Journalist Leslie Anne Bruce acknowledges that, yes, motherhood is a total mind f*ck, and offers the self-empowerment lessons new mothers need to get through the psychic upheaval and emerge stronger. After childbirth, a woman's...
Motherhood
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Author:Bruce, Leslie AnneSummary: -
Author:Pasolli, LisaSummary:During the twentieth century, child care policy in British Columbia matured in the shadow of a persistent political uneasiness with working motherhood. Charting the growth of the child care movement in this province, Working Mothers and...
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Author:Duffy, KarenSummary:From becoming an iconic MTV VJ to starring in Dumb and Dumber to being diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, Karen Duffy has been through a lot. But it was only when she became a mother that she realized she had some pretty solid ...
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Author:Korzan, Mary Rita SchilkeSummary:"When I wrote a tribute for my mother years ago, I never anticipated it would take a worldwide journey. Nonetheless, that is exactly what happened. The story I am about to share with you may read like fiction. I can assure you, there is...
- Author:Manning, Lauren, Manning, JeanetteSummary:
As a troubled teen, Lauren Manning sought refuge online in the angry world of black metal music. When she met a recruiter who offered her the acceptance she craved, the doctrine of white supremacy supplanted the values of her middle-...
- Author:Kay, FrancescaSummary:
Mary-Margaret O'Reilly is cleaning the statue of Jesus at Sacred Heart church when she blacks out and wakes with a bloody gash on her head. Rumors that the blood came from the statue's eyes start a religious mania in town and lead Mary-...
- Author:Gannon, GenevieveSummary:
On the same day that Priya is booked for her next IVF cycle, Grace goes in for her final, last-chance embryo transfer. Two weeks later, both women get their results. A year on, angry and heartbroken, one of the women learns her embryo...
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Author:Charleston, L. J.Summary:The Mommy Mafia is the Urban Dictionary of Mothers – think of it as Mommy profiling. The politics of motherhood is complicated, yet also highly amusing. If motherhood is akin to the Mafia, which “family” do you belong to? Are you the...
- Author:Clare, KerrySummary:
A CNQ Editors' Book of the Year. A Dropped Threads-style anthology, assembling original and inspiring works by some of Canada's best younger female writers — such as Heather Birrell, Saleema Nawaz, Susan Olding, Diana Fitzgerald Bryden...
- Author:Halls, StaceySummary:
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her newborn, Clara, at London's Foundling Hospital, young Bess Bright returns to reclaim the illegitimate daughter she has never really known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care,...
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Author:Ferrante, ElenaSummary:Leda, a middle-aged divorcée, is alone for the first time in years when her daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpected sense of liberty turns to ferocious introspection following a seemingly trivial...
- Author:Johnson, NancySummary:
It's 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man who is eager to start a family, but Ruth is...
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Author:Bellows, Melina GerosaSummary:There are 80.5 million women of all ages answering to the moniker "Mom," according to the U.S. Census Bureau. After writing The Fun Book for Couples, which incidentally was the bestselling Valentine's Day book for two of the nation's...
- Author:Hunter, MeganSummary:
As London is submerged below flood waters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from...
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Author:Hays, SharonSummary: - Author:Haywood, SarahSummary:
In this witty and heartfelt debut, one woman's unconventional journey to motherhood means learning to embrace the unexpected Even the prickliest cactus has its flower. For Susan Green, messy emotions don't fit into the...
- Author:Dean, SunyiSummary:
This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and narrator about the novel, family, and neurodivergency. Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is "a darkly sweet pastry of a book about family, betrayal, and the lengths...
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Author:Andersen, Marguerite, Winkler, DonaldSummary:The Trillium Award-winning autobiographical novel "La mauvaise mere" by Marguerite Andersen is now in English. Prolific author Marguerite Andersen traces the important moments of her life in this honest and harrowing examination of...
- Author:Coleman, RowanSummary:
Alison loves her husband and their three children. But the emptiness she feels is tied to her decision to run away with Marc, her best friend's man. On the verge of divorce, Catherine loves her children as well, yet still pines for Marc...
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Author:Bergen, DavidSummary:Íso, a young Guatemalan woman, works at a fertility clinic at Ixchel, in the highlands of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas. She tends to the rich northern women who visit the clinic hoping that the waters of the nearby lake might increase...
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