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Author
Publisher
Ig Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"While poet Cheryl Dumesnil suspects she'll confront some formidable obstacles on her path to parenthood, she is nevertheless unprepared for what she actually encounters, including navigating the maze of the high-tech fertility business, the emotional conundrum of pregnancy loss, and the gathering steam of the marriage equality movement"--
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A mother, dietician, divorcée, and first-time NFL cheerleader at the age of forty shares her story of overcoming a bad marriage, becoming "unstuck" and finding renewed confidence at midlife.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Parravani bears witness to the systemic threats to rights and life she experienced in America's heartland. Loved and Wanted is the story of a woman's love for her children and a bracing look at the tough choices women are forced to make every day in a nation where policies leave them without sufficient agency over their bodies, their futures, and even their hopes for their children's lives. -- adapted from dust jacket
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The youngest daughter of Carolyn Scott describes her mother's descent from a Ford model and bridesmaid to Princess Grace to a mentally ill resident of a homeless shelter, sharing insights into the private experiences that shaped her mother's battle with mental illness.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Why would a mother ever abandon her child? And is an abandoned child destined to grow up and make the same mistake? These were some of Melissa Cistaro's questions after her mother drove off without explanation one summer. Decades later Melissa finds herself at her dying mother's bedside with 6 days to find answers, fearful that she could do the same to her own little girl. Then she discovers a cache of letters her mother wrote but never sent and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This life is real and complicated, messy, colorful, good, exhausting, and exhilarating--often simultaneously. It's easy to feel overburdened by life's demands. Looking out into the world as well as under the roof of our home may cause us to question, "How did we get here? And how will we get through?" Jillana Goble has been there. With honesty, faith, and a dose of humor, her debut memoir, A Love-Stretched Life, chronicles what she's continually...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xiii, 234 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Motherhood splits a woman's life forever, into a before and an after. Harper brings her sense of humor as she explores the emotional and biological transformations that motherhood entails, and documents her own journey across this great divide.
51) Class: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called "an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor" (People). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix's fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In her first memoir, Leslie Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of the most intimate relationships of her life: her consuming love for her young daughter, a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope, and the shaping legacy of her own parents’ complicated bond. In examining what it means for a woman to be many things at once—a mother, an artist, a teacher, a lover—Jamison places the magical and the mundane side by side in...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xii, 191 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lauren Slater's rocky childhood left her cold to the idea of ever creating a family of her own, but a husband, two dogs, two children, and three houses later, she came around to the challenges, trials, and unexpected rewards of playing house. Boldly honest, these biographical pieces reveal Slater at her wittiest and most deeply personal. She describes her journey from fiercely independent young woman to wife and mother, all while coping with mental...
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
v, 230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
O'Connell is a smart twentysomething who treats her pregnancy like a new project, researching and planning. She envisions a natural birth and a year of wholesome breast feeding. But things do not go as she expects. Life throws curveballs, and after 40 hours of contractions, she opts for a C-section. She manages to nurse for a year but resents her baby's control over her body. This is not a book about the wonders of motherhood but about the tension...
56) Mother noise
Author
Publisher
Scribner/Marysue Rucci Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Marysue Rucci books/Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in essays and graphic-narrative shorts, this memoir illustrates the author's struggles with addiction and motherhood and her ongoing efforts to reconcile the two, capturing the desire to look hopefully forward, while acknowledging the darkness of the past.
57) Brown, white, black: an American family at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and religion
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Essays describe how the author's experiences as an Indian American, the wife of a white Christian woman, and the mother of an adopted black son have been challenged by rigid cultural family norms.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After three heartbreaking losses, Adrienne Arieff thought she might never become a mother. Then she learned about international surrogacy, found a clinic in India, and embarked on an astonishing journey. Unlike many genetic moms who return home and wait for their baby, Adrienne wanted to feel a connection both to her growing child and to Vaina, the woman who was offering this remarkable gift. So she went back to be Vaina's partner for the last months...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The creator of the blog "Renegade Mothering" offers a forthright, darkly funny, and ultimately empowering memoir chronicling her tumultuous journey from young motherhood to abysmal addiction and a recovery she never imagined possible.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The time for do-overs is over. Ever since she became a parent, Mary Louise Kelly has said "next year." Next year will be the year she makes it to her son James's soccer games (which are on weekdays at 4 p.m., right when she is on the air on NPR's All Things Considered, talking to millions of listeners). Drive carpool for her son Alexander? Not if she wants to do that story about Ukraine and interview the secretary of state. Like millions of parents...
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