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Product Description: 1998, APA Pubs, softcover, 361 pp. Minor shelf wear.

By Alison Friesinger Hill (editor)

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Paperback:

9780887297427 | Apa Productions, January 1, 1998, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: 1998, APA Pubs, softcover, 361 pp.

9780395710784 | 2nd edition (Apa Productions, November 1, 1994), cover price $21.95 | also contains There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me, There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me, There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me

Mommy Dressing: A Love Story, After a Fashion

The sensitive daughter of Jo Copeland, a celebrated fashion star, feels alienated and excluded from her mother's world, a world of which she will never be a part. Reprint. NYT. (view table of contents)

By Lois Gould

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Hardcover:

9780385490535 | Anchor Books, October 1, 1998, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The daughter of pioneering American fashion designer Jo Copeland recounts her bittersweet girlhood in the shadow of her famous mother and the glamorous New York City fashion world of the 1930s and 1940s

Paperback:

9780385490542 | Anchor Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The sensitive daughter of Jo Copeland, a celebrated fashion star, feels alienated and excluded from her mother's world, a world of which she will never be a part.

The Same Smile: The Triumph of a Mother's Love After Losing Two Daughters

By Joanne Medeiros Harrington and Susan Mello Souza

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Paperback:

9780972510004 | Susan Mello Souza, November 1, 2002, cover price $19.95

Always Wear Joy: My Mother Bold and Beautiful

The daughter of a Broadway actress who performed with Lena Horne and Alvin Ailey recounts the inspiration she received from her mother and the challenges she endured as a half-white, half-African American television writer in a discriminating Hollywood. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

By Susan Fales-Hill

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Hardcover:

9780060523565 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, May 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The daughter of a Broadway actress who performed with Lena Horne and Alvin Ailey recounts the inspiration she received from her mother and the challenges she endured as a half-white, half-African American television writer in Hollywood.

Paperback:

9780060566722 | Reprint edition (Perennial, May 1, 2004), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The daughter of a Broadway actress who performed with Lena Horne and Alvin Ailey recounts the inspiration she received from her mother and the challenges she endured as a half-white, half-African American television writer in a discriminating Hollywood.

Scraping by in the Big Eighties

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.

By Natalia Rachel Singer

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Hardcover:

9780803243095 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, September 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 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.

Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America

Product Description: Helga Estby left Spokane Washington and walked to NYC on a $10,000 challenge. This remarkable story of hardship and suffering was long lost and only recently discovered by the author. On Christmas Eve, 1896, the New York World reported her arrival...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Sue Armitage (foreword by) and Linda Lawrence Hunt

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9780893012625 | Univ of Idaho Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Helga Estby left Spokane Washington and walked to NYC on a $10,000 challenge.

Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America

Describes the exploits and adventures of Helga Estby, who, in 1896, walked across America, from Washington to New York, with her teenage daughter Clara in an effort to save her family's farm. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

By Linda Lawrence Hunt

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Paperback:

9781400079933 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, January 4, 2005), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Describes the exploits and adventures of Helga Estby, who, in 1896, walked across America, from Washington to New York, with her teenage daughter Clara in an effort to save her family's farm.

Reinforced:

9780606335478 | Demco Media, January 4, 2005, cover price $23.46

Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America

Product Description: In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to win the wager and save her familyâs farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Claraâs curling iron, set out on foot from Eastern Washington...read more

By L. Hunt

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Prebinding:

9781417746088 | Turtleback Books, April 1, 2005, cover price $25.80 | About this edition: In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America.

Consuelo And Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age

The colorful story of the Vanderbilt women, Consuelo and her mother Alva, describes their lurid adventures on both sides of the Atlantic and how their intriguing relationship unfolded during an age of callousness, ambition, and material excess. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

By Amanda Mackenzie Stuart

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Hardcover:

9780066214184 | Harpercollins, January 1, 2006, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The colorful story of the Vanderbilt women, Consuelo and her mother Alva, describes their lurid adventures on both sides of the Atlantic and how their intriguing relationship unfolded during an age of callousness, ambition, and material excess.

Paperback:

9780060938253 | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 1, 2007), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: The colorful story of the Vanderbilt women, Consuelo and her mother Alva, describes their lurid adventures on both sides of the Atlantic and how their intriguing relationship unfolded during an age of callousness, ambition, and material excess.

Her Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew And of My Daughter, Courtney Love

In a lively memoir, the biological daughter of writer Paula Fox and mother of rock singer Courtney Love describes growing up as an adoptee, her lack of understanding with her adoptive mother, her own experience as a mother, her search for her birth mother, and her relationship with her own troubled daughter. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

By Linda Carroll

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Hardcover:

9780385512473 | Doubleday, January 17, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The biological daughter of writer Paula Fox and mother of rock singer Courtney Love describes growing up as an adoptee, her search for her birth mother, and her relationship with her own troubled daughter.

Paperback:

9780767917889 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, January 9, 2007), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: In a lively memoir, the biological daughter of writer Paula Fox and mother of rock singer Courtney Love describes growing up as an adoptee, her lack of understanding with her adoptive mother, her own experience as a mother, her search for her birth mother, and her relationship with her own troubled daughter.

Motherland: A Memoir

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.

By Pamela Marin

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Hardcover:

9780743256100 | Free Pr, March 29, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: 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'sdeliberately erased life.

Off Kilter: A Woman's Journey to Peace With Scoliosis, Her Mother, and Her Polish Heritage

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

By Linda C. Wisniewski

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Paperback:

9781597190121 | Pearlsong Pr Inc, April 30, 2008, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Life is a journey we all take, making changes along the way.

Stealing German Bread

Product Description: In this touching, heart-felt story, the author reveals her motherâs 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

By Yochevet Artzi

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9781436383066 | Xlibris Corp, January 1, 2009, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: In this touching, heart-felt story, the author reveals her motherâs memories and longing for her lost family.

When I Married My Mother: A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

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. Maederâs tumultuous journey from simply living with ÂMama Joâ to learning to truly love her not only changed Maederâs life, but also was the catalyst for pulling her long-fractured family together again...read more

By Jo Maeder

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Hardcover:

9780306817953 | 1 edition (Da Capo Pr, April 6, 2009), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: 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.

Lies My Mother Never Told Me

Product Description: In her riveting memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me, Kaylie Jonesâthe daughter of author James Jones (From Here to Eternity) and an acclaimed author in her own right (A Soldierâs Daughter Never Cries; Celeste Ascending; As Soon As It Rains)âtells the poignant story of her relationship with her famous father and her alcoholic mother, and of her own struggles with the disease...read more

By Kaylie Jones

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Hardcover:

9780061778704 | William Morrow & Co, September 1, 2009, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: In her riveting memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me, Kaylie Jonesâthe daughter of author James Jones (From Here to Eternity) and an acclaimed author in her own right (A Soldierâs Daughter Never Cries; Celeste Ascending; As Soon As It Rains)âtells the poignant story of her relationship with her famous father and her alcoholic mother, and of her own struggles with the disease.

Miscellaneous:

9780061936494 | Harpercollins, August 25, 2009, cover price $9.99

Bending Toward the Sun: A Mother and Daughter Memoir

Product Description: A beautifully written family memoir, Bending Toward the Sun explores an emotional legacyâforged in the terror of the Holocaustâthat has shaped three generations of lives. Leslie Gilbert-Lurie tells the story of her mother, Rita, who like Anne Frank spent years hiding from the Nazis, and whose long-hidden pain shaped both her daughter and granddaughterâs lives...read more

By Leslie Gilbert-lurie

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Hardcover:

9780061734762 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, September 1, 2009), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: A beautifully written family memoir, Bending Toward the Sun explores an emotional legacy—forged in the terror of the Holocaust—that has shaped three generations of lives.

Paperback:

9780061776724 | Reprint edition (Perennial, September 7, 2010), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A beautifully written family memoir, Bending Toward the Sun explores an emotional legacyâforged in the terror of the Holocaustâthat has shaped three generations of lives.

9780061885136 | Large print edition (Harpercollins, September 1, 2009), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: A beautifully written family memoir, Bending Toward the Sun explores an emotional legacyâforged in the terror of the Holocaustâthat has shaped three generations of lives.

Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir

By Kaylie Jones

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9780061883712 | Large print edition (Harpercollins, September 1, 2009), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: In her riveting memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me, Kaylie Jonesâthe daughter of author James Jones (From Here to Eternity) and an acclaimed author in her own right (A Soldierâs Daughter Never Cries; Celeste Ascending; As Soon As It Rains)âtells the poignant story of her relationship with her famous father and her alcoholic mother, and of her own struggles with the disease.

Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton

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

By Linda Gray Sexton

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Hardcover:

9780316782074 | Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1994, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The author recounts her mother's mental illness, their relationship, and the factors that led to Anne Sexton's suicide in 1974

Paperback:

9781582437446 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, April 1, 2011), cover price $15.95

9780316782081 | Reissue edition (Little Brown & Co, January 1, 1996), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The author recounts her mother's mental illness, their relationship, and the factors that led to Anne Sexton's suicide in 1974

Wait Until Tomorrow: A Daughter's Memoir

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

By Pat Macenulty

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9781558617018 | Feminist Pr, April 26, 2011, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: 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).

Moonlight on Linoleum: A Daughter's Memoir

By Ann Richardson (narrator)

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9781613750377 | Unabridged edition (Oasis Audio, October 4, 2011), cover price $29.99

So Far Away: A Daughter's Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love

By Christine W. Hartmann

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Hardcover:

9780826517951 | Vanderbilt Univ Pr, November 18, 2011, cover price $49.95

Paperback:

9780826517968 | Vanderbilt Univ Pr, November 18, 2011, cover price $21.95

Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected

By Kelle Hampton

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Hardcover:

9780062045034 | William Morrow & Co, April 3, 2012, cover price $24.99

Paperback:

9780062045041 | Reprint edition (William Morrow & Co, April 2, 2013), cover price $19.99

The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

By Meghan O'Rourke

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Hardcover:

9781594487989 | Riverhead Books, April 14, 2011, cover price $25.95

Paperback:

9781594485664 | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, April 3, 2012), cover price $16.00

Moonlight on Linoleum: A Daughter's Memoir

By Terry Helwig

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Hardcover:

9781451628470 | Howard Pub Co, October 4, 2011, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9781451628678 | Reprint edition (Howard Pub Co, May 1, 2012), cover price $19.99

Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter: Library Edition

Product Description: When Melissa Francis was eight years old, she won the role of lifetime: playing Cassandra Cooper Ingalls, the little girl who was adopted with her brother (played by young Jason Bateman) by the Ingalls family on the worldâs most famous prime-time soap opera, Little House on the Prairie...read more

By Cris Dukehart (narrator) and Melissa Francis

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9781469219622 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, November 13, 2012), cover price $69.97 | About this edition: When Melissa Francis was eight years old, she won the role of lifetime: playing Cassandra Cooper Ingalls, the little girl who was adopted with her brother (played by young Jason Bateman) by the Ingalls family on the worldâs most famous prime-time soap opera, Little House on the Prairie.

9781469219608 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, November 13, 2012), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: When Melissa Francis was eight years old, she won the role of lifetime: playing Cassandra Cooper Ingalls, the little girl who was adopted with her brother (played by young Jason Bateman) by the Ingalls family on the worldâs most famous prime-time soap opera, Little House on the Prairie.

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