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Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

10 best books like Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence (Rebecca Walker): Cane River, Paradise, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, Fall on Your Knees, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy, Jewel, The Heart of a Woman, Mother of Pearl, A Virtuous Woman

Cane River
AuthorLalita Tademy
ISBN0446678457
A New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick-the unique and deeply moving saga of four generations of African-American women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a Creole plantation in Louisiana.

Beginning with her great-great-great-great grandmother, a slave owned...
Paradise
AuthorToni Morrison
ISBN0452280397
"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paradise opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black...
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
AuthorGlory Edim
ISBN0525619771
An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature.

Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That...
Fall on Your Knees
AuthorAnn-Marie MacDonald
ISBN0743466527
They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island — a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach out from the past, forever mindful of the tragic secret that could shatter the family to its foundations. Chronicling five generations of this eccentric clan, Fall on Your Knees follows four remarkable...
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
AuthorIna May Gaskin
ISBN0553381156
What you need to know to have the best birth experience for you.

Drawing upon her thirty-plus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin, the nation’s leading midwife, shares the benefits and joys of natural childbirth by showing women how to trust in the ancient wisdom of their bodies for a healthy...
Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
AuthorAngela Garbes
ISBN0062662961
What to read after What to Expect . . . . A badass, feminist, and personal deep-dive into the science and culture of pregnancy and early motherhood that debunks myths and dated assumptions, offering guidance and camaraderie to women navigating one of the biggest and most profound changes in their lives.

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Jewel
AuthorBret Lott
ISBN0671042572
2.5

I started this book years ago during my "Read every single book from Oprah's book club" stage. Looking back now I realize that I really enjoyed some of them but I didn't finish quite a few of them. I picked this one up a few weeks ago, skimming through it to refresh my memory as best I could and then...
The Heart of a Woman
AuthorMaya Angelou
ISBN0375500723
Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of her autobiography, one of the most remarkable personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth volume, The Heart of a Woman, her turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters...
Mother of Pearl
AuthorMelinda Haynes
ISBN0671774670
Capturing all the rueful irony and racial ambivalence of small-town Mississippi in the late 1950s, Melinda Haynes' celebrated novel is a wholly unforgettable exploration of family, identity, and redemption. Mother of Pearl revolves around twenty-eight-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew...
A Virtuous Woman
AuthorKaye Gibbons
ISBN0375703063
When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked...
It All Comes Back to You
AuthorBeth Duke
ISBN0578448831
Alabama, 1947.

War's over, cherry-print dresses, parking above the city lights, swing dancing.

Beautiful, seventeen-year-old Violet lives in a perfect world.
Everybody loves her.

In 2012, she's still beautiful, charming, and surrounded by admirers.


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Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know
AuthorEmily Oster
ISBN1594204756
What to Expect When You're Expecting meets Freakonomics: an award-winning economist disproves standard recommendations about pregnancy to empower women while they're expecting.

Pregnancy—unquestionably one of the most pro­found, meaningful experiences of adulthood—can...
Insektenes planet: Om de rare, nyttige og fascinerende småkrypene vi ikke kan leve uten
AuthorAnne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Bli med inn i insektenes forunderlige verden! For hvert menneske som lever på jorden, finnes det 200 millioner insekter. Insektene er overalt - i skogen og i enga, i bekken og i parken. De lever i seks tusen meters høyde, i de dypeste grotter, i døpefonter, inne i datamaskiner og i hvalrossens nesebor....
Thor, Volume 2: Who Holds the Hammer?
AuthorJason Aaron
ISBN0785197842
3.5 stars

There's not much to this volume, is there?
Still, the 3 issues of Thor were good, and the big reveal was quite dramatic.



In the background, Malekith is plotting to take over every world connected to Yggdrasil, and Mr. Minotaur is plotting to strip them of their...
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