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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In How to Raise an Adult, Lythcott-Haims draws on research, conversations with educators and employers, and her own insights as a mother and student dean to highlight the ways in which over-parenting harms children and their stressed-out parents. She identifies types of helicopter parents and, while empathizing with parents' universal worries, offers practical alternative strategies that underline the importance of allowing children to make their...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following the tragic deaths of his wife and son, antiques dealer Terence Cave is left alone to raise his only daughter, fifteen-year-old Bryony. As the young girl struggles to come to terms with the loss of her twin brother, Reuben, Terence observes changes in her behavior--changes he believes are more dangerous than the common trials of adolescence. In order to protect her, he begins to follow her whenever she leaves the house, becoming increasingly...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Exposure, Therese Fowler has written her most gripping novel to date--a ripped-from-the-headlines story of ardent young love and a nightmarish legal maelstrom that threatens to destroy two families.
Amelia Wilkes's strict father does not allow her to date, but that doesn't stop the talented, winsome high school senior from carrying on a secret romance with her classmate Anthony Winter. Desperately in love, the two envision a life
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 275 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Helps parents sort out the best time to send kids away from home to summer camp, arguing that short stints away from parents at the right times can contribute positively to children's upbringing.
5) The waterboy
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
8) Battlecreek
Publisher
Hannover House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Henry is a loner and a night owl who spends his time at an all-night diner and working the night shift at a gas station. A rare skin disease has forced him to stay out of the sun and kept him under the close watch of his fiery mother, who has sheltered him his entire life. Then one night, a young woman's car breaks down and Henry's life changes forever.
9) If you had controlling parents: how to make peace with your past and take your place in the world
Author
Publisher
Cliff Street Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 245 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Series
Criterion collection volume 920
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
Description
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen [edition].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When it comes to her three free-spirited daughters, Daphne is just your normal over-protective, overbearing, over-the-top mother. Worried that her youngest daughter, Millie, will end up alone, Daphne meddles in her daughter's love life until she ends up doing all wrong things for all the right reasons - and all in the name of motherly love.
12) Early leaving
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
13) Relativity
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of Jodi Picoult's House Rules and Nick Hornby's About a Boy, a debut novel about an exceptionally gifted boy who discovers the truth about his past, his overprotective single mother who tries desperately to shield him from it, and the father he has never met who is trying to come back into his life"--
Author
Series
Trubble Town series volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Aladdin edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wendy the Wanderer's overprotective father never lets her go anywhere alone, so when he hires a babysitter, Wendy decides to venture out into Trubble Town alone where she meets Squirrely McSquirrel and other townsfolk.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
A dramatic portrayal of the romance of poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. The invalid poetess who regains her health after falling in love with the famous poet elopes with the poet against the wishes of her tyrannical father, who exhibits an incestuous attachment for Elizabeth, as well as an over domineering control of all the Barrett siblings in their personal adult relationships. The story is set in London, England, starting in the year...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising--on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible...
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