The Reluctant Mother

Author : Zehra Naqvi
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789391067212

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The Reluctant Mother is a book of rage. Rage at being alone in your pain, having your conflict belittled, and your struggles trivialised. It is the story of a young woman who seeks to find herself in a world that constantly tries to define her and who she should be. It is the memoir of an anti-mother. A woman who doesn’t fall in love with her baby at first sight but discovers love along the way. This book is for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the idea of ‘ideal’ motherhood. Be it a woman or a man, one way of confronting trauma is to know that you are not alone in it. To know that someone shares your story and understands your emotions and guilt that accompanies feeling anything other than ‘perfectly blissful’ about motherhood. It is at once heartbreaking and poignant as it is hopeful and comforting. It is the story of one woman and yet the life of many. It reveals how tradition and modernity, faith and reason, pleasure and pain are all so intimately interwoven for women that their true sense of self is inevitably one of contradictions. The book’s biggest strength lies in its rawness and honesty. Nothing but the truth stands here.

Author : Hemmie Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1941058639

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The Reluctant Mother by Hemmie Martin Pdf

Postnatal psychosis strips Colette of her early time with her baby, shreds her sanity, and almost destroys her marriage. When suicide seems the only option, Colette must face her limitations and move forward with demons clinging to every aspect of her life, whilst desperately trying to hold on to what she dearly loves.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9391067204

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Author : Deirdre Simon Dore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1553807103

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A Reluctant Mother by Deirdre Simon Dore Pdf

Honest, sometimes humorous and often tragic, FRIDA's narrative tells a modern tale of a conflagration of deceit, adultery, regret and love. Frida, childless by choice, is an artist with a heartbreaking childhood history. When she agrees to allow her husband's spurious daughter into their lives they are devastatingly changed forever. Frida tells her story while confined to a hospital bed where a very young lawyer relentlessly pushes for a recounting of events. Frida's memory, though often faulty and sporadic, comes back to her in poignant scenes that she is forced to relive, each alarming act leading to yet another even more ill-advised. In FRIDA, Deirdre Simon Dore's evocative writing has created a difficult, blunt and vitally genuine "reluctant mother." A contemporary novel of a woman whose relationships are an exercise in hilarity and tragedy both. Deidre Simon Dore has won The Journey Prize; Western Magazines Gold Award for Fiction; Short Grain Award and was a Best Canadian Stories selection. Praise for Deirdre Simon Dore's Writing: "A wonderful rarity: a lightly told and very funny story that nevertheless bears great weight ... an imaginative and original voice the reader will return to with pleasure."--Journey Prize jury "Weaves a near-cinematic spell of brewing suspense... as these unforgettable characters collide."--Malahat Review Fiction.

Author : Susin Nielsen
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781770496545

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The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen by Susin Nielsen Pdf

Thirteen-year-old Henry's happy, ordinary life comes to an abrupt halt when his older brother, Jesse, picks up their father's hunting rifle and leaves the house one morning. What follows shatters Henry's family, who are forced to resume their lives in a new city, where no one knows their past. When Henry's therapist suggests he keeps a journal, at first he is resistant. But soon he confides in it at all hours of the day and night.

Author : Martha Ockley
Publisher : Lion Fiction
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782641261

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The Reluctant Detective by Martha Ockley Pdf

"Couldn't resist touching the body, eh?" observed Ben. Faith was defiant. "I had to check for a pulse." Faith Morgan may have quit the world of crime, but crime won't let her go. The ex-policewoman has retrained as a priest, disillusioned with a tough police culture and convinced that she can do more good this way. But now her worlds collide. Searching for the first posting of her new career, she witnesses a sudden and shocking death in a quiet Hampshire village. And of all people, Detective Inspector Ben Shorter, her former colleague and boyfriend, shows up to investigate the crime. Persuaded to stay on in Little Worthy, she learns surprising details about the victim and starts to piece together a motive for his death. But is she now in danger herself? And what should she do about Ben? Then a further horrifying event deepens the mystery...

Author : Sarah Beth Durst
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062413376

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The Reluctant Queen by Sarah Beth Durst Pdf

Filled with political intrigue, violent magic, and malevolent spirits, the mesmerizing second book in Sarah Beth Durst’s Queens of Renthia epic fantasy trilogy that started with the award-winning The Queen of Blood. Everything has a spirit: the willow tree with leaves that kiss the pond, the stream that feeds the river, the wind that exhales fresh snow . . . And those spirits want to kill you. It’s the first lesson that every Renthian learns. Not long ago, Daleina used her strength and skill to survive those spirits and assume the royal throne. Since then, the new queen has kept the peace and protected the humans of her land. But now for all her power, she is hiding a terrible secret: she is dying. And if she leaves the world before a new heir is ready, the spirits that inhabit her beloved realm will run wild, destroying her cities and slaughtering her people. Naelin is one such person, and she couldn’t be further removed from the Queen—and she wouldn’t have it any other way. Her world is her two children, her husband, and the remote village tucked deep in the forest that is her home, and that’s all she needs. But when Ven, the Queens champion, passes through the village, Naelin’s ambitious husband proudly tells him of his wife’s ability to control spirits—magic that Naelin fervently denies. She knows that if the truth of her abilities is known, it will bring only death and separation from those she loves. But Ven has a single task: to find the best possible candidate to protect the people of Aratay. He did it once when he discovered Daleina, and he’s certain he’s done it again. Yet for all his appeals to duty, Naelin is a mother, and she knows her duty is to her children first and foremost. Only as the Queen’s power begins to wane and the spirits become emboldened—even as ominous rumors trickle down from the north—does she realize that the best way to keep her son and daughter safe is to risk everything. Sarah Beth Durst established a place of dark wonder in The Queen of Blood, and now the stakes are even higher as the threat to the Queen and her people grows both from within and beyond the borders of Aratay in this riveting second novel of the Queens of Renthia series.

Author : Suzan Saxman,Perdita Finn
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250047793

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The Reluctant Psychic by Suzan Saxman,Perdita Finn Pdf

We all, as children, saw imaginary friends and heard monsters in the closet. But for Suzan Saxman, those friends and monsters didn't go away—and they weren't imaginary. They were the dead who came to her from the time she was a little girl with urgent messages for the living. Raised in a house filled with secrets, she saw and spoke the truth as soon as she could talk, alarming the nuns in her convent school with her revelations and terrifying her own mother with her strange visions. Each night she woke to see a man with no eyes watching her, and each day she kept watch by the window while her father was at work and Steve, her real father, a swarthy drifter, rendezvoused with her mother. It was the 1960s in suburban Staten Island and she tried to hide it all, and be a daughter her mother could love. Always skeptical of her tremendous gift, she struggled to come to terms with her calling even as she revealed the destinies of everyone, from housewives to hit men, stockbrokers to rock-and-rollers. She could witness everyone's future—everyone's but her own. Why was she visited by angels and demons? Could she ever escape this strange fate? Where was her own soul mate? Now Suzan tells the story of her journey and tries to make sense of her family's buried secrets. Through powerful readings of others' destinies interwoven with compelling narrative, a reluctant psychic emerges from the shadows.

Author : Laura Ann Mullane
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1495391787

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Swimming for Shore by Laura Ann Mullane Pdf

"I was consumed with doubt....I couldn't shake the feeling that had been trailing me since my son's birth: that everyone but me enjoyed being a mom. Again, I would hear complaints about the amount of work and lack of sleep, but, to a person, everyone seemed confident that they'd made the right choice in having children, that they couldn't imagine their lives otherwise. Was I the only one who doubted it? Was I the only one who wondered what I would do if someone had come to me with a time machine and said, 'You can go back and make a different choice'?" In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Laura Ann Mullane explores her decision to have children in spite of her many doubts, and the struggle to come to terms with her new role as Mom after her son and daughter are born. At turns both laugh-out-loud funny and gut wrenching, she explores everything from the high-pressure Perfect Mother's Club of the Washington, D.C., suburbs, to the guilt and shame that plagued her as she navigated her children's tantrums and the constant demands of motherhood. A book that should be on the shelf of every person who has struggled with the decision whether to have kids, and every parent who has simultaneously loved their children and fantasized about life without them, this memoir goes straight to the core.

Author : Sharon Lamb
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780807082478

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The Not Good Enough Mother by Sharon Lamb Pdf

A psychologist who evaluates the fitness of parents when their children have been removed from their custody finds herself reassessing her own mothering when her son falls victim to the opioid crisis. Psychologist and expert witness Dr. Sharon Lamb evaluates parents, particularly in high-stakes cases concerning the termination of parental rights. The conclusions she reaches can mean that some children are returned home from foster homes. Others are freed for adoption. Well-trained, Lamb generally can decide what’s in the best interests of the child. But when her son’s struggle with opioid addiction comes to light, she starts to doubt her right to make judgments about other mothers. As an expert, a professor, and a mother, Lamb gives voice to the near impossible standards demanded by a society prone to blame mothers when anything befalls their children. She describes vividly the plight of individual parents, mothers in particular, struggling with addiction and mental illness and trying to make stable homes for their kids amid the economic and emotional turmoil of their lives—all in the context of the opioid epidemic that has ravaged her home state of Vermont. In her office, during visits with their children, and in the family court, the parents we meet wait anxiously for Lamb’s verdict: Have they turned their lives around under child welfare’s watchful eye? Do they understand their children’s needs? In short, are they good enough? But what is good enough? Lamb turns that question on herself in the midst of her gradual realization of her son’s opioid addiction. Amazed at her own denial, feeling powerless to help him, Lamb confronts the heartache she can bring into the lives of others and her power to tear families apart.

Author : Sonya Sones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442493834

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One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones Pdf

Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.

Author : C. J. Chase
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780373829538

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The Reluctant Earl by C. J. Chase Pdf

Alone in a gentleman's bedchamber, rummaging through his clothing--governess Leah Vance risks social ruin. Only by selling political information can she pay for her sister's care. And the letter she found in Julian DeChambelle's coat could be valuable--if the ex-sea captain himself had not just walked in. As a navy officer, Julian knew his purpose. As a new earl, he's plagued by trivialities and marriage-obsessed females. Miss Vance's independence is intriguing--and useful. In return for relaying false information, he will pay her handsomely. But trusting her, even caring for her? That would be pure folly. Yet when he sees the danger that surrounds her, it may be too late to stop himself....

Author : Doug Taylor
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462046478

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The Reluctant Virgin by Doug Taylor Pdf

In every decade, deeds are committed in dark places that are unknown to those who tread lifes well-lit paths. Even so, as a new era dawns in Toronto of the 1950s, no one suspects that a serial killer is about to unleash a fury on the quiet residential avenues and in the forested river valleys. On Labour Day weekend in 1951, just as thirteen-year-old Tom Hudson is ready to begin high school, a sadistic killer strikes. A female member of the schools staff is brutally murdered in the secluded darkness of the Humber Valley, and the police suspect another teacher has committed the crime. After detectives Gerry Thomson and Jim Peersen are assigned to the case, another innocent victim is murdered. As the investigation heats up, Tom and his friends attempt to go about their normal livesdeveloping as teenagers dobut it is not long before they become unwittingly caught up with the mystery behind the brutal killings. As the killers rage intensifies, everyone fears another murder lies in the shadows. Now it is up to two detectives and a group of curious teenagers to find a psychopath hell-bent on seeking revengebefore further violence occurs.

Author : Corinne Jeffery
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781525588341

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The Reluctant Author by Corinne Jeffery Pdf

As a teen growing up in an impoverished dysfunctional home environment, Laurine Schaffer realizes that she must be pragmatic and pursue a sustainable professional career path. At seventeen, she enrols in a traditional three-year Registered Nurse training program, where she quickly realizes that her perceptions of life and people are dramatically different from many of her classmates. Although Laurine ultimately forges a successful vocation as a college professor, at age fifty-seven she admits she is not being true to herself, or to her lifelong aspiration to write the story of her German Lutheran ancestors who fled Russia in 1892. Following an epiphany in an abandoned family cemetery on the original ancestral homestead in western Canada, Laurine begins to write. As one family history book follows another and another and yet another, her writing becomes a catalyst for a personal healing journey. The Reluctant Author is essentially a prequel to her three previous family memoirs and links the past to the present with poignant clarity.

Author : Joanne C. Stokes
Publisher : ShieldCrest Publishing Ltd
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781911090625

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The Highwayman’s Apprentice and the Reluctant Merman by Joanne C. Stokes Pdf

Jude moves to a seaside fishing village from Surrey with his family after his grandfather suddenly dies. His grandfather leaves him a pocket watch which causes events to unfold and change his life forever. You see, Jude has a secret family history and, unknown to him, it would begin a strange and breath-taking adventure. A merman, Solorelle, is sent by the Mer King Abalone, who, together with the help of a highwayman, protect him from the evil master who wants his power.