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Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of Toxic Parents, offers a powerful look at the devastating impact unloving mothers have on their daughters--and provides clear, effective techniques for overcoming that painful legacy. In more than 35 years as a therapist, Forward has worked with large numbers of women struggling to escape the emotional damage inflicted by the women who raised them. Subjected to years of criticism, competition, role-reversal, smothering...
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"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...
5) Greta
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"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...
6) The bees
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Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive's survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw, but her courage and strength are assets. She is allowed to feed the newborns in the royal nursery and then to become a forager, flying...
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A little rabbit who wants to run away tells his mother how he will escape, but she is always right behind him. This 75th anniversary edition includes the original picture book followed by a 32-page retrospective look with lively anecdotes, exclusive photographs, archival material, and an essay by noted children's book historian Leonard S. Marcus.
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Laural Lockwood's 15-year-old son Andy is "special". She lost him once through neglect, but is determined to make up for her mistakes. When she allows Andy to attend a local church social she is terrified when the church is consumed by fire. Andy survives and saves other children as well. Initially Andy basks in the role of unlikely hero but when the suspicion of arson is cast upon Andy, Laurel must ask herself how well she really knows her son, and...
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Mahany shares personal love letters on the mysteries and gifts of mothering, interspersed with family recipes and gentle essays, all offering beautiful lessons in how to love, and how to love well. She captures the ephemeral moments of motherhood-- the hard, the glorious, the laughter, and the tears-- and invites readers to pay attention, cradle our loved ones in prayer, and see the sacred lessons in loving.
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"Wonderful Ways To Love a Child" is a delightfully sweet and down-to-earth guide for parents who want to put love into action and give their children the very best start in life. It's a prescription for strengthening the bond between a parent and child, packed with suggestions and reassurance. "Wonderful Ways To Love a Child" offers more than 60 inspiring, true stories for building strong, nurturing and caring families. From the emotional and moral,...
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Charlie Peace mysteries volume 2
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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.
13) Dear Carolina
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"A moving debut novel about two mothers-one biological and one adoptive-from a compelling new voice in Southern women's fiction. One baby girl. Two strong Southern women. And the most difficult decision they'll ever make. Frances "Khaki" Mason has it all: a thriving interior design career, a loving husband and son, homes in North Carolina and Manhattan-everything except the second child she has always wanted. Jodi, her husband's nineteen-year-old...
20) Vanda
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Nobody really knows Vanda, this somewhat lost girl who lives alone with her son Noé in a shed by the water, on the outskirts of town. About ten years earlier she dreamed of being an artist, but she became a cleaner in a psychiatric hospital. Between Vanda and her six-year-old boy, whom she protects like a wolf, a mad love broods that excludes any compromise. So when Simon, the child's father, suddenly bursts into their lives after an absence of seven...