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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Nix may have been born in 1868 Honolulu, but the girl has traveled to Scandinavia, modern-day New York City, and other fantastical times and places aboard her father's time-traveling ship, 'The Temptation.' When her father finds the map he has long been seeking, he vows to keep Nix's mother from dying in childbirth this time. But saving Nix's mother could end Nix's life.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction. Soon, however, the novelist's own painful experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, as well as her increasing awareness of larger threats from climate change to pandemic, force her to give up on the book and turn instead to writing a contemporary Frankenstein, based on the story of an...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Amanda is a new mother, and she is breaking. After a fight with her partner, she puts the baby in the car and drives from Queens to her hometown in rural Ohio, where she shows up unannounced on the doorstep of her estranged childhood best friend. Amanda thought that she had left Carrie firmly in the past. After their friendship ended, their lives diverged radically: Carrie had a baby the summer after high school, became a successful tattoo artist,...
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xiii, 197 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A rancher and his daughter attempt to reconcile 16 years after the girl's mother dies in childbirth. A teenage bride obsessed with sexual fantasies and her distant husband begin to connect when their fellow villagers report the appearance of Christ's face on the church wall. These are just two of the stories in Rudolfa A. Anaya's anthology, which combines folktales with narratives of deep spirituality. 197pp BRODART CO., c2006.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xiv, 267 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Where Baby Mama meets the Discovery Channel, a bright book of brain candy about the wild science behind pregnancy--
While other pregnancy books are heavy on the how-to, Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies takes it to the next level, explaining why. Here's a bright book of brain candy about the wild science behind pregnancy that will touch on big-picture issues: evolution, genes, hormones, instincts--
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xv, 251 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Black mothering is an inherently political act. Black women are more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth than women of any other race; black mothers must stand before television cameras reminding the world that their slain children were human beings. The author explores how to ensure her daughter lives with dignity and joy, learning how to parent boldly in uncertain times and cope with the anxieties that sometimes threaten to consume her....
7) Still born
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic decision to have her tubes tied. But when she announces this to her friend, she learns that Alina has made the opposite decision and is preparing to have a child of her own. Alina's pregnancy shakes the women's lives, first...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Georgia Pritchett found herself lost for words - a bit of a predicament for a comedy writer - she booked an appointment with a therapist, who suggested that she try writing down some of the things that worried her. The therapist probably meant a light, mid-week grocery-list's worth of worries. Instead, Georgia wrote this book. From fretting about the monsters under her bed as a child (Were they comfy enough?) to agonizing about making too much...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Technology has advanced in 2060 New York City, but childbirth has been the same since the beginning of time. And despite the brutal double homicide on Lieutenant Eve Dallas' caseload, she has to be there for her pregnant friend Mavis, even if that means throwing the dreaded baby shower.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the time she was two and aced out in her nudes to explore the neighborhood (as her mom famously described her toddler jailbreak), Busy Philipps has always been headstrong, defiant, and determined not to miss out on all the fun. These qualities led her to leave Scottsdale, Arizona, at the age of nineteen to pursue her passion for acting in Hollywood. But chasing her dreams wasn't always easy and sometimes hurt more than a little. In this candid...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"So many of the words that we use to chronicle women's lives feel awkward or alien. Medical terms are scrupulously accurate but antiseptic. Slang and obscenities have shock value, yet they perpetuate taboos. Where are the plain, honest words for women's daily lives? Mother Tongue is a historical investigation of feminist language and thought, from the dawn of Old English to the present day. Dr. Jenni Nuttall guides readers through the evolution of...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two pink lines on a pregnancy test. The primal scream of a woman pushing through her thirty-fifth hour of labor. The moment a still-wet newborn is placed in his mother's open arms after an unexpected c-section. The bottomless love reflected in the eyes of a father seeing his daughter for the first time. The moment a baby latches to her mother's breast. Or the moment that mother decides to switch to formula. Each of these, and so many more, are stories...
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