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315 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"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.
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3) I am loved
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21 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Hand-selected by Newbery honoree Ashley Bryan, he has, with his masterful flourish of color, shape, and movement, added a visual layering that drums the most important message of all to young, old, parent, child, grandparent, and friend alike: You are loved. You are loved. You are loved. As a bonus, one page is mirrored, so children reading the book can see exactly who is loved -- themselves!
5) Love
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Illustrations and easy-to-read text celebrate the bonds of love that connect us all.
7) Love, Mama
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English
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With a heartwarming story and tender illustrations, Jeanette Bradley's debut picture book is perfect for Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, and any day when a child needs a reminder of the strength of a mother's love.
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58 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"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,...
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"A stone when it's thrown can damage, can break, but nothing can shatter the promise I make." So begins the poem a mother writes on a scrap of paper. She wraps the paper around a stone and places it in a basket to give to her daughter on her first birthday. They are poor, but the mother is determined that gifts will be given when gifts need giving. She keeps her promise, and the Promise Basket, too. Every time there is a need for gifts, the mother...
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viii, 287 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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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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English
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Inspired by the eagerly awaited birth of her daughter, Kaavia James Union Wade, the New York Times best-selling author and award-winning actress pens a festive and universal love letter from parents to little ones that is perfect for welcoming a baby to the party of life.
12) Lola
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
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"Lola is a young mother abandoned by the rock singer who fathered her daughter. Lonely and feeling trapped in a life she did not choose, she evades her responsibilities as a parent. Guilt causes her to try to be a better mother, but eventually she reverts back to irresponsible ways."--Container.
13) Baby squeaks
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Baby mouse has learned to squeak. And now it's squeak, squeak, squeak all day long. Baby chats with new friends and old friends, big friends and little friends, and sometimes just chats with no one at all. Poor Mama needs a break ... but when Baby wanders off, Mama knows what to do: follow the squeaks!"--
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40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
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English
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In order to save her daughter from a terrible war, the mother sends her into the forest telling her to return in three days. She meets St. Joseph who cares for her for three days, which in reality is thirty years.
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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"A humorous rhymed text with pictures repeating "I'll love you till . . ." with various endings." --
Rhyming text and illustrations assure a child that love is endless, as various animals set off on faraway adventures and return home again at bedtime.
18) Greta
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1 videodisc (approximately 99 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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. Having recently lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to the widowed Greta. The two become fast friends, but the older woman's maternal charms begin to dissolve...
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"What is love? a child wonders. What does it feel like, smell like, taste like? How does it move? How long does it last? And as she prepares a traditional Chinese meal for her family, the child's mother replies: her love for him is rosy as wolfberries, warm like tea, sweeter than the red dates she puts in his soup. It shines through the water like its own brilliant sun. It goes round and round with no beginning and no end. Because a mother's love...
20) Cutting teeth
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310 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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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...
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