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A beautifully nuanced and poetic story, Cloth Lullaby stunningly captures the life of Louise Bourgeois and tells the story of a relationship between a mother and daughter, the birth of an artist, and how memory is stitched into us all.
Before she became an artist, Louise Bourgeois was an apprentice in her family's tapestry shop, where her mother was a weaver of tapestries. Discover how Louise learned about form and color, and how memories of her...
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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Science is all around us in our daily lives. Specifically, chemistry! When your bread toasts, when your shampoo foams, when the playground slide rusts--those are all chemical reactions. In this book, a mother and daughter experience all these things and more as they go about their day, from when they wake up, to when they go to bed."--Dust jacket.
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Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Follows twelve-year-old Dasha through a year full of turmoil after her mother leaves for America. It is the early 1990s in Moscow, and political change is in the air. But Dasha is more worried about her own challenges as she negotiates family, friendships and school without her mother. Just as she begins to find her own feet, she gets word that she is to join her mother in America -- a place that seems impossibly far from everything and everyone...
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The true story of Estela Jaurez, a young American girl who writes letters to her local newspaper, to Congress, and even to the president, pleading for someone to listen and reunite her family after her mother's deportation"--
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Los autores comparten revelaciones personales sobre cómo la jardinería con la abuela Dorothy da forma y nutre el amor y el respeto por la naturaleza, la belleza y una filosofía general de la vida.
The authors share personal revelations on how gardening with Grandma Dorothy shapes and nurtures a love and respect for nature, beauty, and a general philosophy for life.
14) Chop shop
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Publisher
Friends Of Faith
Pub. Date
℗2012.
Language
English
Description
Go into any checkout line, look on the cover of the women's magazines, and you are guaranteed to find the subject of "beauty; " it's not so distant relative "weight loss; " or its kissing cousin "aging." In fact, you don't even have to leave home, but need only turn on the TV for a dose of "reality." We are raising a generation of desperate wives: desperate to be considered beautiful, desperate to look thin, desperate to stay young, desperate to be...
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Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The true story of Estela Jaurez, a young American girl who writes letters to her local newspaper, to Congress, and even to the president, pleading for someone to listen and reunite her family after her mother's deportation."
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Publisher
Fanfare / Ponent Mon
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"How do you say 'thank you' and 'goodbye' to a woman who has been domineering and hard to please her whole life? Especially when that woman is your own mother! After years marked by difficult communication, will they now mangage to overcome their conflicts and say what's truly in their hearts before it's too late? A touching and strikingly honest tale of her own family's passage through an intensely emotional period."--Back cover.
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