Time to yourself is at a premium when you're the mother of a little one...or little ones. The bathroom may be the one place in the house where you can find a moment of solitude. But you may be going too far when you find a permanent "wrinkled prune effect" on your fingers from spending "just a few minutes longer" in the tub! Author Cynthia Sumner is here to help. Offering practical wisdom with a healthy dose of humor, she relates the stresses that mothers face as they come to terms with the critical role they play in guiding young lives. Covering the noise, activity, and messes of children to the personal dreams, goals, desires, and relationships of adult women, Mommy's Locked in the Bathroom encourages moms to nurture themselves as they also nurture their kids. Here is bathtub reading that'll give you a boost once that door is unlocked! Book jacket.
Most moms with young children struggle to find a little peace and quiet for themselves in the midst of their hectic days, and setting aside time to spend with God can be even harder. They need devotions that fit their busy schedules and meet them where they are. Lorilee Craker's short readings are just right for these moms. She lends her engaging writing style to personal stories that moms will find encouraging, often funny, and oh-so-familiar. Each reflection is related to a biblical truth and bookended by a verse at the beginning and at the end. Just Give Me a Little Piece of Quiet invites moms to retreat from the day's pressures and be refreshed for tomorrow's possibilities.
“I am Moscow’s underground son, the result of one too many nights on the town,” says Mbobo, the precocious twelve-year-old narrator of Hamid Ismailov’s The Underground. Born from a Siberian woman and an African athlete competing in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Mbobo navigates the complexities of being a fatherless, mixed-raced boy in the Soviet Union in the years before its collapse, guided only by the Moscow subway system. Named one of the "ten best Russian novels of the 21st Century" (Continent Magazine), The Underground is Ismailov’s haunting tour of the Soviet capital, on the surface and beneath. Though deeply engaged with great Russian authors of the past—Dostoyevsky, Nabokov, and, above all, Pushkin—Ismailov is an emerging master of Russian writing that reflects the country’s diversity today. Reviews "Hamid Ismailov has the capacity of Salman Rushdie at his best to show the grotesque realization of history on the ground." —Literary Review "The dream of grandeur is more than justified by the artfulness of The Underground, which...create[s] the motifs of blackness, subterranean movement, and isolation that are the novel’s strongest effects." —Transitions Online Hamid Ismailov is an Uzbek journalist, writer, and translator who was forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 for the United Kingdom, where he now works for the BBC World Service. His works are still banned in Uzbekistan. His writing has been published in Uzbek, Russian, French, English, and other languages. He is the author of novels including Sobranie Utonchyonnyh, Le Vagabond Flamboyant, Two Lost to Life, The Railway, The Underground, A Poet and Bin-Laden and The Dead Lake; poetry collections including Sad (Garden) and Pustynya (Desert); and books of visual poetry Post Faustum and Kniga Otsutstvi. Carol Ermakova studied German and Russian language and literature and holds an MA in translation from Bath University. She first visited Russia in 1991. More recently, Ermakova spent two years in Moscow working as a teacher and translator. Carol currently lives in the North Pennines and works as a freelance translator.
Everybody poops, and every child has weird, wild, and hilarious adventures with poop. Join Timmy and his family in one of the funniest stories as they encounter ridiculous, disgusting, epic turds that just will not move! This is the perfect children's book to combat the crushing news we receive every day. We don't need a teaching book right now. What we need is the sound of laughter, and smiles all around. This is the bedtime story that will put a smile on your child's face every night!
As Mommies, we can do almost everything that our children need. We nurture them, feed them, bathe them, play with them and love them. We can do almost anything-until it comes to baby-proofing. As soon as we see the words "drill a 1/16" pilot hole" most Mommies run screaming for Daddy. The idea of using a drill or screwdriver sometimes seems as foreign and daunting as overhauling an engine or building a house from the ground up. Would you like to find out the three steps to choosing a baby safety gate? Do you know how to protect your child from drowning in your own home? This book answers these questions and more. Mommy Can Do It: A Do It Herself Guide to Baby-Proofing helps take away the frustration often associated with creating a child-safe home by empowering Mom to "do it herself." No more does Mom need to wait for Dad to install the baby safety gate or to hire a baby-proofer. This is the only child safety book available that touches on important child safety risks in the home while focusing on helping Mom create a "TotSafe" home.
With insight on crucial daily concerns like communication, lying, self-confidence, and sex education, a seasoned mom encourages those in the midst of the school years to survive--and enjoy--this time in their lives while they hold on to their faith and sanity.
The true crime story of a New York mother who killed and a daughter who wouldn’t die, from the author of A Killer’s Touch and Watch Mommy Die. Anti-Freeze For A Husband It looked like a suicide. A man’s corpse on the bathroom floor—next to a half-empty glass of anti-freeze. But fingerprints on the glass belonged to the deceased’s wife, Stacey Castor. And a turkey baster in the garbage had police wondering if she force-fed the toxic fluid down her husband’s throat. Pills For A Daughter In desperation, Stacey concocted a devious plan. She mixed a deadly cocktail of vodka and pills, then served it to her twenty-year-old daughter Ashley. The authorities would find Ashley with a suicide note, confessing to the anti-freeze murder. But Stacey’s plan backfired—because Ashley refused to die . . . A Killer For A Mother Charged with murdering her second husband—and attempting to kill her oldest daughter—Stacey Castor sparked a media frenzy. But when police dug up her first husband’s grave—and found anti-freeze in his body, too—this New York housewife earned a nickname that would follow her all the way to prison. They called her “The Black Widow.” And with good reason. The story that inspired the Lifetime film, Poisoned Love: The Stacey Castor Story, starring Nia Vardalos. Case Featured On 20/20 Includes Sixteen Pages of Shocking Photos
She was his omnipotent secretary. He was dressed like an old man. A pair of oversized black-rimmed glasses. Covering her beauty.That day, she was abandoned by the childhood sweethearts Boyfriend and became depressed. She changed her original makeup and got drunk in a bar.Coincidentally, there were two Vulgar Man s who took a fancy to her beauty. In her wine was a philter.But she still had a little bit of clarity in her heart. When they reached the parking lot, they saw him. A gold bachelor. He had saved her. However, he couldn't resist her seduction and had a one night stand with her.
A small-town single mom with commitment written all over her Chelsa Lawrence's two girls were her love, her life. They lived a solitary existence with no neighbors, no intruders, no men. Until Antonio Castillo changed all of that. Brimming with masculinity and male sex appeal, he took Chelsea's breath away with one kiss, charmed her daughters with his genuine smile—and filled their quiet lives with laughter and love. But Chelsa was not a one-night woman.... Antonio was not the marrying kind. Yet Chelsa soon had the bachelor rethinking his thoughts on marriage. She was hearth, home—everything he believed he didn't need. Her kisses drove him mad with desire and tasted...just like his destiny? Tall, Dark & IRRESISTIBLE He's the kind of man who knows how to make the girl next door feel like a real woman!
Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Too Late and It Ends With Us. #1 New York Times Bestseller · USA Today Bestseller · Globe and Mail Bestseller · Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.
