Lessons Mama Never Taught Me

Lessons Mama Never Taught Me
Author: Karen Renee January
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2016-04-16
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780692695258

Ten women tell their personal stories about the lessons their mothers failed to teach them about dating, racism, body image, money, morals, drugs, sex and other social ills that are relevant for our young girls, women and young men. It is crucial that fathers discuss these same important lessons with their sons as well.

Things My Mother Never Told Me

Things My Mother Never Told Me
Author: Blake Morrison
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003
Genre: Authors, English
ISBN: 0099440725

Through a series of letters from his parents' passionate World War II courtship, Morrison uncovers a startling, touching story. This follow-up to his critically acclaimed 1993 memoir paints the unforgettable picture of a quietly determined heroine and of a son's search to learn the truth about her.

Navigating Life

Navigating Life
Author: Margaux Bergen
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2016
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1594206295

You might learn a few useful things at school, but most of what matters, most of what makes you into a fully functioning human being, no teacher will ever tell you. This diamond-sharp, honest book of hard-earned wisdom is one mother's effort to equip her daughter for survival in the real world. Heartbreakingly funny, Navigating Life has invaluable tips for students of life of all ages. It will challenge you to lead a more meaningful life and to tackle the bumps along the way with grit, style, and ingenuity.

Walk to Beautiful

Walk to Beautiful
Author: Mr. Jimmy Wayne
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2014-10-14
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0718021851

A New York Times bestseller! Imagine yourself a thirteen-year-old hundreds of miles away from home, in a strange city, and your mom leaves you at a bus station parking lot and drives off into the night with her lover. That’s the real-life story of country music star Jimmy Wayne. It’s a miracle that Jimmy survived being hungry and homeless, bouncing in and out of the foster care system, and sleeping in the streets. But he didn’t just overcome great adversity in his life; he now uses his country music platform to help children everywhere, especially teenagers in foster care who are about to age out of the system. Walk to Beautiful is the powerfully emotive account of Jimmy’s horrendous childhood and the love he received from Russell and Bea Costner, the elderly couple who gave him a stable home and provided the chance to complete his education. Jimmy says of Bea, “She changed every cell in my body.” This moving memoir chronicles: Jimmy’s life as a foster child and homeless teenager His adoption by Russell and Bea Costner, an elderly couple who gave him a stable home and provided the opportunities for him to thrive His surprising rise to fame in the music industry His tireless advocacy for children in the foster care system through his Meet Me Halfway awareness campaign, a 1,700 mile walk halfway across America from Nashville to Phoenix Join Jimmy on his walk to beautiful and see how one person really can make a difference.

Nobody Ever Told Me (or My Mother) That!

Nobody Ever Told Me (or My Mother) That!
Author: Diane Bahr
Publisher: Future Horizons
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2010
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1935567209

Advice on feeding and exercises to assist the development of babies' mouth and facial muscles to ensure language development, good mouth structure and movement.

The Little Virtues

The Little Virtues
Author: Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1628729023

In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes of the loss of a friend, Cesare Pavese; or what is inexpugnable of World War II; or the Abruzzi, where she and her first husband lived in forced residence under Fascist rule; or the importance of silence in our society; or her vocation as a writer; or even a pair of worn-out shoes, Ginzburg brings to her reflections the wisdom of a survivor and the spare, wry, and poetically resonant style her readers have come to recognize. "A glowing light of modern Italian literature . . . Ginzburg's magic is the utter simplicity of her prose, suddenly illuminated by one word that makes a lightning streak of a plain phrase. . . . As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart.' — The New York Times Book Review

Running on Empty

Running on Empty
Author: Jonice Webb
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 161448242X

A large segment of the population struggles with feelings of being detached from themselves and their loved ones. They feel flawed, and blame themselves. Running on Empty will help them realize that they're suffering not because of something that happened to them in childhood, but because of something that didn't happen. It's the white space in their family picture, the background rather than the foreground. This will be the first self-help book to bring this invisible force to light, educate people about it, and teach them how to overcome it.