Author: Zaria Hathorn
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1665702508
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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Ever since a little girl can remember, it has always just been her and her mother, tackling the world together. People always say they look alike with their brown eyes and thick curly hair. But one rainy day when the mother takes the girl to the local bakery to meet a strange man, everything changes. Mr. August, who has skin the color of coffee beans, brings his son, Alex, with him. He has a cool job aboard a US Navy ship and is super funny. Alex is very friendly and creative. A few months after Mr. August and the girl’s mom announce they are getting married, Mr. August officially becomes her father as two families blend into one and realize a new beginning together. In this heartwarming tale for children, a girl and her mother become part of a newly blended military family as they continue on a loving journey through life together.
Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1400066115
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A moving memoir about the legendary author’s relationship with her own mother. Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick! The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother. For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence—a presence absent during much of Angelou’s early life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian famously sent three-year-old Maya and her older brother away from their California home to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. The subsequent feelings of abandonment stayed with Angelou for years, but their reunion, a decade later, began a story that has never before been told. In Mom & Me & Mom, Angelou dramatizes her years reconciling with the mother she preferred to simply call “Lady,” revealing the profound moments that shifted the balance of love and respect between them. Delving into one of her life’s most rich, rewarding, and fraught relationships, Mom & Me & Mom explores the healing and love that evolved between the two women over the course of their lives, the love that fostered Maya Angelou’s rise from immeasurable depths to reach impossible heights. Praise for Mom & Me & Mom “Mom & Me & Mom is delivered with Angelou’s trademark good humor and fierce optimism. If any resentments linger between these lines, if lives are partially revealed without all the bitter details exposed, well, that is part of Angelou’s forgiving design. As an account of reconciliation, this little book is just revealing enough, and pretty irresistible.”—The Washington Post “Moving . . . a remarkable portrait of two courageous souls.”—People “[The] latest, and most potent, of her serial autobiographies . . . [a] tough-minded, tenderhearted addition to Angelou’s spectacular canon.”—Elle “Mesmerizing . . . Angelou has a way with words that can still dazzle us, and with her mother as a subject, Angelou has a near-perfect muse and mystery woman.”—Essence
Author: Nancy Friday
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780006382515
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Nancy Friday shows that the key to a woman's character lies in her relationship with her mother - that first binding relationship which becomes the model for so much of women's adult relationships with men, and whose fetters constrain her sexuality, independence and very selfhood.
Author: Kelly McDaniel
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401960855
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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An insatiable need for sex and love. Periods of overeating or starving. A pattern of unstable and painful relationships. Does this sound painfully familiar? Trauma counselor Kelly McDaniel has seen these traits over and over in clients who feel trapped in cycles of harmful behaviors-and are unable to stop. Many of us find ourselves stuck in unhealthy habits simply because we don't see a better way. With Mother Hunger, McDaniel helps women break the cycle of destructive behavior by taking a fresh look at childhood trauma and its lasting impact. In doing so, she destigmatizes the shame that comes with being under-mothered and misdiagnosed. McDaniel offers a healing path with powerful tools that include therapeutic interventions and lifestyle changes in service to healthy relationships. The constant search for mother love can be a lifelong emotional burden, but healing begins with knowing and naming what we are missing. McDaniel is the first clinician to identify Mother Hunger, which demystifies the search for love and provides the compass that each woman needs to end the struggle with achy, lonely emptiness, and come home to herself.
Author: Dr. Kevin Leman
Publisher: Revell
ISBN: 1493416561
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Creating a happy, lifelong marriage is about much more than physical compatibility. It's about a lifestyle of 24-7 intimacy that bonds couples in a mutually satisfying relationship. In The Intimate Connection, bestselling marriage expert Dr. Kevin Leman explores key secrets to the love life couples crave. He helps readers - understand each other's needs, backgrounds, and personalities (and how those factors influence every marital interaction) - talk so their spouse really listens - turn negative game-playing into positive behaviors that help couples grow closer - create deep, long-lasting intimacy that's divorce-proof Whether couples are new to marriage or have been married a long time, Dr. Leman's time-tested strategies will create the kind of exciting intimacy, mutual respect, and fulfilling communication that will keep husbands and wives in each other's arms for a lifetime.
Author: Michelle Dempsey-Multack
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982184604
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Trust your gut, take care of yourself, and find new life on the other side with this “straightforward” (Ilene S. Cohen, PhD, award-winning author of When It’s Never About You), empowering guide to divorce for moms. We hear it all the time on the news. The divorce rates are rising. More children are being raised in split homes. But you didn’t think it would happen to you. Luckily, you’re not alone. Popular divorce coach Michelle Dempsey-Multack not only survived her own divorce but figured out how to move on with her life, just like you will, too. Now happily remarried with a blended family, she’s living proof that no matter which “firsts” you might be experiencing as you end your marriage, and no matter how long you stayed with someone who didn’t meet your needs, your best days are ahead. Mom’s Moving On is your “go-to guide” (Dr. Elizabeth Cohen, psychologist and author of Light on the Other Side of Divorce), filled with practical, actionable, and empowering advice from someone who has been through it and has come out the other side. Through Michelle’s guidance, you’ll learn how to navigate your divorce with confidence, adjust to life as a single mother, and shift your perspective to find your way back to your best self. From coparenting to dating as a single mother, you’ll learn how to truly move on and create the life you deserve.
Author: Nancy Friday
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Dell celebrates the l0th anniversary of this groundbreaking bestseller (3 million now in print) just in time for Mother's Day. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a landmark study", My Mother/My Self explores a daughter's search for her own identity.
Author: Leroy Flemming
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503542718
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 111
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Closing Letter From Leroy You have now completed volume five which means you all have traveled with me through the entire series. I wish to thank you all for traveling with me through my written moments. If you are inspired to write about your own life don't wait for someone to tell you when to start. This is your life and you must get moving because time is not waiting for any of us. As I leave you with my series: TIMELIGHTENMENT and SOULSPLITTING you must know that your life matter even if you don't see it. You are here for some reason; you must live to walk towards your living purpose. People can point you, but you must walk into your dreams. You can even run if you like! It is your time to spiritually shine so please get out and share your dream light. Mom, I don't know if you are watching over your family. I don't even know what's on the other side of this life, I promised you I will not give up on those things I told you I would do. I will not give up because I feel you are watching the moves I am making. These books are for you, GOD, your family, and the entire world. KNOW THAT YOUR LOVE FROM THE OTHER WORLD SUSTAINS ME! WITH LOVE YOUR SON!! I want to thank the readers' for your support. If I am blessed to write another series, I will gladly bring it to life for you. Respectfully, Leroy
Author: Deborah Kelly
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1685372406
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
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Finding the Key By: Deborah Kelly After the sudden and unexpected passing of her beloved mother Dorothy, Pam is grief-stricken and struggling to accept her death. Grasping for any means of keeping her near, Pam finds comfort during her mother’s celebration of life, where she is overcome by stories from her mom’s youth—stories she never knew; and she begins to yearn to have known her mother in her youth, too. Soon, Pam starts having vivid dreams and visions of her mother; dreams too specific and unusual not to be true. Desperate to discover the reality of her new existence, Pam reaches out to a physic. Who tells her that her mother wants what she wants and she must “find the key” before its too late? The mystery of the key starts to unravel, will Pam find it in time?
Author: Michele Filgate
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1982107359
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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“You will devour these beautifully written—and very important—tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse. As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. This gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers. Leslie Jamison writes about trying to discover who her seemingly perfect mother was before ever becoming a mom. In Cathi Hanauer’s hilarious piece, she finally gets a chance to have a conversation with her mother that isn’t interrupted by her domineering (but lovable) father. André Aciman writes about what it was like to have a deaf mother. Melissa Febos uses mythology as a lens to look at her close-knit relationship with her psychotherapist mother. And Julianna Baggott talks about having a mom who tells her everything. As Filgate writes, “Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them.” There’s relief in acknowledging how what we couldn’t say for so long is a way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves. Contributions by Cathi Hanauer, Melissa Febos, Alexander Chee, Dylan Landis, Bernice L. McFadden, Julianna Baggott, Lynn Steger Strong, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, André Aciman, Sari Botton, Nayomi Munaweera, Brandon Taylor, and Leslie Jamison.
