About the book: Have you ever prepared for your postpartum days during your pregnancy? Have you ever imagined in your pregnancy as how a day would be in your postpartum? Have you ever stood in front of the mirror staring at yourself worrying on how much you have changed and started doubting yourself whether you could live like before? Have you ever prayed for giving you strength to overcome self-doubts and negative criticism? After experiencing all these by myself, I have come up with my own A.N.S.W.E.R.S. for all your new moms’ emotional concerns and I have put all those experiences and solutions into this book to help brandnew moms. This book will help you – To identify your self-doubts and to overcome it. – To rebuild your confidence in order to face every new challenge that comes your way. – To ease out your opinion on parenting and to handle it with joy and love using A.N.S.W.E.R.S. strategies. – To unleash the 2.0 version of yourself where life is never the same but it is even more beautiful.

Izzy is an ordinary girl who learns to look at life in an extraordinary way: from the inside out. Talking with her Mom, Izzy clearly sees the connection between what she thinks, what she feels and what she experiences. That makes things a lot easier. Izzy holds a speech with butterflies in her stomach; she wants to quit her guitar lessons and the boy from next door acts like a bully. In addition she has a wonderful sleepover at her Nan's house and she learns about night- and daymares. Izzy also has a dog whose name is Spike. He's always happy. Dogs don't think much, you know. That helps. Inside Out Izzy is a book for children aged 6 to 106 years. Angela Mastwijk is a travelling writer, Three Principles coach and mother of two grown-up sons.

This book speaks of the adventures and misadventures of an everyday housewife. It includes falls and tumbles from trees and ladders, rock piles and piers. It also includes various stays in the hospital for everything from poison ivy to stitches and care for skin burns on her docks and piers. There were also hospital visits and stays for Lyme's Disease, pneumonia, bronchitis, spinal surgery, mental illness (which may have been misdiagnosed), an appendectomy, various cysts, and more. Indeed, she has had an interesting and adventurous life! Gardening and nature are prominent throughout, especially bird life and wildlife. Almost anyone can enjoy the read, about her many garden and shoreline visitors and guests. Beverley names most of her critters, from the lowliest of squirrels to her favorite chipmunk, Alvie. One of her previous books features bird life with effective illustrations provided by her grand-daughter, Holly Moores Lockwood. It describes the species of bird, often in poetic terms, and provides a good glimpse into the bird's habitat and habits, along with plumage and favorite snacks. There are also welcome additions about water fowl, their habits and places of interest. Living on a lake has allowed many advantages for this author.

BRUISER is the story and the nickname of a nine-year-old boy living in a highly dysfunctional family in the 1970's (a bit like "The Ice Storm" on the Upper West Side) whose search for meaning and answers leads him to the open road and, eventually, the seeds of wisdom. Through the limitations of a young boy's awareness, we see the deteriorating marriage of his distant father and struggling mother, and the effects of their conflicts on Bruiser and his two older brothers. The disjunction between his literal misinterpretations, which often contain an emotional truth, and our adult understanding of the circumstances, creates the tension that runs throughout the novel. Bruiser has a kindred spirit in Darla, the prococious daughter in an already broken home who lives across the alleyway. As the tension mounts in each household, Darla conceives of a plan for the two of them that takes Bruiser on the most frightening and illuminating journey of his life, and one that will have tragic consequences.

For every mom and every woman who has been like a mom to others, this book celebrates you. This 365-day devotional contains short, inspirational readings, poems, Scriptures and prayers that recognize your strength, your influence, and the beauty you alone bring to the lives of children. It honors the commitment you have made to God and to your family to always do your best. Officially, Mother’s Day comes but once a year, but for you, the gratitude, love, and praise never end. For you, Every Day Is Mother’s Day!

The Life You Want is Closer Than You Think Our wild world is, in many ways, backward and upside down; we've created a culture that supports poor health, loneliness, stress, emotional angst, and polarity. But buckle your seatbelt. Laurie Warren is a change agent, kicking our limiting "common but not normal" cultural mores to the curb and working to shift both our personal and societal approach in favor of empowered well-being. Wild World, Joyful Heart is both a rally cry and a guidebook for attaining the physical, emotional, and mental health that you deeply desire. Will you use your mind as a bridge or a barrier? This question is the thread that you'll follow through Laurie’s extensive research, clinical experience, and unique storytelling style to create better health and more joy in your everyday life. This book is an invitation to bravely inhabit your life in a whole new way—while your joy, contentment, and wholeness reverberate out to stitch up our wounded world.

Mark said he heard the dark song when he creeped houses. The song the predator's heart sings when it hears the heart of the prey. I heard it now. Mark said it had always been in me. Lurking. Waiting for me to hear. Ames is not the person she was a few months ago. Her father lost his job, and her family is crumbling apart. Now, all she has is Marc. Marc, who loves her more than anything. Marc, who owns a gun collection. And he'll stop at nothing--even using his guns--to get what he wants. Ames feels her parents have betrayed her with their lies and self-absorption, but is she prepared to make the ultimate betrayal against them? In this controversial novel about a good-girl-gone-wrong, Gail Giles returns to the fast-paced, chilling writing that attracted so many fans to What Happened to Cass McBride?.

How far will a mother go to protect her family from a madman? An unrivaled master of psychological suspense, Joy Fielding has written her most chilling and intricate novel yet--a compulsively readable look at the razor-thin line between daily domesticity and nerve-shattering terror. It had to end in blood. Family therapist Kate Sinclair, healer of lost souls, perfect wife and mother, has suddenly become trapped in a nightmare of her own. Her teenage daughter has just discovered sex, lies, and rebellion. Her ex-boyfriend has returned to threaten her marriage. Her once-peaceful hometown is being awakened by chilling headlines: Another woman is missing. Kate can sense the darkness gathering around her, can see the mistakes, the missteps, the missing pieces. She is afraid of what tomorrow will bring. Enter Colin Friendly, a man on trial for abducting and killing thirteen women--the handsome, "misunderstood" sociopath Kate's troubled sister plans to marry. Colin loves women to death. He can't wait to see Kate and the girls again. One dark night when they are home alone, disarmed, ready for bed...

- Red Light Wires is an Essence bestseller and a Main Selection of the Black Expressions Book Club.