Product Description: A mother writes to her faraway daughter: "I keep all your letters. Someday you might want to do something with them." Those words foretold Shared Histories, although neither woman would live to see the book. This is the first known published collection of letters to include correspondence between civilian family members on both sides of the Atlantic during World War II...read more

In a touching memoir of a difficult relationship, a twenty-six-year-old adoptee shares a year in letters written to her birthmother after decades of separation. Tour.

Product Description: In 1868 twenty-two-year-old Mary Julia Towne left her farm in Topsfield, Massachusetts, for Chicago in search of better health and an opportunity to support herself. Soon she was teaching, first in night school and then in grammar schools, finding satisfaction and independence in this profession...read more

Collects a correspondence spanning fifty years, a period that included the New Deal, the Second World War, and the postwar years, between a famous mother her only daughter