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For years, Chelsea Maynard has longed to be a mother. She's imagined caring for a new baby in the lovely house she shares with her husband, Leo, fondly planning every detail. But after a difficult birth, those dreams of blissful bonding evaporate. Chelsea battles sleep deprivation and feelings of isolation. Little Annabelle cries constantly, and Chelsea has dark visions fueled by exhaustion and self-doubt. Her sister, Emma, insists she gets help for...
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When a young girl's body is pulled out of the harbor in the small Swedish resort town of Fjallbacka, Det. Patrik Hedstr?m becomes the lead investigator as he struggles with lazy and inept colleagues and an even remoter-than-usual boss. It's his grim task to discover who could be behind the murder of the child both he and his partner Erica knew well.
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Think you want to be the perfect mom? Think again....
Kate Alger has finally found the cure for her post-partum depression. After years of suffering, all it takes to bring this mommy back to life were a few gruesome homicides! When someone starts offing the alpha-moms from Kate's daughter's preschool, Kate-who worked as an Assistant District Attorney before she had Molly-realizes it's time to get out of bed, dust off the skills and find out who is...
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"Ken is twenty-one, hurting people for cash to try to pay his way through college, when he lays eyes on Jimi Lee, the woman who will change the course of his entire life. What's meant to be a one-night stand with the Harvard-bound beauty turns into an explosion of sexual chemistry that neither can quit. And when Jimi Lee becomes pregnant, their two very different worlds collide in ways they never could have anticipated"--Amazon.com.
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Her brother's letter touched a match to the wick of Annie's doused dreams. Dream enough for her, to stroll the length of a town without the abortive glances, the stilted greetings, the wider berth given her on the sidewalk. "I could use some help out here," he wrote. "What's holding you to Iowa anyway?" Annie Rushton leaves behind an unsettling past to join her brother on his Montana homestead and make a determined fresh start. There, sparks fly...
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"Professional party planner turned stay-at-home-mom, Brynn Hallman always imagined she'd be the ideal mother for her little boy, Cody. But her plans go awry with a series of medical complications that send her into a tailspin. Fueled by bad reality TV and a growing obsession with an Instafamous mommy influencer, Brynn falls deeper into her growing depression and turns inward, shutting out her pre-baby friends and pretending to her husband, Kyle, that...
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"There is the before and the after. Withering in the maternal prison of her apartment, a new mother finds herself spiraling into a state of complete disaffection. As a translator, she is usually happy to spend her days as the invisible interpreter. But now home alone with her newborn, she is ill at ease with this state of perpetual giving, carrying, feeding. The instinct to keep her baby safe conflicts with the intrusive thoughts of causing the baby...
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"From the moment Ben and June met in a hospital waiting room on New Year's Eve, their love has seemed fated. Looking back at all the tiny, unlikely decisions that brought them together, it was easy to believe their relationship was special. But now, after several years of marriage, June is struggling as a new mom. At times, she wonders about the life she didn't choose -- what might have been if she hadn't given up the lead role in a famous ballet...
11) The good sister
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"A novel of three generations of women seeking to overcome a legacy of violence, secrecy, and lies...as they discover just how far sisters, mothers, and daughters will go to hurt and help one another"--Cover p. [4].
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Ever since her husband's death collided with the birth of her daughter, postpartum depression has taken hold of Veronica Shelton. she can't sleep, can't work, and can't bear to touch her beautiful baby girl. Her emotional state is whispering lies in Veronica's ear. But not everything can be reasoned away by Veronica's despair. After all, the break-in at her house happened. The disturbing sketches she found in her studio are real. So is the fear for...
13) My work
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"After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf the new mother, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively buys clothes she can't afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, Anna forces herself to read and write. My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of giving birth, mixing different literary forms-fiction,...
14) Kamieniarz
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Październikowy poranek we Fjällbace. Rybak Frans Bengtsson wypłynął łódką, aby opróżnić więcierze, które zastawił na homary. Przy ostatnim z nich coś się mocno zacina, Frans przeczuwa, że nie będzie to zwykły połów, nie myli się, w siatce więcierza tkwi ciało dziewczynki .... Patrik Hedstr̲m i jego koledzy z komisariatu policji w Tanumshede mają do rozwikłania kolejną skomplikowaną zagadkę. Podczas sekcji zwłok w płucach...
15) I'm not crazy
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"Savannah Graft [has] been dealt some heavy blows in her lifetime, but has managed to overcome them. Now happily married to her husband, Pastor Shane Graft, mother to Kennedi and baby Shane, First Lady of Victory Temple, and the owner of SG Graphics, life is good--until one morning, she woke up different. She isn't herself, yet she can't see it. She recognizes something is wrong, but she can't explain it. All she knows and continually says, 'I'm not...
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"Para Ruth, una madre primeriza que está recuperándose de psicosis posparto, cada día es un reto. Lleva meses escuchando voces que salen de las paredes y sintiendo que no puede fiarse de nadie. Ni siquiera de sí misma. Cuando una noche Ruth oye un grito proveniente de la gasolinera del barrio, asume que se trata de su mente jugándole una mala pasada. La policía ha sido tajante con ella: tiene que dejar de llamarlos. Y su marido, Giles, también...
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Okazuje się, że kobieta wcale nie zginęła w wypadku samochodowym, jak myślały jej dzieci. Beth i jej rodzeństwo byli całe życie okłamywani przez ojca. Co takiego musiało się wydarzyć, że nigdy nie wyjawił prawdy o swojej żonie? Kilkadziesiąt lat wcześniej pani Walsh z przerażeniem odkrywa, że jest w kolejnej ciąży. Szuka dla siebie pomocy, ale żyje w czasach nieprzyjaznych kobietom. Jest jednak bardzo zdesperowana... Kelly...
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