Motherhood
- 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 we go to...
- 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...
- Author:Monks Takhar, HelenSummary:
Rose O'Connell is barely surviving. Her relationship with her husband is on the rocks and their son isn't fitting in at his new school, the prestigious Woolf Academy. Their tiny flat in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood--the...
- 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...
- Author:Hansen, EmmaSummary:
A moving, candid account of one woman's experience with stillbirth. Emma Hansen is 39 weeks and six days pregnant when she feels her baby go quiet inside of her. At the hospital, her worst fears are confirmed: doctors explain that...
- Author:Gelman, LaurieSummary:
This program is read by the author. From the author of Class Mom and You've Been Volunteered comes Laurie Gelman's next laugh-out-loud novel Smells Like Tween Spirit. As a new Mat Mom of the Pioneer Middle School (PMS)...
- Author:Bramer, ShannonSummary:
Precious Energy, the fourth collection of poetry from Hamilton-born poet and playwright Shannon Bramer, is a uniquely playful collection of vibrantly sad, peculiar, and often funny poems about domestic life, motherhood, and the baffled...
- Author:Palancz, GisèleSummary:
Pendant des millénaires, avoir des enfants allait de soi. C’était le destin des femmes, une fatalité. Au 20e siècle, avec la diffusion des méthodes contraceptives de masse et les pressions démographiques, cette certitude a été remise en...
- Author:Monroe, DebraSummary:
In this memoir, the soon-to-be divorced Debra buys a dilapidated Texas cabin miles from her teaching job. While waiting to adopt a child, she refurbishes and expands the rude dwelling. She soon finds herself in the strange new world of...
- Author:Lye, Harriet AlidaSummary:
"I need people to know that I exist, that their experiment worked, that by some combination of luck and science, I'm alive." In this harrowing and intimate memoir, Harriet Alida Lye explores how, at just fifteen years...
- Author:Hustvedt, SiriSummary:
Feminist philosophy and family memoir merge in this new essay collection from award-winning author Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for granted-...
- Author:Heti, SheilaSummary:
From the author of How Should a Person Be? ("one of the most talked-about books of the year"--TIME Magazine) and the NYT Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring audiobook about whether to have children. In Motherhood,...
- Author:Van De Water, AnnSummary:
Mommy Memoirs is a delightful journey from pregnancies and births to marriages and a hysterectomy! There are few stones left unturned as author Ann Van De Water describes her hectic life as a mother of three boys in short read-it-and-...
- Author:Simons, SharonSummary:
Sharon Simon’s memoir Mom at Last is the story of one women’s fierce determination to become a Mom. It is a journey full of setbacks and emotionally devastating pitfalls but ultimately leads to her to true love and pure joy. Mom at...
- Author:Boyes, AmySummary:
Micro Miracle is the moving account of a first-time mother whose expectations of childbirth and parenting are dramatically altered when she gives birth sixteen weeks prematurely to Madeline. Weighing just over a pound, with eyes fused...
- Author:Ng, CelesteSummary:
Entertainment Weekly's #1 Must-Read Book for Fall From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and...
- Author:Weiner, JenniferSummary:
The story of three very different women as they navigate one of life's most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journey of new motherhood. Becky is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderful husband and baby girl, a restaurant that...