My Mother/My Self: The Daughter's Search for Identity (Friday Nancy)(Paperback)

My Mother/My Self: The Daughter's Search for Identity (Friday Nancy)(Paperback)

When Nancy Friday began her research for My Mother/My Self in the early 1970's no work existed that explored the unique interaction between mother and daughter. Today psychotherapists throughout the world acknowledge that if women are to be able to love without possessing, to find work that

My Mother, Myself (Friday Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

Nancy Friday shows that the key to a woman's character lies in her relationship with her mother - that first binding relationship which becomes the model for so much of a woman's adult relationships with men, and whose fetters constrain her sexuality, independence, and very

Love and Other Lies (McPherson Ben)(Paperback)

A mother and father search for the truth behind their daughter's disappearance in this stunning psychological suspense novel that takes Nordic noir to a level that is 'emotional, painful, and utterly memorable' (Alex Marwood, Edgar Award-winning author of The Poison Garden). Cal and Elsa have the

Finding Tipperary Mary (Whitsell Phyllis)(Paperback / softback)

The astonishing real story of a daughter's search for her own past and the desperate mother who gave her up. Phyllis Whitsell began the search for her birth mother as a young woman and although it was many years before she finally met her, their lives had crossed paths without their knowledge. When

The Runaway (Overton Hollie)(Paperback)

The search for a teenage runaway sends her foster mother, a psychologist working for the LAPD, on a dangerous journey through Los Angeles' criminal underworld, in this gripping new thriller by the author of the international bestseller Baby Doll. You'll do anything to protect her. But you'll have

Absent Fathers, Lost Sons: The Search for Masculine Identity (Corneau Guy)(Paperback)

A Jungian analyst examines masculine identity and the psychological repercussions of 'fatherlessness'--whether literal, spiritual, or emotional--in the baby boom generation An experience of the fragility of conventional images of masculinity is something many modern men share. Psychoanalyst Guy

Immortal Diamond - The Search For Our True Self (Rohr Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Mother Daughter Revolution (Debold Elizabeth)(Paperback)

'Describes the potential for a powerful new relationship between mothers and daughters which would change the relationship between all women and girls.'--Gloria Steinem As the daughters of baby boomer moms approach womanhood the questions begin. Will I teach my daughter the right things? How do I

Identity, Personal Identity and the Self (Perry John)(Paperback / softback)

Forbidden Flowers (Friday Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

Since the 1968 publication of Nancy Friday's outspoken erotic masterpiece, My Secret Garden, women's sexual lives have undergone a revolution - and so have their fantasy

The City of Dreaming Books (Moers Walter)(Paperback)

The search for the author's identity takes Yarnspinner to Bookholm--the so-called City of Dreaming Books. On entering its streets, our hero feels as if he has opened the door of a gigantic second-hand bookshop. His nostrils are assailed by clouds of book dust, the stimulating scent of ancient

Bones of Grace (Anam Tahmima)(Paperback / softback)

The highly acclaimed romantic tragedy of love, migration, and the search for identity from the Granta 'Best of Young British'

City of the Beasts (Allende Isabel)(Paperback)

A search for the Beast, a Yeti-like creature within the heart of the Amazon, becomes a quest for self-discovery in this young adult coming-of-age story filled with international adventure, rich mythology, and magical realism from globally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende. Fifteen-year-old

My Daughter, My Mother (Murray Annie)(Paperback / softback)

Two daughters. Two mothers. The secrets of two

My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter (Monet Aja)(Paperback)

My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet Aja Monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters--the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of

Mother for Dinner (Auslander Shalom)(Paperback / softback)

An outrageously tasty comedy about identity, tribalism and mothers, from the author of Hope: A Tragedy - 'the funniest novel of the decade' Sunday

Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition (Milosz Czeslaw)(Paperback)

The autobiography of the Nobel laureateBefore he emigrated to the United States, Czeslaw Milosz lived through many of the social upheavals that defined the first half of the twentieth century. Here, in this compelling account of his early life, the author sketches his moral and intellectual history

Finding Myself in Britain - Our Search for Faith, Home & True Identity (Pye Amy Boucher)(Paperback / softback)

Recreating Your Self: Building Self-Esteem Through Imaging and Self-Hypnosis (Napier Nancy J.)(Paperback)

For people who were emotionally and physically wounded as children, the journey from childhood to adulthood is a constant struggle with shame, self-criticism, and fear. This book shows these adult children of dysfunctional families how to use self-hypnosis to resolve the effects of abuse, to build

Brian Banana Duck Sunshine Yellow (McKimmie Chris)(Paperback / softback)

A wonderfully quirky picture book about a child's search for identity and the need to belong - and a glorious celebration of the colour

My Secret Garden (Friday Nancy)(Paperback)

Newly repackaged, the groundbreaking bestseller that explores female sexuality through women's most intimate fantasies.Welcome to Nancy Friday's secret garden, a hidden place where ordinary women are free to express the sexual dreams they have never dared to confide before. Safe behind the walls of

Far From The Tree - Parents, Children and the Search for Identity (Solomon Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

Drawing on interviews with over three hundred families, covering subjects including deafness, dwarfs, Down's Syndrome, Autism, Schizophrenia, disability, prodigies, children born of rape, children convicted of crime and transgender people, Andrew Solomon documents ordinary people making courageous

Love in a Cold Climate - The wickedly funny sequel to The Pursuit of Love (Mitford Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

Groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, fearsome Lady Montdore, Polly instead scandalises society by declaring her love for her uncle 'Boy' Dougdale, the Lecherous Lecturer, and promptly eloping to France. But the consequences of this union no one could quite

Donde Esta Spot? (Hill Eric)(Paperback)

'Very young children will join in the search for Spot, with his mother Sally, as she encounters other animals along the way hidden behind the flaps. Each double spread has a door to open or a covering to lift. The large ink-and-water color illustrations abound with good humor.' Publishers