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"The Push meets The Silent Patient in a gripping thriller that follows a woman convinced a sinister figure is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens - while the men in her life refuse to believe a word she says. Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a grueling IVF journey, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make...
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2019.
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English
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Tech investor and new mom Leslie Schrock offers a thoroughly modern guide to pregnancy-from the preparations of "trimester zero" to the challenges of the newborn months. In the last thirty years, the process of starting a family has drastically changed. Not only are there many more options for getting pregnant, but there are a dizzying array of variables from start to finish. Genetic test or no genetic test? Midwife or OB-GYN? Stroller or Baby Bjorn?...
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"New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman tells the story of Amber Glass, desperately trying to get away from her tabloid past but compulsively drawn back to the city of her youth and the prom date who destroyed everything she was reaching for. Amber Glass has spent her entire adult life putting as much distance as possible between her and her hometown of Baltimore, where she fears she will forever be known as "Prom Mom" the girl who allegedly killed...
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"Eve Hatch is pretty content with her life. Her apartment in Brooklyn is cozy, but close to her childhood best friend Willa, and far from her midwestern, religious upbringing where she always felt misunderstood. While her position as an administrative assistant at the Wildlife Federation of America is a dream-adjacent job, she's hoping her passion and hard work will help her land a more glamorous role where she could actually make a difference someday....
5) Still born
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of community from “one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature” (Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive). Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic decision to have...
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Headline Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Pippa Vosper tragically lost her son Axel in 2017, when she was five months pregnant, and has since written about miscarriage and baby loss online and in a series of pieces for Vogue. Beyond Grief: Navigating the Journey of Pregnancy and Baby Loss is the book she wishes had been available when her son died. It covers every aspect of pregnancy and baby loss at any stage, from the practical to the emotional, with advice from experts and stories from...
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Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Having a baby and a career can feel challenging on the best of days, nearly impossible on the worst. From figuring out how to tell your boss you're pregnant to sucking in your belly bump all day long at work, to working even harder to prove your worth, there's a lot to navigate if you're newly pregnant or are even thinking about getting pregnant--and trying to juggle it all can leave you overwhelmed. It doesn't have to be this way. You can do it...
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"This inclusive guide to how every family begins is an honest, cheerful tool for conversations between parents and their young ones"--
"This inclusive guide to how every family begins is an honest, cheerful tool for conversations between parents and their young ones. To make a baby you need one egg, one sperm, and one womb. But every family starts in its own special way. This book answers the "Where did I come from?" question no matter who the reader...
11) De dónde vengo?
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Thule
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"From the time we are small children, we ask questions about our bodies, sex, and birth. De daonde vengo? is a book that helps us answer those questions appropriately and without taboos"--
"From the time we are small children, we ask questions about our bodies, sex, and birth. De dónde vengo? is a book that helps us answer those questions appropriately and without taboos"--
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"A lucid, genre-defying novel that explores the surreality of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood in a country in crisis A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction. Soon, however, the novelist’s own painful experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, as well as her increasing awareness of larger threats from climate change to...
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Warner Brothers Entertainment
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[2011]
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English
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Expectant first-time father Peter Highman looks forward to his new child's due date five days away. As Peter hurries to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be at his wife's side for the birth, his best intentions go completely awry. An encounter with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay forces Peter to hitch a ride with Ethan on a cross-country trip that will ultimately destroy several cars, many friendships, and Peter's last nerve.
"Expectant first-time...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"A psychologist, wife, and mother chronicles her extraordinary journey with cancer while pregnant with her second baby, and the insights into life, death, trauma, and healing that she gleaned—an utterly inspiring debut memoir reminiscent of the intimacy and emotional power of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Kate Bowler’s No Cure for Being Human. When clinical psychologist Sarah Mandel was pregnant with her second child, she began...
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Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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In this brave and devastatingly beautiful anthology, the illustrious poet and editor Aracelis Girmay gathers complex and intimate pieces that illuminate the nuances of personal and collective histories, analyses, practices, and choices surrounding pregnancy. Featuring the brilliant voices of writers such as Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Patricia Smith, Elizabeth Alexander, and more, this book is a lighthouse—a tool and companion—for those navigating pregnancy,...
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Clavis
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"A bright and interactive first introduction to babies and reproduction, with fun games and questions. For inquisitive children ages 3 years and up. Noa is going to be a big sister. There’s a baby in Mommy’s belly. But how did the baby get there? How does the baby grow? When will the baby come out of Mommy’s belly? And how? You’ll read it all in this book!"--
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From "a writer at the top of her game" (The New York Times) comes a bighearted and sharply funny debut novel about two estranged sisters and the crossroads they face after becoming unexpectedly pregnant at the same time. Two years after the death of their mother, Jada and Maddy Battle both navigate unplanned pregnancies. Jada, a thirty-one-year-old psychology PhD student living in Pittsburgh, quietly obtains an abortion without telling her husband,...
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MGM
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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In Season Five of the Handmaid's Tale, June faces consequences for killing Commander Waterford while struggling to redefine her identity and purpose. The widowed Serena attempts to raise her profile in Toronto as Gilead's influence creeps into Canada. Commander Lawrence works with Nick and Aunt Lydia as he tries to reform Gilead and rise to power. June, Lucke, and Moira fight Gilead from a distance as they continue their mission to save and reunite...
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Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Lila Rosetti Sinclair is headed home to Sunshine Bay to make the final plans for her wedding day when she is shocked by two life-changing surprises: a positive pregnancy test and the news that her family's business is struggling. Lila is determined to give this baby the close-knit family that she never had growing up. But the second surprise provides a complication when Lila learns that her fiancae's family has invested in the competitor to her family's...
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Publisher
Balance
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In Baby Making for Everybody, queer millennial midwives Ray Rachlin and Marea Goodman use their professional expertise to demystify the dizzying process of pursuing parenthood as queer and solo people, offering concrete, gender-affirming advice on topicslike tracking fertility, choosing a sperm donor, legal considerations, IVF, IUI, adoption, navigating gender and pregnancy, and more. The result is a much-needed how-to guide for every aspect of the...
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