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Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know 112 reviews
Meg Md Meeker
Ballantine Books, 2007
Every father should read this
Here are 10 secrets every father should know. These secrets are based on current evidence (in the scientific literature), as well as Dr. Meeker's personal experience as a pediatrician. While much of it seems like common sense, I was sure glad to get confirmation of what I thought. I read it while my daughter was an infant, and I'm sure that I will read it several more times again as she gets ...
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Pandora's Daughter 47 reviews
Iris Johansen
St. Martin's Press, 2007
Great new characters!
Great new characters. I would love to see Megan and Grady together again, maybe throw in the reality of having a family.
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Things I Want My Daughters to Know: A Novel 6 reviews
Elizabeth Noble
William Morrow, 2008
Touching book!
This is a great book. I could not put it down. As a mother, I was moved by Barbara's need to leave something for her girls. The characters are very complicated and the author gives great insight to each of them.
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The Gravedigger's Daughter: A Novel (P.S.)39 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates
Harper Perennial, 2008
A treatise on family identity
The central character of Joyce Carol Oates's 36th novel changes her identity several times in the course of the epic, conveniently changing portions of her brutal past to transform into a more pure, acceptable lady. In her heart, she remains the Gravedigger's Daughter, the American-born daughter of WWII-era Jewish immigrants Jacob and Anna Schwart. Jacob was humiliated by his stateside job as ...
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The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir5 reviews
Honor Moore
W. W. Norton, 2008
Fallen Family
A memoir that is religious and sexual at its core -- this is the story that Honor Moore tells of her father, herself and their places in their extended families. A WWII veteran who was convinced that his near-death experiences pointed him into religious life of the Episcopal Church, he rose to Bishop of Diocese of New York. But he was tormented by his double life as a bisexual -- and in a ...
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Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, Second Edition103 reviews
Hope Edelman
Da Capo Press, 2006
Painfully Beautiful
This book did what 34 years of therapy with expensive and highly degreed therapists could not do. I lost my mother emotionally at the age of 12. While this book starts out addressing the physical death of a mother, it very well includes all kinds of losses that damage the mother-daughter relationship. My mother went from a warm, loving, nurturing parent who baked all the time and kept a clean ...
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter819 reviews
Kim Edwards
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
Great Book!
I LOVED this book - I thought it was a very interesting storyline. I recommend this to all readers - it was hard to put it down. I like the way Edwards writes - very clear - makes you feel like you are part of the character. A must-read!
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What a Daughter Needs From Her Dad: How a Man Prepares His Daughter for Life11 reviews
Michael Farris
Bethany House, 2004
A new perspective to how we'll raise our daughters...
Sure, they're just 3 and 5 but every day counts, right? My husband embraced this book and so much of the suggestions rather solidly. He was raised in a home of all boys with rather Godless and unstable parents. While I was raised in a strong Christian home, I think my upbringing would have been so much richer and less heart-wrenching had this book been around 38 years ago... Our favorite part ...
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Wives and Daughters35 reviews
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Hard Press, 2006
wives and daughters by elizabeth gaskell
I love this story. For anyone that likes Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre. This is in a similar vein but less intense. Very good read and video.
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The Seven Daughters of Eve 119 reviews
Bryan Sykes
W. W. Norton & Company, 2002
DNA and British Ancestors
The author writes with a wonderful style that explains scientific subjects fully. This book is the first of several on examining the groups found in Europe by DNA patterns. This book is of great interest to descendants of British ancestors. The author's categories of groups of "clan mothers" are both fascinating and informative, especially for those interested in genealogy. The reader can get a ...
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Bonesetter's Daughter301 reviews
Amy Tan
Putnam Adult, 2001
The Bonesetter's Daughter
This is my favorite Amy Tan novel... The story begins with Ruth, an American born Chinese, who has struggles with her aging mother Lu Ling. As Lu Ling's mind begins to fail, truthful memories from the past come out and begin to intrigue Ruth. At the same time, she hires someone to translate a packet of Chinese notes that reveal her mother's background. The story of Precious Auntie and the ...
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Daughter of Fortune: A Novel (P.S.)6 reviews
Isabel Allende
Harper Perennial, 2006
Absorbing
A great plot with well-developed characters,educational and rich in historical and social detail. After reading of the wars between the US and Mexico with the acquisition of California in 1850, the opium wars between China and Great Britain around 1839, and the French revolution with the terror of the Napoleonic wars which is mentioned in flashback and considering the present situation of the ...
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Why a Daughter Needs a Dad: A Hundred Reasons 27 reviews
Gregory E. Lang, Janet Lankford-Moran, 2002
Beautiful book
I purchased two copies of this book, one for my father and one for my husband. As I flipped through the pages I felt I could relate to every passage that was written. They are personal, yet universal........simple but descriptive. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to touch the heart of a dad with a little girl (or a grown little girl).
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Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Understanding the Crucial Link Between Mothers, Daughters, and Health31 reviews
Christiane Md Northrup
Bantam, 2006
Female Health Manual
Best book ever written on female health. If you have a daughter, get two copies of this book. One for you and one for her; encourage her to read it and keep it handy in her life. After reading it, I got copies for my daughter-in-law, and my nieces.
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The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir49 reviews
A. M. Homes
Viking Adult, 2007
You won't want to put this one down
In The Mistress's Daughter, A.M. Homes shares her personal identity struggle in relation to and apart from her biological and adoptive parents. Anyone who's read A.M.'s previous books is aware of her incredible talent.
The real-life characters in her telling memoir prove the age-old adage "truth is stranger than fiction." She reveals a vulnerable side, which at times made me squirm in my ...
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Rashi's Daughters, Book II: Miriam27 reviews
Maggie Anton
Plume, 2007
Loved this sequel
Loved this book which is a sequel from Rashi's daughters Joheved. The author was able to give an excellent insight on the lives of French jews in the middle age. The book is not only entertaining but knowledgeable and accessible to even non-jews.
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love239 reviews
Dava Sobel
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2000
elegant, beautiful prose and story
This book must be read if not for the depth of the actual telling, then for the elegant writing itself. The intertwining of primary source material and the author's own pen is done beautifully. The story's theme of the supposed clash between faith and reason/ science is as relevant today as it was in Galileo's time. Food for thought.
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Father to Daughter: Life Lessons on Raising a Girl11 reviews
Harry H. Harrison Jr.
Workman Publishing Company, 2003
Great Pocket Book
At first, I thought this was a silly gift my husband received when I was pregnant with our daughter. I decided to take a look at it, and its such a beautiful book. It has very simple ideas and advice, but very important life lessons.
The whole book is full of common sense ideas, but they are things that get overlooked and forgotten. Every dad should be forced to read this as part of ...
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The Daughter of Time132 reviews
Josephine Tey
Touchstone, 1995
THERE IS MORE TO THIS THAN MEETS THE EYE...
This is a wonderful genre bending book...part history, part mystery. Written by Scotswoman Elizabeth MacIntosh, who wrote under the pen name Josephine Tey, it was first published in 1951. It is tragic that the author died in 1952 and was never to know the pleasure that this book would bring to generations of readers and that the Mystery Writers of America would ultimately rank it fourth among the ...
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Perfect Daughters (Revised Edition)13 reviews
Robert J. Ackerman
HCI, 2002
Perfect Daughters
This book was so helpful with it's insight into the experience of having an alcoholic parent. It is written well, easy to follow and answers questions you didn't even know you had. I highly recommend this book to anyone, but especially to people like myself who are at the beginning of their quest for the truth and don't want to read a book that feels too clinical and complicated.
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