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Looking for great book suggestions for Mother's Day? Here are six titles you want to consider. They are books that mom will love --- CONFESSIONS OF SUPER MOM by Melanie Lynne Hauser, THE LOST MOTHER by Mary McGarry Morris, RECIPES FOR A PERFECT MARRIAGE by Morag Prunty, SUSANNAH'S GARDEN by Debbie Macomber, THE WOMAN AT THE WASHINGTON ZOO by Marjorie Williams and A YEAR IN THE WORLD by Frances Mayes. |
 
 Dutton AdultISBN: 0525949100  For every harried mother who dreams of cleaning with the power of 10,000 Swiffers, putting her children into Super Time Outs with just a flick of her Merciless Gaze, and employing a little Super Eavesdropping when the occasion warrants, CONFESSIONS OF SUPER MOM is a must-read. Filled with romance, intrigue, humor and a colorful cast of characters, this delightful new novel introduces a superhero for the Swiffer generation. So forget those chores --- pick up CONFESSIONS OF SUPER MOM and relish in a much-deserved escape. This charming novel will keep readers glued to the page as they cheer for Super Mom to root out injustice and surrender herself to love. Readers everywhere will find themselves in its pages and rejoice in finding a book that celebrates their overlooked everyday acts of heroism.   Former member of the PTA, Melanie Lynne Hauser is a prototypical Super Mom. CONFESSIONS OF SUPER MOM is her first novel, and she is a contributor, along with Jodi Picoult, Jacqueline Mitchard, Jennifer Lauck and Marion Winik, to the anthology It's a Boy (November 2005, Seal Press). SUPER MOM SAVES THE WORLD will be published by NAL in February, 2007. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband and two teenage sons.Visit her website: www.melanielynnehauser.com |
  Price: Viking AdultISBN: 0143036459 It is a summer during the Great Depression, and the long days throb with heat and more freedom than eleven year old Thomas Talcott has ever known. He and his younger sister, Margaret, spend hours roaming the woods or floating in their rowboat on Black Pond. For the children it is a summer idyll, but all is not well in the Talcott family. Too poor to pay the rent, they have been kicked out of their home, and are now living in a tent on the edge of the pond. Their father, Henry, struggles to provide enough food and clothing for them by butchering neighbors' farm animals, and is often gone for long stretches of time. Irene, their mother, has abandoned the family, and no one will tell the children why or when she'll return. While Henry loves his children deeply, he is devastated by Irene's desertion. Powerfully imagined and intensely felt, THE LOST MOTHER is a haunting masterwork and McGarry Morris's strongest novel to date.  Mary McGarry Morris is the author of VANISHED which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award; A Dangerous Woman, which was chosen by Time as one of the five best novels of 1991; SONGS IN ORDINARY TIME, an Oprah's Book Club Selection and national bestseller, and the critically acclaimed FIONA RANGE and A HOLE IN THE UNIVERS. She lives in Andover, Massachussetts. |
  Price: HyperionISBN: 1401301975 A tender, funny, heartfelt novel about an uncertain bride and the Irish grandmother who teaches her the unexpected ingredients of marital happiness Tressa is sure of almost everything -- her career as a successful food writer, her great friends, and her sophisticated New York lifestyle. She has never been so sure of men, however, and as she hits her late thirties, the prospect of never marrying looms large. When Dan shows up on her doorstep, she hopes that he's “the one,” and soon they are married. There's just one problem: With all the excitement of finding him, and then the wedding, Tressa is struck with an awful idea -- maybe he's not the one after all. Into this mess of uncertainty comes an unexpected life preserver -- the journals and recipes of her grandmother Bernadine. Bernadine and her husband, James, had the kind of marriage that Tressa always believed she should have -- the perfect marriage. Or so Tressa thought. In RECIPE'S FOR A PERFECT MARRIAGE the unexpected secret to marital bliss unfolds through the voices and recipes of Tressa and Bernadine. They are generations and oceans apart, yet in this charming, beautifully imagined novel, they learn that marriage, like brown bread, is both sturdy and fragile, and never to be taken for granted  Scottish born of Irish parents, Morag Prunty was raised in London. At twenty-one, she became the youngest editor of a national British publication when she took over the helm of Looks magazine at EMAP Metro. She moved to Ireland in 1991 to relaunch Irish Tatler magazine. The author of WILD CATS & COLLEENs, she lives in Dublin with her husband and son. |
  Price: MIRA BooksISBN: 0778323021 When parents enter their twilight years, the roles are oftentimes switched for their daughters and sons. In SUSANNAH'S GARDEN, one woman returns home to help her mother with a difficult lifetime transition. As she moves her mother into an assisted living complex, Susannah Nelson's life is filled with heartache --- but, as with most things in life, something good and joyful emerges from something sad. Join New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber, winner of a prestigious Quill Award, as she takes readers to the small town of Colville, Washington for an unforgettable journey of the heart. It was the year that changed everything. When Susannah Nelson turned eighteen, her parents sent her to school abroad. She said goodbye to her boyfriend, Jake --- and never saw him again. She never saw her brother again, either, for Doug died in a car accident while she was way. Now, at fifty, she finds herself regretting the paths not taken. Especially the chance to be with Jake. Long married, a mother and a teacher, she should be happy. But she feels there's something missing, although she doesn't know what. Not only that, she's balancing the demands of an aging mother and a temperamental twenty-year-old daughter. Because her recently widowed mother is having difficulty coping and living alone, Susannah prepares to make some difficult decisions. In returning to her hometown of Colville, to her parents' house, her girlhood friends and the garden she's always loved, she also returns to the past --- and the choices she made in her youth. She discovers things are not always as they seem, even in her mother's garden. Visit www.debbiemacomber.com to read an excerpt.  Debbie Macomber, the author of SUSANNAH'S GARDEN, A GOOD YARN, THE SHOP ON BLOSSOM STREET, CHANGING HABITS, BETWEEN FRIENDS anD THURSDAYS AT EIGHT, is one of the leading voices in women's fiction worldwide.Her work has appeared on every major bestseller list, including those of the New York Times, USA TODAY and Publishers Weekly. She is a multiple award winner and there are more than 60 million copies of her books in print. |
  Price: PublicAffairsISBN: 1586483633 Marjorie Williams knew Washington from top to bottom. Beloved for her sharp analysis, elegant prose and exceptional ability to intuit character, Williams wrote political profiles for The Washington Post and Vanity Fair that came to be considered the final word on the capital's most powerful figures. Williams also penned a weekly column for the Post's op-ed page and epistolary book reviews for the online magazine Slate. Her essays for these and other publications tackled subjects ranging from politics to parenthood. During the last years of her life, she wrote about her own mortality as she battled liver cancer, using this harrowing experience to illuminate larger points about the nature of power and the randomness of life. Marjorie Williams was a woman in a man's town, an outsider reporting on the political elite. She was, like the narrator in Randall Jarrell's classic poem, THE WOMAN AT THE WASHINGTON ZOO an observer of a strange and exotic culture. This splendid collection --- at once insightful, funny and sad --- digs into the psyche of the nation's capital, revealing not only the hidden selves of the people that run it, but the messy lives that the rest of us lead.  Marjorie Williams was born in Princeton, N.J. in 1958 and died in Washington, DC in 2005. She is survived by her husband, Timothy Noah, a senior writer at Slate, who edited this volume, and her children, Alice and Will. |
  Price: BroadwayISBN: 0767910052 The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself --- and her readers --- in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places. A YEAR IN THE WORLD is vintage Frances Mayes --- a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. An ideal travel companion, Frances Mayes brings to the page the curiosity of an intrepid explorer, remarkable insights into the wonder of the everyday, and a compelling narrative style that entertains as it informs.  Frances Mayes is the author of four books about Tuscany. The now-classic UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN, which was a New York Times bestseller for more than two and a half years, and became a Touchstone movie starring Diane Lane, was followed by BELLA TUSCANY and two illustrated books, IN TUSCANY and BRINGING TUSCANY HOME. Mayes is also the author of the novel SWAN, six books of poetry, and THE DISCOVERY OF POETRY. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. |
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