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1) Mamá
Author
Publisher
Kalandraka
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
El amor es el concepto fundamental que justifica el cómo, el por qué y el para qué de un texto rimado tan sencillo, pero a la vez tan universal, cercano a la infancia y asequible para lectores de todas las edades y todas las culturas. El poema se complementa con imágenes exuberantes en contenidos y colores, donde la naturaleza está presente del principio al final.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But in Life Among the Savages, she takes on the lighter side of small-town life. In this witty and warm memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont, she delightfully exposes a domestic side in cheerful contrast to her quietly terrifying fiction. With a novelist's gift for character, an unfailing maternal instinct, and her signature...
3) True mothers
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
日本語
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Description
After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a child. Over the next six years, the middle-class couple and their young son Asato settle into a comfortable, albeit routine, life. The family's orderly existence is shattered by the arrival of Hikari, a young woman claiming to be Asato's biological mother, demanding his return. As tensions mount, Satoko grows more and more emboldened to defend her family....
4) Elsewhere
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. This town, fiercely protective, brutal and unforgiving...
5) In bloom
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Amazing Gracie by Fern Michaels, Gracie is at home in Texas. But there's unexpected turbulence between her mother and her older sister. In Meant To Be by Lori Foster, Cory Creed has decided it's time to leave North Carolina, and Austin Winston, behind. But Austin has finally realized what Cory was once so sure of, and now it's his turn to prove they belong together. In The Mother's Day crown by Carolyn Brown, Monica Allen still hasn't forgiven...
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Do you find yourself feeling emotionally bruised, upset and confused after being in contact with your mother? Are you left doubting yourself - feeling crazy - as she remembers some incidents totally differently to how you remember them, and denies other events even happened at all? Do you somehow feel like you're not a real person in her company? Does it seem that she gets cross, angry or upset when good things happen in your life? And does she seem...
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