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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Chandler Baker's Cutting Teeth is a witty, thrilling story of parental love that asks: is there anything a mother won't do for her children? Darby, Mary Beth, and Rhea are on personal quests to reclaim aspects of their identities subsumed by motherhood-their careers, their sex lives, their bodies. Their children, though, disrupt their plans when an unsettling medical condition begins to go around the Little Academy...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Marrying in order to escape an overbearing father, Meera is further victimized by her physically demanding husband and lustful brother-in-law, a circumstance from which she finds fleeting escape through her relationships with her sister-in-law and young son.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows how babies are made, but scientists are only just beginning to understand the making of a mother. Mom Genes reveals the hard science behind our tenderest maternal impulses, tackling questions such as whether a new mom's brain ever really bounces back, why mothers are destined to mimic their own moms (or not), and how maternal aggression makes females the world's most formidable creatures." -- inside front jacket flap.
"From the New...
Author
Series
Charlie Peace mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Maxwell Macmillan International
Pub. Date
©1992
Language
English
Description
A celebrity scholar in a small village tears her nephews from their immediate family and raises them in an atmosphere of cruelty, and when a grown nephew returns to the village twenty years later, he sees that his aunt has come full circle.
Author
Publisher
Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This board book bursts with heart as it describes the love a parent feels for their child from the moment of meeting--and beyond. From eyes, to lips, to fingers, to toes, all parents will know what it feels like to love every inch of your baby--and babies and toddlers will feel the love, too"--
13) Love you more
Author
Publisher
Igloo Books Ltd
Pub. Date
℗2022
Language
English
Description
This heart-warming story celebrates the unbreakable bond between a child and their family. Life is full of wonderful things to do together, from going on adventures to curling up on the sofa, but nothing is more important than love. This beautiful tale is perfect for sharing together at storytime.
Publisher
Davidson Films
Pub. Date
2005.
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...
16) La gama ciega
Author
Publisher
Shinseken
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Español
Description
Nature gives abundant blessing, but it also has many dangers. The fawn, full of curiosity, goes out into the wild to find sweet honey in spite of her mother's cautious advice. The fawn is attacked by bees and loses her eyesight. Her mother is desperate to help her child ... but how?
Una gama, llena de curiosidad, va a buscar miel en el bosque a pesar de los consejos prudentes de su mamá. Queda ciega después de un ataque de avispas, y su mamá busca...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"On a cold winter's eve, deep in the woods, a mother shrew frets about her sick young son. His head is cold and his feet are hot, and there is only one thing that can cure him: wild honey from the moon. Mother Shrew does not stop to wonder how she will make such an impossible journey. Instead, she grabs her trusty red umbrella, gives her darling son a kiss, and sets out into the unknown. Along the way, Mother Shrew encounters one obstacle after another,...
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Celebrate the joy, wonder, and innocence of being a child with this love letter to the loved ones in your life that encourages them to celebrate their own special qualities now and into the future. Inspired by the endearing qualities she sees in her own son, Linsey Davis, ABC News correspondent and bestselling author of The World Is Awake and One Big Heart, has written another beautiful book that parents and grandparents can share with their little...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Sesame Street gang shows some of the different ways to love ourselves and each other.
"Explore all the definitions of love with your friends from Sesame Street! In this illustrated picture book, children will [see] their favorite characters share what love means to them. This ... story will show children to look for love in new ways in their everyday lives"--Provided by publisher.
20) Greta
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. The two become fast friends, but the older woman's maternal charms begin to dissolve and grow increasingly disturbing as Frances discovers that nothing is what it seems...
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