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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
    Nonfiction
    Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope
    Wendy Holden
    Cover of Daring: My Passages
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    Daring: My Passages
    Gail Sheehy
    Cover of Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank
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    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
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    Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and Trauma
    Frederica K. Clementi
    Cover of Jewish Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook
    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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    The Wanting
    Michael Lavigne
    Cover of The White Space Between
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    The White Space Between
    Ami Sands Brodoff
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    Waltzing with the Enemy: A Mother and Daughter Confront the Aftermath of the Holocaust
    Rasia Kliot and Helen Mitsios

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