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My mother's rules : a practical guide to becoming an emotional genius / Lynn Toler.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Toler, Lynn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Toler, Lynn.
- Emotional intelligence.
- Emotions.
- Conduct of life.
- Mothers and daughters--United States--Biography.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Judges--Ohio--Cleveland--Biography.
- Judges.
- Ohio--Cleveland.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collectcion copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 180 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Agate, 2007.
- Summary:
- Toler shows how the mindset of her mother, "a black woman who knew how to make things work," taught her the power of knowing how to manage one's emotional business--lessons that this book offers in wrenching stories written in spare and graceful prose.
- Contents:
- The Proper Emotion
- Education
- Professional Experience: Welcome Weyant Avenue
- Awards and Recognition
- Mother's Best Save
- Misdirected
- The Corrected Course
- Karma is a Bitch
- What a Little Crazy Will Do For You
- Other People's Errors
- Somewhere East of Reason
- The How-Dare-You Diaries
- What's Going on Next Door
- Reconciliation
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- "Cover design by Al Brandtner."
- "Star of the nationally syndicated TV Show Divorce Court"--Cover.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 9781932841220
- 1932841229
- OCLC:
- 70265502
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