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Reveals the dark side of pink and pretty in this wake up call to parents that offers ways to prevent raising daughters who only care about image.

When thirteen-year-old Ali spends the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home, she stumbles upon a secret that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.

"Twenty-four-year-old Bridge is paralyzed by choices: all the other lives she could have lived, the decisions she could have made. And now, who she should be in the wake of her mother's unexpected death. Jo was a maverick neuroscientist fixated on an artifact she called the "dreamworm" that she believed could open the doors to other worlds. It was part of Jo's grand delusion, her sickness, and it cost her everything, including her relationship with...

"In this atmospheric thriller set at a luxury memoir-writing workshop on the shores of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, a grieving mother goes undercover to investigate her daughter's mysterious death. Rose, the mother of 20-something aspiring writer Jules, has waited three months for answers about her daughter's death. Why was she swimming alone when she feared the water? Why did she stop texting days before she was last seen? When the official investigation...

A young girl describes activities that her great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother all did for their daughters, and that she does for her doll. A young girl describes activities that her great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother did for their daughters

In rhyming text, a mother and daughter spend a day together, enjoying the beauty of nature.

"Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who liked playing with ghosts and matches. She loved fizzy drinks, swear words, fish fingers and Catholic churches, but most of all she loved living in Brighton in Queenie Malone's magnificent Paradise Hotel with its endearing and loving family of misfits - staff and guests alike. But Tilly's childhood was shattered when her mother sent her away from the only home she'd ever loved to boarding school with little...

La Soledad mira impotente el desamparo y desmoronamiento en el que la gente y las relaciones van cayendo. Reflejo del ecocidio, del trueque tramposo entre "humanidad" e inteligencia artificial, de las familias frágiles y de una infancia diluida, esta finca será testigo del dolor y la angustia de Antonia. Sintiéndose intelectual y físicamente inferior a todos, ella creerá, por momentos, que haysalidas luminosas. A veces, gracias a la literatura;...

"Celebrity cooking show host Marni McGuire has seen it all. She's been married--twice--and widowed and divorced. Now in her midfifties, she's single. Happily so. She just needs to convince her pregnant daughter, Bella, of this fact. And maybe convince herself, too. Especially after Marni's efforts to humor her determined daughter result in a series of disastrous dates that somehow prompt Marni to wonder if maybe the right man for her is still out...