MOTHERS DAY 20010

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Mother’s Day May 9, 2010

Gwartney, Debra -- Live through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love (2009)
Reichl, Ruth -- Not Becoming My Mother: And Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way (2009)
Loh, Sandra Tsing -- Mother on Fire (2008)
Sharenow, Robert -- My Mother the Cheerleader (2007)
Long, Kate -- The Bad Mother's Handbook (2005)
Sones, Sonya -- One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies (2004)
Due, Patricia Stephens -- Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (2003)
Pearson, Allison -- I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother (2002)

Many countries hold special holidays to commemorate the important role of mothers in society. In the United States, Mother's Day is the second Sunday in May. On Mother's Day, children of all ages acknowledge their mothers and remember their grandmothers, stepmothers, aunts, or other important women who have been like mothers to them. The roots of the U.S. Mother’s Day began in 1870, when activist Julia Ward Howe – who is perhaps best known as the author of the song "Battle Hymn of the Republic" – released her "Mother's Day Proclamation," which called for a day celebrating the contributions of mothers in the wake of the violet American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. The traditional American Mother’s Day celebration began in 1907, when a woman named Anna Jarvis held the first Mother's Day services at a church in Grafton, West Virginia. Afterwards, Jarvis began campaigning to make the day a national holiday, a request that U.S. President Woodrow Wilson granted in 1914. In honor of mothers everywhere, here are some great fictional and nonfictional accounts of the pleasures and pitfalls of motherhood.