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Books Mom Will Love 2015

Mother’s Day is a time to recognize the woman who raised and nurtured us. Click here to see the 25 winners of our 10th annual "Books Mom Will Love" contest. Each winner will receive a selection of five books listed below, along with some delicious Ghirardelli chocolate, tea from Tea Forté and Yardley Bar Soap. (Please note that two of these titles --- the eShorts CAT AND JEMIMA J by Jane Green and WHAT SHE REALLY WANTS by Barbara Delinsky --- are now available for free download on Amazon Kindle.)

With books that are moving, uplifting, humorous and informative, look no further than Bookreporter.com for the perfect gift for Mom.

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Dorothea Benton Frank, author of The Hurricane Sisters

Dorothea Benton Frank once again takes us deep into the heart of her magical South Carolina Lowcountry. There we meet three generations of women buried in secrets. The determined matriarch, Maisie Pringle, will have the final word on everything, especially when she's dead wrong. Her daughter, Liz, has an emotionally demanding career that will eventually open all their eyes to a terrible truth. And Liz's daughter, Ashley, has dreamy ambitions of her unlikely future that keeps them all at odds.

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Week of April 6, 2015

Releases for the week of April 6th include Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel THE GOLDFINCH, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate; DAVID AND GOLIATH, in which Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to endure various apparent setbacks; THE KING'S CURSE by Philippa Gregory, the story of lady-in-waiting Margaret Pole and her unique view of King Henry VIII’s stratospheric rise to power in Tudor England; and EVERYBODY'S GOT SOMETHING, Robin Roberts' memoir in which she recounts the incredible journey that's been her life so far, and the lessons she's learned along the way.

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