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1) Motherhood
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284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with the candor, originality, and humor that have won Heti international acclaim and made How Should A Person Be? required reading for a generation. In her late thirties, when her friends are asking when they will become mothers, the narrator of Heti's intimate and urgent novel considers whether...
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Unmatched and unwavering, mothers are the embodiment of selfless, pure, and unconditional love. But so often, the sacrifices and triumphs of motherhood go unrecognized. Now, in Love, Mom, Fox News medical contributor and mom of three, Dr. Nicole Saphier, shines a light on the power of a mother's love, with inspiring first-person stories from moms in the Fox News family.
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viii, 244 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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English
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In You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom, award-winning journalist and Instagram star Leslie Anne Bruce acknowledges that, yes, motherhood is a total mind f*ck-but then she offers the self-empowerment lessons new mothers need to get through the psychic upheaval and emerge stronger than ever. After childbirth, a woman's body, her relationships, and her very sense of self are tested like never before. Bruce encourages readers to look past the sugarcoated truisms...
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viii, 306 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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Mothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures? What is the history of maternity -- the history of pregnancy, birth, the encounter with an infant? Can one capture the historical trail of mothers? How? In Mother Is a Verb, the historian Sarah Knott creates a genre all her own in order to craft a new kind of historical interpretation. Blending memoir and history and building from anecdote,...
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"From international bestselling author Liz Climo comes You're Mom, a hilarious and relatable collection of original comics about motherhood. Moms: they are there for us through the good, the bad, the scary, the sticky, and everything in between. They also read us a lot of picture books along the way, and now there's a picture book just for them. Liz Climo brings her trademark wit and adorable drawings to You're Mom: a funny, honest, and sweet homage...
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xv, 348 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"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"--
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xiii, 311 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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A practical handbook for modern moms outlines recommendations for avoiding impossible standards of perfection, sharing real-world suggestions for breaking burnout cycles and protecting children from the damage of overwhelmed-parenting dynamics.
"Women today are fed up. What used to be the stuff of comedy--the harried mom in sweatpants and the messy bun--just isn't funny anymore. Being everything to everyone is just too much pressure and the cracks...
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"A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, about a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for -- and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting, supportive mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter...
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7 audio discs (8 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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A much-needed voice of encouragement for every woman who had a baby and lost her mind, and sometimes, motherhood feels never-ending. A child is born, chaos ensues, and it seems like life will never return to normal. Award-winning journalist and Instagram star Leslie Anne Bruce acknowledges that, yes, motherhood is a total mind f*ck-but then she offers the self-empowerment lessons new mothers need to get through the psychic upheaval and emerge stronger...
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"Amanda is a new mother, and she is breaking. After a fight with her partner, she puts the baby in the car and drives from Queens to her hometown in rural Ohio, where she shows up unannounced on the doorstep of her estranged childhood best friend. Amanda thought that she had left Carrie firmly in the past. After their friendship ended, their lives diverged radically: Carrie had a baby the summer after high school, became a successful tattoo artist,...
15) After birth
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"A year has passed since Ari gave birth to Walker, though it went so badly awry she has trouble calling it 'birth' and still she can't locate herself in her altered universe. Amid the strange, disjointed rhythms of her days and nights and another impending winter in upstate New York, Ari is a tree without roots, struggling to keep her branches aloft. When Mina, a one-time cult musician -- older, self-contained, alone, and nine-months pregnant -- moves...
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232 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"In her first novel for over a decade, Claire Kilroy takes readers deep into the early days of motherhood. Exploring the clash of fierce love for a new life with a seismic change in identity, Kilroy vividly explores the raw, tumultuous emotions of a new mother, as the narrator, Soldier's, marriage strains and she struggles with questions of equality, autonomy and creativity"--
17) The singularity
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"The Singularity is the English-language debut from a Swedish writer of Kurdish descent. This formally innovative novel explores motherhood, grief, and displacement through the intertwining stories of two women: the mother of a refugee family who throws herself into the sea after her daughter goes missing, and a woman who witnesses her suicide and later gives birth to a stillborn baby"--
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xvi, 262 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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A clinical psychologist's exploration of the modern dilemmas women face in the wake of new motherhood. - provided by publisher
Millwood, a clinical psychologist, discovered losses in the wake of new motherhood: aspects of identity, baseline level of happiness, and a general sense of well-being. Even with a supportive husband she resented the fact that the disruption to his life seemed to pale in comparison to hers. Now she examines how -- for most...
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277 pages : color illustrations, color portrait ; 26 cm
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English
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"Over 80 simple, hearty recipes and 20 essays that take you behind the blackout curtain of early motherhood, where Christine and Emma, the two perfect allies for any new mom, await. In How to Eat With One Hand, renowned Chef, Christine Flynn, along with her best friend and founder of the Greenhouse beverage company, Emma Knight, offer over 80 simple, delicious recipes for every stage of motherhood. Satisfy your cravings with must-have dishes like...
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x, 285 pages ; 24 cm
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In this essay collection in which feminist philosophy meets family memoir, the novelist and scholar moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to connect mothers to the broader meanings of maternity in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority.
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