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Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs; a loving husband, a career, and a home. But the one thing she wants most is the child she's unable to have. In a Southern Indian village, Asha doesn't have much. She and her husband can barely keep a tin roof over their heads. But she wants a better education for her gifted son. Pressured by her family, Asha reluctantly checks into the Happy Mothers House: a baby farm where she can rent...
162) Pure flame: a legacy
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A memoir of motherhood, feminism, and family from a celebrated critic. Flame pursues a chain of personal, intellectual, and collective inheritance, tracing the forces that helped transform the world and what a woman might expect from it. Told with warmth and rigor, Orange’s account of her mother’s life and their relationship is pressurized in critical and unexpected ways, resulting in an essential, revelatory meditation on becoming, selfhood,...
163) The other life
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Hiding the truth about her ability to cross into alternate realities where she has made different life decisions, a married and pregnant Quinn Braverman learns that her unborn child will be disabled and glimpses into a parallel life where she is married to someone else and childless.
Author
Publisher
Floris Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
A unique and emotive celebration of the different facets of motherhood with striking portraits by an award-winning illustrator. Powerful, emotive, unforgettable - Mama speaks to all mothers in the international language of love. This is a stunning collection of vivid portraits and intimate reflections on motherhood from around the globe. Mama uniquely portrays the emotions and experiences that unite mothers from different times and diverse cultures....
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Combining modern research, personal stories, professional experience, and real-life examples, Jeannie Cunnion shows parents how to embrace Gods grace and let go of the pressuresexternal and internalthat come with raising children. When it comes to their children, parents feel constant pressure to get everything right. They face overwhelming moments of weakness when they believe theyre doing it all wrong or feel like theyre not enoughleaving them...
167) The book of Gothel
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Haelewise has always lived under the shadow of her mother, Hedda-a woman who will do anything to keep her daughter protected. For with her strange black eyes and even stranger fainting spells, Haelewise is shunned by her village, and her only solace lies in the stories her mother tells of child-stealing witches, of princes in wolf-skins, of an ancient tower cloaked in mist, where women will find shelter if they are brave enough to seek it. Then,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author reminisces on the art of balancing family, politics, and a writing career during her pre-fame years in the 1970s and 1980s, tracing her rise from a small-time columnist and her friendships with such notables as Richard Pryor, Avery Brooks, and Jesse Jackson.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Two best friends rewrite the rules of friendship, love and family...and change everything they thought they knew about motherhood. Paris Kahn Fraser has it all--a successful career as an assistant district attorney, a beautiful home in New York City, and a handsome, passionate husband who chose her over having a family of his own. Neal's dream of fatherhood might have been the only shadow in their otherwise happy life...until Paris's best friend comes...
Author
Publisher
Brown Books Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In this hilarious start to her Tales of Imperfection series, Amanda Turner reveals the thoughts and feelings every mother has thought at some point - specifically, "I need a drink." She revels in her imperfect approach to motherhood while sharing raucous accounts of her misadventures in parenting, and is unafraid when it comes to discussing the mistakes new mothers can make while trying to raise their kids to not be serial killers. The infused second...
Author
Publisher
Viking Life
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"The inspiring and hilarious true story of how a single mother found the strength to transform her life and become the person--and parent--she could admire, revealing the tips and advice that empowered her Kristina Kuzmic has made herself a household name, speaking directly to mothers from the trenches of parenthood via her viral videos and social media presence. She's now bringing her message of self-acceptance, resilience, and joy to book readers....
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
A compelling debut novel exploring postpartum depressionfor readers of suspenseful womens fiction and fans of Lionel Shrivers We Need to Talk About Kevin.They say motherhood changes you.As a driven advertising executive, Lara James has always put her career before any plans for a family, preferring professional chic to stay-at-home style. But after her fathers death, she realizes shes ready. More than ready, in fact. Yet pregnancysomething other women...
174) The argonauts
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Writing in the spirit of public intellectuals like Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and childrearing." --Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
The author shares her parenting misadventures, from her decision to adopt as a single woman, to her transition to a stay-at-home mom after marriage, to her efforts to explain the birds and the bees to her precocious eight-year-old daughter.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Robin O'Bryant offers a no holds barred look at the day to day life of being a mother to three, running a household and the everyday monotony of parenting. O'Bryant is the creator of Robin's Chicks, one of the South's most popular blogs on motherhood.
177) From mom to me again: how I survived my first empty-nest year and reinvented the rest of my life
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When her children left for college, Melissa Shultz was certain that she had prepared them well for their new lives-but her own life was a different matter entirely. Her house was empty, her purpose unclear. If her life was no longer dominated by the day-to-day demands of being "Mom," then who exactly was she? And how would she ever move forward? From Mom to Me Again is the story of one woman's reinvention. Shultz's struggle with the empty nest and...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Felicia Lyons, a stay-at-home mom contemplating the drudgery of her life, receives a phone call that threatens everything she holds dear and must return to her childhood home to grapple with an ex-boyfriend and several old, buried secrets.
"How far would you go to protect your marriage? In Sadeqa Johnson's Second House from the Corner, Felicia Lyons struggles to sprint ahead of the demands of motherhood while her husband spends long days at the...
179) The means
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The debut novel from “wholly original” (Vogue) memoirist Amy Fusselman, a tragicomic family saga that skewers contemporary issues of money, motherhood, and class through a well-to-do woman’s quest to buy a Hamptons beach house. Shelly Means, a wealthy stay-at-home mom and disgraced former PTA president, is poised to get the one thing in life she really wants: a beach house in the Hamptons. Who would have guessed that Shelly, the product...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
As soon as Ellie Avery and her husband, Mitch, arrive at his parents' gracious home in Smarr, Alabama, they are shocked to learn that Mitch's Grandpa Fanklin has passed away. More shockingly, a too-quickly-closed police investigation raises more questions about Franklin's death than it answers.
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