Summary: "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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Publisher / Publication Date: Rebel Girls, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 REBRojas Contreras, Ingrid
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOEWINSOHN, BRIA LOEShapiro, Kitt
Summary: In this unique combination of memoir and cultural history, we come to know one of the greatest stars the world has ever seen--Eartha Kitt--as revealed by the person who knew her best: her daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SHALaveau-Harvie, Vicki
Summary: "In this award-winning memoir, two sisters reckon with the convalescence and death of their outlandishly tyrannical mother and the care of their psychologically terrorized father, all relayed with dark humor and brutal honesty. When Vicki and her sister learn their mother has been hospitalized for a broken hip, they return to their parents' home in Alberta to put things back in order. Though...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAVEAU-HARVIE, VICKI LAVMcManamy, Heather
Summary: After being diagnosed in her early thirties with terminal breast cancer, Heather McManamy felt like her life was crumbling. Her "normal" vanished--and was replaced with multiple surgeries and dozens of chemo treatments that could briefly extend her life, but would not prevent her inevitable death. With an effervescent spirit and a new perspective, Heather started to live each day as if it were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCMANAMY, HEATHER MCMCowan, Justine
Summary: Documents the author's investigation into her late mother's tragic experiences as an illegitimate orphan who endured an early life of discrimination, physical abuse and harsh labor serving England's ruling class at London's infamous Foundling Hospital.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SOAMES, DOROTHY COWBrockes, Emma.
Summary: Documents the author's investigation into a shattering childhood trauma in South Africa, tracing the discovery of her grandfather's abuse of her mother, which compelled her mother's unsuccessful attempt to kill him before fleeing the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROCKES, PAULINE DULCIE BROKoh, EJ
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOH, EJ KOHWinterson, Jeanette
Summary: Traces the author's lifelong search for happiness as the adopted daughter of Pentecostal parents who raised her through practices of fierce control and paranoia, an experience that prompted her to search for her biological mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINTERSON, JEANETTE WINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WINTERSON WINWilliams-Paisley, Kimberly
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS-PAISLEY, KIMBERLY WILBrennan-Jobs, Lisa
Summary: A frank, smart, and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents, artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs, Lisa Brennan-Jobs' childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BRENNAN-JOBS BREFelicien, Perdita
Summary: "A raw and affecting memoir about a mother and daughter who beat the odds together. Perdita Felicien's story is woven into her mother's like an intricate braid. To understand Perdita's story, you must know Catherine's. Catherine is larger than life. At seventeen years old, she is determined and tenacious, and longing to experience a better life. But she is also pregnant with her second child,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Canada 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FELBrennan-Jobs, Lisa
Summary: "A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BRENNAN-JOBS BREFuller, Alexandra
Summary: In this sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, the author returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family. In this book she braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker, civil war torn Africa of her own childhood. At its heart, this is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FULLER, NICOLA FULHulls, Tessa
Summary: "Tessa Hulls delves into her own family history and the intergenerational trauma caused by mental illness and political strife"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 HULLS, TESSA HULReichl, Ruth.
Summary: Chronicles the mother-daughter relationship of culinary author Ruth Reichl, now editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, and her late mother, Miriam. Miriam Brudno, who bowed to societal and familial pressure to become a wife and a mother over pursuing a fulfilling career, cheered her daughter on and pointed out that Ruth had an obligation, both to herself and to her mother, to use her life well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation ReichlFuller, Alexandra
Summary: In this sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, the author returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family. In this book she braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker, civil war torn Africa of her own childhood. At its heart, this is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 FULLER, NICOLA FulPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: Whenever Mary Ellen needed Betty Doll, she was there. Through the fierce Michigan thunderstorms and the snowy blizzards. Through parties, weddings, and the deaths of old friends. Now, when Mary Ellen's daughter Trisha needs Betty Doll most, she opens a package and rediscovers the sweet old doll, along with a letter written by her mother right before she died. In it, her mother tells the story...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BARGilbert-Lurie, Leslie.
Contents: In Mom's voice (1937-1960). Childhood, interrupted ; Stashik is coming ; Safe for the moment ; Where is God? ; Far from normal ; Good-bye, Urzejowice ; Una situazione molto grave ; A taste of freedom ; The greenhorns ; But we just got used to it here ; Utterly demoralized ; I might even marry him ; A wonderful mother -- My own voice (1960-1997). On my watch ; Bread crumbs ; Magical distractions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 GILMcCurdy, Jennette
Summary: "Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, "Your eyelashes are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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Summary: Gile's childhood had been spent in doctor's offices; she spent nearly every waking moment at her mother's side. As Nyna grew up, her mother became more and more distant. Carolyn Scott Reybold had been a model in 1947, a friend of Grace Kelly, and even a bridesmaid at her wedding. How had that confident, glamorous woman become the mother Giles knew growing up-- the mother who was now living in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILES, NYNA GILOomen, Anne-Marie
Summary: "Writer Pam Houston once summed it up, "Nice mother-daughter stories are a dime a dozen; pain-in-the ass mother-daughter stories are the ones that grab us." As Long as I Know You makes a compelling read for any adult grappling with a living elder who might also be a pain in the ass, particularly, any reader who wants a tender take on the lethal combination of dementia and defiance. As Long as I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2022
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 920 OOMDern, Laura
Summary: "Award-winning actresses and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the kind of women who draw strength from their lifelong friendships with other women, and most of all, from each other. Ever since Laura was born, the two have leaned on each other through the trials of everyday life and the tribulations that come with even the most storied Hollywood careers. They were always close,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group 2023