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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up as the daughter of a dedicated surgeon, Elizabeth L. Silver felt an unquestioned faith in medicine. When her six-week-old daughter, Abby, was rushed to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with sudden seizures, and scans revealed a serious brain bleed, her relationship to medicine began to change. The Tincture of Time is Silver's gorgeous and haunting chronicle of Abby's first year. It's a year of unending tests, doctors' opinions, sleepless...
7) Brood
Author
Series
Breed novels (Chase Novak) volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Adam and Alice are reaching the age when some of the children created by the fertility treatment that spawned them begin to turn feral. Will they succomb to the same physiological horror that destroyed their parents? Every change brings on terror-- the voice cracking as it changes, the swelling of the breasts, the coarsening of down into actual hair. Their aunt, Cynthia, oversees renovations to the Twisden family's Manhattan residence-- torn apart...
8) Babyville
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Julia, a successful television producer, stuck in a loveless relationship with her boyfriend, Mark, thinks a baby is the answer.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"How children think is one of the most enduring mysteries--and difficulties--of parenthood. The marketplace is full of gadgets and tools that claim to make your child smarter, happier, or learn languages faster, all built on the premise that manufacturers know something about your child's brain that you don't. These products are easy to sell, because good information about how children's minds really work is hard to come by. In their new book, neuroscientists...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In asking, what are the effects of children on their parents, journalist Jennifer Senior analyzes the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives, whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships, or their internal senses of self. She argues that changes in the last half century have radically altered the roles of today's...
12) Surprise
Author
Pub. Date
[2014], ©2013.
Language
English
Description
Colorful birds and their chicks depict the different stages of parenthood, such as caring, comforting, teasing and letting go.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a powerful debut novel about motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream. Holed up with other moms-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where she worked in a factory job and fell in love with the owner, Boss Yeung. Now she's carrying his baby. Already married with three daughters, he's overjoyed because...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Muchos padres se ven afligidos por la mala o tirante relación que tienen con sus hijos, lo que les genera pensar que estos ya no los aman, pues, cuando tratan de acercarse a ellos, siempre terminan peleando. Estos padres creen que están mostrando y dando todo el amor que le tienen, y que es culpa del hijo y no del padre si no lo saben apreciar o aceptar de la forma en que se les entrega. En estas páginas, se cuestiona esta convención social -y...
15) Neighbors
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
New parents Mac and Kelly are living the American Dream, complete with a baby girl and a new home in the suburbs. Still, they want to believe that they are still cool, so when they discover that their new next-door neighbors are dozens of fraternity brothers-led by charismatic Teddy-they try to play along. But when the parties grow increasingly more epic, both sides begin to fend for their turf. The sabotage escalates into extreme one-upmanship, beginning...
16) Loving hands
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Hands wave hello, hands hold, hands heal. Hands say, I am here for you always. In simple, stirring rhymes, author Tony Johnston pens a timeless ode to parenthood. The small moments and quiet scenes that make up childhood-- learning to clap, planting a garden, waving good-bye on the first day of school-- fill the pages of this gentle tale, capturing the reassurance and love that parents hand their children every day. Warm illustrations by Amy June...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
One morning, Kim Brooks made a split-second decision to leave her four-year old son in the car while she ran into a store. What happened would consume the next several years of her life and spur her to investigate the broader role America's culture of fear plays in parenthood. Brooks asks, Of all the emotions inherent in parenting, is there any more universal or profound than fear? Why have our notions of what it means to be a good parent changed...
19) Her one mistake
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Charlotte and Harriet are best friends, but when Harriet's daughter disappears while Charlotte is watching her, it seems like the two women will never speak again. As the circumstances of the girl's disappearance become clearer, though, Harriet finds that trusting Charlotte may be her only chance at saving her daughter.
20) This is 40
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Sexual content, crude humor, pervavsive language and some drug material.
A look at the lives of Pete and Debbie a few years after the events of Knocked Up, the 2007 comedy. After years of marriage, Pete and Debbie are approaching a milestone meltdown. As they try to balance romance, careers, parents and children in their own hilarious ways, they must also figure out how to enjoy the rest of their lives. This Is 40 is a candid and heartwarming comedy...
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