Fiction featuring moms

Mothers' Day is fast approaching (Sunday, May 13, 2012).  If you're looking for some great new books that feature moms, try:

• Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by Friedrich Christian Delius - A Nazi-era German woman, on her way to a Bach concert in Rome, tries to remain aloof and emotionally distant from the war but comes to the gradual realization that her husband might never return from the front.
• Four of a Kind by Valerie Frankel - When they are thrown together on the Diversity Committee for their children's Brooklyn Heights private school, four mothers impulsively turn their awkward first meeting into a poker game betting with intimate secrets of their lives.
• Come Home by Lisa Scottoline - Rebalancing her life and career after a painful divorce, pediatrician Jill learns that her ex has died from an alleged overdose that her former stepdaughter believes was actually murder.
• Stay Close by Harlan Coben - A bored suburban wife, a documentary photographer-turned-paparazzo and a detective who cannot let go of a cold case hide secrets from their loved ones only to have the past return in dangerous ways.
• The Possibility of You by Pamela Redmond Satran - Three women confront challenges in motherhood, including an Irish nanny who suffers a loss during the 1916 polio epidemic, a San Francisco hippie who meets a grandparent for the first time, and an adopted journalist who searches for her birth family.

All of these great new titles are available at Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library - reserve one now by following the link, clicking "request," and entering your library barcode information.