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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Invites mothers to rediscover the joys of everyday family life and the challenges of letting go of grown children, in a personal account that describes the author's older son's departure for college and her memories of shared times in their small New England community.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kelly Oxford is . . .
A wunderkind producer of pirated stage productions for six-year-olds
Not the queen of the world
An underage schnitzel-house dishwasher
The kid who stood up to a bully and almost passed out from the resulting adrenaline rush
A born salesman
Capable of willing her eyesight to be 20/20
That girl who peed her pants in the gas station that one time
Totally an expert on strep throat
Incapable
...Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Amie Miller chronicles her experiences as a nonbiological lesbian mother, discussing the challenges and anxieties she faced as her life partner got pregnant, carried their child, and delivered and sharing how she is defying the traditional rules of motherhood.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Built on her wildly popular Modern Love column, 'When a Couch is More Than a Couch' (9/23/2016), a breathtaking memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by the 38 year old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, mother to two young boys, wife of 16 years, after her terminal cancer diagnosis"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Chicago, 1979. Halfway through her senior year of high school, Pryor discovers that she is pregnant-- a fact her parents are determined to keep a secret from her friends, siblings, and community forever. Driving across three states, her mother drops her off at what Liz thinks is a Catholic home for unwed mothers but is, in truth, a locked government-run facility for delinquent and impoverished pregnant teenage girls. She's alone and terrified, a girl...
19) Give me one wish
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1988.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 350 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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