Parenthood


Art Film Literature


Art


Fildes, Sir Luke     The Doctor
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste     The Well-Loved Mother
Kollwitz, Käthe     Woman with Dead Child
Neel, Alice     Well Baby Clinic
Picasso, Pablo     The Tragedy
Valadon, Suzanne     The Abandoned Doll


Film


    All About My Mother
    Almost Strangers
    American Beauty
    Antonia's Line
    Artificial Intelligence: AI
    Awakenings
    Casa de los Babys
    The Color of Paradise
    Common Threads
    The Deep
    Departures (Okuribito)
    Dr. Monica
    Dust to Dust (Por la libre)
    The Eighth Day
    Extraordinary Measures
    The HeART of Empathy: Using the Visual Arts in Medical Eduation
    I've Loved You So Long (Il ya longtemps que je t'aime)
    The Keys to the House (Le chiavi di casa)
    L'Heure d'été (Summer Hours)
    Lone Star
    Lorenzo's Oil
    Made in America
    A Modern Affair
    Monsoon Wedding
    Mother Superior
    Murderball
    The Official Story (La Historia oficia)
    Ordinary People
    Persona
    Pieces of April
    Requiem for a Dream
    Respiro
    The Secret Garden
    The Secret Garden
    A Slightly Pregnant Man
    Smoke Signals
    Something the Lord Made
    Son of the Bride
    The Son's Room
    The Sweet Hereafter
    Terms of Endearment
    Tsotsi
    Twin Falls Idaho
    Vera Drake
    The War Zone
    A Woman Under the Influence
    World's Greatest Dad
    Yesterday
    You Can Count on Me


Literature


Adler, C. S.     The Shell Lady's Daughter
Aizley, Harlyn     Buying Dad
Allen, Dick     Parents' Support Group
Allende, Isabel     Paula
Anonymous,     Hurricane Zone
Arcana, Judith     What if your mother
Armstrong, Campbell     I Hope You Have a Good Life
Atwood, Margaret     The Blind Assassin
Austin, Paul     Something for the Pain
Axelrod, David B.     Mother and Child
Axline, Virginia M.     Dibs: In Search of Self
Bérubé, Michael     Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child
Baca, Jimmy Santiago     Black Mesa Poems
    Child of the Sun--Gabriel's Birth (Sun Prayer)
Bang, Mary Jo     Elegy
Banks, C. & Rizzo, J., eds.     A Loving Voice: A Caregiver's Book of Read-Aloud Stories for the Elderly
Banks, Russell     The Sweet Hereafter
Baratz-Logsted, Lauren     Angel's Choice
Barker, Pat     Another World
Bass, Ellen     First Menstruation
Berg, Elizabeth     Durable Goods
Berger, Suzanne E.     Horizontal Woman
Bialosky, J. & Schulman, H., eds.     Wanting a Child: Twenty-Two Writers on Their Difficult But Mostly Successful Quests for Parenthood i
Biguenet, John     Fatherhood
Bly, R. , et al., eds.     The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart
Boccaccio, Giovanni     Federigo's Falcon
Bohjalian, Christopher A.     The Law of Similars
Boland, Eavan     The Journey
Bradbury, Ray     Fever Dream
Brooks, Dorothy Howe     Life Support
Brown, Rosellen     How to Win
Bryner, Jeanne     Eclipse
Bulgakov, Mikhail     The Embroidered Towel
    The Speckled Rash
    The Vanishing Eye
Burnett, Frances Hodgson     The Secret Garden
Bush, Catherine     Claire's Head
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)     Body Art
Byers, Michael     Long for This World
Cambor, Kathleen M.     The Book of Mercy
Cantwell, Mary     Manhattan, When I Was Young
Carver, Raymond     Little Things
    A Small, Good Thing
Cather, Willa     Neighbour Rosicky
Chaon, Dan     Fitting Ends
Charach, Ron     Dungenessque
    Elephant Street
    Past Wildflowers
    Petrushkin!
Chekhov, Anton P.     Enemies
    Home
    Misery
    Three Years
Chisholm, Brock     Can People Learn to Learn?: How to Know Each Other
Cisneros, Sandra     His Story
Clifton, Lucille     donor
    the lost baby poem
Clyde, Mary     Survival Rates
Coetzee, J. M.     Disgrace
    Slow Man
Cohen, Marion Deutsche     Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a Well Spouse
Cohen, Matt     Elizabeth and After
Cohen, Robert     Inspired Sleep
Collins, Wilkie     Hide and Seek
Cook, Karin     What Girls Learn
Cousins, N., ed.     The Physician in Literature
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock     Olive
Crutcher, Chris     Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Daniel, John     Looking After: A Son's Memoir
Danticat, Edwidge     Breath, Eyes, Memory
Dark, Alice Elliott     In the Gloaming
DasGupta, S., & Hurst, M., eds.     Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies
Davis, Cortney     I Knew a Woman: The Experience of the Female Body
Davis, Heather Choate     Baptism by Fire
Day, Sarah     Antenatal Class
    Children's Ward
De Vries, Peter     The Blood of the Lamb
Derricotte, Toi     Delivery
Dickens, Charles     Bleak House
    Doctor Marigold
Didion, Joan     Blue Nights
    The Year of Magical Thinking
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee     A Perfect Life
Doerr, Anthony     The Shell Collector
Doherty, Berlie     Dear Nobody
Draper, Sharon M.     Forged by Fire
Duncan, L., ed.     Trapped! Cages of Mind and Body
Dunmore, Helen     Annina
Dunn, Katherine     Geek Love
Dunn, Stephen     Our Parents
Durcan, Liam     Blood
Easton, Kelly     To Be Mona
Edwards, Kim     The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Emecheta, Buchi     The Joys of Motherhood
Engel, Marian     The Honeyman Festival
Erdrich, Louise     Love Medicine
Faber, Michel     Finesse
Fadiman, Anne     The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Farrington, Carolyn G.     Sea of Glass
Ferrara, Emily     The Alchemy of Grief (Alchimia del dolore)
Ferris, Joshua     The Unnamed
Fessler, Ann     The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
Finger, Anne     Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth
Fischer, Maribeth     Stillborn
Fisher, Diane Gilliam     One of Everything
Flanagan, Richard     The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Foster, P., ed.     Minding The Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul
Fraser, Gregory     Strange Pieta
Fromm, Pete     The Topic of Cancer
Frost, Robert     Home Burial
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Living to Tell the Tale
    Of Love and Other Demons
    A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Gardiner, John Rolfe     Somewhere in France
Gaskell, Elizabeth     North and South
Gawande, Atul     The Bell Curve
    Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins     The Yellow Wallpaper
Goldsmith, Barbara     Obsessive Genius. The Inner World of Marie Curie
Gordimer, Nadine     Get a Life
Gosse, Edmund     Father and Son
Grant, Cynthia     The White Horse
Greenberg, Joanne     Hunting Season
Greenberg, Michael     Hurry Down Sunshine
Grinker, Roy Richard     Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism
Grogan, John     Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog
Groopman, Jerome E.     Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine
Guilfoile, Kevin     Cast of Shadows
Hacker, Randi     Life As I Knew It
Haddad, A. M. & Brown, K. H., eds.     The Arduous Touch: Women's Voices in Health Care
Haddix, Margaret Peterson     Running Out of Time
Haddon, Mark     The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    A Spot of Bother
Haigh, Jennifer     The Condition
Hall, Rodney     Captivity Captive
Hamilton, Jane     A Map of the World
Harding, Paul     Tinkers
Harper, Michael S.     Nightmare Begins Responsibility
    Reuben, Reuben
Harrington, Kent     The Good Physician
Harvor, Elisabeth     Fortress of Chairs
Hauerwas, Stanley     God, Medicine, and Suffering
Head, Bessie     A Question of Power
Hemingway, Ernest     A Day's Wait
    Hills Like White Elephants
Hill, Kathleen     Still Waters in Niger
Hornbacher, Marya     Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Hornby, Nick     How To Be Good
    Introduction to Talking with the Angel
Hospital, Janette Turner     The Tiger in the Tiger Pit
Hsun, Lu     Medicine
Hugo, Richard     Graves at Elkhorn
Humes, Harry     Butterfly Effect
Huyler, Frank     The Laws of Invisible Things
    Sugar
Hyde, Catherine Ryan     Becoming Chloe
Iagnemma, Karl     Children of Hunger
Ignatieff, Michael     Scar Tissue
Irving, John     A Prayer for Owen Meany
    A Widow for One Year
Ishiguro, Kazuo     Never Let Me Go
Jarrell, Randall     Nestus Gurley
Jensen, Liz     The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Jin, Ha     Waiting
Jones, Thom     40, Still at Home
Jonson, Ben     On My First Sonne
Kadohata, Cynthia     Kira Kira
Kendrick, Leatha     Second Opinion
Kenney, Susan     In Another Country
    Sailing
Kinnell, Galway     After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
Klass, Perri     Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician's Training
    Love and Modern Medicine
Kovacic, Kristin, & Barrett, L., eds.     Birth: A Literary Companion
L'Engle, Madeleine     The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
L'Heureux, John     The Shrine at Altimara
Lahiri, Jhumpa     Only Goodness
    Unaccustomed Earth
Lamott, Anne     Blue Shoe
    Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Landvik, Lorna     The Great Mysterious
Lang, James M.     Learning Sickness
LaPlante, Alice     Turn of Mind
Larsson, Asa     The Blood Spilt
LaScala, Susan     Small Wonder: The Story of a Child Born Too Soon
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)     The Blind Man
Lawson, Henry     Brighten's Sister-in-Law
Leavitt, David     Equal Affections
Lee, Chang-rae     A Gesture Life
LeGuin, Ursula K.     The Space Crone
Lessing, Doris     The Fifth Child
    To Room Nineteen
Lightman, Alan     The Diagnosis
Livesey, Margot     Banishing Verona
    Eva Moves the Furniture
    Homework
Liveson, Jay     Hanging On
Lodge, David     The British Museum Is Falling Down
Lowry, Lois     The Giver
Lurie, Alison     Love and Friendship
MacDonald, Roger     Mr. Darwin's Shooter
Mairs, Nancy     A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Malamud, Bernard     Idiots First
Malcolm, Andrew H.     This Far and No More
Mann, Thomas     The Black Swan
Margolis, Leslie     Fix
Martin, Kimbra     Snapshots
Massad, Stewart     The Veteran
Maupin, Armistead     The Night Listener
Maxwell, William     They Came Like Swallows
Maynard, Joyce     The Cloud Chamber
McCarthy, Cormac     The Road
McCormick, Patricia     My Brother's Keeper
McCullers, Carson     Clock Without Hands
McEwan, Ian     The Diagnosis
    Saturday
McFarland, Dennis     A Face at the Window
    Singing Boy
McGovern, Cammie     Eye Contact
McKeithen, Madge     Blue Peninsula: Essential Words for a Life of Loss and Change
Mead, Rebecca     Eggs for Sale
Mehta, Ved     Sound Shadows of the New World
Menger-Anderson, Kirsten     Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn     Dirt Cheap
Mistry, Rohinton     Family Matters
Montgomery, Judith H.     Mercury
Moore, Lorrie     People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk
Moraczewski, Thomas     Birth Sounds. Tales from Labor & Delivery
Morrison, Toni     Recitatif
Muldoon, Paul     The Birth
    Footling
    Sonogram
Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik     The Story of San Michele
Naylor, Gloria     The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories
Nolan, Christopher     Under the Eye of the Clock
O'Brien, Edna     The Creature
O'Connor, Flannery     Everything That Rises Must Converge
    The Lame Shall Enter First
O'Hara, Frank     An Abortion
Oe, Kenzaburo     Aghwee the Sky Monster
    A Personal Matter
Olds, Sharon     35/10
    High School Senior
    That Moment
    The Wellspring
Olsen, Sylvia     The Girl With a Baby
Olsen, Tillie     I Stand Here Ironing
Osteen, M., ed.     Autism and Representation
Parks, Tim     Destiny
Pastan, Linda     Notes from the Delivery Room
Paterson, Katherine     Park's Quest
Patterson, Kevin     Consumption
Pennie, Ross     Tainted
    Tampered
Pereira, Peter     Saying the World
Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla     Hygiene
Phillips, Jayne Ann     Souvenir
Picardie, Ruth     Before I Say Goodbye
Picoult, Jodi     Handle With Care
    My Sister's Keeper
Plath, Sylvia     Three Women
Platonov, Andrey Platonovich     The Third Son
Pollitt, Katha     Why I Hate Family Values
Posen, Solomon     The Doctor in Literature: Satisfaction or Resentment?
Potok, Chaim     The Chosen
Proulx, E. Annie     The Shipping News
Raeburn, Daniel     Vessels
Rankine, Claudia     Plot
Ray, David     In the Third Month
Raymond, Linda     Rocking the Babies
Raz, Hilda     What Becomes You
Reynolds, Marilyn     Too Soon for Jeff
Rios, Alberto     The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body
Roberts, Willo Davis     Don't Hurt Laurie!
Robinson, Marilynne     Gilead
Roethke, Theodore     My Papa's Waltz
Rogoff, Marianne     Silvie's Life
Rothman, Sheila     Living in the Shadow of Death
Rottman, S. L.     Head Above Water
Rowe, Michael     The Book of Jesse: A Story of Youth, Illness, and Medicine.
Rowling, Joanne Kathleen     Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Roy, Arundhati     The God of Small Things
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel     Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Schneiderman, Henry     Breast Cancer in the Family
    Father, Doctor, and the Great City: Poems and Drawings 1964-2003
Schneiderman, L. J.     The Appointment
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon     Balancing Acts
Scully, Julia     Outside Passage
Sebold, Alice     The Lovely Bones
Selwyn, Peter     Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor
Selzer, Richard     The Exact Location of the Soul
    Pipistrel
    Tom and Lily
    The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays
Shafer, Audrey     The Mailbox
    Monday Morning
    Sleep Talker
Shakespeare, William     King Lear
    Richard III
Shapiro, Alan     Vigil
Shields, Carol     The Stone Diaries
    Unless
Sidhwa, Bapsi     Cracking India
Sirof, Harriet     Because She's My Friend
Skloot, Rebecca     The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Smiley, Jane G.     The Age of Grief
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Spires, Elizabeth     Theatre of Pain
Stein, Garth     The Art of Racing in the Rain
Stephenson, Lynda     Dancing with Elvis
Stewart, George R.     Ordeal by Hunger
Stone, John     Music From Apartment 8: New and Selected Poems
    Noel: A Christmas Poem
    Talking to the Family
Swift, Graham     Tomorrow
Tan, Amy     The Bonesetter's Daughter
Tilghman, Christopher     Things Left Undone
Tregebov, Rhea     The Proving Grounds
Trevor, Douglas     The Surprising Weight of the Body's Organs
Trevor, William     Sacred Statues
Trillin, Calvin     About Alice
Tucker, Neely     Love in the Driest Season
Updike, John     The City
    Giving Blood
vanMeenan, K. & Rossiter, C., eds.     Giving Sorrow Words: Poems of Strength and Solace
Verghese, Abraham     Cutting for Stone
    The Tennis Partner
Vine, Barbara     The Blood Doctor
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt     Adam
Wagner, Jan Costin     Silence
Wagner, Shelly     The Andrew Poems
Walker, Alice     The Abortion
Walker, S. B. & Roffman, R.D., eds.     Life on the Line
Wallace, David Foster     Incarnations of Burned Children
Walsh, Elsa     Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three Accomplished Women
Watts, H. David     The Orange Wire Problem and Other Tales from the Doctor's Office
Weisman, Jamie     As I Live and Breathe
Weldon, Fay     A Libation of Blood
Wells, Rebecca     Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Wexler, Alice     Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
Whelan, Gloria     A Time to Keep Silent
White, Kelley Jean     Late
Wideman, John Edgar     newborn thrown in trash and dies
Wigfall, Clare     Safe
Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)     Villanelle of the Suicide's Mother
Williams, Lori Aurelia     Broken China
Williams, William Carlos     The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
    The Girl with a Pimply Face
    Portrait of a Woman in Bed
    White Mule
Wineberg, Ronna     Second Language
Winter, Sarah     Freud and the Institution of Psychoanalytic Knowledge
Woiwode, Larry     A Step From Death
Wolff, Tobias     This Boy's Life: A Memoir
Wolitzer, Hilma     Mother
Yount, John     The Trapper's Last Shot
Zeidenstein, S., ed.     Family Reunion: Poems About Parenting Grown Children