This memoir details the events and emotional struggles surrounding the authors teen pregnancy in the 1970s Midwest. Shunned first because of her interracial relationship and second for her out-of-wedlock pregnancy, Ruby Cornelius ends up against her will in the homea place created to temporarily house and hide the shame of these girls condition. Spanning more than four decades, the author poignantly shares a journey of motherhood lost and gained.

How do you find your way through the broken pieces and the pain to peace?In this honest and searching book, New York Times best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant recounts the last decade of her profoundly human journey and shares her own hard lessons to inspire you to put your personal puzzle back together.Part metaphorical teaching story, part wrenching personal chronicle, this phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes tale is about men and money, love and work, ...

The USA Today–bestselling biography of a man who lost his sight as an adult and regained it twenty years later without any medical intervention.Unblinded is the true story of New Yorker Kevin Coughlin, who became blind at age thirty-six due to a rare genetic disorder known as Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy. Twenty years later, without medical intervention, Kevin's sight miraculously started to return. He is the only known person in the world ...

**“It would take a heart of stone not to be moved by the oral histories of these women and by the courage and candor with which they express themselves.” —The Washington Post“A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book.” —The New York Times Book Review**“A wrenching, riveting book.” —Chicago TribuneThe astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to eno...

Every mom wants the best for her son. She wants him to succeed in life, to be a man of character, to find a good woman, to be a great dad. But sometimes boys are hard for moms to understand. Sometimes they're strange, annoying, and downright disgusting! Yet always they need a mother who is engaged and interested in them, because a mom is the most important person in a boy's life.In What a Difference a Mom Makes, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Kevin Leman us...

*iPhone 5 Edition*A tale of tragedy, heartbreak and GOD's promise of unrelenting love.Christian fiction. (Oprah's Book Club 2.0).

Here's a radical concept: Most girls are happy, and so are their mothers. Most girls are not destined for depression, eating disorders, low self-esteem, and raging fights with their parents-that's just a very noisy minority.In My Girl, Karen Stabiner tells the story of one girl's journey into adolescence, and of her own efforts to find a way to guide her daughter through life's real thickets-not the scary but rare ones we hear so much about. When Sarah reached sixth grade,...

This book was written to send a message to the Mothers in the urban areas about the serious issues in regards to Motherhood. The book contains less than 200 pages because I did not want to bore my readers with a lot of unnecessary dialogue.

Here is the first book written specifically for men who date while answering to a higher authority: their children.As a single father, you’re ready to begin dating again. But are your kids ready? In this much-needed guide, relationship expert Ellie Slott Fisher comes to the rescue with no-nonsense, no-judgments advice on everything from how to ask a woman out to navigating the potential minefield of overnight dates.Single dads are as nervous as single moms about merging the...

The two worst times in a woman's life is when she is 13 and when her daughter is 13, or so goes a popular maxim in psychology circles.

A collection of extraordinary letters expressing the joys, sorrows, and surprises of ordinary lives.We've all missed the chance to say something important. Friends fall out of touch, loved ones pass away, or sometimes the courage required is simply lacking -- and thank-yous, regrets, feelings, and secrets are left unshared. In 2009, Jackie Hooper came up with a way to help people recapture a moment that had once passed them by -- she began asking them to write lett...

Life is like an airplane that goes really fast. We are only allowed to go forward; we can never turn back. Time makes us old, and love make us sore. Theres a lot of happiness in our lives, but theres also much sorrow. That is life! That is what makes life so wonderful: happiness sometimes, and sadness other times! Some people might think sadness is not a wonderful thing to keep, and thats true. But if we only had happiness without any sadness, our lives wouldnt be that fun anymore. I know ...