Mothers Day

Updated May 7, 2023
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The kitchen god's wife
Tan, Amy
Paper Book
Focusing on the life of one woman, this book spans the years from pre-Revolutionary China to present day America. It covers the themes of cultural differences, the problems of exile, the generation gap and above all the special relationship between mothers and daughters.
(M)otherhood : On the choices of being a woman
Agarwal, Pragya.
Paper Book
Part memoir and reflective analysis, Pragya Agarwal examines motherhood and fertility and how it shapes all our lives.
Why mummy swears : the struggles of an exasperated mum
Sims, Gill
Paper Book
The hilarious second novel, and Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller, from author of the smash hit Why Mummy Drinks. Monday, 25 July The first day of the holidays. I suppose it could've been worse. I brightly announced that perhaps it might be a lovely idea to go to a stately home and...
The push
Audrain, Ashley
Paper Book
***Be one of the first to discover why this novel you can't put down is also the novel you will never forget . . . *** 'Raw, visceral, and often disturbing, this is an intense psychological drama that will be embraced by serious book club fans of Lionel Shriver's We Need...
Home truths
Lewis, Susan
Paper Book
How far would you go to keep your family safe? The gripping new page-turner from the Sunday Times bestselling author of One Minute Later Angie Watts used to have everything. A new home. A beloved husband. Three adored children.   But Angie's happy...
Bird box
Malerman, Josh
Paper Book
Josh Malerman's debut novel Bird Box is a terrifying, Hitchcockesque psychological horror that is sure to stay with you long after reading. Malorie raises the children the only way she can: indoors. The house is quiet. The doors are locked, the curtains are closed, mattresses are...
The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother
McBride, James
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird: The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation....
That kind of mother
Alam, Rumaan
Paper Book
NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Buzzfeed * The Boston Globe *  The Millions * InStyle * Southern Living * Vogue * Popsugar * Kirkus * The Washington Post * Library Journal * Real Simple * NPR "With his unerring eye for nuance and unsparing sense...
Come home
Scottoline, Lisa.
Paper Book
Lisa Scottoline has delivered taut thrillers with a powerful emotional wallop in her New York Times bestsellers Save Me, Think Twice, and Look Again. Now, with her new novel, Come Home, she ratchets up the suspense with the riveting story of a mother who...
Stolen
Pearse, Lesley.
Paper Book
Sussex, 2003 When a beautiful blonde girl is found half-drowned on a beach, she has no memory of who she is or what horrors have left her there. But an article about her in a Brighton newspaper rings alarm bells for beautician Dale, who shows the police photographs of Lotte...
The mother-hood : Australian women share what they wish they'd known about life with a newborn
Rizvi, Jamila
Paper Book
'Welcome to The Motherhood, my dear.' After her son was born, Jamila Rizvi felt isolated, exhausted and confused. While desperately in love with her new baby, the world she'd known had disappeared overnight and so had her sense of self. Jamila's salvation came in the...
The joys of motherhood : a novel
Emecheta, Buchi
Paper Book
"A rich, multilayered work of fiction, full of drama and written with deceptive simplicity." Essence
The good mother
Moriarty, Sinéad
Paper Book
'A heart-warming and a heart-breaking story, beautifully written and sensitive ... compelling' Woman's Way 'A fascinating exploration of difficult subjects ... Moriarty writes with compelling authority' Irish Times 'There is warmth and heart aplenty...
Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Strayed, Cheryl
Paper Book
NATIONAL BEST SELLER * Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. * A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.   At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought...
Where'd you go, Bernadette
Semple, Maria.
Paper Book
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To Elgie Branch, a Microsoft wunderkind, she's his hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled wife. To fellow mothers at the school gate, she's a menace. To design experts, she's a revolutionary architect. And to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best...
Room : a novel
Donoghue, Emma
Paper Book
The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle).   Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her...
Mothers
Weeks, Cath
Paper Book
For fans of Liane Moriarty and Dorothy Koomson, this is an emotional, gripping and suspenseful family drama of secrets and intrigue. It's a story for mothers and daughters, about the battles between them, but also the everlasting bond that they share. Until now, Steffie has...
Big little lies
Moriarty, Liane
Paper Book
From the author of Here One Moment and The Husband's Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE AWARD-WINNING HBO® SERIES STARRING REESE...
One plus one
Moyes, Jojo
Paper Book
One single mom. One chaotic family. One quirky stranger. One irresistible love story from the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes   Suppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a...
Son
Lowry, Lois.
Paper Book
The thrilling and long-awaited conclusion to the Newbery Medal-winning Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry. They called her Water Claire. When she washed up on their shore, no one knew that she came from a society where emotions and colors didn't exist. That she had become a Vessel at age...
The witch's heart
Gornichec, Genevieve
Paper Book
Angrboda's story begins where most witch's tales end: with a burning. A punishment from Odin for refusing to give him knowledge of the future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into a remote forest. There she is found by a man Loki, and her initial distrust grows into a...
The sins of the mother : a novel
Steel, Danielle.
Paper Book
"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER Every woman makes choices. And no one has made more difficult choices than Olivia Grayson. The enormously successful businesswoman missed out on much of her children's lives while she built her legendary home-furnishings empire. In Danielle Steel's character-rich new...
Girl Friday
Green, Jane
Paper Book
Work. Mama. Life.: From Motherhood Burnout to Abundant Health, Joy and Wellbeing
Young, Alison.
Paper Book
Embrace the joys of motherhood without losing yourself Motherhood is an amazing journey. It's a time of chaos and calm, joy and frustration, overwhelming stress and incredible fun. But as mamas strive to juggle the health of their children, their home and work lives, and their...
The other side of the world
Bishop, Stephanie
Paper Book
Cambridge, 1963. Charlotte is struggling. With motherhood, with the changes marriage and parenthood bring, with losing the time and the energy to paint. Her husband, Henry, wants things to be as they were and can't face the thought of another English winter. A brochure slipped through the letterbox...
A mother's choice
Wood, Valerie
Paper Book
For ten years, Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack, and as a young unmarried mother, life has never been easy. Every new coat and pair of shoes was bought with what little money she could scrape together as a singer on the stage. But when the theatre work dries up, Delia...
The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane : a novel
See, Lisa
Paper Book
A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual...
All the lives we never lived
Roy, Anuradha
Paper Book
"A writer of great subtlety and intelligence . . . a beautifully written and compelling story of how families fall apart and what remains of the aftermath" Kamila Shamsie, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 "The book everyone is talking about for the summer"...
My name is Lucy Barton : a novel
Strout, Elizabeth
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys. Soon to be a...
The house of Eve : a novel
Johnson, Sadeqa
Paper Book
"Amazing...I was completely surprised by the ending of this beautifully told and written book." --Reese Witherspoon "A triumph of historical fiction" (The Washington Post), an instant New York Times bestseller, and a Reese's Book Club pick, set in 1950s...
Landline
Rowell, Rainbow.
Paper Book
#1New York Times bestselling author! ANew York TimesBest Seller!Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Fiction of 2014! An Indie Next Pick! FromNew York Times bestselling author ofEleanor & Park andFangirl, Rainbow Rowell, comes a...
A mother's love
Montefiore, Santa
Paper Book
A magical story of motherly love and the bonds of love between us from the number one bestselling author of Songs of Love and War... Celeste is mourning the tragic death of her young son, Jack, from leukaemia. So when she learns that her nephew is coming to stay, she doesn...
My real children
Walton, Jo
Paper Book
It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know-what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don't seem possible. She remembers marrying Mark and having four...
With teeth
Arnett, Kristen
Paper Book
'With Teeth is a wonderfully sticky novel about motherhood, partnership, sex and love. Kristen Arnett lets her characters have the run of the place, and it's delicious fun to watch them do, say, and think things they'll regret' Emma Straub, author of All Adults HereIf she's...
Commitment
Simpson, Mona
Paper Book
A NEW YORKER AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s. "A sweeping family epic that took me from one...
The lost daughter
Paul, Gill
Paper Book
'Bold and powerful, filled with emotion, tension and vivid characters in a setting that is rich in historical detail' Kate Furnivall A Russian princess. An extraordinary sacrifice. A captivating secret... From the author of The Secret...
The Garden of Lost and Found
Evans, Harriet
Paper Book
The mother of all jobs : how to have children and a career and stay sane(ish)
Armstrong, Christine
Paper Book
It's time for a different conversation about working and parenting. As our working days get ever longer and our phones keep so many of us glued to work, the needs of our children and the world of school and childcare has not changed at all. School summer holidays are still longer than our annual...
Orfeia
Harris, Joanne
Paper Book
When you can find me an acre of land, Every sage grows merry in time, Between the ocean and the sand Then will you be united again. (Inspired by The Child Ballads 2 & 19) So begins a beautiful and tragic quest as a heartbroken mother sets out to save her lost...
The sunshine sisters
Green, Jane
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling author of Falling presents a warm, wise, and wonderfully vivid novel about a mother who asks her three estranged daughters to come home to help her end her life.   Ronni Sunshine left London for Hollywood to become a beautiful,...
I thought I knew you
Hancock, Penny
Paper Book
Jules and Holly have been best friends since university. They tell each other everything - trading revelations and confessions, and sharing both the big moments and the small details of their lives: Holly is the only person who knows about Jules' affair; Jules was there for Holly when her husband...
The wedding dress : a novel
Steel, Danielle
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In Danielle Steel's epic new novel, the lives of four generations of women in one family span fortune and loss, motherhood, tragedy and victories.   From the glamorous San Francisco social scene of the 1920s, through war and the...
I've been meaning to tell you
Chariandy, David John
Paper Book
"Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble." --Nafkote Tamirat For readers of Between the World and Me and We Should All Be Feminists, an intimate and profound meditation on the politics of race today, from prizewinning novelist David Chariandy....
The things we left unsaid
Kennedy, Emma
Ebook
The school for good mothers : a novel
Chan, Jessamine
Paper Book
Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize Selected as One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2022! In...
Motherhood
Heti, Sheila
Paper Book
From the author of How Should a Person Be? ("one of the most talked-about books of the year"--Time Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring novel about whether to have children. In Motherhood, Sheila Heti...
The dictionary of lost words
Williams, Pip
Paper Book
Fight night
Toews, Miriam
Paper Book
"Move over, Scout Finch! There's a new contender for feistiest girl in fiction, and her name is Swiv." -USA Today, "Best Books of the Year" "Toews is a master of dialogue." -New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice "A revelation."...
Bad Art Mother
Preston, Edwina.
Paper Book
Good mothers are expected to be selfless. Artists are seen as selfish. So what does this mean for a mother with artistic ambitions? Enter: frustrated poet Veda Gray, who is offered a Faustian bargain when a wealthy childless couple, the Parishes, invite her to exchange her young son...
Wife on the run
Higgins, Fiona
Paper Book
When two technology-related disasters hit within days of each other, Paula knows her comfortable suburban life has been irrevocably blown apart. One involves the public shaming of her teenage daughter, the other is a shocking discovery about her husband. With her world unraveling around her,...
Life after birth
Prescott, Jessica
Paper Book
Life After Birth is your essential guide to the wide and diverse spectrum of motherhood. In this companion, Jessica Prescott and Vaughne Geary share their evidence-based approach to the lost but ever important art of caring for yourself as a mother, including...
The sisters' song
Allan, Louise.
Paper Book
Set in rural Tasmania from the 1920s to the 1990s, The Sisters' Song traces the lives of two very different sisters. One for whom giving and loving are her most natural qualities and the other who cannot forgive and forget.
Wearing paper dresses
Brinsden, Anne
Paper Book
'This is a wonderful novel, both uplifting and heartbreaking.' Good Reading Magazine (5 star review)SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION 2020You can talk about living in the Mallee. And you can talk about a Mallee tree. And you can talk about the Mallee itself: a land and a place...
The dressmaker's secret
Ham, Rosalie
Paper Book
It is 1953 and Melbourne society is looking forward to coronation season, the grand balls and celebrations for the young queen-to-be. Tilly Dunnage is, however, working for a pittance in a second-rate Collins Street salon. Her talents go unappreciated, and the madame is a bully and a cheat, but...
Grace under pressure
Haschka, Tori
Paper Book
'Ignore everything you think you're meant to be doing, and bunker down with this.' Better Reading Big Little Lies meets Marian Keyes with a dash of Donna Hay; a deliciously hilarious, honest and heartfelt portrayal of modern-day motherhood and...
A mother's story
Prowse, Amanda
Paper Book
How can you be a mother if you don't love your baby? A powerful new novel confronts the issue of postnatal depression. Jessica has just had the wedding of her dreams, and now she's setting up a new home with her lawyer husband Matthew. Even better--they are...
The summer of impossible things
Coleman, Rowan
Paper Book
If you could change the past, would you? ****Get ready to believe in Impossible Things with the brand new book from international bestseller, Rowan Coleman. **** How far would you go to save the person you love? Luna is about to do everything...
Killing it
Mackay, Asia
Ebook
FIRST RUNNER-UP OF THE INAUGURAL 2019 CWIP PRIZE 'Original' Clare Mackintosh 'James Bond should retire now . . . puts the sass in assassin as it's never been done before' L. S. Hilton *** Killing Eve meets Stephanie...
Songbirds
Lefteri, Christy
Paper Book
The powerful new novel from the bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo.
Call me mummy
Baker, Tina.
Paper Book
*** THE #1 KINDLE BESTSELLER ****** A NETGALLEY BOOK OF THE MONTH *** 'Dark, heartbreaking and totally absorbing' - LORRAINE KELLY 'Brilliantly written and emotionally compulsive' - HARRIET TYCE 'A powerful and thought-provoking page turner' - KATERINA DIAMOND _______________________________________...
Hold my girl
Carr, Charlene.
Paper Book
Two women. Two eggs. One switch. It'll take a custody battle like no other to decide who really deserves to be the baby's mother - a battle that will push both women to the brink.
The Mother
Logan, T. M.
Paper Book
The unmissable new thriller from the million-copy Sunday Times bestselling author, and master of the up-all-night thriller.
Is mother dead : a novel
Hjorth, Vigdis
Paper Book
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middleaged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controverdsial modern classic, Will and Testament
The house of hidden mothers
Syal, Meera
Paper Book
Little India, East London- Shyama, aged forty-four, has fallen for a younger man. They want a child together. Meanwhile, in a rural village in India, young Mala, trapped in an oppressive marriage, dreams of escape. When Shyama and Mala meet, they help each other realise...
The Last Days of Joy
Tiernan, Anne.
Paper Book
WHEN HER SECRET SURFACES, CAN HER FAMILY SURVIVE IT? The tender, immersive and beautifully observed international bestseller, perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty, Marian Keyes and Carley Fortune. 'Oh. My. God. The opening of this story was phenomenal. I...
Cold Enough for Snow
Au, Jessica
Paper Book
**Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2023, Fiction** **Winner, Victorian Prize for Literature 2023** **Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Award 2023** *...
Hand me down world
Jones, Lloyd
Digital file
Mothers and daughters
Ladd, Kylie
Paper Book
Four mothers. Four teenage daughters...An isolated tropical paradise with no internet or mobile phone reception...What could possibly go wrong?..There's tension, bitchiness, bullying, sex, drunken confessions, bad behaviour and breakdowns - and wait till you see what the teenagers get up to.....How...
Smart mothering : what science says about caring for your baby and yourself
Flynn, Natalie
Paper Book
'This is the one book every new parent actually needs.' Nigel Latta

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