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Author
Publisher
A Tarcher Perigee Book
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xvi, 271 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this important and conversation-starting book, veteran psychoanalyst Erica Komisar offers a provocative and compelling premise: a mother's emotional and physical presence in her child's life--especially during the first three years--means that her child has a greater chance of growing up emotionally healthy, happy, secure, and resilient. When that essential presence goes missing, the child is at higher risk for social, emotional, and developmental...
5) Hello, mom
Author
Publisher
Faber
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fantastically funny, wise and charming motherhood sketches from award-winning illustrator Polly Dunbar. "Go away, I'm busy writing about the beauty of motherhood." Polly Dunbar is an award-winning illustrator who usually draws for children rather than adults, but when she had her own sons, she started recording the beautiful and maddening moments of parenthood with a doodle. Hello, Mom is her visual diary of the magical highs and absurd lows that...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Josie and her husband have split up, she's been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she's grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancě's family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation:...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (27 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When Johanna, a 16-year-old transgender Latina, begins her transition and gets kicked out of her home and school, she finds a foster family who loves her and a supportive school principal who helps her graduate and thrive. How does it feel when your mom prays everyday for you to be someone else? That's the struggle Johanna, a 16 year old transgender Latina faces. At first her mom thinks she's confused, or joking, but as Johanna's transformation continues,...
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A heartwarming tale of two unique women who bond while recuperating in a hospital. Martha, a mother of four rambunctious and imaginative children, finds solace when she meets the younger woman, Claudia, and quickly the two build a strong relationship. When Martha invites Claudia to live with her family, Claudia unwittingly takes on the responsibility of becoming a surrogate mother to Martha's children.
Publisher
Sundance Now
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (192 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On a summer evening, in the seemingly idyllic suburb of Hollington Drive, 10-year-old Alex Boyd is declared missing. As grief tears through the community, sisters Theresa and Helen fight to hold their lives and their families together. Secrets and lies begin to surface as long-held faȧdes falter.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (6 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With wry wit and poignant humor, Louie Anderson shares his journey of turning life's challenges into joy as well as plenty of wisdom he's gained from his late mother.
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiv, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Long Devotion is a collection of poems, essays, and writing prompts that celebrate the joy and wonder of motherhood and create a space for mothers to, as poet Molly Spencer has written, "tell an unlovely truth about family life and not have to take it back." The book carries forward the essential work of previous motherhood anthologies by speaking to our current moment through the work of many of the most exciting mid-career poets and by diversifying...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
viii, 305 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery. Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family's past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam War, Susan's family escaped to California in the 1980s after five failed attempts. Upon arrival, Susan's mother was their savvy, charismatic North Star, setting...
Publisher
Davidson Films
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (38 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation is now basic to understandings of infant-parent interactions and, thus, later emotional development. Working in close collaboration with the British psychiatrist John Bowlby, Ainsworth gave us new understandings of the huge impact very early emotional experiences have on personality development across the life span. The production details the developmental course of attachment behaviors and the different patterns...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film chronicles the various stages of a mother's Alzheimer's disease and the evolution of a daughter's response to the illness. The desire to cure the incurable -- to set right her mother's confusion and forgetfulness, to temper her mother's obsessiveness -- gives way to an acceptance which is finally liberating for both daughter and mother.
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