 | Monkey Bay (Contemporary American Fiction)
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 |  | Lost Daughters (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)
Publication Date: March 1, 1999| Series: Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England A novel that turns the traditional adoption narrative on its head as it explores how lies move through generations. ...
|  | My Mother's Daughter: Stories by Women
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|  | Memory Stones
Publication Date: March 3, 2003Nell, a rare female Master of Wine, enjoys an uncluttered and elegant life in Paris, sharing her days with Lulu - the cantankerous poodle her best friend bequeathed to her as a joke on her deathbed - and sharing her passion for wine with Henri, her lover and married vineyard owner. Until a phone call shatters the peace of her carefully constructed world...It is her daughter's neighbour in Ireland, with news so worrying that Nell can no longer avoid the inevitable. She must return home for the first time in over thirty years. But why has it taken Nell so long to...
|  | Keys to the Garden
Publication Date: December 2, 1999Widowed Martha Moreton was a devoted mother to her only child Lucy, and when Lucy married Len, Martha gradually came to terms with her marriage. This story explores the maternal bond of mother and daughter. ...
|  | Long Gone Anybody
Publication Date: September 1, 2004When you're running away from life, how far do you need to go...? A nineteen-year old runs away from her life and keeps on running. Haunted by the unexplained departure of her mother four years earlier, she is looking and not looking. Adopting one identity after another - female escort, apple-picker, cashier, canvas girl in a travelling circus - she is afraid to slow down for fear of what, or who, may catch up with her. When anonymous postcards start to arrive at every place she goes, she is finally forced to confront the fate of her long-gone mother. Can t...
|  | Like Mother, Like Daughter
Release Date: July 19, 1994A sweeping saga of four generations of women, played out against a passionate portrait of America in the twentieth century, from "free love" in Greenwich Village to the Summer of Love in San Francisco, from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York to the fires of the London Blitz. Here is the engrossing story of Leah Vogel Lazarus, the matriarch of a family of women whose lives and loves become the rich tapestry of Marcia Rose's most dazzling novel . . . .Leah -- Her gift for words propelled her from New York's Lower East Side into the bohemian life of Gree...
|  | Listening to Billie
Release Date: December 12, 1977“She commands her material so well that we are made to believe that her fiction—her plot—is no stranger than our lives.” --Ms. Magazine Listening to Billie is a brilliant portrait of a contemporary woman adventurously, decisively embarked on her own life. We first glimpse Eliza Hamilton Quarles as a blonde boarding-school student, sitting in a sophisticated New York club, listening to Billie Holiday. She is on the brink of her marriage to her older, worldly date. Twenty years later, a mother, divorced, she, tentat...
|  | Mothers & Daughters:Irish Short
Publication Date: November 19, 1998A collection of Irish short stories, including: "Cards", where a daughter tries to shock her mother with her bohemianism; and "In Bed", where a mother shows enormous patience in dispelling her daughter's phobia about fleas and dirt. ...
|  | Mother Flies Hurricanes
Publication Date: December 8, 1999This coming-of-age WWII adventure tells the story of a British woman ferry pilot, as seen through the eyes of her young son. The war unleashes havoc on the life of Andrew Hadley-Trevelyan, transforming him from a naive nine-year-old into a conflict-scarred young man of fourteen. Along the way must cope with bombings, family traumas, fear, loss, exile, and the invasion of his country by overpaid, oversexed, and over-here Yanks.For better or worse, Andrew internalizes the war raging around him and often strikes out in the only way he can, sassing his mother an...
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