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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNPR Best Book of the Year • Time Best Book of the Year • Oprah Daily Best Memoir of the Year
"A bittersweet study in both grief and joy." —Time
"A sparklingly beautiful memoir-in-vignettes" (Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author) that...
"A bittersweet study in both grief and joy." —Time
"A sparklingly beautiful memoir-in-vignettes" (Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author) that...
22) Lucky boy
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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...
24) Little mercies
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2014
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"Veteran social worker Ellen Moore is a fiercely dedicated children's advocate and a devoted mother and wife. But a moment of distraction will have repercussions that threaten to shatter everything Ellen holds dear and trap her between the gears of the system she works for. Ten-year-old Jenny Briard has been living with her well-meaning father, sleeping on friends' couches in cheap motels. When Jenny suddenly finds herself on her own, she is forced...
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In The Lizzie Bennet Diaries creator Kate Rorick's first adult fiction novel, we enter the wild, bewildering world of modern pregnancies. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll shake your head as you wonder where everyone's sanity went... Meet the mothers...
Nathalie Kneller: Nathalie's plan: to announce her pregnancy now that she's finally made it past twelve weeks! But just as she's about to deliver (so to speak) the big news to her family, her scene-stealing...
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The Love That Ended So Tragic is a story about two people who were meant to be but paid the ultimate price for their love. Like Romeo and Juliet, their forbidden love was destined to have a tragic ending. The reader will embark on the ten-year journey of Hannah and Antony's doomed relationship, with shocking twists, turns, happy and sad moments all in one novel. This story takes place in San Diego, California, 1996—2007. Take the summer romance...
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[2017]
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"Motherhood can often feel overwhelming and isolating. You find your feelings swinging between joy and uncertainty, intense love and anxiety, laughter and tears. Through it all, you constantly ask yourself, "Am I the only one who feels this way?" The Magic of Motherhood will reassure you that you?re not alone. Full of encouragement, humor, and wisdom that will speak to you right where you are, The Magic of Motherhood is like a long-overdue coffee...
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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.
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Pediatrician and mother of two young daughters, Dr. Whitney Casares, delivers a modern, empathetic guide to those first few days, weeks, and months with a new baby. From basic newborn care to breastfeeding success and from childcare choices to the emotional ups and downs of new motherhood, Dr. Casares's advice combines important health and safety information from the American Academy of Pediatrics with honest insights from her own parenting experiences....
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Beloved author Sally Clarkson shares her heart and wisdom for mothers-and offers hope for each day. A mother living well in her God-ordained role is of great beauty and inestimable value to the future history of any generation. Her impact is irreplaceable and necessary to the spiritual formation of children who will be the adults of the next generation. Fun, comfort, humor, graciousness, spiritual passion, compassion for the lost, hospitality, chores,...
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"From Kelly Rippon, single mother of six super achievers, including an Olympic medalist, comes a breakthrough parenting philosophy. Parent Up is a call to action for all parents to realize the power of being the most important, positive shaping force in your children's lives. Broken down into ten chapters that each present a key influence (from the influence of optimism to loyalty), Kelly shares her philosophy as well as relatable anecdotes from her...
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"That Kind of Mother dives deep into big questions about parenthood, adoption, and race: Is mothering something learned, or that you're born to? How far can good intentions stretch? And most of all, can love can really overcome the boundaries of race and class? With his unerring eye for nuance and unsparing sense of irony, Rumaan Alam's second novel is both heartfelt and thought-provoking."--Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere...From the...
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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...
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Did you ever Google "pregnancy after 35" or "getting pregnant at 40" for helpful advice and inspiration on your way to motherhood? Did your excitement and hope turn into disbelief and shock when your search turned up millions of gut wrenching stories on the risks and dangers of later pregnancies and the staggering rise of age related infertility in women?
The Joy of Later Motherhood is the much-needed antidote to all the negative hype surrounding...
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