"Award-winning actresses and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the kind of women who draw strength from their lifelong friendships with other women, and most of all, from each other. Ever since Laura was born, the two have leaned on each other through the trials of everyday life and the tribulations that come with even the most storied Hollywood careers. They were always close, but when Diane developed a sudden illness, their relationship...

"A daughter's tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity"--

The founder of the Heritage Home Foundation nonprofit documents her secret abuse-marked childhood in and out of foster care and what she discovered while investigating the story of her mother's own harrowing past.

"A heartwarming and funny memoir from a beloved actress, Lilyville tells the story of a mother and daughter whose narrative reflects that of American women in the 20th and 21st centuries, and mirrors American cultural changes and the world's shifting expectations of women"--

"Born into Boston society in 1923, Jenny Moore rebelled by going to college and later emerged as a writer. At twenty-one, she married Paul Moore, a decorated war hero who became Bishop Paul Moore, and joined him in a socially radical ministry. Eventually, they had nine children. 'Everything was just starting, ' Jenny protested--meaning a new independent life inspired by the women's rights movement--when she was diagnosed with cancer at fifty. Jenny...

Oxenberg lays bare a secretive organization that is holding her daughter hostage and details her mission to save her. In 2011, Catherine joined her daughter, India, at a leadership seminar for a new organization called NXIVM. They both thought this program might help her achieve her dream of starting her own company. But as her daughter became brainwashed by the organization's charismatic leader she joined a secret, elite "sorority" of women members...

"Elissa and Rita have forever struggled to find their place in each other's worlds. Rita, an overreaching, makeup-addicted, narcissistic Manhattan singer couldn't be more different from Elissa, her gay, taciturn New England writer daughter. Stuck in an outrageous maelstrom of codependency, mother and daughter cannot seem to extricate themselves from the center of each other's lives. Motherland is their universal story: a kaleidoscopic journey built...

Jennette tenía seis años cuando fue a su primera audición. El sueño de su madre era que su única hija fuera una estrella, y Jennette estaba dispuesta a todo para hacerla feliz. Aceptó su plan de ±restricción de calorías¿, que consistía en comer poco y pesarse cinco veces al día. Soportó sus maquillajes y reproches: ±Tus pestañas son invisibles, ¿vale? ¿Crees que Dakota Fanning no se tiñe las suyas?¿. Su madre la bañó hasta los...