New York: Bloomsbury, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - It's summer 1976 in Oxford, England and Ruth Gilmartin discovers that someon is trying to kill her very English mother Sally - who is really Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigre and one-time spy for the British during World War II. 324 pp. ISBN: 1596912367.

New York: Bloomsbury, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - It's summer 1976 in Oxford, England and Ruth Gilmartin discovers that someon is trying to kill her very English mother Sally - who is really Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigre and one-time spy for the British during World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 1596912367.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First edition - A "novel of family and redemption, as a mother struggles to save her eighteen-year-old daughter from the devastating consequences of mental illness by forcing her to deal with her bipolar disorder" by this award-winning African American author. 319 pp.

New York: Ballantine, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - "When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as ÒYour fatherÕs the glitter but IÕm the glue.Ó . . . a book about the difference between travel and life experience, stepping out and stepping up, fathers and mothers. But mostly itÕs about who you admire and why, and how that changes over time." 224 pp. ISBN: 978-0345532831.

New York: Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin), (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Powerful and sensitive young adult novel - honest and beautifully written - the story of a teenage girl who must decide whether taking care of herself means no longer taking care of her alcoholic mother. SIGNED on the title page. 268 pp. Promotional postcard laid in. ISBN: 9780618720934.

New York: Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin), (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Powerful and sensitive young adult novel - honest and beautifully written - the story of a teenage girl who must decide whether taking care of herself means no longer taking care of her alcoholic mother. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication on the title page. 268 pp. Promotional postcard and author's business card laid in. ISBN: 9780618720934.

New York: Pocket Books, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which explores the bonds of friendship between four women, and how dreams turned to nightmares as the ties faded and lives were destroyed. 392 pp. ISBN: 0-743407075.

New York: Doubleday, (2012). First edition - A novel about mothers and daughters and the pyschic damage women can inflict on one another. 275 pp.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (2014). First edition - The third collection of poems - brief prose poems, in this case - by this author. Winner of the Donald Hall prize in poetry. Brian Teare calls this book "Irreverent, irrepressible and intelligent. . . [it] subjects the identity we call 'daughter'to a deeply feminist skepticism." 75 pp.

Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, fourth book. Kaethe Shalk spent years in East Berlin, devoted, after her fashion, to an American father himself devoted to the grand socialist idea. When the Berlin Wall comes down, the ruin of the East stands bare, in stark contrast to the exuberance of the West, as she journeys from America to Germany in search of a daughter, now grown and lost to her. 303 pp. ISBN: 1-593760051.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (2012). First edition - A poetic short novel set in Alburqueque and focusing on a young woman, an immigrant from Mexico, working as a waitress and expecting her first child. Volume 11 in the Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas series. 95 pp.

New York: Random House, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised second novel by this Pulitzer prize winning journalist. Basis for the Meryl Streep movie of the same name, a story of a mother dying of cancer and a daughter who, in caring for her as the disease and pain inexorably worsen, comes to learn that she never really knew her mother at all. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-679-40712x.

New York: Penguin, 2009. dj. Hardcover - A woman tells of her journey as she uncovered the real life her mother led, and learns lessons of self-acceptance, independence, and rebellion. A small volume filled with humor and wisdom. 112 pp. ISBN: 978-1594202162.

Kingston, NY: McPherson & Co, (2015). First edition - The author's first novel (although not her first book, preceded by poetry and essays) -the story of a working family from the rich Ohio farmlands of the 1850s to the rustbelt ruins of 2005 - "Rose Healy of Blanchardville, Ohio, child bootlegger, WWII veteran, devoted reader of Tolstoy, and heroic mother of ten, had the nerve to die before her youngest daughter could get home. Which, as Rose would say, was her own damn fault. Yet, when Stephanie returns after the funeral, restless and plagued by the same unease that drove her away thirty years earlier, she discovers that death is no object when two women need to talk" 250 pp. . ISBN: 9781620540152.

New York: Doubleday, 1993. SIGNED first edition - The author's second book, a novel about a daughter's love for her brilliant and difficult mother. INSCRIBED on the half title page "For --- thank you so much for including me in your wonderful reading series" and dated in the month of publication. 247 pp.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - New Zealand author's first novel, for which she received the Angus & Robertson Writer's Fellowship, and which was nominated for the New Zealand National Book Award. Harper is fourteen old beyond her years , and has spent most of those years following her mother from man to man, house to house - and yet despite all, they share a warm relationship as they try to find their place in the world. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-133839842.