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Home on the Strange: Chronicles of Motherhood, Mayhem, and Matters of the Heart

Susan Lundy - Heritage House
Format: Paperback

For Susan Lundy, motherhood began when she moved into her boyfriend's Salt Spring Island home at the age of twenty-one. Her new living arrangement came with furniture, a pair of kids, and a biting gerbil named Quasimodo. Susan was a career-oriented budding journalist, eager to write...
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A Woman's Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice

Felicia Kornbluh - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover

Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this urgent audiobook from historian Felicia Kornbluh reveals two movement victories in New York that forever changed the politics of reproductive rights nationally.A Woman's Life Is a Human Life is the story of the movements...
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A Journey for Two: Mother and Daughter Caregiving Relationships

Jeanne R. Lord - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Explores the mother-daughter relationship in the context of caregivingAcross the Unites States, about 34.2 million Americans have provided unpaid care to an adult age 50 or older in the last 12 months. Much of this caregiving is performed by women and often for their mothers or mothers-in-law,...
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A Modern Parents' Guide to Nursery Rhymes: Because It's Two O'Clock in the Morning and You Can't Remember "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"

Jennifer Griffin - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

It's two o'clock in the morning and you're going to hum your baby back to sleep with . . . "The Simpsons" theme song? Help is here: is the crash course for every new mom or dad who wants to give their child the simple pleasures of traditional nursery rhymes but can't...
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Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future

Jade Sasser - University of California Press
Format: Paperback

The first book-length exploration of climate-driven reproductive anxiety that places race and social justice at the center. Eco-anxiety. Climate guilt. Pre-traumatic stress disorder. Solastalgia. The study of environmental emotions and related mental health impacts is a rapidly growing...
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We Poop on the Potty!

Little Grasshopper Books - Little Grasshopper Books; Illustrated edition
Format: Board book

Who poops? Everyone poops! Where do we poop? On the potty!Sly, funny - even grown-ups!Kids learn about how in the wild, and animals underwater, poop.Whimsical illustrations raise the question of how dragons, and aliens poop, too!Each page emphasizes that wherever animals may poop, humans...
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Claire's Voice

Michelle Fishpaw - ?Proving Press
Format: Paperback

Imagine a mother's horror when she finds her 11-month-old daughter suffering on the floor after being shaken by a babysitter. Against the odds, Claire Fishpaw survived and continually amazed her doctors. This book is the story of a mother and father's inspirational quest to provide...
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The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding: Completely Revised and Updated 8th Edition

LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

The revised go-to resource on breastfeeding that mothers have relied on for generations!. La Leche League has for many years set the standard for supporting families in the art of breastfeeding. This new edition brings that support to today's parents, with up-to-date information, new illustrations,...
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Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It

Emily Kenway - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover

An intimate and deeply researched account of the experiences of unpaid caregivers and a call for us all to put care at the center of our lives When Emily Kenway became the primary caregiver for her terminally ill mother, her life was changed forever. Although she was lonely, she was far from...
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