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New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer presents a beautiful and moving tale of a false marriage that leads to true love.
The wedding of Clay Forrester and Catherine Anderson was the social event of the season. It seemed like a page out of a fairy tale. But everything about it—from the formal vows to the magnificent reception—was a lie. Catherine had reluctantly agreed to Clay’s “marriage of convenience”—and...
The wedding of Clay Forrester and Catherine Anderson was the social event of the season. It seemed like a page out of a fairy tale. But everything about it—from the formal vows to the magnificent reception—was a lie. Catherine had reluctantly agreed to Clay’s “marriage of convenience”—and...
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What are the effects of children on their parents? Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question, isolating and analyzing the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives, whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships or their internal senses of self.
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Pub. Date
2003
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English
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On the heels of her three runaway hits, Bookends, Mr. Maybe, and Jemima J, Jane Green delivers a sparkling, sexy tale about the complexities of modern motherly love.
Bestselling author Jane Green has won the hearts of thousands of readers with her fresh take on single life and the dating jungle. Now in Babyville, she applies her golden touch to the next phase of a girl’s life, in an irresistible new...
Bestselling author Jane Green has won the hearts of thousands of readers with her fresh take on single life and the dating jungle. Now in Babyville, she applies her golden touch to the next phase of a girl’s life, in an irresistible new...
4) Lift
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English
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The author uses the story of her four-month-old child's serious illness to show how, much like a hang glider, a person must go through turbulence before getting the lift needed for a positive life experience.
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English
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Pediatrician and mother of two young daughters, Dr. Whitney Casares, delivers a modern, empathetic guide to preparing for a baby and those first few days, weeks, and months of being a parent. From basic newborn care to breastfeeding success and from childcare choices to the emotional ups and downs of new motherhood, Dr. Casares?s advice combines important health and safety information from the American Academy of Pediatrics with honest insights from...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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A day at the school fair takes a tragic turn for the worse for one mother when her best friend's child goes missing on her watch, but when the police confront both women in trying to piece together the child's fate, dark secrets begin to surface.
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2018.
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English
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"In a powerful debut novel about motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream. Holed up with other moms-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chenis far from her native China, where she worked in a factory job and fell in love with the owner, Boss Yeung. Now she's carrying his baby. Already married with three daughters, he's overjoyed because...
8) Like a boy but not a boy: navigating life, mental health, and parenthood outside the gender binary
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"A revelatory book about gender, mental illness, parenting, mortality, bike mechanics, work, class, and the task of living in a body. Inquisitive and expansive, Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author andrea bennett's experiences with gender expectations, being a non-binary parent, and the sometimes funny and sometimes difficult task of living in a body. The book's fourteen essays also delve incisively into the interconnected themes of mental illness,...
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2019.
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English
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"From the author of EXPECTING BETTER, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting With Expecting Better, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies. By digging into the data, Oster found that much of the conventional pregnancy wisdom was wrong. In Cribsheet, she now tackles an even great challenge: decision...
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2018.
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English
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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...
11) Another thin man
Series
Complete Thin man collection volume no. 3
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Dum-Dum, Wacky, Creeps, Fingers: They're just a few of the hoodlums in the world of amateur sleuths and professional vivants Nick & Nora Charles. And now there's a new hood: parenthood.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 315 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Donating sperm to his ex-girlfriend Jenny in order to assist her efforts to become a mother, Neil Banks initially signs away all paternity rights and subsequently shocks Jenny's privileged East coast community by showing up for the baby's christening.
14) Breed
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Series
Breed novels (Chase Novak) volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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A couple obsessed with their infertility travels to Slovenia to have an unusual and painful procedure that results in horrible consequences they manage to hide until their twins, Adam and Alice, turn ten years old and start asking questions.
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 386 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by expert advice from both a pediatric dietitian and a lactation consultant, as well as more than 150 delicious and nutritious recipes, this cookbook for the sleep-deprived new parent offers real solutions for the real problems parents face in the kitchen.
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 348 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking exploration of the parental brain that untangles insidious myths from complicated realities, MOTHER BRAIN explodes the concept of "maternal instinct" and tells a new story about what it means to become a parent. Chelsea Conaboy delves into the neuroscience to reveal unexpected upsides, generations of scientific neglect, and a powerful new narrative of parenthood"--
17) Mixed blessings
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
Description
In Mixed Blessings, her 30th novel, Danielle Steel weaves a powerful tale of three couples who face decisions about having children that will test, in unexpected ways, the ties that bind them as lovers, partners, and friends. Their lives, their goals, their feelings about families, are on the line, as the word "infertility" begins to unravel their dreams.
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Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Atria Paperback edition.
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viii, 276 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"From author and speaker Melanie Dale comes a laugh-out-loud hilarious parenting book that teaches you how to dial back the stress of raising children with the simple premise that we all just need to lighten up a little bit"--
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