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Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Your life or your unborn child's - how do you choose? Paige and Nick are happy. They have a beautiful home, a loving family and, most importantly, they would do anything for each other. Now, they are having a baby and it feels like all their dreams are coming true. But joy turns to despair when they discover that Paige has a rare, life-threatening heart condition and they lose their longed-for child. Heartbroken, the couple must accept the reality...
Author
Publisher
Franklin Fox Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Whether you are trying to conceive naturally or through IVF, the quality of your eggs will have a powerful impact on how long it takes you to get pregnant and whether you face an increased risk of miscarriage. Poor egg quality is emerging as the single most important cause of age-related infertility, recurrent miscarriage, and failed IVF cycles.
3) Lyrebird
Author
Publisher
Platypus Press Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Lyrebird is the documentation of a miscarriage and the chronicle of the dissolution of a relationship - a record of how it is possible to approach a thing with tenderness and still watch it break. -- back of cover.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"As an adjunct professor of English with a draining and tedious courseload, Dorothy feels "like a janitor in the temple who continued to sweep because she had no idea what else to do but who had lost her belief in the essential sanctity of the enterprise." No one but her partner knows that she's just had a miscarriage, not even her therapists - Dorothy being the kind of person who begins seeing a second because she's too conflict-averse to break things...
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Language
English
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Contains scenes of miscarriage and childbirth, as well as cancer survival and implied animal endangerment.
"The Push meets The Silent Patient in a gripping thriller that follows a woman convinced a sinister figure is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens--while the men in her life refuse to believe a word she says. Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman gathers intimate stories about pregnancy, motherhood, and the nature of female relationships, in this profound and provocative novel"--
Twelve weeks pregnant for the first time, Anna speaks to her sister on the other side of the country and learns she has just miscarried her second child. As this loss strains their bond and complications with Anna's own pregnancy emerge, her tenuous steps towards motherhood are shadowed and illuminated...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"A gorgeous, darkly humorous memoir for readers of Cheryl Strayed about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinvention, as well as a portrait of a generation used to assuming they're entitled to everything--based on this award-winning writer's New Yorker article 'Thanksgiving in Mongolia'"--
"In 2012, at age 38, when she left on a reporting trip to Mongolia, Ariel Levy thought she had figured it out: she was married, pregnant, successful...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1910, rural healer Perliett VanHilton is targeted by a superstitious killer and must rely on the local doctor and an intriguing newcomer for help. Over a century later, Molly Wasziak is pulled into a web of deception surrounding an old farmhouse. Will these women's voices be heard, or will time silence their truths forever?"--
The voices of the past cannot stay silent forever. In 1910 Michigan, Perliett Van Hilton is a self-proclaimed rural healer,...
9) Tender
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Carolanne wanted a perfect wedding, a perfect husband, a perfect family--but her desire to control the uncontrollable ultimately becomes her undoing.
10) Absolution
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Language
English
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American women - American wives - have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
English
Description
Self-described as "an infertile, high-femme, low income, non-biological Jewish mom, dyke drama queen, and ectopic pregnancy survivor," the author tells her story in this formally innovative graphic memoir.
"Shira Spector literally paints a vivid portrait of the most eventful 10 years of her life, encompassing her tenacious struggle to get pregnant, the emotional turmoil of her father's cancer diagnosis and eventual death, and her recollections of...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For generations, Rich Gundersen's family has chopped a livelihood out of the redwood forest along California's rugged coast. Now Rich and his wife, Colleen, are raising their own young son near Damnation Grove, a swath of ancient redwoods on which Rich's employer, Sanderson Timber Co., plans to make a killing. In 1977, with most of the forest cleared or protected, a grove like Damnation--and beyond it 24-7 Ridge--is a logger's dream. It's dangerous...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Nothing prepares Jaya, A New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi -- her grandmother's former servant and trusted confidant -- who reveals the...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Amanda Jackson has always longed to be a mother. The early weeks of her first pregnancy are a mixture of joy, anticipation, and uncertainty as she and her husband prepare for the journey ahead. Then comes a devastating loss. Even though her doctors tell her otherwise, Amanda believes she's still pregnant. Her diagnosis is a rare, mysterious condition called pseudocyesis. Betrayed by her mind and body and her marriage strained, Amanda turns to neuroscientist...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the critically acclaimed The Illness Lesson ("astoundingly original"--NYTBR), comes a a page-turning and psychologically penetrating tale about the rules that govern women's bodies and lives. In 1948, Irene Willard, who's had five previous miscarriages in a quest to give her beloved husband the child he desperately desires and is now pregnant again, comes to an isolated house-cum-hospital in the Berkshires, run by a husband-and-wife...
16) The Big Y
Author
Publisher
Lucy H. Delaney
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Big Y is an intellectual and earthy exploration of land, love, life and death that delights the senses and delivers an unforgettable temporal experience…
When one woman unexpectedly goes into labor in a sleepy diner at the edge of The Big Y Ranch & Resort, other patrons must unite to help her. Under the direction of one cool-headed cowboy, strangers work together to keep the young mother calm in the midst of a late winter snowstorm. But just...
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