Lisa Scottoline

Francesca Serritella

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman

Critics and readers loved Lisa Scottoline's first collection of true-life stories, which only encouraged her--now she's back with these all-new, exciting adventures. She's farther down the road now, and the scenery has changed--ex-husbands Thing One and Thing Two are in her rear-view mirror, daughter Francesca has moved into an apartment, and Lisa's finding the silver lining in her empty nest, which has lots more room for her shoes. And some things have stayed the same--Mother Mary is still the feistiest octogenarian on the planet, who won't part with her recipe for tomato sauce or her thirty-year old bra.In this book Lisa and Francesca spill all their family secrets--which sound a lot like yours, if you understand that three generations of women is the formula for spontaneous combustion.Inspired by her weekly column entitled, "Chick Wit" forThe Philadelphia Inquirer,this is a book you'll have to put down--just to stop laughing.

My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space

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#hardcover #bestsellingauthor #BarbaraDelinsky #mother-daughter #lies a great read

Alabama

The Secret Between Us tells an unforgettable story about making bad choices for the right reasons, and the terrible consequences of a lie gone wrong. Delinsky has delivered a riveting study of family and a superbly crafted, thought-provoking, novel.

The Secret Between Us

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Mary Higgins Clark

Carol Higgins Clark

Michigan

Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, joins forces once again with private detective Regan Reilly to track down the beautiful ninety-foot tree that has been hijacked on its way to the Rockerfeller Center for the Christmas season.

The Christmas Thief

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Good condition. Minor dents on cover and edges of pages. #paperback #nonfiction #mothers #memoir #motherdaughter #family #relationships #pattydavis #women #selfhelp 

Massachusetts

Prominent Women Discuss the Complex, Humorous, and Ultimately Loving Relationships They Have with Their Mothers

The title The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us encapsulates what this book by Patti Davis is about. No matter what a woman achieves in her life, no matter how old she gets or whether or not she herself becomes a mother, she is always and forever a daughter. The Women Whose Stories Are Included . . .Patti Davis Anne RiceCarolyn See Marg HelgenbergerMelissa Gilbert Carnie WilsonRosanna Arquette Mariel HemingwayAnna Quindlen Angelica HustonMary Kay Place Ruby DeeFaye Wattleton Julianne MarguliesLily Tomlin Diahann CarrollCandice Bergen Marianne WilliamsonLorna Luft Whoopie GoldbergAlice Hoffman Cokie RobertsKathy SmithLinda Bloodworth Thomason

The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us

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South Carolina

Traveling with Pomegranates

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Mexico

Recently widowed Helen Ames and her twenty-seven-year-old daughter Tessa discover that money has disappeared in several big withdrawals from the Ames' retirement savings. What Helen's husband did with all their money turns out to be provocative, revelator

Home Safe

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Sue Monk Kidd

Ann Kidd Taylor

Delaware

A Mother-Daughter Story

The award-winning author of The Secret Life of Bees and her daughter 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.

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#hardcover #nonfiction #memoir #truecrime #motherdaughter #searchfortruth

Arizona

A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search

A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life

After the Eclipse

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Indiana

"Lisa and Francesca, mother and daughter, bring you the laughter of their lives." --Delia Ephron, bestselling author

The bestselling and "perennially hilarious" mother-daughter team is back with a new collection of stories from their real lives, guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. Join Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella as they regret drunk-shopping online, try smell-dating, and explore the freedom of a hiatus from men - a Guyatus. They offer a fresh and funny take on the triumphs and facepalm moments of modern life, showing that when it comes to navigating the crazy world we live in, you'realways your own best lifeguard.

I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool

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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)

Sarah Perry

Kerry Kletter

Committed to a mental hospital against her will for something she claims she did not do, Cassie O'Malley signs herself out against medical advice when she turns eighteen and tries to start over at college, until her estranged mother appears, throwing everything Cassie believes about herself into question.

The First Time She Drowned

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#hardcover #photography #motherhood #childhood #motherdaughter

Why A Daughter Needs a Mom

#hardcover #fiction #humor #motherdaughter ex library 📚 

Kentucky

#paperback #fiction #fame #familydrama #familysecrets #historical #motherdaughter #mystery 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Against the nostalgic grit of 1970s New York City, the precarious lines between girl and woman, art and obscenity, fetish and fame flicker and ignite for a young girl on the brink of stardom and a mother on the verge of collapse in this vividly lyrical drama from the award-winning author T. Greenwood. Perfect for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid, Emma Cline, and Ella Berman!

In 1970s New York, her innocence is seductive.
Four decades later, it's a crime...

Living peacefully in Vermont, Ryan Flannigan is shocked when a text from her oldest friend alerts her to a devastating news item. A controversial photo of her as a pre-teen has been found in the possession of a wealthy investor recently revealed as a pedophile and a sex trafficker--with an inscription to him from Ryan's mother on the back.

Memories crowd in, providing their own distinctive pictures of her mother Fiona, an aspiring actress, and their move to the West Village in 1976. Amid the city's gritty kaleidoscope of wealth and poverty, high art, and sleazy strip clubs, Ryan is discovered and thrust into the spotlight as a promising young actress with a woman's face and a child's body. Suddenly, the safety and comfort Ryan longs for is replaced by auditions, paparazzi, and the hungry eyes of men of all ages.

Forced to reexamine her childhood, Ryan begins to untangle her young fears and her mother's ambitions, and the role each played in the fraught blackout summer of 1977. Even with her movie career long behind her, Ryan and Fiona are suddenly the object of uncomfortable speculation--and Fiona demands Ryan's support. To put the past to rest, Ryan will need to face the painful truth of their relationship, and the night when everything changed.

"Magnetic...This knotty story leaves readers reflecting on the limits of family obligations." -Publishers Weekly

Such a Pretty Girl

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Colorado

The last time I saw mother

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Sturdy with scuffing and creases from being read a few times. #paperback #fiction #pearl #marygordan #ireland #historicalfiction #mystery #motherdaughter #drama

A Novel

On Christmas night of 1998, Maria Meyers learns that her twenty-year-old daughter, Pearl, has chained herself outside the American embassy in Dublin, where she intends to starve herself to death. Although Maria was once a student radical and still proudly lives by her beliefs, gentle, book-loving Pearl has never been interested in politics-nor in the Catholicism her mother rejected years before. What, then, is driving her to martyr herself? Shaken by this mystery, Maria and her childhood friend (and Pearl's surrogate father), Joseph Kasperman, both rush to Pearl's side. As Mary Gordon tells the story of the bonds among them, she takes us deep into the labyrinths of maternal love, religious faith, and Ireland's tragic history. Pearl is a grand and emotionally daring novel of ideas, told with the tension of a thriller.

Pearl

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Minnesota

Freaky Friday

Kristin Hannah

Kristin Hannah is an excellent writer who pulls on heartstrings and emotions exceptionally well. The Four Winds is no exception. She really captured the bleakness of the Depression and Dust Bowl, but injected elements of hope. I enjoyed this story. The book itself is in great shape, there is damage from a sticker on the dust jacket (pictured).

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 USA TODAY BESTSELLER #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER #1 INDIE BESTSELLER "The Four Winds seems eerily prescient in 2021 . . . Its message is galvanizing and hopeful: We are a nation of scrappy survivors. We’ve been in dire straits before; we will be again. Hold your people close.”—The New York Times "A spectacular tour de force that shines a spotlight on the indispensable but often overlooked role of Greatest Generation women."—People "Through one woman’s survival during the harsh and haunting Dust Bowl, master storyteller, Kristin Hannah, reminds us that the human heart and our Earth are as tough, yet as fragile, as a change in the wind." —Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions were out of work and even the land seemed to have turned against them. “My land tells its story if you listen. The story of our family.” Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows. By 1934, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive. In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family. The Four Winds is a rich, sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and the people who lived through it—the harsh realities that divided us as a nation and the enduring battle between the haves and the have-nots. A testament to hope, resilience, and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity, The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.

The Four Winds

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Kansas

Living in exile with her mother in turbulent 1928 China, young Lydia Ivanova, who had fled Russia after the murder of her father by the Bolsheviks, falls in love with Chang An Lo, a young freedom fighter, but their love is threatened by the violence and danger that surrounds them and by the arrival of Chiang Kai Shek and his troops, whose goal is to destroy revolutionaries like Chang. A first novel. Original.

The Russian Concubine

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#youngadult #ya #yafiction #motherdaughter #middeschool

When the mothers of four sixth-grade girls with very different personalities pressure them into forming a book club, they find, as they read and discuss "Little Women," that they have much more in common than they could have imagined.

The Mother-Daughter Book Club

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Women share wisdom and their stories #motherdaughter #woman

Stories That Celebrate a Very Special Bond

Collects approximately fifty stories written by mothers and daughters expressing the relationships that they share and dispensing wisdom and advice in the process.

A Cup of Comfort for Mothers and Daughters

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Ria Voros

New Jersey

A gripping mystery about the gravitational force between mothers and daughters. Grace CarterÕs mother Ñ the celebrity news anchor GG Carter Ñ is everything Grace is not. GG is a star, with a flawless wardrobe and a following of thousands, while Grace Ñ an aspiring astrophysicist Ñ is into stars of another kind. She and her mother have always been in different orbits. Then one day GG is just É gone. While the authorities unravel the mystery behind GGÕs disappearance, Grace grows closer to her high schoolÕs golden boy, Mylo, who has faced a black hole of his own. She also uncovers some secrets from her motherÕs long-lost past. The more Grace learns, the more she wonders. Did she ever really know her mother? Was GG abducted É or did she leave? And if she left, why?

The Center of the Universe

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#paperback #fiction #abbiwaxman #iwastolditwouldgeteasier #motherdaughter 

Virginia

"Stuck in a bus full of strangers, mother-and-daughter duo Jessica and Emily Burnstein watch their carefully mapped-out college tour devolve into something they never expected in this hilarious and insightful new novel from the author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill. Jessica and Emily have very different ideas of how this college tour should go. For Emily, it's a last-ditch effort to get excited about her future, because every day in the present feels like such a slog. Can't she just skip straight to the adulting part? It looks so much easier... at least on social media. For Jessica, it's a chance to bond with the daughter she seems to have lost. They used to be so close, but then Goldfish crackers and Play-Doh were no longer enough of a draw. She isn't even sure if Emily likes her anymore. To be honest, Jessica isn't entirely sure she likes herself. Together with a dozen strangers-and two familiar enemies-Jessica and Emily travel the East Coast, visiting one prospective college after another, meeting up with family and old friends along the way. Surprises and secrets test their relationship and, in the end, change it forever"--

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Lisa Scottoline; Francesca Serritella

My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space

Barbara Delinsky

The Secret Between Us

Mary Higgins Clark; Carol Higgins Clark

The Christmas Thief

Patti Davis

The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us

Sue Monk Kid

Traveling with Pomegranates

Elizabeth Berg

Home Safe

Sue Monk Kidd; Ann Kidd Taylor

Traveling with Pomegranates

Sarah Perry

After the Eclipse

Lisa Scottoline; Francesca Serritella

I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Act of Will (1986)

Sarah Perry

After the Eclipse

Kerry Kletter

The First Time She Drowned

Gregory E. Lang

Why A Daughter Needs a Mom

Elizabeth Berg

Home Safe

T. Greenwood

Such a Pretty Girl

Arlene J. Chai

The last time I saw mother

Mary Gordon

Pearl

Mary Rodgers

Freaky Friday

Kristin Hannah

The Four Winds

Kate Furnivall

The Russian Concubine

Heather Vogel Frederick

The Mother-Daughter Book Club

Colleen Sell

A Cup of Comfort for Mothers and Daughters

Ria Voros

The Center of the Universe

Abbi Waxman

I Was Told It Would Get Easier