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Moth­ers and Daughters

Cover of Bending Toward the Sun: A Mother and Daughter Memoir
Nonfiction
Bending Toward the Sun: A Mother and Daughter Memoir
Leslie Gilbert-Lurie
Cover of Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope
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Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope
Wendy Holden
Cover of Daring: My Passages
Nonfiction
Daring: My Passages
Gail Sheehy
Cover of Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank
Nonfiction
Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank
Eva Schloss with Evelyn Julia Kent
Cover of Four Girls From Berlin: A True Story of a Friendship That Defied The Holocaust
Nonfiction
Four Girls From Berlin: A True Story of a Friendship That Defied The Holocaust
Marianne Meyerhoff
Cover of Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and Trauma
Nonfiction
Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and Trauma
Frederica K. Clementi
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Cookbook
Jewish Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook
Retold by Jane Yolen; Heidi E.Y. Stemple, recipes; Sima Elizabeth Shefrin, illus.
Cover of Letters in the Attic
Fiction
Letters in the Attic
Bonnie Shimko
Cover of Modern Girls
Fiction
Modern Girls
Jennifer S. Brown
Cover of Mother, Can You Not?
Nonfiction
Mother, Can You Not?
Kate Siegel, Kim Friedman
Cover of My Mother's Secret: A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story
Fiction
My Mother's Secret: A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story
J. L. Witterick
Cover of Sidonia's Thread: The Secrets of a Mother and Daughter Sewing a New Life in America
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Sidonia's Thread: The Secrets of a Mother and Daughter Sewing a New Life in America
Hanna Perlstein Marcus
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Fiction
The Wanting
Michael Lavigne
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Fiction
The White Space Between
Ami Sands Brodoff
Cover of Waltzing with the Enemy: A Mother and Daughter Confront the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Nonfiction
Waltzing with the Enemy: A Mother and Daughter Confront the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Rasia Kliot and Helen Mitsios

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