In an age where our kids are helicopter parented and bubble wrapped, this mother of four isn't looking forward to her four talented, artistic children leaving the family home. Bubble after protective bubble bursts as her troupe queues...
Mother and child
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Author:Allan, CandaceSummary: -
Author:Schellenberg, AngelineSummary:Through public judgments, detouring dreams and unspoken prayers, Tell Them It Was Mozart, Angeline Schellenberg?s debut collection, traces both a slow bonding and the emergence of a defiant humour. This is a book that keens and...
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Author:Kalluk, CelinaSummary:In this bedtime poem, written by Inuit throat singer Celina Kalluk, an Inuit mother sings to her Kulu--or baby--about animals and other elements in their Arctic world and the gifts they bring to the child, from the summer sun's warm...
- Author:Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It's where he was born, where he and his Ma eat and play and learn. There are endless wonders that let loose Jack's imagination—the snake under Bed that he constructs out of eggshells,...
- Author:Shearer, EleanorSummary:
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK - This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children and piece her family back together is a "celebration of...
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Author:Soderstrom, MarySummary:Gloria Murray's daughter jokes that Gloria would have sold her first born to further her musical career - a reproach closer to the truth than anyone but Gloria suspects. Gloria, born just before the Great Depression, knows from the...
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Author:LEE, TanithSummary:Trapped in the dreary Angels Academy for Young Maidens by her tyrant father, sixteen-year-old Artemesia Blastside plans her escape. She intends to return to the seafaring life she once led with her mother, a notorious pirate, killed six...
- Author:Wilson, Phoenix, Wilson-Trudeau, MartySummary:
Phoenix loves to play with dolls and marvel at pretty fabrics. Most of all, he loves to dance-- ballet, Pow Wow dancing, or just swirling and twirling around his house. Sometimes Phoenix gets picked on and he struggles with feeling...
- Author:Wilkerson Sexton, MargaretSummary:
A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives--set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoAt home they are just...
- Author:Gonzalez, XochitlSummary:
A blazing new talent debuts with the story of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her absent mother, her glittering career amongst New York's elite and her Puerto Rican roots in the wake of Hurricane Maria. It's...
- Author:Koryta, MichaelSummary:
Witness to a gruesome crime, Leah Trenton entered the state's protected witness program. When her children embark on a journey home, they encounter danger. Now Leah must come out of hiding and protect her family.
- Author:Felicien, PerditaSummary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A phenomenal, human story. . . . I could not put this book down." —CLARA HUGHES An instant national bestseller, this raw and affecting memoir is the story of a mother and daughter who beat the...
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Author:Hayden, TylerSummary:Mother’s Message in a Bottle is an inspirational collection of over 40 letters from mothers around the world to the people they love. The aim of the book is to provide direction, wisdom, and connection between mothers and their children...
- Author:Quan, BettySummary:
Mother Tongue is a unique and innovative play that weaves together Cantonese, English, and sign language. It is about family loyalties, youthful dreams, and generational and cultural differences.
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Author:Hamilton, CathySummary:'Is that what you're going to wear?' Used indiscriminately for sons, daughters, and husbands, this one is a not-so-subtle attempt to make family members rethink their wardrobe choice. Deciphering the clandestine conspiratorial language...
- Author:Rivest, ClaudetteSummary:
Tous les parents font de leur mieux pour donner les soins essentiels à leurs enfants. Mais cela suffit-il pour permettre à l’enfant de s’épanouir et d’être heureux? Dans ce livre, j’ai mis beaucoup d’attention à répondre aux questions...
- Author:Malerman, JoshSummary:
Struggling still twelve years after she and her children rowed up the river to safety, Malorie receives impossible news that leave her with a difficult decision to make: to live by the rules of survival that have kept them alive or...
- Author:Bowlby, JohnSummary:
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Author:Dewdney, AnnaSummary:At bedtime, a little llama worries after his mother puts him to bed and goes downstairs.
- Author:Dewdney, AnnaSummary:
Yucky music, great big feet. Ladies smelling way too sweet. Look at knees and stand in line. Llama Llama starts to whine. Does any child like to go shopping? Not Llama Llama! But Mama can't leave Llama at home, so off they go to Shop-O-...
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