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Language
English
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"After a dysfunctional childhood as one of four kids born to teenage parents and raised "white trash" in poor Rhode Island, Stephanie Kiser finds herself a 22-year-old first-generation college grad drowning in student loan debt. To stay afloat, she surrenders her career-track PR job for a position as nanny to New York City's toddler elite. The span of seven years takes Stephanie on a journey from working alongside a stay-at-home mom in her ten-million...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Malcolm Turner goes undercover, turning his slick-talking, slam-dunking Southern granny Big Momma disguise into a nanny for a computer company executive who may be concocting a means to hack into military databases. But that's just a pretense to get Big Momma coping with a perfectionist mom and her three kids, who are all dysfunctional in cute and easily resolved ways.
Author
Series
Ribbons of steel volume 2
Language
English
Description
With the loss of her first true love, Carolina Adams finds life at the family plantation nearly unbearable. Desperate to escape, she moves to Baltimore to become a nanny to Victoria, a little girl whose mother has died. After breaking his wedding engagement with Virginia Adams, Carolina's older sister, James Baldwin immerses himself in work for the B&O Railroad, the other passin in his life besides Carolina. But when a shocking business proposal is...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mothercoin is a nonfiction, story-driven consideration of immigrant nannies and contemporary motherhood in the US"--
Cummins Muñoz tells the stories of a group of Central American and Mexican women who have spent years caring and cleaning in the private homes of Houston, Texas. She traces their journeys from childhood to a working world marked by care devoted to other women's children in order to provide for their own. The experiences of these...
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Now considered one of the 20th century's greatest street photographers, Vivian Maier was a mysterious nanny who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that went unseen during her lifetime. Vivian's strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never-before-seen photos, films, and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Marsha and David McMillan are an overwhelmed young suburban couple about to have their first baby. They decide to hire an experienced housekeeper, but wind up with the voluptuous free-spirited Sophia. She soon begins inviting her family from the old country.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A documentary film that examines the bonds between two women and the nannies who raised them. Writer-director Jyll Johnstone and writer Barbara Ettinger were childhood friends; now grown up, they focus their attention on the two women who separately raised them, Martha and Ethel. Both women come from very distinct backgrounds which mark them and their charges in very different ways.
13) Living out
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Living Out tells the story of the complicated relationship between a Salvadoran nanny and the Anglo lawyer she works for. Both women are smart, hard-working mothers. Both want better lives for their children. The play explores what is the shared humanity between them...and what are the differences wrought by race, class and Ana's illegal status. Through Ana, we understand what it means to leave a child in another country to come here, and the potential...
14) Searching for Mary Poppins: women write about the intense relationship between mothers and nannies
Publisher
Hudson Street Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
17) Minding the kids: a practical guide to employing nannies, care givers, babysitters, and au pairs
Author
Publisher
Prentice Hall Press
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English