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FROM: "Lesley K" <lesleyk@rpl.lib.ar.us>
REC'D: 4/9/02, 4:46 PM

>
>I will be creating a display for May of books that feature mother-daughter
>and mother-son relationships --fiction and non-fiction, positive and
>negative --as a central theme. Unfortunately, that can be the sort of
>nebulous topic that is not always picked up by cataloguing, especially in
>genre fiction and biographies. I have a number of booklists already, but I
>hope that the members of this list have some particular favourites that I
>must not miss.
>
>Thanks, and if you want to send to me privately, I will compile for the
>list as a whole.
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Lesley Knieriem lesleyk@rpl.lib.ar.us
>Reader's Advisory Librarian 479 - 621 - 1152
>Rogers Public Library Rogers, AR 72758
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Nunc adeamus bibliothecam, non illam quidem multis
>instructam libris, sed exquisitis. -- Erasmus
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

FROM: "Community Relations Department" <comrel@mail.sgcl.org>
REC'D: 4/9/02, 4:56 PM

White Oleander by Janet Fitch
It's All Over But the Shoutin' by Ricky Bragg
Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

Off the top of my head.

Nancy McShane
Community Relations Department
Springfield-Greene County Library
Springfield, MO comrel@mail.sgcl.org
http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lesley K" <lesleyk@rpl.lib.ar.us>
To: "Fiction_L" <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 4:42 PM
Subject: Books about motherhood


>
> >
> >I will be creating a display for May of books that feature
mother-daughter
> >and mother-son relationships --fiction and non-fiction, positive and
> >negative --as a central theme. Unfortunately, that can be the sort of
> >nebulous topic that is not always picked up by cataloguing, especially in
> >genre fiction and biographies. I have a number of booklists already, but
I
> >hope that the members of this list have some particular favourites that I
> >must not miss.
> >
> >Thanks, and if you want to send to me privately, I will compile for the
> >list as a whole.
> >
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >Lesley Knieriem lesleyk@rpl.lib.ar.us
> >Reader's Advisory Librarian 479 - 621 - 1152
> >Rogers Public Library Rogers, AR 72758
>
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> >Nunc adeamus bibliothecam, non illam quidem multis
> >instructam libris, sed exquisitis. -- Erasmus
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
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FROM: Candice Michalik <cjoy0821@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 4/9/02, 5:07 PM

Two mother and daughter books I enjoyed:

Mother of Pearl - Melinda Haynes

The Wholeness of a Broken Heart - Katie Singer


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Reference Librarian
Lynchburg Public Library
Lynchburg, VA
cjoy0821@yahoo.com

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FROM: "McCabe, Deborah" <dmccabe@uwsp.edu>
REC'D: 4/9/02, 5:18 PM

The Amy Tan books, of course: Joy Luck Club and Bonesetter's Daughter.

Deborah M. McCabe, Assistant Director
Portage County Public Library
1001 Main Street, Stevens Point, WI 54481
715.346.1296
http://library.uwsp.edu/pcl/

FROM: Viccy Kemp <Viccy.Kemp@cityofcarrollton.com>
REC'D: 4/9/02, 5:39 PM

Gail Godwin: A mother and two daughters
Father Melancholy's daughter
Finishing school

Anne Tyler: Clockwinder
Celestial Navigation
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Morgan's passing
Saint Maybe

Pat Conroy: The great Santini
Beach music
Prince of tides

John Irving: The world according to Garp
Cider House rules
A prayer for Owen Meany

Henry James: The portrait of a lady

HTH
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!


-----Original Message-----
From: Lesley K [mailto:lesleyk@rpl.lib.ar.us]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 4:42 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Books about motherhood

>
>I will be creating a display for May of books that feature mother-daughter
>and mother-son relationships --fiction and non-fiction, positive and
>negative --as a central theme. Unfortunately, that can be the sort of
>nebulous topic that is not always picked up by cataloguing, especially in
>genre fiction and biographies. I have a number of booklists already, but I
>hope that the members of this list have some particular favourites that I
>must not miss.
>
>Thanks, and if you want to send to me privately, I will compile for the
>list as a whole.
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Lesley Knieriem lesleyk@rpl.lib.ar.us
>Reader's Advisory Librarian 479 - 621 - 1152
>Rogers Public Library Rogers, AR 72758
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Nunc adeamus bibliothecam, non illam quidem multis
>instructam libris, sed exquisitis. -- Erasmus
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <LColcord@ci.glendale.az.us>
REC'D: 4/9/02, 5:49 PM

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Color of Water by James McBride (although this one is nonfiction)
Anywhere but Here by Mona Simpson
Stella Dallas by Olive Higgins Prouty
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
Ordinary People by Judith Guest (for a less flattering view)

Lisa


Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor

>>> lesleyk@rpl.lib.ar.us 04/09/02 02:42PM >>>

>
>I will be creating a display for May of books that feature mother-daughter
>and mother-son relationships --fiction and non-fiction, positive and
>negative --as a central theme. Unfortunately, that can be the sort of
>nebulous topic that is not always picked up by cataloguing, especially in
>genre fiction and biographies. I have a number of booklists already, but I
>hope that the members of this list have some particular favourites that I
>must not miss.
>
>Thanks, and if you want to send to me privately, I will compile for the
>list as a whole.
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Lesley Knieriem lesleyk@rpl.lib.ar.us
>Reader's Advisory Librarian 479 - 621 - 1152
>Rogers Public Library Rogers, AR 72758
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Nunc adeamus bibliothecam, non illam quidem multis
>instructam libris, sed exquisitis. -- Erasmus
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

FROM: janice@nwlink.com (Janice Burwash, Burlington Public Library)
REC'D: 4/9/02, 6:11 PM

One I just read and enjoyed "Moon Women" by Pamela Duncan.
3 generations of southern women.

Janice Burwash, Resource Coordinator

Burlington Public Library
900 East Fairhaven Ave
Burlington, WA 98233
Phone (360) 755-0760 Fax (360) 755-0717
janice@nwlink.com

FROM: "Kate Miller" <KATE@ci.tigard.or.us>
REC'D: 4/9/02, 6:42 PM

Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me by Karen Karbo

and

The Zygote Chronicles by Suzanne Finnamore

Both very funny books about pregnancy and new motherhood.

Kate Miller, Adult Services Librarian
Tigard Public Library
13125 SW Hall Blvd.
Tigard, OR 97223
(503) 684-6537 x285
(503) 598-7515 FAX
kate@ci.tigard.or.us

FROM: "Baxter, Barbara" <BBaxter@aclibrary.org>
REC'D: 4/9/02, 8:28 PM

A favorite, non-fiction about mother-son relationship: Operating
Instructions: a journal of my son's first year. by Anne Lamott.

Barbara Baxter
Alameda County Library System
Fremont, CA 94538


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lesley K [SMTP:lesleyk@rpl.lib.ar.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 2:42 PM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Books about motherhood
>
>
> >
> >I will be creating a display for May of books that feature
> mother-daughter
> >and mother-son relationships --fiction and non-fiction, positive and
> >negative --as a central theme. Unfortunately, that can be the sort of
> >nebulous topic that is not always picked up by cataloguing, especially in
> >genre fiction and biographies. I have a number of booklists already, but
> I
> >hope that the members of this list have some particular favourites that I
> >must not miss.
> >
> >Thanks, and if you want to send to me privately, I will compile for the
> >list as a whole.
> >
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >Lesley Knieriem lesleyk@rpl.lib.ar.us
> >Reader's Advisory Librarian 479 - 621 - 1152
> >Rogers Public Library Rogers, AR 72758
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >Nunc adeamus bibliothecam, non illam quidem multis
> >instructam libris, sed exquisitis. -- Erasmus
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: "BookBitch" <bookbitch@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 4/9/02, 9:32 PM

Mother/daughter:
Hanna's Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout

Mother/son:
The Color of Water by James McBride
Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving


Stacy Alesi
Southwest County Regional Library
Palm Beach County Library System

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FROM: "Madeline Guzman" <squeakychu@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 4/9/02, 10:15 PM

How about these novels....

White Oleander by Janet Fitch --(mother has no time for her daughter)

Four Mothers by Shifra Horn--(four generation of women are cursed by failed
marriages and absent fathers)

Jewel by Brett Lott--(mother is determined to get the best care for her
daughter with Down's Syndrome)

One True Thing by Anna Quindlen (daughter puts her life on hold to care for
her dying mother)

Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout--(rocky mother-daughter relationship)

The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan--(daughter listens to her mom's story of
growing up in China)

Madeline G
patron, Twinbrook Library
Montgomery County, Maryland

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>>I will be creating a display for May of books that feature mother-daughter
>>and mother-son relationships --fiction and non-fiction, positive and
>>negative --as a central theme.

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <sevenstars39@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 8:44 AM

Teresa Bloomingdale's "Up a Family Tree," "I Should Have Seen It Coming When
the Rabbit Died," and others are hilarious nonfiction written by the mother
of a large family. Helen Beardsley's "Who Gets the Drumstick?" (filmed as
"Yours, Mine & Ours") is another of the same type.

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <sevenstars39@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 9:17 AM

How about "Mama Makes Up Her Mind," by Bailey White?

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FROM: "Christine Dalphy" <cdalphy@geneva.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 9:58 AM

>>I will be creating a display for May of books that feature
>mother-daughter
>>and mother-son relationships --fiction and non-fiction, positive and
>>negative --as a central theme

Mother-Daughter-Grandmother relationships are featured in Guppies for
Tea by Marika Cobbold and Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons.


Christine Dalphy
Geneva Public Library
cdalphy@geneva.lib.il.us

FROM: Sarah Brown <sbrown@tcpl.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 10:31 AM

"Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim
the Past," by Fern Schumer Chapman.

We are reading this in our online book group. It is as much
mother-daughter book as it is a Holocaust memoir.
Very good!

Sarah

FROM: "Warner, Deb" <dwarner@co.durham.nc.us>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 12:14 PM

First, additional votes for Pamela Duncan's MOON WOMEN
Anne LaMott's OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS
Also Sarah Bird THE MOMMY CLUB
Iris R. Dart's THE STORK CLUB
Kate Klimo's LABOR PAINS
Laura Zigman's MARRYING BIG BIRD
all of the above deal with mommy (and Daddy) wanna-bes and the results
Oliva Goldsmith Marrying Mom (mom seeking to remarry and adult
children)
Susan Isaacs Lily White
Rita Mae Brown Bingo
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
Eleanor Lipman Then She Found Me
The Dearly Departed

FROM: "Cynthia Baskin" <vzej22z@verizon.verizon.net>,net>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 12:24 PM

I don't know if anyone's already mentioned The Zygote Chronicles by Suzanne
Finnamore. Very good book about a pregnant woman.

Cynthia

FROM: "Leitle, B. Kathy" <KLeitle@SLPL.LIB.MO.US>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 12:34 PM

Firefly Beach by Luanne Rice


-----Original Message-----
From: Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org
[mailto:Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Lesley K
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 4:42 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Books about motherhood

>
>I will be creating a display for May of books that feature mother-daughter
>and mother-son relationships --fiction and non-fiction, positive and
>negative --as a central theme. Unfortunately, that can be the sort of
>nebulous topic that is not always picked up by cataloguing, especially in
>genre fiction and biographies. I have a number of booklists already, but I
>hope that the members of this list have some particular favourites that I
>must not miss.
>
>Thanks, and if you want to send to me privately, I will compile for the
>list as a whole.
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Lesley Knieriem lesleyk@rpl.lib.ar.us
>Reader's Advisory Librarian 479 - 621 - 1152
>Rogers Public Library Rogers, AR 72758
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Nunc adeamus bibliothecam, non illam quidem multis
>instructam libris, sed exquisitis. -- Erasmus
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

FROM: "Jamie Anderson" <jamie@ericandjamie.com>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 1:07 PM

Hi There
>
>Doing the same display at my library. Here are some
>other titles. Thanks, btw, for all that has been sent
>so far. I was really hitting a brick wall with this
>last night
>
>Summer Island-Kristin Hannah
>Bastard Out of Carolina-Dorothy Allison
>The Gardens of Kyoto-Kate Walbret
>The Bay of Angels-Anita Brookner
>Sights-Susanne Vance (YA)
>Highwire Moon-Susan Straight
>Dream Country-Luanne Rice
>The Turning Hour-Shelly Fraser Mickle
>Disturbing the Peace-Nancy Newman
>Place to Look for a Mother-Nicole Stansbury
>My Mother's Island-Marnie Mueller
>One True Thing-Anna Quindlin
>Jewel-Bret Lott
>Jupiter's Daughter-Tom Hyman
>Amy and Isabelle-Elizabeth Strout
>The Distance Between-Eliza Osborne
>Playing Boticelli-Liza Nelson
>Motherkind-Jayne Ann Phillips
>Circle of Three-Patricia Gaffney
>Disobedience-Jane Hamilton
>Entering Normal-Anne D. LeClaire
>Maggy's Child-Karen Robards
>Purple America-Rick Moody
>Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas-James Patterson

FROM: Elizabeth Manar <Elizabeth.Manar@gale.com>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 1:18 PM

The books below, both fiction and nonfiction, focus on mother and son
relationships. These books were just some of the titles found by using
"Custom Search: Subject = "Sons and Daughters" and limiting the search to
"Adult" in What Do I Read Next? Online.

Mothers and Sons in Fiction
Old Rosa: A Novel in Two Stories (1989)--Reinaldo Arenas
Grievance (2000)--K.C. Constantine
My Beloved Son: A Novel (1991)--Catherine Cookson
Shampoo Planet (1992)--Douglas Coupland
The Last Samurai (2000)--Helen DeWitt
Mamaw (1988)--Susan Dodd
Saving Elijah (2000)--Fran Dorf
So Big (1923)--Edna Ferber
Polly's Ghost: A Novel (2000)--Abby Frucht
Triple Witch (1999)--Sarah Graves
Disobedience (2000)--Jane Hamilton
Pay It Forward (2000)--Catherine Ryan Hyde
Scar Tissue (1994)--Michael Ignatieff
Calista Jacobs Series (1986-)--Kathryn Lasky Knight
Sons and Lovers (1913)--D.H. Lawrence
Quest for the White Witch (1978)--Tanith Lee
Third and Indiana: A Novel (1994)--Steven Lopez
The Crime of Olga Arbyelina (1998)--Andrei Makine
The Banyan Tree (2000)--Christopher Nolan
Time and Tide (1992)--Edna O'Brien
The Mammy (1994)--Brendan O'Carroll
Broke Heart Blues (1999)--Joyce Carol Oates
Choke (2001)--Chuck Palahniuk
Beaming Sonny Home (1996)--Cathie Pelletier
Daybreak (1991)--Belva Plain
Kate Vaiden (1986)--Reynolds Price
Second Hand Smoke (1999)--Thane Rosenbaum
A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)--John Kennedy Toole
The Neon Bible (1989)--John Kennedy Toole
East Bay Grease (1999)--Eric Miles Williamson
Lincoln's Mothers (1981)--Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Father of the Four Passages (2001)--Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Mothers and Sons in Nonfiction
First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents (2000)--Bonnie Angelo
American Mom: Motherhood, Politics and Humble Pie (1994)--Mary Blakely
All over but the Shoutin' (1997)--Rick Bragg
Cry Bloody Murder: A Tale of Tainted Blood (1997)--Elaine DePrince
My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir (1996)--James Ellroy
Eleni: A Savage War, a Mother's Love, and a Son's Revenge: a Personal Story
(1983)--Nicholas Gage
Listen to My Heart: Lessons in Love, Laughter, and Lunacy (1995)--Kathie Lee
Gifford & Cody Gifford
Jew Boy: A Memoir (2000)--Alan Kaufman
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year (1993)--Anne Lamott
Men My Mother Dated: And Other Mostly True Tales (2000)--Brett Leveridge
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (1996)--James
McBride
Of Time and Memory: A Mother's Story (1999)--Don J. Snyder
His Bright Light (1998)--Danielle Steel
This Boy's Life: A Memoir (1989)--Tobias Wolff


Elizabeth Manar
Contributing Editor, What Do I Read Next? Online

"The views, opinions, and judgments expressed in this message are solely
those of the author. The message contents have not been reviewed or approved
by the Gale Group."

FROM: Elizabeth Manar <Elizabeth.Manar@gale.com>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 1:18 PM

The books below, both fiction and nonfiction, focus on mother and daughter
relationships. These books were just some of the titles found by using
"Custom Search: Subject = "Mothers and Daughters" and limiting the search to
"Adult" in What Do I Read Next? Online.


Mothers and Daughters in Fiction
Caroline's Daughters (1991)--Alice Adams
Cavedweller (1998)--Dorothy Allison
In the Name of Salome (2000)--Julia Alvarez
Ugly Ways: A Novel (1993)--Tina McElroy Ansa
Emotionally Weird: A Novel (2000)--Kate Atkinson
City of Light (1999)--Lauren Belfer
Like Normal People (2000)--Karen E. Bender
Bitter Grounds (1997)--Sandra Benitez
A Long Way from Home (1999)--Connie Briscoe
Crossing over Jordan (1995)--Linda Beatrice Brown
Half a Heart (2000)--Rosellen Brown
If I Told You Once (1999)--Judy Budnitz
Parable of the Talents (1998)--Octavia E. Butler
The Mermaids Singing (1998)--Lisa Carey
So Far from God: A Novel (1993)--Ana Castillo
Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994)--Edwidge Danticat
Like a Sister (1999)-- Janice Daugharty
White Oleander (1999)--Janet Fitch
Hanna's Daughters (1998)-- Marianne Fredriksson
Her Mother's Daughter (1987)--Marilyn French
Dreaming in Cuban (1992)--Christina Garcia
The Dying Room (1993)-- E.X. Giroux
Dead Certain (2000)-- Gini Hartzmark
Claire Malloy Series (1986-)--Joan Hess
Still Waters in Niger (1999)--Kathleen Hill
Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters (1997)--Erica Jong
Comfort Woman (1997)--Nora Okja Keller
Old Wounds (1999)--Nora Kelly
The Jewels of Tessa Kent (1998)--Judith Krantz
White as Snow (2000)--Tanith Lee
Where to Choose: A Carole Ann Gibson Mystery (1999)-- Penny Mickelbury
Mothers and Daughters: Celebrating the Gift of Love with 12 New Stories
(1998)--Jill Morgan
Snapshots: 20th Century Mother-Daughter Fiction (2000)--Joyce Carol Oates, &
Janet Berliner
MotherKind (2000)-- Jayne Anne Phillips
Three Women (1999)--Marge Piercy
Pears on a Willow Tree (1998)-- Leslie Pietrzyk
Why She Left Us (1999)-- Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
I Loved You All (2000)--Paula Sharp
The Wholeness of a Broken Heart (1999)-- Katie Singer
Back When We Were Grownups (2001)--Anne Tyler
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds (1971)--Paul Zindel

Mothers and Daughters in Nonfiction
Paula (1995)--Isabel Allende
I Remain in Darkness (1999)-- Annie Ernaux
Framing a Life: A Family Memoir (1998)--Geraldine Ferraro
Daughters of Feminists: Young Women with Feminist Mothers Talk about Their
Lives (1993)--Rose Glickman
The Unbearable Heart (1996)-- Kimiko Hahn
Life Among the Savages (1953)--Shirley Jackson
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother: The Crosswicks Journal, Book 2 (1974)--
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba (1997)--Jacki Lyden
Hollywood Moms (2001)--Joyce Ostin
Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood (1999)-- Camille Peri &
Kate Moses
Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World (1996)--Anne Roiphe

Elizabeth Manar
Contributing Editor, What Do I Read Next? Online

"The views, opinions, and judgments expressed in this message are solely
those of the author. The message contents have not been reviewed or approved
by the Gale Group."

FROM: "ALD (LIB)" <ALD@omaha.lib.ne.us>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 2:23 PM

Mothers & Daughters --

What We Keep by Elizabeth Berg
Cane River by Lalita Tademy

HTH!
Sherry Forrest
Arts & Literature Dept.
Omaha Public Library (NE)

FROM: "christine jeffords" <sevenstars39@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 4/11/02, 7:35 AM

Once again I vote for Weldon Hill's "Lonesome Traveller." Clem's bond with
his mother and his need to see for himself whether she is getting better at
the sanatorium is the factor that sets him off on his epic journey westward.

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FROM: Meg Justus <mjustus@pcl.lib.wa.us>
REC'D: 4/13/02, 3:59 PM

I seem to spend half my life recommending Lois McMaster Bujold, but
_Barrayar_ is very much about pregnancy and motherhood, in a science fiction
context.

Meg Justus
Pierce County Library

FROM: "Lesley K" <lesleyk@rpl.lib.ar.us>
REC'D: 4/16/02, 2:11 PM

All right, here is the second try.

Many thanks to Elizabeth Manar, Sherry Forrest, Barbara Baxter, Stacy
Alesi, Christine Jeffords, Madeline G., Nancy McShane, Candice Michalik,
Deborah M. McCabe, Viccy Kemp, Lisa Colcord, Christine Dalphy, Sarah Brown,
Deb Warner, Cynthia Baskin, Kathy Leitle, Jamie Anderson, Janice Burwash,
Kate Miller, Kati Gillette, Nancy Maltby Henkel and everyone else who
helped with this list!

Titles that were recommended more than once are indicated by the number
after the title.

.
FICTION
Adams, Alice --Caroline's Daughters (2)
Alcott, Louisa May --Little Women
Allison, Dorothy --Bastard Out of Carolina
--Cavedweller
Alverez, Julia --In the Name of Salome
Ansa, Tina --Ugly Ways
Arenas, Reinaldo --Old Rosa
Atkinson, Kate --Emotionally Weird
Belfer, Lauren --City of Light
Bender, Karen --Like Normal People
Benitez, Sandra --Bitter Grounds
Berg, Elizabeth --What We Keep (2)
Bird, Sarah. --The Mommy Club
Bohjalian, Chris --Midwives
Borel, Jacques --The Bond
Bradford, Barbara Taylor --Her Own Rules
Briscoe, Connie --A Long Way From Home
Brookner, Anita --The Bay of Angels
Brown, Linda --Crossing Over Jordan
Brown, Rita Mae --Bingo
Brown, Rosellen --Half A Heart
Buck, Pearl --The Three Daughters of Madame Liang
Budnitz, Judy --If I Told You Once
Bujold, Lois. --Barrayar
Butler, Octavia --Parable of the Talents
Callaghan, Mary --Mothers
Carey, Lisa --The Mermaids Singing
Castillo, Ana --So Far From God
Chessman, Harriet Scott --Ohio Angels
Chukovskaia, Lidiia --The Deserted House
Cobbold, Marika --Guppies for Tea
Conroy, Pat. --Beach Music
--The Great Santini
--Prince of Tides
Constantine, K. C. --Grievance
Cookson, Catherine --My Beloved Son
Coscarelli, Kate --Leading Lady
Coupland, Douglas --Shampoo Planet
Danticat, Edwidge --Breath, Eyes, Memory
Dart, Iris --The Stork Club
Daugharty, Janice --Like A Sister
Delinsky, Barbara --For My Daughters
De Vries, Peter --Mrs. Wallop
DeWitt, Helen --The Last Samurai
Dodd, Susan --Mamaw
Dorf, Fran --Saving Elijah
Dorris, Michael --Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Duncan, Pamela --Moon Women (3)
Echlin, Kim --Elephant Winter
Esquivel, Laura --Like Water for Chocolate.
Ferber, Edna --So Big
Finnamore, Suzanne --Zygote Chronicles (2)
Fitch, Janet --White Oleander (4)
Frederiksson, Marianne --Hanna's Daughters (3)
French, Marilyn --Her Mother's Daughter
Frucht, Abby --Polly's Ghost
Gaffney, Patricia --Circle of Three (2)
Garcia, Christina --Dreaming in Cuban
Gibbons, Kaye --Charms for the Easy Life (2)
Giroux, E. X. --The Dying Room
Godwin, Gail --Father Melancholy's Daughter
--Finishing School
--A Mother and Two Daughters
Goldreich, Gloria --Mothers
Goldsmith, Olivia --Marrying Mom
Goldstein, Rebecca --Mazel
Goudge, Eileen --One Last Dance
Graver, Elizabeth --The Honey Thief
Graves, Sarah --Triple Witch
Griffith, Patricia Browning --Supporting the Sky
Guest, Judith --Ordinary People
Haddad, C. A. --A Mother's Secret
Hamilton, Jane --The Book of Ruth
--Disobedience (3)
Hannah, Kristin --Summer Island
Harrison, Jim --Dalva
Hartzmark, Gini --Dead Certain
Haynes, Melinda --Mother of Pearl
Heath, Catherine --Lady on the Burning Deck
Hess, Joan --Strangled Prose (and other Claire Malloy mysteries)
Hill, Kathleen --Still Waters in the Niger
Hill, Weldon. --Lonesome Traveler.
Hobson, Laura --Consenting Adult
Holland, Isabelle --The Long Search
Horn, Shifra --Four Mothers
Huxley, Aldous --Brave New World
Hyde, Catherine Ryan --Pay It Forward (3)
Hyman, Tom --Jupiter's Daughter
Ignatieff, Michael --Scar Tissue
Irving, John. --Cider House Rules
--A Prayer for Owen Meany (2)
--World According to Garp
Isaacs, Susan --Lily White
James. Henry --Portrait of A Lady
Jong, Erica --Inventing Memory (2)
Kalpakian, Laura --Steps and Exes
Kaplan, Hester --Kinship Theory
Karbo, Karen --Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me
Keller, Nora --Comfort Woman
Kelly, Nora --Old Wounds
Klimo, Kate --Labor Pains
Kraf, Elaine --I Am Clarence
Krantz, Judith --The Jewels of Tessa Kent (2)
Lamott, Anne --Rosie
Lawrence, D. H. --Sons and Lovers
LeClaire, Anne --Entering Normal
Lee, Tanith --Quest for the White Witch
--White as Snow
Lipman, Eleanor --The Dearly Departed
--Then She Found Me (2)
Lively, Penelope --Heat Wave
Lopez, Steven --Third and Indiana
Lott, Brett --Jewel (4)
Makine, Andrei --The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
Maraire, J. --Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
Maugham, Robin --The Link
Mickelbury, Penny --Where to Choose
Mickle, Shelly Fraser --The Turning Hour
Mitgutsch, Waltraud --Jakob
Morgan, Jill --Mothers and Daughters
Moody, Rick --Purple America
Morrissey, Donna --Kit's Law
Morrison, Toni --Beloved
Mueller, Marnie --My Mother's Island
Nelson, Liza --Playing Boticelli
Newman, Nancy --Disturbing the Peace
Nolan, Christopher --The Banyan Tree
Oates, Joyce Carol --Broke Heart Blues
--Snapshots
O'Brien, Edna --Time and Tide
O'Carroll, Brendan --The Mammy
Olson, Shannon --Welcome to My Planet: Where English Is Sometimes Spoken
Osborne, Eliza --The Distance Between
Palahniuk, Chuck --Choke
Patterson, James --Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Pelletier, Cathie --Beaming Sonny Home
Phillips, Jayne Anne. --MotherKind (3)
Piercy, Marge --Three Women (2)
Pietrzyk, Leslie --Pears on a Willow Tree
Plain, Belva --Daybreak
Plante, David --Annunciation
Price, Reynolds --Kate Vaiden
Quindlen, Anna --One True Thing (3)
Rice, Luanne --Dream Country
--Firefly Beach
Rizzuto, Rahna --Why She Left Us
Robards, Karen --Maggy's Child
Robson, Ruthann --Cecile
Rodgers, Mary --Freaky Friday
Rose, Marcia --Like Mother, Like Daughter
Rosenbaum, Thane --Second Hand Smoke
Rossner, Judith --Olivia
Sharp, Paula --I Loved You All
Siddons, Anne Rivers --Fault Lines
Simpson, Mona --Anywhere But Here
Singer, Katie --The Wholeness of a Broken Heart (2)
Soldato, Mario --The Orange Envelope
Stansbury, Nicole --Places to Look for a Mother (2)
Straight, Susan --Highwire Moon
Strout, Elizabeth --Amy and Isabelle (6)
Styron, William --Sophie's Choice
Tademy, Lalita --Cane River
Tan, Amy --Bonesetter's Daughter
--The Joy Luck Club (2)
--The Kitchen God's Wife
Toole, John Kennedy --Confederacy of Dunces
--The Neon Bible
Tyler, Anne. --Back When We Were Grownups
--Celestial Navigation
--The Clock Winder
--Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
--Morgan's Passing
--Saint Maybe
Vance, Susanne --Sights
Walbret, Kate --The Gardens of Kyoto
Walsh, Jill Paton --The Serpentine Cave
Wells, Rebecca --Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Wesley, Mary --Harnessing Peacocks
Williamson, Eric --East Bay Grease
Wilson, Dorothy --Lincoln's Mothers
Woolfe, Sue --Leaning Toward Infinity
Yamanaka, Lois-Anna --Father of the Four Passages
Zigman, Laura --Marrying Big Bird
Zindel, Paul --The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds

NON-FICTION
Allende, Isabel --Paula
Angelo, Bonnie --First Mothers, The Women Who Shaped the Presidents
Beardsley, Helen --Who Gets the Drumstick?
Blakely, Mary --American Mom: Motherhood, Politcs, and Humble Pie
Bloomingdale, Teresa --Up a Family Tree
--I Should Have Seen it Coming When the Rabbit Died
Bragg, Ricky --It's All Over But the Shoutin'
Chapman, Fern. --Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust
Crawford, Christina --Mommie Dearest
De Prince, Elaine --Cry Bloody Murder: A Tale of Tainted Blood
Duncan, Lois --Who Killed My Daughter?
Ellroy, James --My Dark Places: An L. A. Crime Memoir
Ernaux, Annie --I Remain in Darkness
Ferraro, Geraldine --Framing A Life
Gage, Nicholas --Eleni: A Savage War, a Mother's Love, and a Son's Revenge
Gifford, Kathie Lee --Listen to My Heart: Lessons in Love, Laughter,
and Lunacy
Glickman, Rose --Daughters of Feminists
Hahn, Kimiko --The Unbearable Heart
Jackson, Shirley --Life Among the Savages
Kaufman, Alan --Jew Boy
Lamott, Anne. --Operating Instructions: A Journal of my Son's First Year
(2)
L'Engle, Madeleine --The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
Leveridge, Brett. --Men My Mother Dated: And Other Mostly True Tales
Lyden, Jacki --Daughter of the Queen of Sheba
McBride, James. --The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White
Mother (3)
Ostin, Joyce --Hollywood Moms
Peri, Camille --Mothers Who Think
Roiphe, Anne --Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World
Snyder, Don --Of Time and Memory
Steel, Danielle --His Bright Light
White, Bailey. --Mama Makes Up Her Mind
Wolff, Tobias --This Boy's Life


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Rogers Public Library Rogers, AR 72758
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FROM: Bsbgc@aol.com
REC'D: 5/7/02, 2:59 AM

Another harken back to a not-too-distant thread, I'm afraid.

Patrons interested in novels whose focus is motherhood may want to try Mary
Alice Monroe's new novel, THE BEACH HOUSE (Mira, May, 2002). It focuses on
the re-affirmation of the bonds between mother and daughter, set against the
background of the Isle of Palms (South Carolina) and the timelessly annual
nesting of loggerhead turtles.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

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