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81) MotherFumbler
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I always knew I'd be the perfect mother. So far, I've perfected the fetal position. When Vicki Murphy brought her new baby home from the hospital, she expected to be greeted by fluttering butterflies and harp-strumming cherubs. You know: the way it is in diaper commercials and the "Yay, You're Preggers!" books. LIAR, LIAR, MATERNITY PANTS ON FIRE! Instead, she had a baby boy who didn't sleep for a year, whose cry was the official anthem of Hades,...
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Kevin Kling's first book, The Dog Says How, brought readers into his wonderful world of the skewed and significant mundane. Kling does it again in Kevin Kling's Holiday Inn, a romp through a yearful of holidays and a lifetime of gathering material. A wiener dog with an amazing capacity for destruction impresses the whole family and contributes to their collection of favorite disastrous Christmas stories. A Choctaw and a nun go trick-or-treating on...
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...I raced out of that cinema and didn't look back. It was halfway through the film, after a most incredible moment with Frankie, and I just ran. I haven't told her, yet or replied to her message of 'WTF just happened? WTF did just happen? My grandma died. That's what happened. The final instalment of the Dani Moore Trilogy finds teenage survivor, Dani, in her second phase of Sixth Form. As she navigates her way through the year, she embarks upon...
84) 8 Bags of Mice
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Meet Z.C. Christie...an ordinary suburban housewife with five nearly-normal kids, a workaholic Husband, various annoying phobias, and a propensity for scribbling random thoughts in old notebooks. When you open 8 Bags of Mice and enter her world, you will encounter observations on everyday events, expressed in her unique style...and enjoy memorable episodes from her slightly skewed family life, as related in irreverent, sometimes humorous, but always...
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More Snapshots is the cheeky sibling of its predecessor Snapshots From My Uneventful Life. Chatty, hilarious and often poignant, David I. Aboulafia takes us on a journey through every day, real-life events that start out as uneventful, but that wind up being anything but...
86) Gin and Phonics
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I believe that one of life's great joys is appreciating food and cooking for each other. And if the food is a burger and the person cooking it is a bloke with a McDonald's cap on, so be it.' Self-deprecating and with an acerbic wit, TikTok star Clara Batten aka @rabatts is every middle-class mother trying to get through the day without another sh*t on the staircase or panic drive to McDonald's. In “Gin and Phonics”, she talks candidly about the...
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"The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades--the legalization of same-sex marriage. In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states in a decision as groundbreaking as Roe v Wade and Brown v Board of Education. Through insider accounts and access to...
90) Instant mom
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Actress Vardalos shares her story of adopting a preschooler, relating her parenting experiences while discussing innovative ways to conquer the challenges new moms face.
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2020
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And the greatest of these is...
Jeremy Camp became a GRAMMY®-nominated singer and songwriter, released four gold albums, and received two American Music Awards nominations.
While on a three-month-long tour, Jeremy met and built a friendship with the lead singer of another band. In a beautiful and inspiring story their love unfolded taking them both by surprise. After 16 years of marriage, Jeremy and Adrienne have experienced devastating losses...
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
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In "Heaven Changes Everything," the Burpos share details about their experience and about Colton's visit to heaven that they weren't able to include in the original story or in the Sony Pictures release of the "Heaven Is for Real" movie. Practical and inspiring, the short essays shed light on living with a miracle and the afterlife, each ending with a relevant scripture. Listen in as Todd, and for the first time ever Sonja, from her perspective as...
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2017
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The true story behind the classic TV show: A father’s delightful account of raising eight free-spirited children in 1970s America.
Tom Braden had a colorful career: He parachuted into Nazi-occupied France, directed the CIA’s covert operations program during the early years of the Cold War, ran for public office, owned a newspaper, served as executive secretary for the Museum of Modern Art, and cohosted the CNN show Crossfire....
Tom Braden had a colorful career: He parachuted into Nazi-occupied France, directed the CIA’s covert operations program during the early years of the Cold War, ran for public office, owned a newspaper, served as executive secretary for the Museum of Modern Art, and cohosted the CNN show Crossfire....
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You're going on a journey to a strange new country where you will look different, act different, even feel different. It's like you're becoming a whole new person, and that person is your mother. Your new homeland is middle age, and you need a native guide to teach you how to survive here, or at least to show you where the good bars are.
Written for every woman who knows that turning 40 is no reason to become respectable, Kissing the Crisis is the...
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Sarah M. Wells had one degree in mind when she went off to college: to secure her Mrs. and become a stay-at-home mom. Ten years later, life does not look the way she expected. Instead of staying home, she's the primary breadwinner while her husband raises their kids. Together, they've weathered miscarriages, job changes, role reversals, community shifts, family vacations, and even youth league recreational soccer. Now, in the midst of their tenth...
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El Milagro de la Ruptura te pide que mires más allá de los exiguospedazos que quedan de ti mismo, una dispersión de calificaciones queciertamente no son suficientes para la tarea que tienes por delante, yque busques al Hacedor de Milagros que incluso puede transformar laofrenda más pequeña.
Darlene Rhodes, pastora y oradora internacional, comparte su historiaíntima de cómo surgió a partir de un océano de miedo impregnado deabusos y decepciones,...
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Cold-blooded Thai bargirls, naïve tourists and sordid scams, it was all in a night's work for Pattaya bar manager Simon Los. Pouring their hearts out at the bar are a tourist, who reclaims his masculinity with the help of a ladyboy, a retired financier, who invests thousands in a business with a woman he, meets on the streets of Pattaya, a desperate Irishman, who breaks the law in his pursuit of love, a high-net-worth visitor who is traded between...
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This book tells the story of a young woman's journey in life while being a military spouse. The reader will experience how amazing and challenging military life can be. The book shows the many military roles a spouse will have to claim/hold while supporting the active soldier/family while trying to find herself in the mix of it all. This book will empower, inspire, and most of all prepare anyone who may one day be a military spouse.
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We were just two kids who grew up and fell in love in the summer of 1989 at a wildlife park in Texas. I grew up going to church three times a week, and he was an 80's heavy metal rock fan. I was drawn to him, and when I looked into his eyes, I knew he was the one.
A few months after we were married, a hurricane brought me back to God, and I began to change. I wanted my husband to go to church with me, and he just wanted his wife back. Despite all...
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