You Have to Say I'm Pretty, You're My Mother

You Have to Say I'm Pretty, You're My Mother
Author: Stephanie Pierson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2003-05
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780743229180

With a mix of wisdom, insight, empathy, humor, and practical advice, this book is a much-needed resource for mothers who are trying to help their daughters navigate the difficult teenage years.

The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 9780340978504

The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

I Am My Mother's Daughter!

I Am My Mother's Daughter!
Author: Saily Fuentes Santos
Publisher: Palibrio
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2012-03-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1463322992

This book serves as a testimonial of the circumstances that surrounded the life of a family where the mother was the breadwinner, showing how she came to grow to support and educate their children. It narrates the process of the disease she had suffered and the Christian fundamentals that supported her self-surrender to God, from whom she received strength and joy in spite of her painful predicament. The author explains, in simple terms, the revelations she had received, and the manner she found Christ Jesus, source of her comfort and answer to her questions, despair, and fear. This book leads us to reflect, express love towards life, and show gratitude towards God. It offers help and spiritual guidance, as it conveys the importance and validity of love, faith, and eternal hope, revealing the path that leads to salvation.

Contemporary Authors

Contemporary Authors
Author: Julie Keppen
Publisher: Contemporary Authors
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2004-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780787667047

Find biographical information on more than 115,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Sketches typically include personal information, addresses, career history, writings, work in progress, biographical and critical sources, authors' comments and informative essays about their lives and work. A softcover cumulative index is published twice per year (included in subscription).

Hand to Hold

Hand to Hold
Author: JJ Heller
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2021-07-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593193253

This heartwarming picture book reassures children that a parent’s love never lets go—based on the poignant lyrics of JJ Heller’s beloved lullaby “Hand to Hold.” “May the living light inside you be the compass as you go / May you always know you have my hand to hold.” With delightful illustrations and an engaging rhyme scheme, this book offers the promise of security and love every child’s heart longs to know. From skipping stones and counting stars to climbing trees and telling stories, every moment is wrapped snugly in the certain warmth of a parent’s presence and God’s blessing. With poignancy and joy, this bedtime read captures the unconditional love parents want their children to know but so often fail to express amid the chaos of daily life.

My Mother’s Truth

My Mother’s Truth
Author: Fe.l.alberts.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2021-11-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1664199578

Janice Lynn Jamison a successful real estate agent and owner of her own company has been a faithful and dedicated wife to the love of her life ,her husband Steven Kale Jamison for the past 25 years. Meeting each other, experiencing love at first sight Janice confessed to having heightened sexual desires from her hurtful dating history. Promising her commitment Steven vow to provide the loving she requires whenever and where ever she wants and needs it. Blessed with a wonderful husband and two beautiful daughters Janice lived an happy, fulfilled life until her life is turned upside down by her youngest daughter Nicki attempted suicide. Family therapy being a requirement for Nicki’s healing, during a session with her mother and sister Dessi, Nicki unveiling of her ugly truth of having a sexual addiction brings forth an unimaginable confession from her older sister Dessi. Reeling with disbelief Janice is left to wonder if her sexual desires stem from a deeper, sinister situation that has somehow affected her daughters as well. The nightmare of her past resurfacing and causing unrest Janice seeks private counselling from Nicki’s therapist on how to tell her daughters the truth about her past and pounders her chances of getting closure from the individuals who were supposed to love her the most. Come alone as Janice shares her story of lost love, pain and agony with her two daughters in hopes of freeing them from their demons to help them heal and live normal lives. Will she be able to maintaining the unconditional love and respect they hold for her and gain the closure she desperately needs.

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Author: Terrance Hayes
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2018-06-19
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0525504966

Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018 A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead "Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trump's America." -The New York Times In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, and bewildered--the wonders of this new collection are irreducible and stunning.

Will I Ever be Good Enough?

Will I Ever be Good Enough?
Author: Karyl McBride
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2008
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1416551328

The first book specifically for daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-involved mothers,Will I Ever Be Good Enough?provides the expert assistance you need in order to overcome this debilitating history and reclaim your life for yourself. Drawing on over two decades of experience as a therapist specializing in women's psychology and health, psychotherapist Dr. Karyl McBride helpsyou recognize the widespread effects of this maternal emotional abuse and guides you as you create an individualized program for self-protection, resolution, and complete recovery.An estimated 1.5 million American women have narcissistic personality disorder, which makes them so insecure and overbearing, insensitive and domineering that they can psychologically damage their daughters for life. Daughters of narcissistic mothers learn that maternal love is not unconditional, and that it is given only when they behave in accordance with their mothers' often unreasonable expectations and whims. As adults, these daughters consequently have difficulty overcoming their insecurities and feelings of inadequacy, disappointment, sadness, and emotional emptiness. They may also have a terrible fear of abandonment that leads them to form unhealthy love relationships, as well as a tendency to perfectionism and unrelenting self-criticism, or to self-sabotage and frustration.Herself the recovering daughter of a narcissistic mother, Dr. McBride includes her personal struggle, which adds a profound level of authority to her work, along with the perspectives of the hundreds of suffering daughters she's interviewed over the years. Their stories of how maternal abuse has manifested in their lives -- as well as how they have successfully overcome its effects -- show you that you're not alone and that you can take back your life and have the controlyouwant.Dr. McBride's step-by-step program will enable you to:(1) Recognize your own experience with maternal narcissism and its effects on all aspects of your life (2) Discover how you have internalized verbal and nonverbal messages from your mother and how these have translated into a strong desire to overachieve or a tendency to self-sabotage (3) Construct a step-by-step program to reclaim your life and enhance your sense of self, a process that includes creating a psychological separation from your mother and breaking the legacy of abuse. You will also learn how not to repeat your mother's mistakes with your own daughter.Warm and sympathetic, filled with the examples of women who have established healthy boundaries with their hurtful mothers,Will I Ever Be Good Enough?encourages and inspires you as it aids your recovery.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1074
Release: 1952
Genre: Copyright
ISBN: