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2017.
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221 pages ; 22 cm
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"It Never Ends: Mothering Middle-Aged Daughters explores the complex challenges and unexpected rewards of aging mothers in their relationships with their midlife daughters. Based on interviews with women between 65 and 85, it illuminates issues of closeness, distance, longing, and need that arise. Mothers speak openly about the ongoing effects of the past on the present, the cultural, familial, and interpersonal conflicts that remain, and the varied...
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2018.
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xv, 189 pages ; 22 cm
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Part memoir, part handbook for the heartbroken, this powerful, unsparing account of losing a premature baby will speak to all who have been bereaved and are grieving, and offers inspiration on moving forward, gently integrating the loss into life.
143) The bear woman
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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253 pages ; 21 cm
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"Blending autofiction and the essay, The Bear Woman takes us on a journey of feminism and literary detective work that spans centuries and continents. In the 1540s, a young French noblewoman, Marguerite de la Rocque, was abandoned by her guardian in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with her maidservant and her lover. In present-day Stockholm, an author and mother of three becomes captivated by the image of Marguerite sheltered in a dark cave all alone after...
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[2013]
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viii, 181 pages ; 20 cm
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"Breeding in Captivity takes us on Stacy Bolt's journey to have a child at "advanced maternal age," first with the help of a Really Expensive fertility specialist, and then ultimately through a local adoption agency. But this isn't your typical serious memoir about struggling with infertility; it's an entertaining, witty read that perfectly balances humor with its more poignant moments. Breeding in Captivity is about a quirky, lovable couple that...
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Are you welcoming your first child into the world? Do you feel anxious or overwhelmed with the never-ending to-do list, and learning how to raise a tiny human?
Or maybe you're receiving conflicting advice? Perhaps you're struggling to find the balance between how you were raised and how you anticipate raising your children? If so, you're not alone.
The parenthood chapter of life is one that many people feel unprepared for. In fact, according to...
147) Grit & Magic
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Is it possible to stay hopeful - and to keep a sense of humor - while your deepest desire is threatened? When you're falsely accused? When people you trust advise you to hide your heritage?
Melanie Herz Promecene, who faced each of those challenges while trying to adopt a child, is walking proof that the answer is yes.
In this staggeringly honest, often hilarious, always hopeful memoir, Promecene takes readers with her through the terror of 9/11 in...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"A hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice."--Amazon.com.
"Many expectant parents spend weeks researching the best crib or safest car seat, but spend little if any time thinking about the titanic impact the baby will have on their marriage--and the way their marriage will affect their child. Enter Jancee, her well-meaning but blithely unhelpful husband,...
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"Brye is a mom to four military officers, and for more than a decade she's endured countless teary goodbyes, sparse communication from boot camps and training summers, deployments, emotional airport reunions, empty chairs at Thanksgiving dinners, and sleepless hours waiting for phone calls in the night. She's navigated the complicated tangle of emotions--pride, worry, fear, hope, and deep, enduring love--that accompanies life as a military mom. In...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 22 cm
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Struggling to adjust to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia, De'Andrea Whitman is challenged by her therapist to make a white girlfriend and finds one in Rebecca Myland as they are brought together to fight back against the community's rising racial sentiments.
De'Andrea Whitman, her husband Malik, and their five-year-old daughter, Nina, are new to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia--a move motivated by circumstance...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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xxvi, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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We worry putting our family first means we’ll be forced to abandon our careers. We’re afraid if we pause our careers, we’ll be forever off-track. This thinking is outdated—forget what you’ve heard about how pauses are career limiting, about how those who pause lack ambition, or that if you do pause you won’t be able to re-enter the paid workforce. That’s a flawed reality, one that doesn’t reflect the truth of the careers of some of...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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117 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
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"In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet. Equal parts heartbreaking and funny, Dear Scarlet perfectly captures the quiet desperation of those suffering from PPD and the profound feelings of inadequacy and loss. As Teresa grapples with her fears and anxieties and grasps at potential remedies, coping mechanisms,...
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With this baby care handbook for new parents, you can make your transition to parenthood easier with tools, tips, and practical advice for a baby's first 12 months.
In Expecting Your First Baby, you will discover:
And much more.
Don't feel like you have to be a perfect parent. Making mistakes is part of the journey and you shouldn't punish yourself for not immediately "getting" parenting.
The first year is just the beginning. Make it a great start...
155) Becoming a Parent
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Parenthood: The only place you can experience heaven and hell at the same time.
The unsugarcoated guide to help you prepare before birth to your baby's first birthday
When you find out you will be a parent, you realize you have no idea what you have gotten yourself into. You sway between the confidence of being the best parent to your baby and self-doubt of failing your little one. It only becomes more daunting as you learn so many things no one ever...
156) Night road
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After a string of foster homes and the death of her heroin-addict mother, Lexi Baill is taken in by a newly discovered great-aunt who lives a spartan life near Seattle. Lexi soon meets Mia and her loving twin brother, Zach. The friendship flourishes, and Mia's mother draws Lexi into the family circle. A slowly growing attraction between Zach and Lexi begins, but then Lexi, Mia, and Zach collectively make a bad decision that results in a tragedy with...
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When global pop star Kelly Rowland became a mom for the first time, giving birth to her son Titan, she felt the most incredible love she had ever experienced. But after spending nine months so focused on the baby growing inside her, she was caught completely off guard by how much she had changed. Like many first-time moms, she was not ready for what had happened to her body and for so many overwhelming new thoughts and emotions. She wondered: Will...
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Are you anxious about the chaotic days of first-time motherhood? Are you suddenly realizing how little you know about pregnancy and newborns? Then you need to keep reading...
All mothers can agree on one thing: your first pregnancy is by far the most challenging. Your body has begun changing in significant, unusual ways, and quite frankly, you're not so sure how to interpret any of it. Which symptoms are normal? When do they signify a complication?...
159) Tu Primer Embarazo
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El embarazo es conocido como uno de los períodos más importantes e intensos en la vida de una mujer, y es esencial prepararse para ello de la mejor manera posible.
Al fin y al cabo, si estás leyendo esto, sabes mejor que yo lo mucho que cambia todo en comparación con la vida que llevabas antes.
En esta época de cambios y alta carga emocional, puede ser difícil tomar las mejores decisiones y saber en qué fuentes confiar y en cuáles no.
Este...
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Making Babies offers a proven 3-month program designed to help any woman get pregnant. Fertility medicine today is all about aggressive surgical, chemical, and technological intervention, but Dr. David and Blakeway know a better way.
Starting by identifying "fertility types," they cover everything from recognizing the causes of fertility problems to making lifestyle choices that enhance fertility to trying surprising strategies such as taking...
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