Parenting Memoir

Read by the author, this book, for one year follows her painful divorce. Denise Hildreth Jones chronicled every emotion, every new discovery, and every moment of God's unyielding presence. Flying Solo, the diary of that roller-coaster year, begins on the day Denise sat in court to hear a judge end her 13-year marriage and follows her through twelve months of soul-searching, heartbreak, and healing.

When Deborah Gold and her husband signed up to foster parent in their rural mountain community, they did not foresee that it would lead to a roller-coaster 15 years of involvement with the traumatized, yet resilient, birth family. In Counting Down, Gold artfully tells her story of forging a family within an often confounding system in ways that defied the expectations of everyone involved.

A wonderfully written account of a father's relationship with his troubled son, as told through his funny, tender letters. In 2007 Michael Maitland left home for university, and in the years that followed he developed depression, OCD and, almost fatally, anorexia. It was only when Michael was taken to hospital in 2012, his body shutting down and his organs failing, that the family realised exactly what was happening.

El testimoni íntim d'una dona embarassada, una reflexió global sobre la maternitat i la condició femenina. Una aportació poc habitual, lluny de tòpics romàntics i ensucrats de la vivència de l'embaràs i la maternitat en totes les seves dimensions, des de la més personal a la social, amb la sensibilitat d'una gran escriptora. Temps d'una espera és el diari que l'autora va escriure ara fa més de trenta-cinc anys quan va saber que estava embarassada per segona vegada.

At 26, Anu Singh Choudhary presumed that everything in life had become sort of perfect, and her life at that moment was really the happy fairy tale ending one had grown up striving for. A supportive family, a wonderful husband, and twins (that too a boy and a girl) - is this not what a woman ultimately wants? But what followed was a roller-coaster ride while she struggled through finding a balance between her quest for self and raising a family which demanded undivided attention.

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In the late 1960s, at the age of eighteen and living far from home amidst the thriving counterculture of Ottawa, Marilyn Churley got pregnant. Like thousands of other women of the time she kept the event a secret. Faced with few options, she gave the baby up for adoption. Over twenty years later, as the Ontario NDP government’s minister responsible for all birth, death, and adoption records, including those of her own child, Churley found herself in a surprising and powerful position–fully engaged in the long and difficult battle to reform adoption disclosure laws and find her son.

Meredith Maran lived a daughter's nightmare: she accused her father of sexual abuse, then realized, nearly too late, that he was innocent. During the 1980s and 1990s, tens of thousands of Americans became convinced that they had repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse, and then, decades later, recovered those memories in therapy. Journalist, mother, and daughter Meredith Maran was one of them.

Pregnant from her first sexual encounter, a teenager living in a town of 3,000 Catholics keeps her secret from everyone until six weeks before the baby's due date. Hustled out of town and hidden in the Iowa countryside within hours of finally confiding in her mother, she concocts a scheme that will allow her to raise her child, but can she win over any of the people who might help her? As her pregnancy and its looming consequences unfold, she realizes that her life of lies and secrets has only just begun.

Meet Patrick Butler and Melyssa Fleming, a dynamic brother-sister duo juggling parenthood, thriving careers, active volunteerism, podcasting, and now, writing. In The Bond We Share, they open up about their upbringing in the Midwest, where their parents’ decision to adopt Melyssa initially brought joy, but later faced challenges due to extended family dynamics and mental health struggles. The siblings were abruptly separated during their formative years, disrupting the foundation of their sibling bond.

A Version of You is an introspective adventure that will take the listener upon a journey throughout the course of one year within a young woman’s life on the road. The story is a true tale that speaks with raw, poetic gravity about not only the endearing beauty of travel, but also the unspoken hardships faced when attempting to maintain a sense of personal identity against the world's ever-changing backdrop.

With poignant and artful storytelling that will touch the heart, A Touch of Splendor is a memoir that wonderfully depicts three young sisters - preacher's daughters each with her own personality - and their neighborhood friend, Leonard Martin - growing up in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in the 1930s and 1940s. Each story will tug at your heartstrings and rekindle warm memories of days gone by.

A look into raising an Autistic son from the point of view of an Irish Dad, ASD Dad talks about the challenges and triumphs as well as the many funny moments and stories we have on a daily basis whilst navigating autism.

Letters to Freedom: From Fear to Love to Grace is a love letter to hope, surviving, and thriving after loss. Dr. Patti Ashley shares her own love story about healing from the deep grief that accompanies the risk inherent in loving someone. Having lost both her father early in life and her fiancé much later in life to sudden heart attacks, Patti shares her journey of overcoming fear, embracing love, and finding grace in her grief. She initially wrote this story for her personal healing. She later decided to share it with others in the hopes it will help you find grace.

A story of love, war, and life as a Jewish immigrant in the squalid factories and lively dance halls of New York’s Garment District in the 1930s, My Mother’s Wars is the memoir Lillian Faderman's mother was never able to write. The daughter delves into her mother's past to tell the story of a Latvian girl who left her village for America with dreams of a life on the stage and encountered the realities of her new world: the battles she was forced to fight as a woman, an immigrant worker, and a Jew with family left behind in Hitler’s deadly path.

Just when Stacy Morrison thought she had it all, her husband of 10 years announced that he wanted a divorce. She was left alone with a new house that needed lots of work, a new baby who needed lots of attention, and a new job in the high-pressure world of New York publishing. Morrison had never been one to believe in fairy tales. As far as she was concerned, happy endings were the product of the kind of ambition and hard work that had propelled her to the top of her profession.

Whether you are building a small business from the ground up or managing a multinational company, you can learn the seven key traits for leadership success from one of the greatest business innovators and creative thinkers of the 20th century: Walt Disney. Whether you know him as the first to produce cartoons in Technicolor, the mastermind behind the theme park Disneyland, or the founder of the largest entertainment conglomerate, Walt's story of creativity, perseverance in spite of obstacles, and achieving goals resonates and inspires as much today as it ever has.

Rachel Simon's historic home on a charming tree-lined street was hardly ideal. It was too small, too dark, and there was a gaping hole in the dining room ceiling. So when the house is burglarized, Rachel and her husband, Hal, agree it's time to sell. But in a difficult housing market, and with Hal being an architect, they soon realize: Why leave when they can renovate?

Jane is to the world a charismatic personality—opinionated, an inner-city teacher and public activist, a lover of Italy, proud and successful—who thrives on a carefully crafted life narrative. Susannah, her beautiful only daughter and her intended protege, senses the stricter, darker truth, and fights to resist the control imposed on her by her mother's narcissistic tale, especially as Susannah becomes a mother herself. But then Jane at seventy-five, healthy and fit, chooses suicide, leaving her daughter with grief and the unwelcome gift of forty-five years of hidden diaries

In this compelling story of selfless courage and compassion, Cheryl Lafferty Eckl chronicles how she and her beloved husband, Stephen, moved beyond merely coping with his imminent death from colon cancer to approaching it as one of life's great mysteries—a process of profound learning, mutual devotion, and deep personal growth. Writing with stunning candor and immediacy, Cheryl takes the listener on a journey that plumbs the depths of loss and soars to the heights of the soul's release-even providing a powerful glimpse into the Other Side of life.