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My mother's rules : a practical guide to becoming an emotional genius / Lynn Toler.

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LIBRA - Rare BF576 .T65 2007 Banks copy
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Toler, Lynn.
Contributor:
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
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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