Motherhood Life

‘A reassuring manifesto on the role of women today’ - Dawn O’Porter ‘This book - and Cat Sims generally - helps me to breathe a bit easier. My shoulders drop, my jaw relaxes, and I know everything is going to be OK.’ - Bryony Gordon ‘The kind of book that makes you want to high five...

Boys will be boys - always. And no one has a more powerful impact on them than you, Mom. Surprise! Your boy wants to please you, and he cares deeply about what you think. Those driving needs will stay with him throughout his lifetime. That gives you, Mom, a lot of influence over your son. You can set him up for success in life. In What a Difference a Mom Makes, the New York Times best-selling author Dr. Kevin Leman reveals how you can make a positive imprint on your son - from the moment you first hold him in your arms until the moment he leaves for college. And the best news? It's never too late to start.

This program is read by the author. From Donna VanLiere, the New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Hope series comes another heartwarming, inspirational story for the holidays, The Christmas Table. In June 1972, John Creighton determines to build his wife Joan a kitchen table. His...

In this postapocalyptic story of mystery, suspense, grief, and loss, a girl processes her mother’s death as a serial killer’s presence makes her already dangerous world even more deadly. The climate apocalypse has come and gone, and in the end it wasn't the temperature climbing or the...

Reading Roisin Meaney's novels is like 'sitting down with a good friend over a cup of tea' (Irish Mail on Sunday) Two days, one year apart. Four lives changed for ever. It's Una Darling's seventeenth birthday, but nobody feels much like celebrating. It's been exactly a year since the tragic...

The McKenzie women, empowered with a formidable history rooted in the foothills of Appalachia, have passed down their folk-healing wisdom through generations. Rosalee, the last living headstrong daughter in Granny McKenzie’s line, soaked up everything she could about the secrets of the forest before a series of tragedies left her alone, without the protection of the women who came before her.

This honest reflection on motherhood shares a wholehearted reality check for new mothers looking to normalize the reality of parenthood amidst the funhouse mirrors of social media. Linda Fruits brings her signature combination of hilarity and empathy to the page in The Mom Life, emphasizing...

Este libro es una invitación a solucionar las inquietudes que aparecen en este fascinante viaje, que es el de criar y ver crecer a los hijos, posiblemente, lo más trascendental que haremos en la vida. A través de las experiencias de la autora, periodista especializada en maternidad y consultora de crianza, y también de los cuentos que acompañan su relato, sentiremos la maternidad a flor de piel tanto si todavía está por llegar, como si ya estamos en pleno proceso de criar a nuestros hijos.

It’s no great secret that women have trouble maintaining the picture-perfect balance the world tells us we should. That’s where the Fairy God Doctor comes in. The Fairy God Doctor’s Guide to a Good Life: A Prescription for the Working Woman offers essential guidance on how to prioritize and avoid maternal fatigue while also juggling the balls that modern life requires. This revolutionary guide, ideal for successful women, transforms how to approach self-care activities for women in today's demanding world.

While dozens of parenting books address child development, Ann Pleshette Murphy's The 7 Stages of Motherhood addresses the development of mothers, who are transformed right alongside their children. As the former editor of Parents magazine and current parenting contributor to Good Morning America, Murphy brings the voices of the experts and a decade of her own knowledge and unforgettable stories from her own life to bear on this book.

The experience of motherhood is an experience in contradiction. It is commonplace and it is impossible to imagine. It is prosaic and it is mysterious. It is at once banal, bizarre, compelling, tedious, comic, and catastrophic. To become a mother is to become the chief actor in a drama of human...

What if you could . . . Get all your work done by 6:00 p.m.? Eat dinner with your family every night? Form deep, satisfying relationships? Naturally blend the world of church with your everyday life? Spend hours a week on your hobbies? You can! Real Simplicity reveals how to make all of these...

With the rising costs of living, stretching your paycheck seems to be getting harder and harder. Living a Rich Life As a Stay-at-Home Mom outlines clear, simple, and effective strategies that make financial management easier. Implementing principles from this audiobook will help you build a secure financial foundation for you and your children.

The Lucky Ones is a profound evocation of family and the magnetic bonds that can attract or repel. The five people whose lives converge here are also haunted by family: the longing for love, the struggle to connect. Here, a young pregnant mother wrestles with an utterly changed life; a new...

Based on his widely read columns for The New Yorker, Ian Frazier's uproarious first novel, The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days, centers on a profoundly memorable character, sprung from an impressively fertile imagination. Structured as a daybook of sorts, with the Cursing Mommy—beleaguered wife...

In Starry-Eyed, MOPS CEO Mandy Arioto reveals how the brightest and darkest moments of motherhood alike can become a sacred - and sanity-saving - opportunity to encounter God. There is a way to flourish in the midst of it all, and it starts with embracing the light and darkness in life with expectation and awe.

This book is for all the mamas out there who want to leave a life of burnout and find one of balance, who want to find their Mama Groove, and get their energy back. It will show you how to start enjoying life and sharing more fun, love, and laughter with your partner and kids. It may seem like a big journey, but it's broken down into simple, doable steps for the busiest moms. It takes you through the five steps of The Family Balance Method, which has been developed by conscious family coach and mother, Joanna Hunt.

Pregnant. Single. Dating. It's going to be... a bumpy year! Trish Kirkpatrick never expected to find herself unmarried, pregnant... and not entirely sure who the baby's father is. With her ex, Pete, and her colleague, Elliot, in line for daddy duty while waiting on the DNA results, Trish finds her complicated world getting even more chaotic when a meet-cute on a plane to Tokyo with gorgeous architect Scott sparks a new flame. Now, as her bump grows so do Trish's troubles.

In this irresistible memoir, the New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen writes about looking back and ahead—and celebrating it all—as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all the stuff in our closets, and more. As she did...

As a parent myself, I know what it feels like to be at the end of your rope. Looking after three energetic boys can be a handful. But we are the window to the world for our children. How you interact with them in their early years determines the course of their lives. 101 Ways of Speaking to Your Child is a parenting manual that teaches you how to create a loving and nurturing relationship with your children.