Musings of a 20-Something Mom, and the Perils of Being a Mommy Blogger

Musings of a 20-Something Mom, and the Perils of Being a Mommy Blogger
Author: Jenny Schoberl
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2011-11-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781467904445

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One of the largest trends among Moms today is to jump on the internet and immediately regurgitate all the magical, wonderful things their child has done in the past two hours to the first unsuspecting victim. Moms are everywhere; they've even taken over Blogging. Hundreds of blogs about how Fluffy got his first tooth, or Muffy said a new word. It's enough to make people want to vomit sugar. I've been told that i'm not your typical mom, and my blog is not your typical blog; I've even been called the "Eminem of Mommy Blogging," honest, blunt, and usually vulgar. This book is my experiences and stories as I ventured through the Mommy Blogging world, trying to make light of some disgusting situations, and it wasn't always pretty. I had to learn the hard way that blatant honesty may not always be the best policy... not if you want to keep your kids. "Musings of a 20-something Mom" is a lesson on how NOT to blog, unless you want to piss off your friends, family, and get a pack of crazies chasing after you; and a reminder that when it comes to parenting, there's always going to be someone out there saying "you're doing it wrong!" **This book contains blog entries that are no longer available online

Violet

Violet
Author: SJI Holliday
Publisher: Orenda Books
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2019-09-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1912374862

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When two strangers end up sharing a cabin on the Trans-Siberian Express, an intense friendship develops, one that can only have one ending ... a nerve-shattering psychological thriller from bestselling author SJI Holliday ***Mail on Sunday BOOK OF THE YEAR*** 'A tense, immersive thriller that kept me guessing' Ian Rankin 'Compelling, gripping and horrifically entertaining' Liz Nugent 'Wonderfully creepy and compelling' Mail on Sunday 'Echoes of a Killing Eve vibe. Fabulously awful women you will love' Sarah Pinborough _________________ Carrie's best friend has an accident and can no longer make the round-the-world trip they'd planned together, so Carrie decides to go it alone. Violet is also travelling alone, after splitting up with her boyfriend in Thailand. She is also desperate for a ticket on the Trans-Siberian Express, but there is nothing available. When the two women meet in a Beijing Hotel, Carrie makes the impulsive decision to invite Violet to take her best friend's place. Thrown together in a strange country, and the cramped cabin of the train, the women soon form a bond. But as the journey continues, through Mongolia and into Russia, things start to unravel – because one of these women is not who she claims to be... A tense and twisted psychological thriller about obsession, manipulation and toxic friendships, Violet also reminds us that there's a reason why mother told us not to talk to strangers... _________________ 'A fantastically claustrophobic and hugely enjoyable read' I-Newspaper ' Killing Eve meets The Talented Mr Ripley meets Single White Female ... This is a tense, uneasy thriller, which will forever stop you befriending strangers' Red 'A dark look at toxic friendship, this twisted thriller is a devour-in-a-single-sitting gem' Crime Monthly 'A compulsive read ... a book you won't be forgetting in a hurry' CultureFly 'Gripping with twists that you don't see coming' Woman's Way

Dream On Amber

Dream On Amber
Author: Emma Shevah
Publisher: Chicken House
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1760272582

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Amber Alessandra Leola Kimiko Miyamoto. As if her name made up for being tiny, half Japanese and half Italian, and starting a new school with a caveman phone. Dream on! But the hardest bit about being Amber is that a part of her is missing. Her dad. He left when she was little and if he isn’t coming back, she’ll have to sort things out another way. And Amber has a big imagination …

What My Mother Gave Me

What My Mother Gave Me
Author: Elizabeth Benedict
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1616202688

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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."

Closure

Closure
Author: Jacob Ross
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Black people
ISBN: 9781845232887

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This ambitious and intriguing anthology of short stories showcases each author's most challenging work. These works from writers who are happy to describe themselves as Black British, have a rich variety of styles, forms, and themes, from raw realism, the erotic, and elegant economy, to the fanciful, humorous, and the tender.

This Beautiful Life

This Beautiful Life
Author: Helen Schulman
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2011-08-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062092685

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"ThisBeautiful Life is a gripping, potent and blisteringly well-written story offamily, dilemma, and consequence. . . . I read this book with white-knuckledurgency, and I finished it in tears. Helen Schulman is an absolutely brilliantnovelist." —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love Theevents of a single night shatter one family’s sense of security and identity inthis provocative and deeply affecting domestic drama from Helen Schulman, theacclaimed author of A Day at the Beach and Out of Time. In thetradition of Lionel Shriver, Sue Miller, and Laura Moriarty, Schulman crafts abrilliantly observed portrait of parenting and modern life, cunningly exploringour most deeply-held convictions and revealing the enduring strengths thatemerge in the face of crisis.

Don't Call Me Baby

Don't Call Me Baby
Author: Gwendolyn Heasley
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062208535

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Perfect for fans of Jennifer E. Smith and Huntley Fitzpatrick, Don't Call Me Baby is a sharply observed and charming story about mothers and daughters, best friends and first crushes, and our online selves and the truth you can only see in real life. All her life, Imogene has been known as the girl on that blog. Imogene's mother has been writing an incredibly embarrassing, and incredibly popular, blog about her since before she was born. The thing is, Imogene is fifteen now, and her mother is still blogging about her. In gruesome detail. When a mandatory school project compels Imogene to start her own blog, Imogene is reluctant to expose even more of her life online . . . until she realizes that the project is the opportunity she's been waiting for to define herself for the first time.

The Art and Business of Teaching Yoga (revised)

The Art and Business of Teaching Yoga (revised)
Author: Amy Ippoliti
Publisher: New World Library
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2023-12-05
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1608688798

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Originally published in 2016, The Art and Business of Teaching Yoga immediately became the essential resource for those looking to start or maintain a successful career in yoga. Since then, the landscape has changed. Online yoga and social media are now a crucial part of most teachers’ repertoires. Yoga teachers also face broad cultural shifts, an evolving environmental crisis, and resulting anxiety among students, all of which bring fresh challenges to their leadership and teaching abilities. This expanded edition will help you: • plan dynamic classes, including engaging digital content • build a loyal student base and become more financially stable • optimize your own practice • maintain a marketing plan and develop a unique brand • teach yoga to facilitate ease and inspire creative action in a troubled world

Ysabel

Ysabel
Author: Guy Gavriel Kay
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2008-02-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101052864

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The multiple award-winning fantasy author of The Fionavar Tapestry brings his extraordinary imagination to a tale of mythic figures in contemporary times... Ned Marriner is in France with his father, a celebrated photographer shooting the Saint-Sauveur Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence. While exploring the cathedral, Ned meets Kate, an American exchange student with a deep knowledge of the area’s history. But even Kate is at a loss when she and Ned surprise a scar-faced stranger, wearing a leather jacket and carrying a knife. “I think you ought to go now,” he tells them. “You have blundered into a corner of a very old story...” In this ancient place, where the borders between the living and the long-dead are thin, Ned and his family are about to be drawn into a haunted story, as mythic figures from conflicts of long ago erupt into the present, changing—and claiming—lives.

Daughter of Moloka'i

Daughter of Moloka'i
Author: Alan Brennert
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250137683

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NOW A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: USA Today • BookRiot • BookBub • LibraryReads • OC Register • Never Ending Voyage The highly anticipated sequel to Alan Brennert’s acclaimed book club favorite, and national bestseller, Moloka'i "A novel of illumination and affection." —USA Today Alan Brennert’s beloved novel Moloka'i, currently has over 600,000 copies in print. This companion tale tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama—quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa—was forced to give up at birth. The book follows young Ruth from her arrival at the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, to her adoption by a Japanese couple who raise her on a strawberry and grape farm in California, her marriage and unjust internment at Manzanar Relocation Camp during World War II—and then, after the war, to the life-altering day when she receives a letter from a woman who says she is Ruth’s birth mother, Rachel. Daughter of Moloka'i expands upon Ruth and Rachel’s 22-year relationship, only hinted at in Moloka'i. It’s a richly emotional tale of two women—different in some ways, similar in others—who never expected to meet, much less come to love, one another. And for Ruth it is a story of discovery, the unfolding of a past she knew nothing about. Told in vivid, evocative prose that conjures up the beauty and history of both Hawaiian and Japanese cultures, it’s the powerful and poignant tale that readers of Moloka'i have been awaiting for fifteen years.