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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Left with no memory of who she is, Wendy Doe arrives at the Meadowlark Institute of Memory Research, where she falls under the control of a doctor and his ambitious student, while the daughter she left behind tries to make sense of it all.
2222) Chasing endless summer
Author
Series
The Sutherland volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"After the tragic death of her mother and a long period of isolation under the thumb of a cruel grandfather, young Caroline Brady has little to hope for in her life in the foreboding Southerland mansion. Her only companion, her enigmatic cousin, Simon, may be a wolf in sheep's clothing and is not to be trusted. But when Caroline's estranged father suddenly resurfaces with news of a new wife and stepchildren in Hawaii that she'll finally be allowed...
2224) Loved and missed
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"When your beloved daughter is lost in the fog of addiction and you make off with her baby in order to save the day, can willpower and a daring creative zeal carry you through? Examining the limits, disappointments and excesses of love in all its forms, this marvellously absorbing novel, full of insight and compassion, delights as much as it disturbs"--
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Physical Desc
9 CDs (ca. 10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Invites mothers to rediscover the joys of everyday family life and the challenges of letting go of grown children, in a personal account that describes the author's older son's departure for college and her memories of shared times in their small New England community.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 474 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Janet King, a senior crown prosecutor, returns to work after maternity leave to find her workplace even more demanding than when she left. She quickly becomes involved in a high-profile and controversial case, and makes several enemies in her search for the truth.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"It's been years since Zoe Fairchild has been to the small Devon village of her birth, but the wounds she suffered there still ache. When she learns that her old friend and grandmother's caretaker has gone missing, Zoe and her fifteen-year-old daughter return to England to help. Zoe dreads seeing her estranged mother, who left when Zoe was seven to travel the world. As the four generations of women reunite, the emotional pain of the past is awakened....
2229) The masterpiece
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
ix, 496 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Struggling to make a home for herself and her five-month old son Samuel, Grace Moore accepts a position as a personal assistant to Roman Velasco, a temperamental successful artist.
2230) Mrs. Warren's profession
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"What is the profession that has enabled Mrs. Warren to give her daughter all the benefits of 'good society'? Vivie Warren discovers her mother's secrets and embraces her own power as a 'modern' woman"--Container.
In the bonus play, "Mrs. Landfrey and her three children return to England after 18 years abroad, where a chance encounter with their traditionalist husband and father quickly entangles them in a series of comic events"--Container.
2231) Life support
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ana is an HIV-positive woman and recovering junkie, taking care of a 9-year-old daughter and a husband who is also HIV-positive. While making the most of a local social services program in order to regain stability in her life, she also attempts to reunite with her estranged teenage daughter, living with Ana's mother.
2232) Pretty baby
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 25 cm
Description
She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head... Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and...
2233) Summer Island: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
427 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Struggling comedienne Ruby Bridge confronts the legacy of her mother's abandonment as a secret from the past of Nora Bridge, now a syndicated columnist known for her moral advice, draws the two women together in a reunion that transforms both their lives.
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Silviu has only two weeks left before his release from a hostile juvenile detention center. But when his mother, who abandoned him long ago, returns to take his younger brother away--a brother Silviu raised like a son--those two weeks become an eternity. While his outcries for help fall on deaf ears, he is introduced to a beautiful social worker that he can only dream of being close to. Faced with a slew of conflicting emotions and wild with desperation,...
2235) True mothers
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Six years after adopting a son, a woman tries to defend her family when another woman claiming to be the son's biological mother arrives and demands his return.
2236) Deep water
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Tully's attempt to swim across Lake Tahoe after a heartbreaking loss and become the youngest person to complete the famous "Godfather" swim takes a dangerous turn, forcing her to choose between safety and a win that could change everything.
Author
Publisher
Harperone, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"When Miss Norma was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she was advised to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Norma--newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage--rose to her full height of five feet and told her doctor, 'I'm ninety years old. I'm hitting the road.' Packing what she needed, Norma took off on an unforgettable cross-country journey with...
Author
Publisher
HCI
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
221 pages ; cm
Description
"Every parent of a newborn feels overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks at hand: Suddenly responsible for feedings, diaper changes, and trying to sleep, parents are stressed out and anxious. ... The good news is that the cause and effect between parents' mental and emotional states and their baby's mood and behavior works both ways; when parents are calm and centered, their children are calm as well. ... With an eye-opening blend of neuroscience...
2239) A pale view of hills
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1982
Physical Desc
183 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
"A middle-aged Japanese woman, now living in England, relives her horrifying childhood memories of the bombing of Nagasaki"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary...
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