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Publisher
Rebel Girls, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Celebrate singing and songwriting with Beyoncé and Blue Ivy. Save frontline soldiers with Marie Curie and Irene Joliot-Curie. And swim across the English Channel with Leena and Bhakti Sharma. 'Rebel Girls Powerful Pairs' showcases many of the wonderful ways mothers and daughters work together to make the world a better, healthier, and more vibrant place"--
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Language
English
Formats
Description
To Julie Metz, her mother, Eve, was the quintessential New Yorker. It was difficult to imagine her living anywhere else except the Upper West Side of Manhattan. In truth, Eve had endured a harrowing childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna, though she rarely spoke about it. Yet after her passing, Julie discovered a keepsake box filled with farewell notes from friends and relatives addressed to a ten-year-old girl named Eva, her mother. This was the first...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Many know Kimberly Williams-Paisley as the bride in the popular Steve Martin remakes of the Father of the Bride movies, the calculating Peggy Kenter on Nashville, or the wife of country music artist, Brad Paisley. But behind the scenes, Kim was dealing with a tragic secret: her mother, Linda, was suffering from a rare form of dementia that slowly crippled her ability to talk, write and eventually recognize people in her own family. Where the Light...
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji's parents return to Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in the family's new California home. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself in a world made strange in her mother's absence. Her mother writes letters over the years seeking forgiveness and love-letters Eun Ji cannot understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box. The letters lay bare the impact of her...
8) Grey Gardens
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Captures the haunting relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Little Edie, two recluses who were an aunt and first cousin to Jackie Onassis
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"During one of the texting sessions that became our habit over the period I now think of as both late and early in our relationship, my mother revealed the existence of someone named Janis Jerome." So begins Michelle Orange's extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of maternal legacy--in her own family and across a century of seismic change. Jerome, she learns, is one of her mother's many alter egos: the name used in a case study, eventually sold to...
Series
Criterion collection volume 361
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Comprised of unused footage from the 1976 documentary Grey Gardens, captures the lives of the eccentric East Hampton recluses, Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Captures the haunting relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Little Edie, two recluses who were an aunt and first cousin to Jackie Onassis. Includes The Beales of Grey Gardens, comprised of unused footage from the original documentary
Author
Language
English
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Description
This memoir is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, an identity, a home, and a mother by the author of "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"--winner of the Whitbread First Novel award and the inspiration behind the award-winning BBC television adaptation "Oranges."
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written by Deborah Ziegler, the mother of Brittany Maynard-a twenty-nine-year-old woman with a terminal brain tumor-this touching and beautiful memoir captures and celebrates her daughter's spirit and the mostly untold story of Brittany's last year of life as she chose her right to die with dignity, a journey that inspired millions.
On October 6, 2014, a video of my daughter, Brittany Maynard, was posted on YouTube. Brittany asked me to do the...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A memoir of mothers and daughters -- and mothers as daughters -- traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers, hers -- French-born New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly -- exerted a force over reality that was both dazzling and daunting. As Nadja's body changed...
19) That summer
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
For the first time ever, director Göran Olsson assembles this long lost footage of Edith and Edie Beale into a one of a kind family portrait bursting with the loving squabbles, quotable bon mots, and impromptu musical numbers that would make Big and Little Edie beloved cultural icons. Includes archival footage with Lee Radziwill, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, Edith Bouvier Beale, Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, Mick Jagger and others
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Publisher
Fantagraphics Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Ephemera is a poetic and dreamlike take on a graphic memoir set in a garden, a forest, and a greenhouse. The story drifts among a grown woman, her early memories as a child, and the gossamer existence of her mother. A lyrical entry in the field of graphic medicine, Ephemera is a story about a daughter trying to relate to a parent who struggles with mental illness. Gorgeously illustrated in a painted palette of warm, earthy tones, it is a quiet book...
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