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Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence
by Rebecca Walker  Publisher Comments From the bestselling author hailed by "Time" magazine as one of the leaders of her generation comes an insightful memoir of pregnancy and her decision to conceive a child after years of uncertainty....
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Like Sound Through Water: A Mother's Journey Through Auditory Processing Disorder
by Karen J Foli Publisher Comments A mother knows when something is wrong with her child. If the problem is physical, she takes the child to a doctor. But if the problem is a misunderstanding of her child's mind, where does she turn for help? This is Ben's story. He was a happy, healthy...
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Disappearance (00 Edition)
by Genevieve Jurgensen Publisher Comments What do you do, how do you live, when both of your daughters are killed on the same afternoon? Jurgensen found herself facing that question when she lost her daughters, ages four and seven, to a drunk driver. "A lyrical and haunting memoir".--"Kirkus...
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A Grief Unveiled: One Father's Journey Through the Death of a Child
by Gregory Floyd Publisher Comments Gregory Floyd reveals his heart-breaking journey through the sorrow of losing his youngest son. He deals not only with his own broken heart, but also with the struggle to reconstruct his role as husband, father, and protector. A Grief Unveiled offers...
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Alternadad: The True Story of One Family's Struggle to Raise a Cool Kid in America
by Neal Pollack Publisher Comments With the publication of Alternadad, Neal Pollack became the spokesperson for a new generation of parents. Pollack, a self-styled party guy known mostly for outrageous literary antics, recounts how he and his wife became responsible parents without...
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The Angel and the Dragon: A Father's Search for Answers to His Son's Mental Illness and Suicide
by Jonathan Arthur Publisher Comments On November 1, 1996, Charley Aurthur leapt to his death from a freeway overpass in Santa Monica, California. He was twenty-three years old. It was the culmination of five years of heartache for Charley and his family, as he struggled with severe mental...
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A Chain of Events: The U.S. Army in the Gulf War
by Joan L. Piper Publisher Comments A story of duty, patriotism, and a mother's devotion to a daughter's...
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Ten Circles Upon the Pond
by Virginia Tranel Publisher Comments Ten Circles Upon the Pond is a book for anyone who's ever lived in that unwieldy group called family--a story of passion, intimacy, work, religion, puberty, love and loss, and the struggle to be steadfast in times of enormous social change. Rooted in...
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Have You Seen My Kids?: A Story of Hope, Inspiration, and What Not to Do If Your Children Are Abducted
by Paul Fedynich Publisher Comments This is a true story of a roller coaster ride from HELL that spans over six years of my life. Having your children abducted by their mother is severe enough, but when the mother suffers from Bipolar Disorder and Psychosis, the twists and turns life...
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Only Yesterday: The Evolution of a New Generation
by Diane L. Krueger Publisher Comments A mother who has watched her children grow up and leave the nest reflects on watching them make their own lives, suffer their individual anguish and joy with the knowledge that Mom is always waiting quietly in the wings in time of need....
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A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage
by Beth Kephart Publisher Comments For Beth Kephart's son, the diagnosis was "pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified" - a broad spectrum of difficulties, including autistic features. As the author and her husband discover, all that label really means is that their son...
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Love and Loss: A Story about Life, Death and Rebirth
by Jane Bay Publisher Comments In sharing the loss of her Tibetan foster daughter, Namgyal Youdon, Jane Bay offers a rare opportunity to travel through the agonizing process of grieving and experience the power and healing of unconditional love....
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The Rags of Time: A Memoir
by Susanna Jaffe Schwartz Publisher Comments Autobiographical epic of a Jewish family and their disabled child in New York and around the world....
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Always...
by Janet Rose Bals Synopsis Using diary excerpts, family photos, old letters and memos, original birth, death and wedding certificates, and information gathered from her children and other family members, this work is an intimate collection of stories about the life of Florence...
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Confessions of a New Mother: A Short, Humorous, But Truthful Account of Being a First-Time Parent
by Jackie Malena Publisher Comments Confessions of a New Mother is a guiltfree, humorous journey thru being a first time mother. With the pressures by society to be the "perfect" mother, this book is the friend every new mom needs. It will allow you to laugh at the "first time" events of...
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The Blessing of a Broken Heart
by Sherri Mandell Publisher Comments I live with contradiction. A friend once said to me: Our children are our teachers. In death, Koby is teaching me more than I have learned from anyone alive. I live knowing that suffering teaches wisdom and a depth of infinite compassion. I live with the...
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A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage
by Beth Kephart Publisher Comments Named a Best Book of the Year by Salon magazine and The Philadelphia Inquirer, A Slant of Sun was praised for its incandescent prose about the experience of loving a child who brings tremendous frustration and incalculable rewards and for its...
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Cheaper by the Dozen
by Frank B. Gilbreth Publisher Comments No growing pains have ever been more hilarious than those suffered loudly by the riotous Gilbreth clan. First there are a dozen red-haired, freckle-faced kids to contend with. Then there's Dad, a famous efficiency expert who believes a family can be run...
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Baptism by Fire: The True Story of a Mother Who Finds Faith During Her Daughter's Darkest Hour
by Heather Choat Davis Publisher Comments Heather Davis and her husband were blessed. They had a strong and loving marriage, a terrific four-year-old son, and a new baby daughter named Remy. But one day, without warning, Remy had a seizure and was rushed to the emergency room. From the moment...
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The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood
by Michelle Herman Publisher Comments When she was three moths old, Michelle Herman's daughter, Grace, went on a hunger strike. At six, she suffered what can only be described, in the old-fashioned way, as a breakdown. And at the ripe old age of eight, she began a study of the nature of...
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