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No Fiction Here Book Club May 2024
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The world deserves my children
by Natasha Leggero
The stand-up comedian presents a laugh-out-loud funny collection of essays on being a mom that explores themes like“geriatric” motherhood, parenting in an environmental panic, fear and love, conflicting advice on raising children and more. Simultaneous.
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It's not about the wine : the loaded truth behind mommy wine culture
by Celeste Yvonne
"Mommy Wine Culture is a symptom of a larger issue: the mental load of motherhood and a systemic lack of support for moms. Mixing research, cultural references, interviews, and the author's sobriety story, this book reveals what's really plaguing mothersand offers tangible tips for evaluating your relationship to alcohol and lightening your load"
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Mom rage : the everyday crisis of modern motherhood
by Minna Dubin
This groundbreaking work of reportage about the hidden crisis of rage facing American mothers draws on insights from moms across the spectrum of race, sexual orientation and class and offers practical tools for helping readers disarm their rage in the moment.
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The mamas : what I learned about kids, class, and race from moms not like me
by Helena Andrews-Dyer
A senior culture writer at The Washington Post recounts her experiences in a mostly white motherhood support group—“The Mamas”—during a time of gentrification, racial reckoning and a global pandemic as she tries to find out if moms from different backgrounds can truly understand one another.
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The other mothers : two women's journey to find the family that was always theirs
by Jennifer Berney
"When Jenn Berney and her wife decided they wanted to have children, they took the next logical step: they went to a fertility clinic. Intrauterine insemination is a simple medical procedure that has been available since the 1950s, but doctors were baffled by Jenn's situation. With no man factoring into her relationship, she was disparaged by doctors, given an inaccurate diagnosis, and her medical needs were overlooked. Berney decided to step outside of the system, and, looking into the history of fertility and her own community, she realized queer women have a long history of being disregarded by a patriarchal medical community, and have worked around it to build families on their own terms. In The Other Mothers, Berney reflects on the odds that were stacked against her because of her sexual orientation and envisions a bright future worth fighting for. Writing with clarity, determination, and hope, Berney gives us a wonderful glimpse of what America can be"
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Mother brain : how neuroscience is rewriting the story of parenthood
by Chelsea Conaboy
In this powerful narrative, a journalist and mother delves into the major brain changes that come with being new parents, delving into the neuroscience to reveal unexpected upsides and how this science is mostly absent from the public conversation about parenthood. 100,000 first printing.
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Without children : the long history of not being a mother
by Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
Drawing on deep research and her own experience as a woman without children, a historian shows how normal it has always been to not have children and stresses the importance of rebuilding kinship between mothers and non-mothers to build a better world for us all. 12,000 first printing.
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Kid gloves : nine months of careful chaos
by Lucy Knisley
The author describes her difficulty conceiving, multiple miscarriages, and the complications of her eventual pregnancy, which resulted in a near-death experience while giving birth, and discusses the history of obstetrics
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Call the midwife
Follows a group of midwives in the East End of London in the early 1960s
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