Mother's Day -

The Nontraditional Way

Fiction

Isaac Asimov's Mother's Day  PBK SCIFI I  

Join science fiction luminaries Connie Willis, Tanith Lee, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and more as they explore out-of-this-world moms and stellar parent-child relations in this unique collection from the award-winning pages of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

Edge of Winter by Luanne Rice  PBK FICT R 

Neve Halloran and her daughter have shared a fierce love for the austere beauty of Rhode Island's South County ever since Neve guided Mickey's first baby steps along the sandy shore. Now, with Mickey a teenager and Neve's last hope for happiness with her daughter's loving but unstable father gone, both will struggle to make a new life together amid the windswept landscape that sustains them.

Mother's Day by Patricia J. MacDonald   FICTION MACDONALD, PATRICIA J. Mothers

In a quiet New England town, the Newhalls live an uneventful life with their adopted daughter. When the child's birth mother is murdered, the first suspect is the adoptive father. The author of The Unforgiven and No Way Home delivers a complex, emotionally intense "family-in-peril" thriller.

Babylon Sisters by Pearl Cleage FICTION CLEAGE PEARL Babylon 

Catherine Sanderson seems to have it all: a fulfilling career helping immigrant women find jobs, a lovely home, and a beautiful, intelligent daughter on her way to Smith College. What Catherine doesn't have: a father for her child - and she's spent many years dodging her daughter's questions about it. Now Phoebe is old enough to start poking around on her own .

Adrian Mole: the Cappuccino Years by Sue Townsend FICTION TOWNSEND, SUE Adrian M 

In his latest confessional diary, Adrian, now thirty, is separated from his exotic and accomplished Nigerian wife, and is a single parent to his three-year-old son. He works as a cook in a smart London restaurant that specializes in repulsive working-class food. When, to his surprise, he finds he has an older son as well, he takes responsibility and finally learns to cope.

Perfect Skin by Nick Earls  FICT EARLS NICK Perfect

Jon Marshall, a thirty-something plastic surgeon, has come a long way. He's a partner in his own medical practice, owns a house in the suburbs, and cruises around town in a BMW. He also has a six-month-old daughter, Lily, affectionately known as the Bean. But Jon's life hasn't taken the path he thought it would in his twenties.

The Shirt Off His Back by Parry A. Brown FICT BROWN, PARRY A. Shirt of  

Many brothers are good . . . Some are even great . . . Only a few will give you . . . The shirt off his back.

When the Wind Blows by Zachary Alan Fox  FICT FOX, ZACHARY ALAN When the 

When Mark Ritter's mother dies, he finds, among her papers, a 30-year-old death certificate with his own name on it. When he sets out to discover his real identity, he expects it to be a tough job, but he doesn't expect to uncover a conspiracy of murder and mayhem.

How to Murder Your Mother-in-Law by Dorothy Cannell  MYST CANNELL DOROTHY How to 

A plague of mothers-in-law descends upon the small English village of Chitterton Fells with toxic, and hilarious, results.

Mrs. Hornstien by Fredrica Wagman FICT WAGMAN, FREDRICA Mrs. 

Fredrica Wagman chronicles the relationships between Marty and her mother-in-law and Marty and her husband, Albert, from that first meeting in the Ritterhouse Square apartment to the engagement of Marty's own son 35 years later.

Live at Five by Donald Haynes FICT HAYNES, DAVID Live at 

Sparks fly when a black television anchorman looking for "real life" (and higher ratings) hooks up with a spunky young woman from the inner city.

The Mother's Day Murder by Lee Harris  PBK MYST H 

Investigator (and former nun) Christine Bennett is appalled when a young woman claims to be the natural daughter of Sister Joseph, beloved Superior at St. Stephen's and Chris's dearest friend. But after the girl is murdered, all the evidence leads the police to believe she was telling the truth -- and that Sister Joseph is the prime suspect.

Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout LTFICT STROUT ELIZABET Abide

In the late 1950s, in the small town of West Annett, Maine, a minister struggles to regain his calling, his family, and his happiness in the wake of profound loss. At the same time, the community he has served so charismatically must come to terms with its own strengths and failings - faith and hypocrisy, loyalty and abandonment - when a dark secret is revealed.

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