Best friends, occasional enemies : the lighter side of life as a mother and daughter
2011
Large Print
Lisa, an Edgar Award-winning author, and her Harvard-educated daughter, Francesca, present a volume of personal essays that explores life through their close bond, discussing their relationship, their carb counts, and the green jacket that almost caused a catfight.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781410442642
- 1410442640
Edition: Large print edition.
Description:
- 365 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Large print.
Contents:
- The occasional enemies part
- We all are Ferraris
- All's fair in love and wardrobe
- Empowered
- Picture day
- Can this marriage be saved?
- Meow
- Holy moly
- Cover me
- Mother Mary and the retirement village
- The suburbs are killing me
- The mothership
- Brush off
- Love and worry
- Getting it straight
- The heart of a gambler
- Clipped
- Mother Mary hears the worst
- Half-full
- Mother Mary and the terrorists
- Twit-willow
- Grainy
- In which we lose Angie, and nothing's funny
- Banana fanna fo
- Mousetrap
- Pilgrim's progress
- You can't touch this
- Security complex
- Mousetrap part II ... this time it's personal
- This old homebody
- Little dog, big pill
- The flying Scottolines reach out
- Don't look now
- Mousetrap part III ... modicum of solace
- Accomodating
- Home team
- Running on empty
- Control issues
- My daughter moved out, so why am I still lactating?
- I refuse to dress up for the mall
- Mother Mary and the Christmas standoff
- Busy signal
- 'Twas the night before
- Prepare for the best
- Join me
- Rewarding, or Why free is dumber than you think
- Can't start a fire without a ...
- Cold comfort
- Lunatic
- Darwinian
- The moon and I
- Big and me
- Birthday wish
- Life in the not-so-fast lane
- It's not the heat
- Moms say the darndest
- Not under my roof
- Uncle Sam
- Mathlete
- Oprah and Einstein
- Toys in the attic
- Hardwired
- Bank angst
- Tempus fugit
- History lesson
- iLisa
- Oh, you don't know
- Home, sweet gym
- The right to vote
- The Einstein workout
- Remembering Joy
- 911
- If a tree falls in a driveway ...
- As seen on TV
- In which we get a woman president
- The hardest job in the world
- This land is my land
- The four seasons
- The best friends part.
LCCN: 2011039501
Publisher: Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2011.