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Series: The Mama Sutra Ancient Positions and Practices to Soothe the Modern Baby Paperback Allie Kingsley Baker 9780593187623 $22.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Apr 27, 2021

A charming illustrated guide to burping, stimulating, and soothing your baby—so you can keep your sanity while helping your infant find inner peace.The Mama Sutra is an essential parenting handbook to more than forty methods to calm fussiness, encourage bowel movements, and (the holy grail) help everyone get back to sleep. Meet the Lucky Rabbit, the Drunk Monk, the Spraying Mantis, and other time-tested and scientifically proven ways to help your baby feel better, developed with help from experts in the ancient art of holistic healing. Whether ... + Read More
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Series: A Mother's Wisdom Timeless Advice from Mother to Child Hardcover Norah Lawlor 9781578268412 $15.00 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Mar 29, 2022

An inspirational compilation of timeless advice from mother to child.There’s a saying: “Sooner or later, we all quote our mothers.” The lessons most of us receive, both directly and indirectly, from our mothers as we grow up help form who we become as people. Now more than ever, it’s important to take stock of this maternal wisdom in order to not only get through life, but to thrive. In A Mother’s Wisdom, Norah Lawlor collects the essential strategies and knowledge passed down from her mother—and her grandmother, and beyond—to shares it with a ... + Read More
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Series: Letters on Motherhood Paperback Giovanna Fletcher 9780241481097 $19.99 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Mar 30, 2021

The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller from the no.1 bestselling author and podcast host of Happy Mum Happy Baby.Letters on Motherhood is a collection of heartfelt and deeply poignant letters written by Giovanna to her three young sons, her husband and the family and friends who have inspired and supported her to become the mother that she is today.Never one to glamorise the idea of a perfect family, Giovanna writes about the priceless highs and the challenging lows as she talks about the deeper universal truths of parenting including:· Coping wit... + Read More
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Series: Why Did No One Tell Me? What every woman needs to know to protect, heal and nurture her body through mot herhood Paperback Emma Brockwell 9781785043369 $27.99 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Mar 30, 2021

A reassuring, no-nonsense guide to caring for your body before, during and after giving birth. For too long, women have been told that debilitating conditions following pregnancy are normal, to be expected, and something to just put up with. Emma Brockwell is on a mission to change this. Having been through two difficult pregnancies herself, Emma combines her expertise as a specialist women’s health physiotherapist with personal experience to create a warm, honest, informative and essential handbook to help pregnant women and new mums take cont... + Read More
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Series: My Mother's Daughter A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph Hardcover Perdita Felicien 9780385689960 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

A raw and affecting memoir about a mother and daughter who beat the odds together.Decades before Perdita Felicien became a World Champion hurdler running the biggest race of her life at the 2004 Olympics, she carried more than a nation’s hopes—she carried her mother Catherine’s dreams.In 1974, teenage Catherine is determined and tenacious, but she’s also pregnant with her second child and just scraping by in St. Lucia. When she meets a wealthy white Canadian family vacationing on the island, she knows it’s her chance. They ask her to come to Ca... + Read More
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Series: F*cked at 40 Life Beyond Suburbia, Monogamy and Stretch Marks Paperback Tova Leigh 9781786785220 $17.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 09, 2021

Over 1.3m engaged followers on social media love to hear Tova Leigh’s frank, funny, outrageous and often moving views on life. This updated paperback is filled with all that and more, with the addition of a new chapter on life in lockdown.“I was bored, angry, tired and sad. I felt all alone, yet I had nothing to complain about. I had a good job, a husband who wasn’t shagging his assistant, three children who apart from being occasional a**holes were pretty good kids; a house, a dog and everything else we are told as little girls we should aspir... + Read More
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Series: Mindfulness for Mums Paperback Izzy Judd 9781405947442 $16.99 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Mar 30, 2021

Take some time out from the chaos with Izzy Judd’s calming and soothing exercises for maintaining a happy and peaceful mind’Delightful. Provides simple, easy and fun activities for both parents and children of all ages to restore calm and peace’ MAIL ON SUNDAY ________ Being a mum is often anything but mindful. Having suffered from anxiety for much of her life, Izzy Judd has brought together a brilliant and inspiring collection of simple activities and exercises to help parents find their own piece of calm. Included are exercises both for you t... + Read More
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Series: Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There Paperback Tara Schuster 9780525509905 $24.00 SELF-HELP Dec 29, 2020

Brutally honest, often hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking lessons in self-care from a young Vice President at Comedy Central deemed “ahead of her time” by Jordan Peele.By the time she was in her late twenties, Tara Schuster was a sought-after TV executive who had worked with Jon Stewart and launched Key & Peele to viral superstardom. By all appearances, she had mastered being a grown-up. But beneath that veneer of success, she was a chronically-anxious, self-medicating mess. No one knew that her road to adulthood had been paved with depressi... + Read More
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Series: An Alphabet for Joanna A Portrait of My Mother in 26 Fragments Hardcover Damian Rogers 9780735273030 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 22, 2020

A gripping memoir from acclaimed poet Damian Rogers about being raised by a loving but erratic single mother who is today diagnosed with a rare form of frontal-lobe dementia. In the vein of Plum Johnson’s They Left Us Everything, Leanne Shapton’s Swimming Studies, Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle and Susannah Cahalan’s Brain on Fire.“Evocative, beautifully written, heartbreaking…of special interest to all whose loved ones suffer from dementia.”—Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)“An Alphabet for Joanna is a braid of tiny stories that weaves us into a... + Read More
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Series: Hold My Hand Wise Words for Mothers and Daughters Everywhere Hardcover Antje Southern 9781911622390 $19.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Mar 26, 2020

A wonderful collection of quotes on mothers and daughters from writers and thinkers, illustrated with vintage photography.“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”—Oscar WildeOne of the most important human relationships is that of mother and daughter. Their connection can be close, challenging, or best friends, but it is unique. This collection of quotations from thinkers and writers celebrates and illuminates this relationship. From Oscar Wilde to Marlene Dietrich, from Simone de Beauvoir’s da... + Read More
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Series: Growing You Keepsake Pregnancy Journal and Memory Book for Mom and Baby Hardcover Korie Herold 9781944515973 $49.00 HEALTH & FITNESS Mar 17, 2020

Your pregnancy story is a special one. Document your most precious moments from this season of life in this elegant keepsake journal and memory book.Growing You is a place to celebrate and chronicle your pregnancy journey, reflecting on the growth, anticipation, and memories that you want to hold onto as a mother. This heirloom-quality book, created by the author of the popular baby book As You Grow, is designed with a timeless look and archival paper so that you can one day pass it along to your child.Growing You includes: • Space to journal... + Read More
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Series: There's No Manual Honest and Gory Wisdom About Having a Baby Paperback Beth Newell 9780525534358 $24.00 HEALTH & FITNESS Feb 04, 2020

The info-packed, truth-telling guide expectant and new mothers have been screaming into their pillows for.So you’re making a person…and no one will stop telling you what to do about it. Your friends, your neighbors, your Uber driver—everyone is giving you unsolicited advice, to which Beth and Jackie say: F*ck advice! There’s no “right” way to be pregnant or a new mom, only stretchy pants to be worn and choices to be made.This illustrated guide asks and answers all the essential questions that pop up from the first trimester to the fourth, such ... + Read More
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Series: Dear Girls Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life Hardcover Ali Wong 9780525508830 $35.00 HUMOR Oct 15, 2019

Ali Wong’s hilarious and heartfelt letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they were still in utero), covering everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mom in a male-dominated profession, and how she trapped their dad.In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so heavily that she became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, Asian culture, working women, and why you ... + Read More
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Series: A Good Enough Mother Paperback Bev Thomas 9780735276710 $24.95 FICTION Apr 30, 2019

"Taut, absorbing and psychologically astute, in A Good Enough Mother Bev Thomas combines all the tension of a thriller with the emotional resonance of a powerful family drama."--Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train"Perfect for fans of The Silent Patient." --BooklistA heart-stopping mother's story of love and loss, and a riveting drama that lets us inside the secret world of therapist and patient.Ruth Hartland is the director of a trauma therapy unit in London. A psychotherapist with twenty years of experi... + Read More
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Series: Truth Unchanging Hearing God Daily in the Midst of Motherhood Hardcover Becky Thompson 9780525652298 $22.99 RELIGION Apr 16, 2019

Motherhood is often noisy and rarely silent. Learn to hear God speaking above all the noise in these daily devotions that can be completed in five minutes or less.As moms know, even when there isn't noise around us, there is usually noise within us. The constant to-do lists that spin in our minds, the worry and wonder if we are doing a good job, and the need to stay two steps ahead of our families when we feel two steps behind keeps our minds routinely restless. So when quiet time with God isn't so quiet, and alone time is nearly nonexistent, h... + Read More
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Series: The Mama Sutra A Story of Love, Loss, and the Path of Motherhood Paperback Anne Cushman 9781611804638 $22.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Apr 16, 2019

A heartfelt memoir of motherhood as a spiritual practice by a longtime yoga and dharma teacher.Sutra is the Sanskrit name for a short spiritual teaching, and it comes from the same root as the English word suture, or stitch. This story of motherhood as a path to awakening is, says yoga and meditation teacher Anne Cushman, “an homage to the long threads that run through all human lives, stitching up what’s shredded in our hearts.” The Mama Sutra spans an eighteen-year journey through motherhood as a spiritual practice, chronicling Cushman’s fi... + Read More
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Series: The Gift of a Happy Mother Letting Go of Perfection and Embracing Everyday Joy Hardcover Rebecca Eanes 9780143131564 $29.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Apr 02, 2019

A supportive guide that gives busy moms permission to care for themselves, from a popular parenting blogger with one million Facebook followers"Would you rather have a perfect mom, or a happy one?" This is the question that popular parenting blogger Rebecca Eanes couldn't get out of her head. So she asked her school-age son, who didn't miss a beat in responding: "A happy one."Thus began a journey of reflection and repair work, as Rebecca asked herself an even harder question: How can I rediscover everyday joy amid the chaos of schedules, homewo... + Read More
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Series: Women's Work A Reckoning with Work and Home Hardcover Megan K. Stack 9780385542098 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 02, 2019

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019From National Book Award finalist Megan K. Stack, a stunning memoir of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothersWhen Megan Stack was living in Beijing, she left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have her first child and work from home writing a book. She quickly realized that caring for a baby and keeping up with the housework while her husband went to the office each day was consuming the time she needed to write. This dilemma was reso... + Read More
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Series: Secrets from My Vietnamese Kitchen Simple Recipes from My Many Mothers Hardcover Kim Thúy 9780525610229 $32.00 COOKING Apr 02, 2019

A warm and welcoming introduction to a vibrant cuisine, with more than 50 easy to make recipes from internationally bestselling novelist Kim Thúy.Between careers as a lawyer and an acclaimed novelist, Kim Thúy ran a celebrated restaurant called Ru de Nam in Montreal. Now, in her first cookbook, Kim combines her beautiful storytelling style with simple and wonderful recipes that are full of flavour: surprising yet comforting, and easy enough for every day. Welcoming us into her close-knit circle, she introduces us to her mother and five aunts, e... + Read More
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Series: My Mother's Book Diary Elma van Vliet 9780143133742 $24.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Mar 19, 2019

A touching, beautifully designed, guided journal that invites mothers to record stories of their lives, creating a personal keepsake for generations to come.When Elma van Vliet’s mother became ill in 2001, Elma realized there was still so much she wanted to ask her. That’s why she created a series of books to help share and preserve precious memories. Since then, more than four million people worldwide have used her books to tell their family’s stories.My Mother’s Book is a guided journal that prompts your mother to share her memories, dreams, ... + Read More
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Series: Motherhood Paperback Sheila Heti 9780345810557 $21.00 FICTION Mar 13, 2019

A daring, funny, and poignant novel about the desire and duty to procreate, by one of our most brilliant and original writers.Motherhood treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood--whether or not to have children--with the intelligence, wit and originality that have won Sheila Heti international acclaim, and which led her previous work, How Should a Person Be?, to be called "one of the most talked-about books of the year" (TIME magazine).Having reached an age when most of her peers are asking themselves when they will bec... + Read More
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Series: Cat and Nat's Mom Truths Embarrassing Stories and Brutally Honest Advice on the Extremely Real Struggle of Motherhood Paperback Catherine Belknap 9780735235656 $24.95 HUMOR Mar 12, 2019

#1 Globe and Mail BestsellerHilarious best friends Cat and Nat created a massive online community of moms by sharing their ultra-real and just a bit R-rated dispatches from the mom trenches. From what not to eat a few days postpartum (chicken wings) to the most effective ways to dodge post-partum sex, Cat & Nat's Mom Truths shares everything no one will tell you about having kids.Mixing memoir, humor, and advice, Cat and Nat tell never-before-told stories about the stress, guilt, joy, and laundry (oh the laundry!) of being a mom in their first ... + Read More
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Series: Feeding My Mother Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as a Daughter Lives with her Mom's Memory Loss Paperback Jann Arden 9780735273931 $21.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Mar 05, 2019

This edition of the inspirational #1 bestseller draws on a new year of Jann's diaries and her mother's final days.When beloved singer and songwriter Jann Arden's parents built a house just across the way from her, she thought they would be her refuge from the demands of her career. And for a time that was how it worked. But then her dad fell ill and died, and just days after his funeral, her mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. In Feeding My Mother, Jann shares what it is like for a daughter to become her mother's caregiver--in her own frank and... + Read More
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Series: A Mother's Love Hardcover Katie Flynn 9781780895772 $42.95 FICTION Feb 26, 2019

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, KATIE FLYNN‘Ellie’s a true Flynn heroine with her compassion and bravery. A fine Mother’s Day gift for fans’ Peterborough Evening Telegraph ‘Packed with romance and poignancy’ Woman’Romantic and poignant… Fans of historical fiction will love the details and warmth of Katie Flynn’s wartime tale’ Woman’s Own________________________________________Liverpool, 1940: There comes a moment in every child’s life when they must learn to stand on their own two feet.For fifteen-year-old Ellie Lancton, that time has... + Read More
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Series: Stuff You Should Know Stuff Every Grandmother Should Know Hardcover Joyce Eisenberg 9781683690986 $10.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Feb 12, 2019

This pocket-sized guide is the perfect gift for new and first-time grandmothers.Becoming a grandmother is one of life's biggest joys—but that doesn't mean it's simple! This handy gift book contains all the wisdom, savvy, and know-how grandmothers and grandmothers-to-be will need to care for, cherish, and spoil your little ones from babyhood through the toddler years and beyond, and gifting it is a great way to announce that you're expecting. Topics include: • How to Pick Your Grandmother Nickname • Baby Equipment Essentials • How to Make Old-Sc... + Read More
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Series: The Bold World A Memoir of Family and Transformation Hardcover Jodie Patterson 9780399179013 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 29, 2019

Inspired by her transgender son, activist Jodie Patterson explores identity, gender, race, and authenticity to tell the real-life story of a family’s history and transformation.“A courageous and poetic testimony on family and the self, and the learning and unlearning we must do for those we love.”—Janet Mock In 2009, Jodie Patterson, mother of five and beauty entrepreneur, has her world turned upside down when her determined toddler, Penelope, reveals, “Mama, I’m not a girl. I am a boy.” The Pattersons are a tribe of unapologetic Black matriarc... + Read More
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Series: Black Is the Body Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine Hardcover Emily Bernard 9780451493026 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 29, 2019

“Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.” In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man, surviving a random stabbing at a New Haven coffee shop, marrying a white man from the... + Read More
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Series: Gotham Girl Interrupted My Misadventures in Motherhood, Love, and Epilepsy Paperback Alisa Kennedy Jones 9781623545284 $17.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 06, 2018

Nora Ephron and Allie Brosh fans take note: Alisa Jones' memoir Gotham Girl Interrupted is a smart stand-up comedy about the power of falling down."Get to your safe spaces, people. Here comes the shimmer..."From irreverent NYC blogger Alisa Kennedy Jones comes an account of her "misadventures in motherhood, love, and epilepsy" that James Patterson calls "smart, harrowing, heart-warming, and very funny." What do Da Vinci, Agatha Christie, and blogger Alisa Kennedy Jones have in common? If you said "timeless artistic genius", stop sucking up--the... + Read More
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Series: The Mental Load A Feminist Comic Paperback Emma 9781609809188 $24.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 23, 2018

A new voice in comics is incisive, funny, and fiercely feminist."The mental load. It's incessant, gnawing, exhausting, and disproportionately falls to women. You know the scene--you're making dinner, calling the plumber/doctor/mechanic, checking homework and answering work emails--at the same time. All the while, you are being peppered with questions by your nearest and dearest 'where are my shoes?, 'do we have any cheese?...'" --Australian Broadcasting Corp on Emma's comicIn her first book of comic strips, Emma reflects on social and feminist... + Read More
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Series: The Brave Art of Motherhood Fight Fear, Gain Confidence, and Find Yourself Again Paperback Rachel Marie Martin 9780735291393 $21.99 SELF-HELP Oct 09, 2018

Full-time FindingJoy.net blogger, speaker, marketer, podcaster, and single mom of seven, Rachel Marie Martin presents a rallying cry to anyone who believes the lie that she is "just a mom."Over the years, you willingly pour everything you have into your family, but in the process, you lose the essence of who you are. In her characteristic raw and visceral style, Rachel teaches you how to rewrite the pages of your story, follow your passion, and discover the beauty of who you are. Drawing on lessons from her own incredible journey--together with... + Read More
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Series: Blend The Secret to Co-Parenting and Creating a Balanced Family Hardcover Mashonda Tifrere 9780143132578 $36.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Oct 02, 2018

A wise and inspiring guide to creating a happy and healthy blended family by Mashonda Tifrere with contributions from her co-parents--Swizz Beatz and his wife, Grammy-Award winning singer and songwriter Alicia Keys.In January 2010, founder of ArtLeadHer Mashonda Tifrere and music producer Swizz Beatz finalized their divorce. When Swizz married award-winning singer/songwriter Alicia Keys, a new dynamic was born--three adults who loved and were deeply committed to raising Mashonda and Swizz's four-year old son Kasseem. In Blend, Tifrere draws on ... + Read More
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Series: Now My Heart Is Full A Memoir Paperback Laura June 9780143130918 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 24, 2018

A deeply affecting memoir of motherhood and daughterhood, and how we talk about both, from popular writer Laura June“Laura June writes with wit and melancholy, unabashed joy and tenderness. . . . When I reached the end, I found myself in tears.” —Roxane Gay Laura June’s daughter, Zelda, was only a few moments old when she held her for the first time, looked into her eyes, and thought, I wish my mother were here. It wasn’t a thought she was used to having. Laura was in second grade when she realized her mother was an alcoholic. As the years went... + Read More
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Series: An Excellent Choice Panic and Joy on My Solo Path to Motherhood Hardcover Emma Brockes 9781594206634 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 26, 2018

From the author of She Left Me The Gun, an explosive and hilarious memoir about the exceptional and life-changing decision to conceive a child on one's own via assisted reproduction When British journalist, memoirist, and New York-transplant Emma Brockes decides to become pregnant, she quickly realizes that, being single, 37, and in the early stages of a same-sex relationship, she's going to have to be untraditional about it. From the moment she decides to stop "futzing" around, have her eggs counted, and "get cracking"; through multiple tri... + Read More
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Series: Awake at 3 a.m. Yoga Therapy for Anxiety and Depression in Pregnancy and Early Motherhood Paperback Suzannah Neufeld MFT 9781941529928 $24.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS May 29, 2018

A women’s mental health specialist introduces yoga therapy techniques to provide solace, steadiness, and ease during the difficult stages of pregnancy and new motherhood Pregnancy and new motherhood are often thought of as the most joyful, exciting, and blissful times in your life—but they can also be difficult and overwhelming. Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) are the number one “complication” of birth. They not only affect the mothers who suffer but also the families who care about and rely on them. While there is robust support... + Read More
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Series: Whistle in the Dark Paperback Emma Healey 9780735274426 $24.95 FICTION May 01, 2018

Emma Healey follows the success of her #1 internationally bestselling debut novel Elizabeth Is Missing, winner of the Costa First Novel Award, with this beautiful, thought-provoking, and psychologically complex tale that affirms her status as one of the most inventive and original literary novelists today.Jen and Hugh Maddox have just survived every parent's worst nightmare. Relieved, but still terrified, they sit by the hospital bedside of their fifteen-year-old daughter, Lana, who was found bloodied, bruised, and disoriented after going missi... + Read More
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Series: The Best Cook in the World Tales from My Momma's Table Hardcover Rick Bragg 9781400040414 $38.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 24, 2018

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother. Including seventy-four mouthwatering Bragg family recipes for classic southern dishes passed down through generations.Margaret Bragg does not own a single cookbook. She measures in "dabs" and "smidgens" and "tads" and "you know, hon, just some." She cannot be pinned down on how long to bake corn bread ("about 15... + Read More
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Series: Lidia: A Life of Love, Family, and Food Hardcover Lidia Matticchio Bastianich 9780525609940 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 03, 2018

The beloved Lidia Bastianich--best-selling cookbook author, award-winning television personality, and renowned restaurateur--tells her heartwarming, emotional and revelatory personal story for the first time, with hallmark warmth and gusto.Lidia's story begins with her childhood in Pula, a small city in northern Italy turned Yugoslavian under Tito's communist regime. Despite the political climate and her family's poverty, she enjoyed a loving upbringing, spending time in the simple, rugged beauty of her surroundings: fishing, farming, and forag... + Read More
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Series: End of the Rope Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood Hardcover Jan Redford 9780345812315 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 03, 2018

In the tradition of Cheryl Strayed's Wild, the gritty, funny, achingly honest story of a young climber's struggle to become whole by testing herself on mountains and life.As a young teenager Jan Redford runs away from a cottage where her father has just put her down for the zillionth time and throws herself against a 100-foot cliff face. Somewhere in that shaky, outraged kid is a bedrock belief in her right to exist, which carries her to the top. In that brief flash of victory, she sets her sights on becoming a climber.Falling in love with clim... + Read More
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Series: Perfect Is Boring 10 Things My Crazy, Fierce Mama Taught Me About Beauty, Booty, and Being a Boss Hardcover Tyra Banks 9780143132301 $36.00 SELF-HELP Apr 03, 2018

Supermodel and super CEO of our time Tyra Banks and her mother Carolyn show readers why when you kick perfection to the curb and showcase your unique beauty ain't nobody gonna stop you! In Perfect Is Boring, Tyra Banks and her mother, Carolyn, get raw, real and cray-in-a-good-way as they share what they’ve learned on Tyra’s journey from insecure preteen to supermodel and entrepreneurial powerhouse. Though she’ll be the first to tell you she is not her daughter’s best friend—‘cause she ain’t that kinda mama!—there’s no doubt that Carolyn’s si... + Read More
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Series: Wild Moms Motherhood in the Animal Kingdom Hardcover Carin Bondar 9781681776651 $36.95 SCIENCE Apr 03, 2018

A fascinating and entertaining tour of motherhood in the animal kingdom that reveals a new perspective on the mother/child relationship.Being a mom is a tough job—but imagine doing it in the jungle or out on the safari, faced by the ravages of the elements, a scarcity of resources and the threat of predators prowling at all times of the day and night. In Wild Moms, Dr. Carin Bondar takes readers on an enthralling tour of the animal kingdom as she explores the phenomenon of motherhood in the wild. A journey through motherhood for the animal kin... + Read More
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Series: Meditations for Mom Simple Reflections on Faith, Grace, and Motherhood Hardcover Bonnie Sparrman 9781944833367 $16.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Mar 27, 2018

To encourage people is literally to “provide them with courage.” Meditations for Mom hopes to deliver courage for the daunting, and incredibly rewarding role of being a mother. As your days are full of instruction, comfort, feeding, discipline, chauffeuring, and the juggler of all schedules; this book brings faith-based reflection, and a sense of renewal to your days. Insightful stories to add hope, humor, and perspective on different aspects of parenting from newborn through high school.
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Series: New Baby, New Love Inspiration for the Mother of a Newborn Hardcover Bonnie Sparrman 9781944833381 $16.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Mar 27, 2018

New Baby, New Love is divided into short meditative sections that are the perfect length for mothers to read when they sit down to feed their baby. Each reading encourages moms to go easy on themselves and to feel successful during a vulnerable stage of life. The book is beautifully designed to reach a wide cross section of mothers.
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Series: My Days Happy and Otherwise Hardcover Marion Ross 9781496715159 $28.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 27, 2018

For eleven seasons, Marion Ross was head of one of America’s favorite television households. Now meet the lovable real-life woman behind the Happy Days mom . . . Before she was affectionately known to millions as “Mrs. C.,” Marion Ross began her career as a Paramount starlet who went on to appear in nearly every major TV series of the 1950s and 1960s—including Love, American Style, in which she donned an apron that would cinch her career. Soon after came the fateful phone call from producer Garry Marshall that made her an “overnight” success,... + Read More
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Series: Of Women in the 21st Century Hardcover Shami Chakrabarti 9780241296349 $42.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 27, 2018

A powerful, urgent and timely polemic on why women still need equality, and how we get thereIt is the greatest human rights abuse on the planet. It blights first and developing worlds, rich and poor women’s health, wealth, education, representation, opportunity and security everywhere. It is no exaggeration to describe it as an ’apartheid’, but not limited to one country or historical period. Gender injustice, Shami Chakrabarti shows, is an ancient and continuing wrong that is millennial in duration and global in reach.As we move forward in the... + Read More
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Series: Baby and Me A Guided Journal for the Mother of a Newborn Hardcover Bonnie Sparrman 9781944833374 $13.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Mar 27, 2018

Baby and Me is a delightful journal for mothers to capture memories with ease to turn every-day moments into a keepsake. Beautifully designed pages feature inspirational quotes, with prompts for journal entries for the mother of a newborn through five years old. With place holders for photographs it truly turns her notes into a loving memory book to be enjoyed now and in the years to come. Thoughtful and compelling, it captures the essence of the outpouring love and hope that comes with a new baby.
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Series: The Fifth Trimester The Working Mom's Guide to Style, Sanity, and Success After Baby Paperback Lauren Smith Brody 9781101971888 $22.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Mar 06, 2018

The first three trimesters (and the fourth—those blurry newborn days) are for the baby, but the Fifth Trimester is when the working mom is born. A funny, tells-it-like-it-is guide for new mothers coping with the demands of returning to the real world after giving birth, The Fifth Trimester is packed with honest, funny, and comforting advice from 800 moms, including:•The boss-approved way to ask for flextime (and more money!)•How to know if it’s more than “just the baby blues” •How to pump breastmilk on an airplane (or, if you must, in a bathroo... + Read More
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Series: Martha's Flowers A Practical Guide to Growing, Gathering, and Enjoying Hardcover Martha Stewart 9780307954770 $60.00 GARDENING Feb 27, 2018

The essential resource from Martha Stewart, with expert advice and lessons on gardening and making the most of your spectacular bloomsMartha Stewart's lifelong love of flowers began at a young age, as she dug in and planted alongside her father in their family garden, growing healthy, beautiful blooms, every year. The indispensable lessons she learned then--and those she has since picked up from master gardeners--form the best practices she applies to her voluminous flower gardens today. For the first time, she compiles the wisdom of a lifetime... + Read More
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Series: The New Mum's Notebook Diary Amy Ransom 9781786331168 $35.99 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Feb 27, 2018

________________________*’NEW MUM, YOU’RE DOING BRILLIANTLY’* Reassuring, funny and down-to-earth, THE NEW MUM’S NOTEBOOK is everything you need for the first year of life with a baby.‘It is hands down THE best book I was given as a new mum. I feel it should be issued to all mums on leaving hospital.’ (Louise, Amazon review)_________________________What do new mums want most of all (apart from sleep)? They want someone to tell them what they’re feeling is ‘normal’. That they’re doing ok. That they will be ok. The New Mum’s Notebook, written by ... + Read More
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Series: My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner A Family Memoir Paperback Meir Shalev 9780805212402 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 02, 2018

From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev’s birth. Here we meet Shalev’s amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923 and lived in a constant state of battle with what she viewed as the family’s biggest enemy in their new land: dirt. Grandma Tonia was never seen without a cleaning rag over her shoulder. She received visitors outdoors. She allowed only the most privil... + Read More
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Series: The Kickass Single Mom Be Financially Independent, Discover Your Sexiest Self, and Raise Fabulous, Happy Children Paperback Emma Johnson 9780143131151 $23.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Oct 17, 2017

When Emma Johnson's marriage ended she found herself broke, pregnant, and alone with a toddler. Searching for the advice she needed to navigate her new life as a single professional woman and parent, she discovered there was very little sage wisdom available. In response, Johnson launched the popular blog Wealthysinglemommy.com to speak to other women who, like herself, wanted to not just survive but thrive as single moms. Now, in this complete guide to single motherhood, Johnson guides women in confronting the naysayers in their lives (and in ... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Minis Series Motherhood Vintage Minis Paperback Helen Simpson 9781784872731 $5.99 FICTION Sep 26, 2017

Enjoy Helen Simpson’s sharply funny, humane take on the everyday joys and struggles of motherhood in this perfect Mother’s Day gift. Welcome to motherhood – a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and feet like warm pink roses, and velvet kisses. Here is a land where men and women, once carefree an... + Read More
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Series: Regretting Motherhood A Study Paperback Orna Donath 9781623171377 $20.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 11, 2017

Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true—that women who have children might regret it. Drawing on years of research interviewing women from a variety of socioeconomic, educational, and professional backgrounds, sociologist Orna Donath treats regret as a feminist issue: as regret marks the road not taken, we need to consider whether alternative paths for women currently are blocked off. She asks that we p... + Read More
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Series: My Mother Told Me Hardcover Bonnie Sparrman 9781944833183 $13.95 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT May 09, 2017

My Mother Told Me is a memory journal that offers a window into a mother’s heart. With prompts, inspirational quotes and beautiful full-color pages, it provides mothers with an interactive space to record their experiences, family history, spiritual journey, memories, traditions and dreams. A journal, record album and family keepsake all at once, My Mother Told Me is a loving gift for and from mothers of all ages.
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Series: Ma Speaks Up And a First-Generation Daughter Talks Back Hardcover Marianne Leone 9780807060049 $33.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 25, 2017

The acclaimed actress and author of Jesse: A Mother’s Story tells the "entertaining and moving" story of her outspoken, frequently outrageous Italian immigrant mother (Tom Perrotta)Marianne Leone’s Ma is in many senses a larger-than-life character, one who might be capable, even from the afterlife, of shattering expectations. Born on a farm in Italy, Linda finds her way to the United States under dark circumstances, having escaped a forced marriage to a much older man, and marries a good Italian boy. She never has full command of English—especi... + Read More
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Series: Burntown A Novel Hardcover Jennifer McMahon 9780385687034 $32.00 FICTION Apr 25, 2017

Ashford, Vermont, might look like your typical sleepy New England college town, but to the shadowy residents who live among the remains of its abandoned mills and factories, it's known as "Burntown." Eva Sandeski, known as "Necco" on the street, has been a part of this underworld for years, ever since the night her father Miles drowned in a flood that left her and her mother Lily homeless. A respected professor, Miles was also an inventor of fantastic machines, including one so secret that the plans were said to have been stolen from Thoma... + Read More
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Series: At the Broken Places A Mother and Trans Son Pick Up the Pieces Paperback Mary Collins 9780807088357 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 25, 2017

In this collaborative memoir, a parent and a transgender son recount wrestling with their differences as Donald Collins undertook medical-treatment options to better align his body with his gender identity. As a parent, Mary Collins didn’t agree with her trans son’s decision to physically alter his body, although she supported his right to realize himself as a person. Raw and uncensored, each explains her or his emotional mindset at the time: Mary felt she had lost a daughter; Donald activated his “authentic self.” Both battled to assert their ... + Read More
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Series: Wherever You Go, There They Are Stories About My Family You Might Relate To Hardcover Annabelle Gurwitch 9780399574887 $35.00 HUMOR Apr 18, 2017

A hysterically funny and slyly insightful new collection of essays from New York Times bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch, about her own family of scam artists and hucksters, as well as the sisterhoods, temporary tribes, communities, and cults who have become surrogates along the way.When Annabelle Gurwitch was a child, surrounded by a cast of epically dysfunctional relatives, she secretly prayed that it was all a terrible mistake. Maybe she was a long-lost daughter of Joni Mitchell or the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian princess. A fam... + Read More
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Series: Hourglass Time, Memory, Marriage Hardcover Dani Shapiro 9780451494481 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 11, 2017

The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time--abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and... + Read More