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Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Not realizing the implications of her actions, a young woman creates a story about being attacked by anti-Semitic thugs at a train station. Jeanne lives in a house in the suburbs with her mother Louise. The two women get on well together. Louise earns her living by looking after children. Jeanne is half-heartedly looking for a job. Louise harbors the hope of getting her daughter a job with Samuel Bleistein, a famous lawyer she knew in her youth....
82) Not my daughter
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
A pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers' love to the ultimate test in this emotionally wrenching story of love and forgiveness.
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Formats
Description
In the small river town of La Luna, Louisiana, Calla Lily Ponder enjoys a blissful childhood at her mother's side, learns the art of healing through the humble womanly art of "fixing hair," and encounters first love with a boy named Tuck. When Tuck leaves her, Calla transforms her sorrow into inspiration and heads for the wild and colorful city of New Orleans--where she realizes the full power of her "healing hands" and Tuck presents her with an offer...
86) White oleander
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ingrid, a smart, free-spirited, and somewhat narcissistic artist kills her deceitful lover in a crime of passion. Even while serving a prison sentence, she exerts control over her adoring teenage daughter, Astrid, who's forced to spend her teenage years in a series of foster homes before becoming her own person. Explores the strange relationship of Ingrid and Astrid, and includes Astrid's relationship with her foster mothers. At first merely an appendage...
Author
Series
Real mermaids volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
206 p. ; 19 cm.
Description
When Jade's hormonal change into womanhood also includes developing scales and a tail, she discovers she's inherited her mermaid tendencies from her late mother, and it prompts her to investigate how her mother died.
Author
Series
Marta's legacy volume 1
Formats
Description
The first in an epic two-book saga by beloved author Francine Rivers, this sweeping story explores the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters over several generations. Near the turn of the 20th century, fiery Marta leaves Switzerland seeking life on her own terms. Her journey takes her through Europe and finally lands her with children and husband in tow in the central valley of California. Marta's experiences convince her that only...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Valerie Wyatt is at the top of her game--she has parlayed her talent for entertaining and home decorating into a multimedia empire, and her name is synonymous with class and exquisite taste. And yet, though she has achieved enviable professional success, her ambition and hard work have given her little room for a personal life. She is divorced, and though she has a strong relationship with her daughter, she finds herself alone as her 60th birthday...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A woman and her mother are sent to an island and spend almost 60 years trying to leave it. Follow three generations of the woman's family as they all try and find happiness on a lagoon surrounded by shifting dunes.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
368 pages cm
Description
"Three generations of women strive for real freedom in this startling, provocative novel exploring sexuality, gender, and maternal ambivalence, from the acclaimed author of The Best Kind of People. It's 1997 and Missy's band has finally hit the big time as they tour across America. At twenty-two years old, Missy gets on stage every night and plays the song about her absent mother that made the band famous. Missy is the only girl in the band and she's...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
221 p. (large print) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
As her only child readies for college, fabric shop owner Linda Davis is torn between excitement for Molly and heartache for herself. Mother and daughter decide to share one last adventure--a cross-country road trip to move Molly into her dorm. As they make their way through the heart of the nation, Linda pieces together the scraps that make up Molly's young life. And in stitching each bit of fabric, she discovers that the memories can come together...
95) Erandi's braids
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
In a poor Mexican village, Erandi surprises her mother by offering to sell her long, beautiful hair in order to raise enough money to buy a new fishing net.
96) Mermaid dreams
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
At bedtime, Meriam tells her mother what it was like to spend a day as a mermaid at the beach.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been living an emotionally fruitless existence.
Author
Series
Marta's legacy volume 2
Formats
Description
In a saga set from the 1950s to the present, the rift between mother and daughter is examined.
100) Dolores Claiborne
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1995
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eighteen years ago the town accused Dolores Claiborne of murdering her husband in cold blood. Now a woman lies dead and a witness finds Dolores standing over the body. Her daughter is the only one who can save her life and the only thing that stands between guilt and innocence is the evil secret that made the daughter run away ten years ago.
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