Mothers and Sons | Mothers and Sons
Jul.16.2012
For the Porter family, summers at Ashaunt Point – a mile and a half long finger of land on Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts – have anchored life, providing sanctuary for generations. But in 1942, everything abruptly changes when the U.S. Army sets up a base on the Point. The two older...
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Jun.26.2010
What happens when a woman who's realized all her dreams wakes up to a shocking truth? The son she was told was stillborn 30 years ago is alive and now fighting for his life. She is the only person who can help save him. But revealing her 30-year secret to her husband could ruin her marriage and...
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Apr.14.2009
Mothers and Sons have a special relation. After the loss of their father, I was at a loss until I remember that my grandmother had lost her first born son in the 1890s and dealt with grief. Both stories are held together with fishing at streams.
"I see her on the river, the boys crouched at...
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Jun.18.2008
No One But Us: a novel "A promising debut novel, this is a coolly detached first-person tale of forbidden love, family breakdown and growing up. In 1970s suburban Connecticut, 15-year-old Charlie stumbles into a torrid sexual affair with 26-year-old Jolene, his mother Mary's close friend and...
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May.27.2008
This touching collection of more than sixty moving letters celebrates the very special gift of a mother's love. Written by people of all ages and backgrounds in appreciation of the mothers who inspired, loved, and nurtured them, these letters confirm that there's nothing like the special bond...
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Feb.25.2008
In the best-selling tradition of The Color of Water comes a beautifully written, evocative memoir of a relationship between a mother and son—and the Chinese-American experience
In The Eighth Promise, author William Poy Lee gives us a rare view of the Asian-American experience from a mother-son...
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Dec.31.2007
Edited by Andrea J. Buchanan
About the Anthology
It's A Boy, is a wide-ranging, often-humorous, and honest collection of essays about the experience of mothering boys. Taking on topics like aggression, parenting a teenage boy, and wishing for a daughter but getting a son, It's A Boy explores...
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Dec.27.2007
Mildred Peacock is the touch, funny, feisty heroine of Mama, a survivor who’ll do anything to keep her family together. In Mildred’s world, men come and go as quickly as her paychecks, but her five children are her dream, her hope and her future. Not since Alice Walker’s The Color Purple has a...
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Dec.20.2007
The coming-of-age novel that Barry Gifford was born to write, Memories from a Sinking Ship recounts a uniquely American childhood and adolescence through a boy’s travels with his mother and occasional time spent with an ailing gangster father. Memories from a Sinking Ship completes the spellbinding...
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Dec.17.2007
Roy Blount, Jr., Georgia boy turned New York wit, lover of baseball and interesting women, bumbling adventurer, literary lion, salty-limerick virtuoso and impassioned father, journeys into the past and his psyche (also all the way to China, sixty feet underwater and to various Manhattan hot spots)...
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