The story of two women trying to find success, but end up finding that success isn't everything. Includes both the 1934 and 1959 releases.

A girl looks at old photographs with her mother, trying to figure out what her mother feels most grateful for in her life.

"Loni Mae Murrow's life in Washington, DC is tidy, if a trifle constrained. Single and in her mid-thirties, she's a bird artist at the Smithsonian who spends her days at a desk, making elaborate drawings of belted kingfishers and scrub-jays and purple gallinules. Then she's abruptly summoned back home to the wetlands of northern Florida, where she grew up. Her mother, critical and difficult, has grown frail and been resentfully consigned to assisted...

Middleton gets transformed into a town where 'it's always the day before Halloween' when the author of a series of magic-and romance-filled novels comes to Grey House to celebrate the release of her newest book. But it's Cassie who ends up bringing the people together to put on the special event, while coming to a special realization about Sam.

Middle schooler Liberty likes to make her own maps of the stars, in fact she is obsessed with them, especially since her family is falling apart; her parents are getting divorced, her nine-year-old sister will barely leave the house and carries a stuffed tiger at all times, her father is suffering from depression, but will not talk about it, and the brothers down the street, once friends, have turned into bullies--so when a tiny meteorite literally...

When a woman gets engaged while at BYU Hawaii, her mom goes all out to plan the wedding. However, both mother and daughter must overcome the pressure of perfection when plans don't go as expected.

A memoir in which the author, raised in the United States since the age of three, and chided by her mother with tales of "the good daughter," discusses her discovery that her mother was married at the age of thirteen in Iran and was forced to leave her firstborn daughter behind when she fled the abusive relationship.

Four very different friends in Concord, Massachusetts, and their mothers continue their book club, reading Jean Webster's "Daddy Long-Legs," while getting to know their own pen pals from Wyoming.