The artist's daughter explores her father's life and work and recalls the experience of growing up in his shadow

The only daughter of former president George H. W. Bush brings together family reminiscences, personal stories, and previously unpublished photographs in an insider's portrait of her father's life and political career.

Product Description: From literary journalist Sara Mansfield Taber comes a deep and wondrous memoir of her exotic childhood as the daughter of a covert CIA operative. Born under an Assumed Name portrays the thrilling and confusing life of a girl growing up abroad in a world of secrecy and diplomacy—and the heavy toll it takes on her and her father...read more

Product Description: This group biography follows three generations of ministers' daughters and wives in a famed American Unitarian family. Shifting the focus from pulpit to parsonage, and from sermon to whispered secrets, Cynthia Tucker humanizes the Eliots and their religious tradition and lifts up a largely neglected female vocation...read more

Product Description: Out of all the many stars and celebrities Hollywood has produced, only a handful have achieved the fame―and, some would say, infamy―of Orson Welles, the creator and star of what is arguably the greatest American film, Citizen Kane...read more

A compelling, at times horrifying work that is impossible to put down, House Rules will stand beside Running With Scissors and The Glass Castle as a memoir that cracks open the shell of a desperately dysfunctional family with impressive grace and humour.Rachel Sontag grew up the daughter of a well-liked doctor in an upper middle class suburb of Chicago. The view from outside couldn’t have been more perfect. But within the walls of the family home, Rachel’s life was controlled and indeed terrorized by her father’s serious depression. In prose that is both precise and rich, Rachel’s childhood experience unfolds in a chronological recounting that shows how her father became more and more disturbed as Rachel grew up.A visceral and wrenching exploration of the impact of a damaged psyche on those nearest to him, House Rules will keep you reading even when you most wish you could look away.In the middle of the night, Dad sent Mom to wake me. In my pajamas, I sat across from them in the living room. I was sure Grandma had died and I remember deciding to stay strong when Dad told me. “What did you say to her?” he asked. His elbows rested in his lap.“What do you mean?”“You spent a good half hour alone in that hospital room. What did you talk about?”“I don’t know, Dad”“What do you mean, you don’t know? You know. You know exactly what you talked to her about.”“You talked about me, Rachel.”“No. I didn’t.”“To my own mother?”. . . . I wondered how he’d been with Mom, how she’d missed the signs. He couldn’t have just turned crazy all of a sudden. I wondered if his own father had infected him with anger. But mostly, I wanted to know what he saw in me that caused him to break up inside. Was it in my being born or in my growing up?--from House RulesFrom the Hardcover edition.

Prompted by her mother's death, the author reassesses her Midwestern youth as the daughter of a debonair, Czech florist father and an Irish mother with a talent as a storyteller, detailing life during the postwar years and the turbulent sixties.

Product Description: One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearA daughter's unforgettable memoir of her wild and haunted father, a man whose war never really ended.From her charismatic father, Danielle Trussoni learned how to rock and roll, outrun the police, and never shy away from a fight...read more

The only daughter of former president George H. W. Bush brings together family reminiscences, personal stories, and never-before-published photographs in an intimate insider's portrait of her father's life and political career and a detailed study what it is like to be the daughter of one president and the sister of another. Simultaneous.

Product Description: In the most eagerly awaited political memoir of the season, Mary Cheney, who served as a top campaign aide to her father, the vice president, presents a behind-the-scenes look at the high-intensity world of presidential politics and talks for the first time about her life, her family, and her role in the campaigns of 2000 and 2004...read more

The illegitimate half African-American daughter of the southern Senator best known for his twenty-four-hour filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 reveals the discrepancies between the father she knew and his public persona, drawing on years of correspondence between her father and herself. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

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Product Description: The private thoughts of a teenage girl are often revealed only in the pages of her diary. When author Melanie Bellah's two daughters, Tammy and Abby, died as teenagers in unrelated incidents, Melanie and her two other daughters, Hally and Jennifer, lived through the confusing and tragic period in very different ways...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In a memoir about the power of race to shape one's personal identity, the daughter of a Jewish father and African American mother recalls her confusing but ultimately rewarding life lived between two conflicting ethnic identities.

Product Description: My mother killed herself on the first day of spring. So begins South Mountain Road, Hesper Anderson's elegant, wrenching memoir of death and deception, family secrets and memories, and of a young girl's trauma of self-discovery.When Hesper Anderson, the daughter of famed Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Maxwell Anderson (What Price Glory?, Winterset, Key Largo, The Bad Seed), got the phone call informing her that her mother, the beautiful, enigmatic Mab, had committed suicide, she knew that her world would be forever changed...read more

The daughter of a poor black Mississippi sharecropper shares her remembrances of coming of age at the height of the civil rights struggle, watching her father--a former soldier--become a schoolteacher while Mississippi burned with white rage and the struggle for equal rights all around them. (view table of contents)

An exploration of the link between finding one's true unique voice and the discovery of one's spiritual wholeness and the connection with the divine chronicles the author's difficult road, which includes the experience of rape and homelessness, to discovering that inner power.

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