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:Mallery, SusanSummary:
"A charming, feel-good story of the ways that devoted friends-and great books!-can change our lives with the summer vibes I'm needing right now! There's a dose of Susan Mallery magic in all her novels; this one just might...
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Author:Hendrix, GradySummary:A women's book club in South Carolina must protect its community from a mysterious stranger who turns out to be a real monster.
- Author:Pond, JudithSummary:
Rose is divorced, fifty, and estranged from her daughter. At a student art opening on a rainy March evening she meets Morrison, a genial hoarder and womb-twin survivor, who leads us to Abbey, a dancer who is losing the chance to become...
- Author:Chan, JessamineSummary:
In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance. Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn't have a career worthy of her...
- Author:De Meijer, SadiqaSummary:
The Outer Wards, Sadiqa de Meijer's new collection, explores questions of maternal love and duty--and the powerlessness that comes with the disruption of that role through illness. "I was awake. / The hour was wrong," de...
- 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:Novak, BrendaSummary:
When your life is chaotic, what's one more complication? Jane Tanner's friends are settling down, while she's been settling for less. She longs for adventure and the big city, but caring for her ailing grandfather means...
- 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:Kwok, JeanSummary:
Recommended by The New York Times Elle Good Morning America TIME People New York Post Real Simple Goodreads LibraryReads and many more! An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two...
- 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...
- Author:Johnson, SadeqaSummary:
From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife , a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her...
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