The Weightless Mother
Author: Norman Bell
Publisher:
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Mrs. Flippin takes some experimental pills by mistake, she becomes weightless and floats off into the sky.
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What Mother Never Told Me
Author: Donna Hill
Publisher: Kimani Press
Published: 2013-05-28
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0373534620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParris McKay goes to France in search of her mother, but the meeting opens old wounds for both. Parris finds solace in two new friends who, like her, are coming to terms with a legacy of long-buried secrets.
The Spiritual Lives of Bereaved Parents
Author: Dennis Klass
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-12
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 131777177X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes how parents lose, find, or relocate spiritual anchors after the death of their child. It describes how ordinary people reconstruct their lives after their foundations have shifted, and how they make sense of their world after one of their centers of meaning has been removed. Klass grounds his descriptions of spirituality in his scholarly study of comparative religions, and in his two decades studying the lives of bereaved parents. He argues that continuing bonds with their dead children can give parents a new transcendent reality. Deceased children, like saints or bodhisattvas, can offer a bridge between the profane and sacred worlds, support parents as they find meaning in a world made forever poorer, and bind together a community adequate to parents' grief. The book reports Klass's clinical practice and his work as advisor to a bereaved parents self-help support group.
The Baby Book
Author: William Sears
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2008-11-16
Total Pages: 883
ISBN-13: 0316045691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic guide of the post-Dr. Spock generation has been revised to include the latest information on virtually every aspect of infant and baby care. THE BABY BOOK is unrivaled in its scope and authority, and presents a practical, contemporary approach to parenting that reflects the way we live today. Focusing on the essential needs of babies--eating, sleeping, development, health, and comfort--it addresses the questions of greatest concern to parents. The Searses acknowledge that there is no one way to parent a baby, and they offer the basic guidance and inspiration you need to develop the parenting style that best suits you and your child. THE BABY BOOK is a rich and invaluable resource that will help you get the most out of parenting--for your child, for yourself, and for your entire family.
Faerie
Author: Eisha Marjara
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: 2016-06-07
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1551526190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJust days before her eighteenth birthday, Lila has resolved to end her life. The horror of becoming an adult, and leaving her childhood behind, has broken her heart. Faerie, a novel for young people, is the fierce yet gently unfolding story of a hyper- imaginative girl who is on a collision course to womanhood. She likens herself to a half-human fairy creature who does not belong in the earthly world; but in the cold light of day she is a psychiatric patient at a hospital, where she is being treated for anorexia - her sickness driven by the irrational need to undo nature and thwart the passage of time. Lila tells the story of how she ended up on the Four East wing: we flash back to her childhood in the eighties, growing up in a small town as the overweight brown kid of Punjabi immigrant parents: her father, a literary scholar whom she idolizes, and her mother, a housewife - "the most female of all females who found comfort in cooking." Faerie weaves these passages with Lila's downward spiral into life-threatening illness, her budding sexuality, and her complicated recovery in hospital that comes with a price. Written with candor and heartbreaking lyricism, Faerie is a plaintive yet ultimately life-affirming love letter to the bold, flawed splendor that is childhood. Eisha Marjara has written and directed several award-winning films, including the critically acclaimed NFB docudrama Desperately Seeking Helen. Her latest, House for Sale, has won numerous film festival awards. Faerie is her first novel. She lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Weightless
Author: Kate Wicker
Publisher: Servant Books
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780867169713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCountless women today are weighted down by the thought that they are not thin enough, pretty enough, young enough, or good enough. While bookstore shelves are well stocked with advice on how to overcome body image problems, very few take a faith-based, much less Catholic, approach to self-healing. Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body speaks not only to those who may have faced an eating disorder, but also to anyone who wants to live an abundant life, unencumbered by society's obsession with thinness, physical beauty, youth, or food. Weightless offers: Personal stories that debunk cultural myths about beauty Spiritual tools to help address common struggles Meditations to reshape the way a woman views herself Discussion questions for personal or group reflection
Mary, Mrs. A. Lincoln
Author: Janis Cooke Newman
Publisher: HMH
Published: 2012-12-10
Total Pages: 635
ISBN-13: 0544148959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA novel about the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, narrated by the First Lady herself, a USA Today choice for Best Historical Fiction of the Year. The wife of Abraham Lincoln is one of history’s most misunderstood and enigmatic women. She was a political strategist, a supporter of emancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three children and the assassination of her beloved husband. She also ran her family into debt, held seances in the White House, and was committed to an insane asylum—which is where Janis Cooke Newman’s debut novel begins. From her room in Bellevue Place, Mary chronicles her tempestuous childhood in a slaveholding Southern family and takes readers through the years after her husband’s death, revealing the ebbs and flows of her passion and depression, her poverty and ridicule, and her ultimate redemption, in a novel that is both a fascinating look at a nineteenth-century woman’s experience and “an old-fashioned pleasure to read” (The Plain Dealer). A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
The Prison Poems
Author: Miguel Hernández
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Published: 2008-11-21
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1602359881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE PRISON POEMS is the first complete translation into English of Miguel Hernández’s Cancionero y romancero de ausencias, a classic of 20th century Spanish poetry, comparable in many respects to the work of Lorca and Pablo Neruda. The poems in this book were mostly written while he was in prison after the defeat of Republican Spain.
Personality Development
Author: Debbie Hindle
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-03
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1134681690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPersonality Development is a comprehensive overview of infant observation and personality development. It starts at inter-utero life and goes through to adulthood, focusing on the emotional tasks involved at each stage of development and the interplay of internal processes and external circumstances. Contents include: * intra-uterine life and the experience of birth * babyhood: becoming a person in the family * the toddler and the wider world * the latency period. Using clinical and observational material, it will be of interest to those teaching personality development courses, as well as mental health and child care professionals.
Reading London's Suburbs
Author: G. Pope
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-17
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1137342463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of London suburban-set writing, exploring the links between place and fiction. This book charts a picture of evolving themes and concerns around the legibility and meaning of habitat and home for the individual, and the serious challenges that suburbia sets for literature.
