A journalist who at the age of fourteen lost her mother to breast cancer describes how neither of her parents mentioned the disease nor enabled her to visit her mother's grave, recounting how as an adult she endeavored to retrace the path of her mother's deliberately erased life. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: Life is a journey we all take, making changes along the way. Linda Wisniewski's memoir takes the reader along as she examines and keeps what feeds her soul and discards the rest. When she finally comes to terms with her Polish Catholic heritage, her physical deformity, and her widowed mother, she finds the keys to her own happiness...read more

Product Description: In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around...read more

The author describes how her rejection of the materialism of her generation and her low-budget search for creative fulfillment led her to a duplex in Seattle, a beach hut in Mexico, and a Left Bank convent, but never freed her from her obligations as an American.

The author recounts her mother's mental illness, their relationship, and the factors that led to Anne Sexton's suicide in 1974

Product Description: In this touching, heart-felt story, the author reveals her mother’s memories and longing for her lost family. The author, who was born six years after the Holocaust, shares her deep personal thoughts and feelings as a child who grew up in Israel among many Holocaust survivors...read more

Actress and author of the New York Times bestseller Down Came the Rain, Brooke Shields, explores her relationship with her unforgettable mother, Teri, in her new memoir. Brooke Shields never had what anyone would consider an ordinary life. She was raised by her Newark-tough single mom, Teri, a woman who loved the world of show business and was often a media sensation all by herself. Brooke's iconic modeling career began by chance when she was only eleven months old, and Teri's skills as both Brooke's mother and manager were formidable. But in private she was troubled and drinking heavily.As Brooke became an adult the pair made choices and sacrifices that would affect their relationship forever. And when Brooke’s own daughters were born she found that her experience as a mother was shaped in every way by the woman who raised her. But despite the many ups and downs, Brooke was by Teri’s side when she died in 2012, a loving daughter until the end.Only Brooke knows the truth of the remarkable, difficult, complicated woman who was her mother. And now, in an honest, open memoir about her life growing up, Brooke will reveal stories and feelings that are relatable to anyone who has been a mother or daughter.

Product Description: Like all mothers, mine had a set of maxims that she thought were important to impart to me: if you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all (unless it's irresistibly funny); it's as easy to fall in love with a rich man as it is with a poor man (a nice idea in theory); if you want to commit suicide, wait until tomorrow (advice which has, it turns out, saved my life)...read more

Product Description: Jo Maeder was an ambitious DJ in New York City when she did the unthinkable: she moved to the Bible Belt to look after her frail, estranged mother, who had long been a source of intense frustration. Maeder’s tumultuous journey from simply living with “Mama Jo” to learning to truly love her not only changed Maeder’s life, but also was the catalyst for pulling her long-fractured family together again...read more

Product Description: “A wry, magical memoir about the transcendent power of mother-daughter love.” —Elle   Thirty years after her death, Alice Cohen’s mother appears to her, seemingly in the flesh. Cohen is in the midst of the hardest year she’s ever had to face: One daughter needs a harrowing surgery, the other wants to reunite with her birth mother, and Cohen receives a frightening diagnosis herself...read more

Product Description: A candid and inspirational mother-daughter memoir of family, fame, trials, and triumphs by superstar Vanessa Williams her mother Helen Williams. Since she was a little girl, Vanessa Williams wanted to be on Broadway. As a musical theater major in college she was on her way, but life took a turn when she became the first black Miss America...read more