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Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A documentary feature that explores why so many women are just saying no to procreation. Armed with insight from those who write and think about the current state of affairs for mothers [Corinne Maier, Madelyn Cain, Deirdre Macken, Dr. Heather Shapiro, Neil Gilbert, Ann Crittenden, and others], the director confronts her own ambivalence towards children and motherhood and offers up some baby food-for-thought to a new generation of women: the baby...
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison is one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics. In The Ancient Minstrel, Harrison delivers three novellas that highlight his phenomenal range as a writer, shot through with his trademark wit and keen insight into the human condition. Harrison has tremendous fun with his own reputation in the title novella, about an aging writer in Montana who spars with his estranged...
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English
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Meet Julia, a wildly successful television producer who appears to have the picture-perfect life. But beneath the surface, things are not as perfect as they seem. Stuck in a loveless relationship with her boyfriend, Mark, Julia thinks a baby is the answer . . . but she may want a baby more than she wants her boyfriend. Maeve, on the other hand, is allergic to commitment. A feisty, red-haired, high-power career girl, she breaks out in a rash every...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Burkett reports from the front lines of the workplace: from the hallowed newsroom of The New York Times to the floor of a textile factory in North Carolina to a hospital in Boston. She exposes a simmering backlash against perks for parents, from workers who are losing their tempers and fighting for their rights. She spells out how tax breaks for families with six-figure incomes are not available to childless people earning half as much. And she tells...
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Series
Savannah skies volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Author
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English
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Description
Fall in love. Get married. Have children. For most couples, marriage and children go hand in hand. And yet, the number of people choosing childlessness is on the rise. These are the childless by choice, people who have actively decided not to have children, rather than the childless by circumstance.
In “Two Is Enough”, Laura S. Scott explores the assumptions surrounding childrearing, and explores the reasons many people are choosing to forgo this...
9) The river
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Language
English
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During the summer of 1958 in the English village of Cameldip, two children drown while playing in a leaky boat on the river. Their parents, Isabel and Robert, are bound together in guilt and anger. Thirty years later, a young woman secretly pregnant and determined to make a new start for herself arrives in Cameldip. Taken in by Isabel, she slowly uncovers the secrets of the village's past and is inexorably drawn into the conflict.
A story of
...10) Unexpected
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Bob and Amy are at a crossroads: she wants to adopt a baby, but he doesn't. Will renovating a house and rescuing animals solve their problems? Will their new handyman and his son's pregnant girlfriend be the miracle they are looking for? A comedy about life, love, adulting, and a bunny named Binky.
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English
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Infertility is one of the most painful and painfully common of human experiences. One in six couples will experience fertility challenges when they attempt to get pregnant, and while more and more people have spoken openly about infertility in recent years, the experience can still be incredibly isolating.
But none of us is alone in our struggles. In fact, infertility is a universal part of the human experience that is mentioned in the earliest...
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Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From Joan of Arc to Queen Elizabeth I, to Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, to Sally Ride and Jennifer Aniston, history is full of women without children. Some chose to forgo reproduction in order to pursue intellectually satisfying work-a tension noted by medieval European nuns, 1970s women's liberationists, and modern professionals alike. Some refused to bring children into a world beset by famine, pollution, or climate change. For others, childlessness...
16) Raising Arizona
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
An ex-con and a police officer decide to get married and start a family. To their dismay, they discover that they can neither have nor adopt children. Desperate, they resort to kidnapping one of the newborn quintuplets of the wealthy Arizona family. However, their attempt at living a normal life is complicated by neurotic co-workers, two fugitives, and a mysterious bounty hunter.
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