Author: Richard O. Jones
Publisher: Professional Publishing
ISBN: 9781881524168
Category : African American criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Nina Foxx
Publisher: Brown Girls Publishing
ISBN: 0991532295
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Momma set me on the jukebox. So begins the personal story of Denise (Sweetie) Wooten, set between a post-civil rights era New York City and a growing, but stale rural Alabama. We are thrust in the midst of a family longing for normalcy, but instead struggling with illness and all that comes with it; denial, anger and misunderstanding and love. As cultures clash, we see the family through a child s eyes and walk with her as she makes sense of war fought far away, but with effects close to home, and a tragedy that changes her life forever. More truth than not, Momma: Gone is a story of survival, where all the lessons are taught by the child who must eventually lead them through and a classic American story of overcoming life s misfortunes to find the bloom on the other side. -Shortlisted for a Doctorow Award in Innovative Fiction

Author: Lynn Brunelle
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834829983
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Science is the ultimate parenting tool. After all, it’s really all about observing, asking questions, solving problems, making mistakes, and trying again and again and again—just like being a mom or dad! Come along with Lynn Brunelle as she initiates you into the joys of geek-style parenting. A proud geek mom herself—and an Emmy-winning writer for the show Bill Nye, the Science Guy—Lynn has had a love of science from the time she was a child. When she had her own kids, science became like a friend she could lean on for support, helping her make sense of the joy, pain, and uncertainty of parenting. Join her as she infuses her days with science, and shares it, in all its geeky wonder, with her kids.

Author: Jessica Shyba
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250075017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 17

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The only thing better than naptime is naptime with a friend. Theo the puppy (part-Boxer, part-Shepherd, part-Labrador, part-Sharpei) was rescued by Beau, a twenty-three-month-old toddler, and his family from an animal shelter in Santa Cruz. The two of them instantly became best friends. And every day at naptime, Theo waits for Beau to fall asleep, then curls up next to him. Theo and Beau were already a viral sensation thanks to the "unbearably adorable," "utterly charming" photos that author (Beau's mother) Jessica Shyba has been posting on her popular blogMomma's Gone City. And now, she's matched the very sweetest of them to a charming bedtime text to make a board book that is (as Alyssa Milano said of the blog) "so cute it hurts."

Author: Leopold Borstinski
Publisher: Sobriety Press
ISBN: 1913313077
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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Mama’s left the building and the Russians are on the doorstep. Someone’s gotta pay for all the family’s mistakes. When Mary Lou makes some bad decisions, her twins and her husband must decide whether she’s losing her mind. If they can get that cleared up then all they have to worry about is their feud with the Russian mob. And then someone goes and ices the old lady. Who would have the cajones to murder the head of the Lagotti family? The fourth book in the Lagotti Family series is a violent tale of 1990s West Coast mobsters reaches its dramatic climax. Leopold Borstinski’s modern noir grips the reader from start to twisted end. Grab your copy NOW.

Author: Kay O'Gorman
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 0717151670
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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How bad does it have to be for a mother to leave? It would have been easy to say that Kay O'Gorman just continued the cycle of her own neglect and abandonment, but she thought that too easy an excuse. It would have been easy to place the blame on her own traumatic childhood, on the early death of her mother, on her domineering but charismatic father. To escape this background, she married early but, like many such marriages, it was not a happy union. She hoped that children would change things, but they did not. Her circumstances grew ever more desperate. Kay fled. She formed a new relationship, but her sense of guilt at having abandoned her children oppressed her to the point that she herself developed problems with alcohol. It took a long time, but finally she sorted out her life. In Where's Your Mama Gone? she writes with unflinching truth about her past and the motivations for her actions. It recalls an Ireland of casual cruelty, all-powerful authority figures, sexual ignorance and non-existent choice.

Author: Rebecca Cobb
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805095071
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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Daddy comforts and reassures a very young boy after Mommy dies.

Author: Gina Wong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986667176
Category : Feminist theory
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Impetus for this landmark collection emerged from the extraordinary success of the Moms Gone Mad: Motherhood and Madness Oppression and Resistance International Conference in New York City, 2009. Cultural meanings extolled on motherhood are often overlooked and many women struggle and personalize issues to themselves and remain silent. This anthology synthesizes and roars out marginalized experiences of moms in a culture that relegates unconventional experiences to 'craziness' and her own 'madness'. From a feminist perspective, scholars in motherhood across disciplines and mothers steeped in the experience have come together to capture multifarious experiences of oppression to resistance in a groundbreaking anthology that embodies motherhood empowerment. This book enhances dialogue and revolutionizes our understanding of motherhood constructions and experiences by exploring the underbelly of mothering and subjugated experiences such as women's inhumanity to women and deconstructing notions of 'mommy' in literature/media that are oppressive. Critical examinations of the 'good mother', 'mother-shame', and 'mother-guilt', growing up a daughter of depression, body image and disordered eating in motherhood, postpartum depression are explored as well as experiences such as single motherhood, mothering a child with disability, and childlessness; and perceived anomalies such as losing a child to suicide and postpartum psychosis and more.

Author: Ann Vernon
Publisher: Paddleboatpress
ISBN: 9781940797007
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Mama's Milk Is All Gone is an illustrated book for parents and babies/toddlers/children to read together. The book recognizes the breastfeeding relationship that the child shared with their mother and how after weaning they have many different ways that they fill their physical and emotional needs in place of breastfeeding. It is meant to help ease the emotional transition that occurs alongside the physical transition.

Author: Christine Kotlowski
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1682133583
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Written from a daughter's perspective, My Mom's Gone . . . Now What? seeks to inspire others who may find themselves in a similar situation to come to terms with their loss, and more importantly, to move forward in their lives. The author's mother was to undergo a standard catheterization procedure when she suddenly goes into cardiac arrest at the age of sixty-two, leaving the family in shock and disbelief. Unable to share her sadness with anyone, Kotlowski struggles to cope by throwing herself into various activities-including operating her own day spa and salon-and consequently neglecting her health. When she discovers that she has high cholesterol levels just as her mother did, she slowly comes to the realization that she needed to make changes in her life; she needed to move on in order to live. Filled with insightful advice and anecdotes, My Mom's Gone . . . Now What? is a journey of self-discovery and making the commitment to living a quality life.