Edelman, Hope.
Summary: Edelman shares her own painful story and the stories of many other women who, as children or adults, lost their mothers. She explains the stages of grief and adjustment. She considers the secondary effects that can occur: the girl-child filling the lost mother's role at home for father and younger siblings. If you've lost your mother, you no longer have to face it alone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. 1994
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Summary: Examines the effects of maternal loss on the way in which adult daughters parent their own children, blending memoirs, interviews, research, and anecdotes to explore what happens to motherless women during the child-rearing years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 EDEKidd, Sue Monk
Summary: This is the Spanish text edition of the New York Times best selling novel, "The Secret Life of Bees". It is a beautifully written, coming of age story, set in rural South Carolina in 1964 against the back drop of the civil rights movement. It is the touching story of a young white girl, fourteen year old Lily Owens, whose mother died in a tragic accident when Lily was about four. Lily lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005