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1) Come home
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Language
English
Description
"Jill Farrow is a suburban mom who has finally gotten her and her daughter's lives back on track after a divorce. She loves being a pediatrician and is about to remarry while her daughter, Megan, is a happily over-scheduled thirteen-year-old. But Jill's life is turned upside down when her ex-stepdaughter, Abby, shows up and delivers shocking news: Jill's ex-husband is dead. Abby insists that he was murdered--and pleads with Jill to help find his killer....
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A groundbreaking exploration of the parental brain that untangles insidious myths from complicated realities, Mother Brain explodes the concept of "maternal instinct" and tells a new story about what it means to become a parent. Chelsea Conaboy delves into the neuroscience to reveal unexpected upsides, generations of scientific neglect, and a powerful new narrative of parenthood"--
4) Lucky boy
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Language
English
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"A heart-wrenching novel that gives voice to two mothers: a young undocumented Mexican woman and an Indian-American wife whose love for one lucky boy will bind their fates together Solimar Castro-Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's doorstep in Berkeley, CA, dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Jill becomes both pregnant and single at the end of one spring semester, she and her two closest friends plunge into an experiment in tri-parenting, tri-schooling, and trihabitating as grad students in Seattle. Naturally, everything goes wrong, but in ways no one sees coming.
Author
Language
English
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For contemporary women, motherhood has become as polarizing a proposition as it is a powerful calling. For some women this tension is manifest in a debate over whether or not to have children. For others it concerns whether to stay at home with their children or stay in the workforce. Still others feel abandoned altogether by the supposedly pro-family and pro-mother social justice movement that is feminism and are at a loss when it comes to reconciling...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Would-be parents must navigate the decision to have children amidst a daunting combination of cultural expectations and hard facts. And new parents find themselves struggling to reconcile their elation with the often exhausting, confusing, and expensive business of child care. If parenting is making Americans unhappy, if it's impossible to "have it all," if people don't have the economic, social, or political structures needed to support child rearing,...
11) Tully
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When mother Marlo gives birth to her third baby, she wasn't expecting to hire a nanny to help with the newborn. Her brother contracts the services of young Tully as a nanny on Marlo's behalf, however. At first Marlo thinks of having a nanny as an unnecessary indulgence, but as the two women get to know each other better, they begin to form an unexpected bond, although their relationship is not always such smooth sailing.
Author
Publisher
Green Tree
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Christine Armstrong became a mother, it never occurred to her that she would want to stop work or even work part-time. But the truth is, combining work and small kids is hard. From the broken breast pumps on business trips, to hiding chickenpox from the nursery, to the heartbreak when you come home and realise your baby smells of the childminder. When Christine Armstrong tried it, she found herself desolate with misery. Determined to make it...
Author
Publisher
Two Lines Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Personal essays about pregnancy interwoven with references to pregnancy in art and literature"--
"An intimate exploration of motherhood, Linea Nigra approaches the worries and joys of childbearing from a diverse range of inspirations and traditions, from Louise Bourgeois to Ursula K. Le Guin to the indigenous Nahua model Luz Jimnez. Part memoir and part manifesto, Barrera's singular insights, delivered in candid prose, clarify motherhood while also...
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
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Description
"Nobody trains you to be a mother! That's why psychologist and columnist Jeannette Torres, expert in family relationships and mother of two children, shares her secrets for maintaining balance without losing your mind! Discover strategies for managing your time, imposing discipline, having difficult conversations, dealing with the 'selfie generation, ' fostering values, and much more."
Nadie te entrena para ser mamá! Por eso la psicóloga y columnista...
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Language
English
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Description
"From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes an investigation into the current state of caregiving in America and an exploration of motherhood as a means of social change"--
The COVID-19 pandemic shed fresh light on a long-overlooked truth: mothering is arguable the most essential work humans do. Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a rigorously reported look at what mother is, and can be. She contends that...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Mothercoin is a nonfiction, story-driven consideration of immigrant nannies and contemporary motherhood in the US"--
Cummins Mu�noz tells the stories of a group of Central American and Mexican women who have spent years caring and cleaning in the private homes of Houston, Texas. She traces their journeys from childhood to a working world marked by care devoted to other women's children in order to provide for their own. The experiences of these...
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