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.
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.
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
Trust your gut, take care of yourself, and find new life on the other side with this empowering guide to divorce for moms. We hear about it all the time on the news. The divorce rates are rising. More children are being raised in split up 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 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.
The title of this book describes how things are sometimes, and we do not even realize it. We, as selfish flesh, live our lives for us. It is you or me and nobody else. God especially has no room in the picture. We go about our day doing what we want when we want with no thoughts of giving God any of our time. We do not realize at the time that it is because of God's grace and mercy that we are still here despite our shortcomings. Some of us do realize it and are just stuck, like I was, in the dark, praying and hoping that one day you will get out of your situation. Drugs, alcohol, domestic violence, suicide, thinking of harming others-all these things and more can be delivered with prayer, counseling, and the right relationship with Christ. That is the purpose for my book: to encourage, uplift, and touch hearts so that God can heal. Fight for salvation. It is well worth it. I am a living testimony.
Me, Myself, and Oy! Is a collection of poetry and prose reflecting the authors life as a Radio City Rockette, actress, singer, English teacher, wife, mother of three sons, grandmother, daughter of ailing parents, owner of a dance studio, director, choreographer, writer of childrens books, and the struggle to balance all in her quest for love and acceptance. Ms. Bloomberg writes from her heart, with honesty and humor, even in the darkest moments of her life. Loneliness I know your name How often I have played your game I wear a smile to hide a tear And no one ever knows youre here.
Including letters from Melissa Rivers, Shania Twain, will.i.am, Christy Turlington, and Kristin Chenoweth Just in time for Mother's Day, the next book in the A Letter to My series (after A Letter to My Dog and A Letter to My Cat) takes on mothers, with celebrities and civilians writing letters of gratitude and admiration to the women who raised them, alongside gorgeous, intimate photos.
Who was your mother before she was a mother? Essays and photos from Brit Bennett, Jennifer Egan, Danzy Senna, Laura Lippman, Jia Tolentino, and many more. In this remarkable collection, New York Times–bestselling novelist Edan Lepucki gathers more than sixty original essays and favorite photographs to explore this question. The daughters in Mothers Before are writers and poets, artists and teachers, and the images and stories they share reveal the lives of women in ways that are vulnerable and true, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and always moving. Contributors include: Brit Bennett * Jennine Capó Crucet * Jennifer Egan * Angela Garbes * Annabeth Gish * Alison Roman * Lisa See * Danzy Senna * Dana Spiotta * Lan Samantha Chang * Laura Lippman * Jia Tolentino * Tiffany Nguyen * Charmaine Craig * Maya Ramakrishnan * Eirene Donohue * and many others
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
In What My Mother Gave Me, women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter’s story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. The contributors of these thirty-one original pieces include Pulitzer Prize winners, perennial bestselling novelists, and celebrated broadcast journalists. Whether a gift was meant to keep a daughter warm, put a roof over her head, instruct her in the ways of womanhood, encourage her talents, or just remind her of a mother’s love, each story gets to the heart of a relationship. Rita Dove remembers the box of nail polish that inspired her to paint her nails in the wild stripes and polka dots she wears to this day. Lisa See writes about the gift of writing from her mother, Carolyn See. Cecilia Muñoz remembers both the wok her mother gave her and a lifetime of home-cooked family meals. Judith Hillman Paterson revisits the year of sobriety her mother bequeathed to her when Paterson was nine, the year before her mother died of alcoholism. Abigail Pogrebin writes about her middle-aged bat mitzvah, for which her mother provided flowers after a lifetime of guilt for skipping her daughter’s religious education. Margo Jefferson writes about her mother’s gold dress from the posh department store where they could finally shop as black women. Collectively, the pieces have a force that feels as elemental as the tides: outpourings of lightness and darkness; joy and grief; mother love and daughter love; mother love and daughter rage. In these stirring words we find that every gift, ?no matter how modest, tells the story of a powerful bond. As Elizabeth Benedict points out in her introduction, “whether we are mothers, daughters, aunts, sisters, or cherished friends, we may not know for quite some time which presents will matter the most."
