mothers and daughters

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mothers and daughters

Life support

2007
Inspired by a true story, Queen Latifah stars as an HIV positive drug abuser who is trying to make a difference in the world by helping AIDS sufferers.

Reasons to stay

1986
After her mother's death, twelve-year-old Babe begins to learn some hard truths about her mother's life--truths that shake her confidence and her sense of self-worth.

You bet your life

a novel
1993
While working as an intern on a popular television comedy show produced in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Bess tries to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who committed suicide six months earlier.

Bianca

1988
Finding Bianca wandering the countryside in a state of amnesia after a devastating emotional scene with her mother, Hubert and his sister Emily wonder if she would benefit from exposure to their own bustling family.

Encore

1990
Cassie's daughter Erin, who identifies closely with her grandmother Abby, wants to be an actress more than anything in the world, but is disappointed that her parents do not approve. ..

Something beyond paradise

1987
Reluctantly tied in Hawaii to an unhappy mother and a grandmother with a fading memory, Franny, age 17, longs for a dance career, and when her friend Akiko joins a group promising instant bliss, and she herself meets an actor from New York, the developing events, while frightening and dangerous, finally show her a way to fulfill her ambition.

Hangin' out with Cici

1977
Teenage Victoria who has a knack for getting into trouble and feels totally misunderstood by her mother, suddenly finds herself back in the forty's and involved with an equally trouble-prone girl who has some very familiar ways.

Pickles and prunes

1976
A fatherless girl must come to terms with the possibility that her mother will remarry and the knowledge that a friend is dying.

A matter of spunk

a novel
1983
When their family breaks up, Margery, her older sister, and their mother leave Atlanta for Hollywood and a new life among movie stars and the bohemian inhabitants of a theosophical colony. Sequel to "Whistle Down a Dark Lane.".

To see my mother dance

1981
Thirteen-year-old Jessica longs for the mother who abandoned her as a baby, and allows her fantasy of a perfect natural mother to color her attitude toward her father's new wife.

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