Knocked Up, Knocked Down: Postcards of Miscarriage and Misadventure from the Brink of Parenthood
by Monica Murphy LeMoine |
Monica Murphy LeMoine is used to writing postcards from strange, faraway places. After years of traveling around the world with her Peace Corps sweetheart-turned-husband, she finds herself on a blissfully ignorant journey toward new parenthood. But when the pregnancy ends before it’s supposed to, Monica is abruptly launched into a different kind of world that nothing in life has prepared her for. It is up to Monica to navigate this strange land of almost-parenthood, make sense of her own confusing grief for real and imagined lives lost, and--ultimately--learn to move foward without someone she loves.
"Monica Murphy LeMoine worked all over the world with the Peace Corps and grew up in a family that never had time to ‘sit around and wallow.’ She never comes close to that in this deeply and darkly funny, anti-trauma memoir. Refusing to accept the grief package defined by well-meaning counselors who said she’d never recover, this book calmly and firmly replies, 'Bull#@%&!'”
—Christina Gombar, prize winning author, literary editor for Exhale, and reviewer for Bookslut and London Review of Books. |
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Are You Famous? Touring America with Alaska's Fiddling Poet
Ken Waldman |
"A travel guide for free spirits." —Nashville Scene, October 2008 |
| "The reader can't help liking the author for his honesty...." —Liz Hall-Downs, Compulsive Reader, September 2008 |
| "Highly recommended for personal, academic, and community library collections, Are You Famous? is an honest and candid perspective on the music industry from the inside." —Midwest Book Review, October 2008 |
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Ken Waldman has worked as Alaska’s Fiddling Poet since 1995, touring throughout North America in support of his poetry collections, performances, and CDs. This, his first book of prose, is a ramble through the highways of America as seen through the eyes of a troubadour. Part memoir, part travel notes, part artist how-to—a Blue Highways for the 21st century.
For more information on Ken or to invite him to perform, please visit his website.
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Silent Embrace: Perspectives on Birth and Adoption
edited by Ann & Amanda Angel |
The Stories Women Are Afraid to Tell, the Stories People are Afraid to Hear
Birth mothers are often the forgotten or ignored part of the adoption triad. This collection of literary essays seeks to correct the imbalance by publishing personal stories by birth mothers, adoptive mothers, and adoptees. The stories cover a range of topics about adoption, open adoption, birth parent connections, and unification with children after closed adoption, focusing on the relationship with birth mothers. An anthology of essays by, for, and about birth parents.
"Silent Embrace is an important book. It gives potential adoptive parents information about the positives and negatives of an adoption plan and doesn’t sugarcoat anything. After you read these unsentimental, deeply personal stories, you’ll understand adoption in an entirely different way. These women aren’t afraid to tell the whole truth, even when it’s uncomfortable." Marilyn Boeldt, Director of Development & Communications, Wisconsin Adoption Resources |
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Labor Pains and Birth Stories: essays on pregnancy, childbirth, and becoming a parent
edited by Jessica Powers
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January 2009
"A white knuckle ride."
—Tina Cassidy, author of Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born |
"Where, oh, where, was Labor Pains and Birth Stories when I was pregnant? By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, this book is destined to become a baby shower must-give."
—Jennifer Niesslein, co-founder of Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers and author of Practically Perfect in Every Way. |
Creating a Life: The memoir of a writer and mom in the making
by Corbin Lewars |
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Creating a Life shares the bumpy road that led Corbin Lewars to motherhood and her career as a writer. Deformed sperm, a miscarriage, and quitting her job to become an editor only to have that publication become bankrupt were a few hurdles that she crossed along the way. But Corbin not only survives, she thrives, and is able to deliver her eight pound baby at home.
"You don't have to be a mother or an artist to appreciate the journey Corbin Lewars took to become both. You don't have to have been raped or endured a miscarriage or struggled to find a voice in the wilderness of the academic world. You just have to value the courage it takes to build your life around a dream. If you've created life, if you dream of creating life, if you love someone who is creating life—this is the book for you." —Ariel Gore, Founder of Hip Mama and author of Atlas of the Human Heart
“By bravely—and humorously—sharing her deepest secrets and confronting her
biggest fears, Corbin Lewars makes one of the strongest arguments out there
that pregnancy and childbirth aren’t simply about biology doing its thing.
Becoming a parent is also about figuring out where you’ve been and where you
want to be. For anyone who has ever rolled their eyes and asked, “Why would
anyone give birth at home?” this memoir will not only give you an answer but
have you cheering on the author as she triumphantly brings her baby into the
world in a powerful, joyous way.”—Marisa Cohen, author of Deliver This and Senior Editor at Glamour
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