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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
x, 254 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
The author shares the life story of her mother, Anna Gagliano Gordon--a hard-working single mother whose life was shaped by polio, alcoholism, and dementia--and discusses their relationship and her role as a daughter.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
107 pages ; 22 cm
Appears on list
Description
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (521 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Told in a series of flashbacks, this television series is the hilariously unpredictable story of how twenty-something Ted meets his soul mate and says goodbye to the singles world of pick-up lines, one night stands and relationship "deal-breakers." With friends Marshall and Lily's wedding fast approaching, the outrageously inappropriate Barney remains a consummate bachelor, while Ted's romance with Robin heats up-- but is she really the one for him?...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Anne Lamott enters a new and unexpected chapter of her own life: grandmotherhood. Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at nineteen, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson Jax's life. In careful and often hilarious detail, Lamott and Sam, about whom she first wrote so movingly in Operating Instructions, struggle to balance their changing roles with the demands of college and work, as they both forge...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She's a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one withall the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be her...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"A glimpse into a beloved novelist's inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature. In her fiction, Claire Messud "has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives" (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud's own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (920 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Television series about a mother and a daughter living in Stars Hollow, Connecticut. After 20-plus years of single motherhood, after a series of Mr. Not-Quite-Rights, after buying that perfect wedding dress and watching it hang in the closet, Lorelai finally gets married. This season also includes Lane's baby shower and Rory's graduation.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (468 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Go behind-the-scenes of a live sketch comedy show. Watch as Jack comes back to GE; Liz gets a visit from an adoption agency caseworker; Liz sits next to Oprah on her flight from Chicago to New York; Tracy and Jenna conduct a 'social experiment;' Jack hooks up with Liz's psycho ex-roommate; Liz thinks she has found the perfect mate; Don Geiss wakes from his coma; Jack falls in love with his mother's nurse; Liz has a disastrous first date; Jack gets...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (482 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A love story in reverse: 'How I met your mother' is a comedy about Ted and how he fell in love. When Ted's best friends Marshall and Lily decide to tie the knot, it sparks the search for his own Miss Right. Helping him in his quest is his bar-hopping "wing-man" Barney, a confirmed bachelor with plenty of wild scemes for picking up women. Ted's sights are set on the charming and independent Robin, but destiny may have something different in mind. Told...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (955 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For mother and daughter, it's a year of change. Much of it is expected, like Rory's graduation from Chilton and the anxiety of waiting for college acceptance letters. But much of it is not.
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