #heartofpuregold #love #mother #gift #giftformom #mothersday 
Great gift for Mom or an important woman in your life. A small book of readings, poems and scriptures celebrating Mother's, with a front page for inscription. Perfect for Mother's Day or any time of year. #hardcover 

A Celebration of a Mother's Love

One glance at Barbour's brand-new DayMaker gift books, and you'll say "Wow!" These gorgeous, 32-page, full-color gift books feature inspirational text for moms, dads, and graduates. Carefully selected photographic illustrations complement the text perfectly, while the hardback covers include special touches such as gold foil application. A tastefully designed envelope is included with each book, making the DayMaker program an even more incredible value. Only Barbour Books can bring you this amazing package for just $2.97!

A Heart of Purest Gold

c5760faa-c365-4d24-bdd3-79b78914d247-1

#fiction #hardcover #botm #unread #daughter #lgbt #love #mother 

New York

Skye Falling

b57e99f6-7150-4aab-a5b1-608f55287461-1

Magdalena Newman

Hilary Liftin

Minnesota

A Mother and Her Beautiful Son

A moving memoir from the mother of a child with Treacher Collins Syndrome, with a foreword by R.J. Palacio, author of Wonder For Magda Newman, normal was a goal--she wanted her son Nathaniel to be able to play on the playground, swim at the beach, enjoy the moments of childhood that are often taken for granted. But Nathaniel's severe Treacher Collins syndrome--a craniofacial condition--meant that other concerns came first. Could he eat without the aid of a gastrointestinal tube? Could he hear? Would he ever be able to breathe effortlessly? In this moving memoir, Newman, with the help of her son, tells the story of raising Nathaniel, from the shock she and her husband faced when he was born, to the inspiration of Nathaniel's own strength and quirky humor. All this while also facing both non-Hodgkins and Hodgkins lymphoma diagnoses of her own. This uplifting story of a family tackling complex and terrifying circumstances with love and resilience is a true testament to Magda and her family, and to families everywhere who quietly but courageously persist.

Normal

f14b7add-0f34-4f6b-bf2c-f888d007b8b1-1

Bestselling author Scottoline's writing is sharp, intelligent, funny, and hip. . . she gives fans of thrillers a good, twisty plot, lively characters, andan all-around fun read ("USA Today").

Look Again

3e28b1a8-be8f-4ede-bb60-f4121f284a6e-1

Signed edition. Dust cover has damage on back but book is in excellent condition
#hardcover #hardcover #motherhood #mother #family #children #momlife

A Celebration

Even as women reach for the wider opportunities open to them, they still find that giving birth and raising children are defining roles in their lives. In "Mothers: A Celebration," Alexandra Stoddard reaches deep within herself for inspiring insights about the blessings and challenges of motherhood: how this life-changing event transforms, matures and pushes mothers to live more profoundly, wisely and mindfully than ever before. Drawing on her own experience as the mother of two daughters, as the stepmother of an extensive brood and as a daughter who often challenged her own mother's expectations, Stoddard relates charming anecdotes, bittersweet moments and stirring memories that shed light on the universal triumphs and trials of being a mother. She suggests how to find balance within our many responsibilities, how to learn to play as spontaneously as children and how to trust our instincts as parents even as we must gradually let go. In this thoughtful and affirming book-perfect for both reading and gift giving-Alexandra Stoddard honors the strength and contribution of mothers. Filled with Stoddard's noted down-to earth honesty and sparkling spirit, "Mothers: A Celebration" is a book every generation of women can treasure.

Mothers

e481371f-af56-4b02-ac0c-2ca8c1b7d0fa-1

Cathie Borrie

Memory, My Mother, and Me

A powerful, ground-shifting account of caring for a parent with Alzheimer's about which Maya Angelou exclaimed, "Joy!" Since Cathie Borrie delivered her keynote performance at the World Alzheimer's Day event sponsored by the Community and Access Programs of the Museum of Modern Art, her self-published manuscript has won rapturous praise from noted writers and Alzheimer's experts alike, from Maya Angelou, Lisa Genova, and Molly Peacock to Dr. Bill Thomas, Jed A. Levine of the Alzheimer's Association, NYC, and Meryl Comer of the Geoffrey Beene Foundation Alzheimer's Initiative. Now it is available to the general public for the first time in a trade edition. The Long Hello distills the seven years the author spent caring for her mother into a page-turning memoir that offers insight into the "altering world of the dementia mind." During that time, Borrie recorded brief conversations she had with her mother that revealed the transformations within—and sometimes yielded an almost Zenlike poetry. She includes selections from them in chapters about her experience that are as evocative as diary entries. Her mother was the emotional pillar and sometime breadwinner in a home touched by a birth father's alcoholism, a brother's early death, divorce, and a stepfather's remoteness. In Borrie's spare prose, her mother's story becomes a family's story as well a deeply loving portrait that embraces life.

The Long Hello

dfaf52f4-acba-4b35-b458-c05cb454848a-1

#paperback #arc #family #mother #relationships #contemporary #fiction #generalfiction #general #booktok 

When his difficult mother is diagnosed with ALS, a sharp-witted yet sensitive artist named Noah York reluctantly returns to his New Hampshire hometown - and all the ghosts he left behind. Fans of Andrew Sean Greer, Jonathan Tropper, and Armistead Maupin will adore this outrageously funny, deeply touching, buoyant new novel from the award-winning author of Leave Myself Behind.

As it turns out, you can go home again. But sometimes, you really, really don't want to . . .

Home, for Noah York, is Oakland, New Hampshire, the sleepy little town where Noah's mother, Virginia, had a psychotic
breakdown and Noah got beaten to a pulp as a teenager. Then there were the good times-and Noah's not sure which ones are
more painful to recall.

Now thirty-seven and eking out a living as an artist in Providence, Rhode Island, Noah looks much the same-and swears just as
colorfully-as he did in high school. Virginia has become a wildly successful poet who made him the subject of her most famous
poem, "The Lost Soul," a label Noah will never live down. And J.D., the one who got away-because Noah stupidly drove him
away-is in a loving marriage with a successful, attractive man whom Noah despises wholeheartedly.

Is it any surprise that Noah wishes he could ignore his mother's summons to come visit?

But Virginia has shattering news to deliver, and a request he can't refuse. Soon, Noah will track down the sister and extended
family he never knew existed, try to keep his kleptomaniac cousin out of jail, feud with a belligerent neighbor, confront J.D.'s
jealous husband-and face J.D. himself, the ache from Noah's past that never fades. . . . All the while, contending with his
brilliant, unpredictable mother.

Bittersweet, hilarious, and moving, and as unapologetically candid and unforgettable as Noah himself, The Language of Love and Loss is a story about growing older, getting lost-and finding your way back to the only truths that really matter.

The Language of Love and Loss

d454ccf8-fe5d-4907-87b1-d3f0ca0e741f-1

"A Kavalier & Clay for the Comic-Con Age, this is a bighearted, inventive, exuberant debut." --Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand Saints

"Proehl creates worlds within worlds within worlds, all of them full of surprise and wonder."
--Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Valerie Torrey took her son, Alex, and fled Los Angeles six years ago--leaving both her role on a cult sci-fi TV show and her costar husband after a tragedy blew their small family apart. Now Val must reunite nine-year-old Alex with his estranged father, so they set out on a road trip from New York, Val making appearances at comic book conventions along the way. 

As they travel west, encountering superheroes, monsters, time travelers, and robots, Val and Alex are drawn into the orbit of the comic-con regulars, from a hapless twentysomething illustrator to a brilliant corporate comics writer stuggling with her industry's old-school ways to a group of cosplay women who provide a chorus of knowing commentary. For Alex, this world is a magical place where fiction becomes reality, but as they get closer to their destination, he begins to realize that the story his mother is telling him about their journey might have a very different ending than he imagined.

A knowing and affectionate portrait of the geeky pleasures of fandom, A Hundred Thousand Worlds is also a tribute to the fierce and complicated love between a mother and son--and to the way the stories we create come to shape us.

Save this search

Nicole Johnson

The Invisible Woman

Richard Scarry

Richard Scarry's Best Mother Goose Ever

Charlotte Zolotow; Charlotte Voake (Illustrator)

Say It!

Hallmark

The Incredible Truth about Motherhood

Alice Sebold

The Almost Moon

Dianna De La Garza; Vickie McIntyre; Demi Lovato (Introduction by)

Falling with Wings: a Mother's Story

Candace Flynt

Mother Love

The Mother in Me

Mary Ann McCabe Riehle; Chris Ellison (Illustrator)

M Is for Mom

James Scott

The Kept

Rebecca Rotert

Last Night at the Blue Angel

Stephen Krensky

Mother's Day Surprise

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Act of Will (1986)

Susannah Marren

Between the Tides

Robert Leleux

The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy

Ellyn Sanna

A Heart of Purest Gold

Mia McKenzie

Skye Falling

Magdalena Newman; Hilary Liftin

Normal

Lisa Scottoline

Look Again

Alexandra Stoddard

Mothers

Cathie Borrie

The Long Hello

Bart Yates

The Language of Love and Loss

Bob Proehl

A Hundred Thousand Worlds

Kathy Broderick

I Love You, Little Bear