Download or read book Not Ready for Mom Jeans written by Maureen Lipinski and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A laugh-out-loud novel about motherhood, life, and the quest for eight hours of sleep. Event planner and famous blogger Clare Finnegan expected to go back to work after her daughter was born. After all, she worked hard for her success...and it's not like now that she has a child she has to buy a minivan, wear Mom Jeans, and give up her career! Right? Despite more than a few pounds of baby weight still left to lose, Clare dons her Miss Piggy Pants and returns to work. She plans a swanky Sweet Sixteen party, pulls off a million-dollar golf outing, has to come to terms with her mother's breast cancer, and is left so exhausted that she can't remember her ATM card's pin number. Then, after another meeting runs late, and she misses another one of her daughter's milestones, Clare allows herself to examine an alternate choice: staying home. "Lipinski's snappy dialogue and acerbic wit are so engaging, you don't need a minivan to enjoy this ride." –Jen Lancaster, New York Times bestselling author

Download or read book Mom Jeans and Other Mistakes written by Alexa Martin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The kind of book that's destined to be passed from friend to friend."—PopSugar Two best friends say "I do" to living together, for better or worse, in this bold women's fiction novel from Alexa Martin. Jude Andrews is famous. Well, at least on Instagram. Her brand is clean eating, good vibes, Pilates, and casually looking like a sun-kissed goddess. In real life, however, she’s a total disaster. She has a strained relationship with her fame-hungry mom and her latest bad decision emptied out her entire savings account. Lauren Turner had a plan: graduate medical school and become the top surgeon in the country. But when she became unexpectedly pregnant, those plans changed. And when her fiancé left her, they changed again. Now navigating the new world of coparenting, mom groups, and dating, she decides to launch a mommy podcast with all the advice she wishes someone had given her. Jude and Lauren don't have much in common, but maybe that's why they've been best friends since the third grade. Through ups and downs, they've been by each other's sides. But now? They’re broke, single, and do the only thing that makes sense—move in together, just like they talked about when they were teenagers. Except when they were younger, the plan didn't include a five-year-old daughter and more baggage than their new townhouse can hold.

Download or read book Not Ready for Granny Panties The 11 Commandments for Avoiding Granny Panties written by Mary Fran Bontempo and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It happens to the best of us. On a day like any other, you look in the mirror and find a cranky, worn-out, middle-aged woman staring back at you. A woman who is firmly strapped into a giant pair of GRANNY PANTIES. Yes, aging is inevitable, but looking, and acting, like your grandma is not. So join Mary Fran Bontempo and learn a new set of Commandments that will enable you to avoid the Granny Panties and love life in the middle years. You'll laugh, learn a few things and with any luck, bid a permanent goodbye to GRANNY PANTIES and the old hag in the mirror!

Download or read book No Mom Jeans written by Melissa Fiendell and published by Melissa Fiendell. This book was released on 2011-12-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who says a mommy can't be stylish? Becoming a mother changes everything, but it doesn't mean you have to trade in your trendy denim for the dreaded mom jeans. NO MOM JEANS is for every new mom that resists the idea of succumbing to the sloppy soccer mom stereotype and wants to find ways to keep a little bit of fabulous in her life, even after having a baby. With humor, compassion, and a healthy dose of hard reality, fellow new mom Melissa Fiendell shows you how to find balance by prioritizing your own needs along with the needs of your newborn. Written for every mom that is tired of reading about napping and pooping (yawn); and hearing horror stories about not being able to shower or sleep (yikes), NO MOM JEANS is a lighthearted, welcome escape from the typical new mommy reading list. NO MOM JEANS covers seven style-related topics: Fashion, Home Décor, Beauty, Baby Gear, Diet and Exercise, How to get out of the House, and Relationships. Delectably written, each chapter is packed with practical tips for moms who love all things style, and a good giggle. By focusing on fun (deliciously superficial) topics, NO MOM JEANS shows women that taking care of yourself is actually a critical part of taking care of your family. In addition to being a well needed escape from diaperland, NO MOM JEANS reinforces an important lesson for new mothers: that taking care of yourself can actually help you become a better, happier mom.

Download or read book Be Fearless written by Jean Case and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be Fearless is researched-based call to action for those seeking to live extraordinary lives and bring about transformational change. LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER Weaving together storytelling, practical tips and inspiration, the book will teach you how to put the five fearless principles to work so that you too can spark the sorts of remarkable breakthroughs that can impact the world. Philanthropist, investor, and technology pioneer Jean Case brings to life the five Be Fearless principles common to the people and organizations that bring about transformational change. When National Geographic Chairman Jean Case set out to investigate the core qualities of great change makers, past and present, from inventors to revolutionaries, she found five surprising traits they all had in common. These weren’t wealth, privilege, or even genius. What all of these exceptional men and women shared was that they had chosen to make a “big bet,” take bold risks, learn from their failures, reach beyond their bubbles, and let urgency conquer fear. Throughout Be Fearless, Jean vividly illustrates these principles through storytelling—from her own transformational life experiences, to Jane Goodall’s remarkable breakthroughs in understanding and protecting chimpanzees, to celebrity chef José Andrés’ decision to be a “first responder” and take his kitchen to the sites of devastating hurricanes to feed the hungry, to Madame C.J. Walker’s vision to build a hair care empire that would employ thousands across the country, and more. She shares new insights to stories you might think you know—like Airbnb’s tale of starting from scratch to transform the hospitality industry, to John F. Kennedy’s history-making moonshot—and gems from changemakers you’ve never heard of. Be Fearless features a compelling foreword from Jane Goodall saying “there is no time in history when it has been more important to Be Fearless” and a new afterword with stories of people inspired to take action after reading the book.

Download or read book The Transformation of Things written by Jillian Cantor and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A provocative novel that raises fascinating questions about marriage and how to find our way back when love falters. Thoroughly original, highly engaging, and wonderfully tender.” —Laura Fitzgerald, author of Veil of Roses “The Transformation of Things is an elegant and involving page-turner….Part mystery, part love story, part coming of age, it is a wonderful book. ” —Barbara O’Neal, author of The Secret of Everything Author of The September Sisters, Jillian Cantor has crafted a truly fantastic novel about a complicated life made even more complicated by betrayal, secrets, marital upheaval, and an unwanted gift of extrasensory perception. Enthralling and original women’s fiction from an exciting new voice, The Transformation of Things tells the story of a woman who, in glimpsing the intimate lives of her loved ones, is able to illuminate the half-truths in her own.

Download or read book The Doctor s Do Over written by Karen Templeton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All Ryder Caldwell wanted was to be Melanie Duncan's protector--until those feelings turned into something stronger, forcing him to end their relationship before they made a mistake. But how could he have predicted that his rejection would send Melanie running into his brother's arms? And result in a baby? Now, ten years later, Mel has come home--and she's not alone. She was always the woman Ryder couldn't forget--and now she's accompanied by the child he hadn't known existed. And suddenly the good doctor can see everything he's been searching his whole life to find...right in his own backyard."--P. [4] of cover.

Download or read book Twice the Temptation written by Silver James and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This time, she’s in double the trouble! Only from reader favorite Silver James. “You need to get over your hero complex. I don’t need rescuing.” Fiercely independent storm chaser Brittany Owens has been avoiding smooth-talking CEO Cooper Tate. But fate keeps throwing them together. Twice she’s walked away after mind-blowing sexual encounters only to wind up back in his arms. Now Britt’s carrying Coop’s twins! But telling him the truth means facing his need to rescue her, again—this time with a marriage in name only! From Harlequin Desire: Luxury, scandal, desire—welcome to the lives of the American elite. This Oklahoma empire is Red Dirt Royalty: Book 1: Cowgirls Don’t Cry Book 2: The Cowgirl’s Little Secret Book 3: The Boss and His Cowgirl Book 4: Convenient Cowgirl Bride Book 5: Redeemed by the Cowgirl Book 6: Claiming the Cowgirl’s Baby Book 7: The Cowboy’s Christmas Proposition Book 8: Twice the Temptation

Download or read book I m Not Ready for This written by Anna Lind Thomas and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From popular humor writer and social media sensation Anna Lind Thomas comes the second book of charming and uproarious essays that capture our universal need for life to just slow down—we weren't ready for this! Anna Lind Thomas wants everyone to just calm down and give her a minute, okay? She's not ready for this! In fact, through her latest collection of laugh-out-loud essays, she'll prove she's never been ready for anything in her life. Adult decisions, marriage, parenting, crow's feet, large pores, skinny jeans--you name it, she ain't ready for it! Don't even get her started on that one time she appeared on national TV in a blazer two sizes too small because she thought she'd lose twenty pounds before the shoot. Good grief, she just wasn't ready! I'm Not Ready for This will give you the encouragement you need to: Embrace the unexpected aspects of life Appreciate the incredible power of vulnerability Let God push you forward, even if you feel like you're not ready Through her signature wit, charm, and painful relatability, Anna reminds us that no one's truly ready for anything--so we might as well go for it and see what happens. She bets it'll be real good--or at the very least, real funny.

Download or read book Heart of Texas Series Volume 1 written by Debbie Macomber and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber as she visits the Heart of Texas! Welcome to Promise, Texas. It's a ranching town in the Texas hill country—'and it's a place with a mysterious past. But Promise has a heart of goodness, and everyone here knows what really matters in life. Love, family, community… Now meet the people of Promise. Savannah Weston is an old-fashioned kind of woman, quietly content to stay on the family ranch with her brother Grady. Until she meets a disenchanted cowboy named Laredo Smith. Lonesome Cowboy Ellie Frasier is still mourning her father and needs her friends. But now her relationship with one of those friends, rancher Glen Patterson, seems to be changing, turning into something else… Texas Two-Step Who's the father of Caroline Daniels's child? Everyone in Promise wants to know, but no one's ever asked—or ever will. The people here care about her. Especially rancher Grady Weston, who's beginning to realize he more than cares. Caroline's Child The Heart of Texas. There's no place like it!

Download or read book Heart of Texas Volume 1 written by Debbie Macomber and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the town of Promise, deep in the heart of Texas! Promise, a ranching community in the Hill Country, is a place with a mysterious past and more than its share of secrets. It's also a place where family and friendship matter…. Lonesome Cowboy Savannah Weston lives quietly on the family ranch with her brother, Grady. Until she encounters a stranger named Laredo Smith, a disenchanted cowboy who just might change her life—in the best possible way! Texas Two-Step After her father's death, Ellie Frasier takes over the feed store in Promise. Still in mourning, she relies on her friends for comfort. But now her long-standing relationship with one of those friends, rancher Glen Patterson, seems to be turning into something else….

Download or read book A Bump in the Road written by Maureen Lipinski and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When twenty-seven-year-old event planner and blogger Clare Finnegan got married, she didn't mind moving out of the city. After all, a suburban existence didn't necessarily equal domesticity, book club parties, and a subscription to Martha Stewart Living. But when, after a weekend in Vegas, Clare discovers she's pregnant, she is thrown into a world where eating lunchmeat is equivalent to smoking crack and maternity clothes appear to have been molested by a BeDazzler. In the midst of her slow transition from beer bottles to baby bottles, Clare juggles burgeoning Internet stardom, plans Chicago's biggest black-tie gala, wrangles her traditional in-laws who are scandalized by her every choice, and attempts to keep the peace between her two feuding best friends. Not only funny but smart, sassy, and witty, to boot, this is a debut novel that will have you laughing for a good nine months.

Download or read book Lonesome Cowboy written by Debbie Macomber and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisit Promise, Texas, in this classic western romance from a favorite author, #1 New York Times bestselling Debbie Macomber. Everyone in Promise thinks Savannah Weston is an old-fashioned kind of woman, quietly content to stay on the family ranch with her brother, Grady. But Savannah has her passions—for the old roses she loves to grow, for the children she hopes to have. And for a man named Laredo Smith. He’s a stranger to the small town, a disenchanted drifting cowboy who may just change Savannah’s life—in the best possible way. Originally published in 1998

Download or read book Pizza Girl written by Jean Kyoung Frazier and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST • An audacious and wryly funny coming-of-age story about a pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers. Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial. She's grieving the death of her father, avoiding her supportive mom and loving boyfriend, and flagrantly ignoring her future. Her world is further upended when she becomes obsessed with Jenny, a stay-at-home mother new to the neighborhood, who comes to depend on weekly deliveries of pickled-covered pizzas for her son's happiness. As one woman looks toward motherhood and the other toward middle age, the relationship between the two begins to blur in strange, complicated, and ultimately heartbreaking ways.

Download or read book Dating DaVinci written by Malena Lott and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Malena Lott's charming, heartfelt novel about how grieving widow Ramona Elise gets her groove back will have you cheering bravissimo as she experiences her own Renaissance, courtesy of one very hot Leonardo da Vinci." - Jenny Gardiner, award-winning author of Sleeping with Ward Cleaver A gorgeous young Italian, with nowhere to go . . . His name just happens to be Leonardo da Vinci. When he walks into Ramona Elise's English class, he's a twenty-five-year-old immigrant, struggling to forge a new life in America - but he's lonely, has nowhere to live, and barely speaks English . . . She knows she shouldn't take him home . . . Picking up the pieces of her life after the death of her beloved husband, linguist and teacher Ramona Elise can't help but be charmed by her gorgeous new student. And when he calls her "Mona Lisa" she just about loses her heart . . . "Delightfully affirming romance!" - Booklist WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT MALENA LOTT: "Sweet and funny, and very real." "Funny and refreshing." "I was hooked from the first page." "I couldn't put it down. It was amazing!"

Download or read book How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids written by Jancee Dunn and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Get this for your pregnant friends, or yourself" (People): a hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice. Recommended by Nicole Cliffe in Slate Featured in People Picks A Red Tricycle Best Baby and Toddler Parenting Book of the Year One of Mother magazine's favorite parenting books of the Year How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids tackles the last taboo subject of parenthood: the startling, white-hot fury that new (and not-so-new) mothers often have for their mates. After Jancee Dunn had her baby, she found that she was doing virtually all the household chores, even though she and her husband worked equal hours. She asked herself: How did I become the 'expert' at changing a diaper? Many expectant parents spend weeks researching the best crib or safest car seat, but spend little if any time thinking about the titanic impact the baby will have on their marriage - and the way their marriage will affect their child. Enter Dunn, her well-meaning but blithely unhelpful husband, their daughter, and her boisterous extended family, who show us the ways in which outmoded family patterns and traditions thwart the overworked, overloaded parents of today. On the brink of marital Armageddon, Dunn plunges into the latest relationship research, solicits the counsel of the country's most renowned couples' and sex therapists, canvasses fellow parents, and even consults an FBI hostage negotiator on how to effectively contain an "explosive situation." Instead of having the same fights over and over, Dunn and her husband must figure out a way to resolve their larger issues and fix their family while there is still time. As they discover, adding a demanding new person to your relationship means you have to reevaluate -- and rebuild -- your marriage. In an exhilarating twist, they work together to save the day, happily returning to the kind of peaceful life they previously thought was the sole province of couples without children. Part memoir, part self-help book with actionable and achievable advice, How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids is an eye-opening look at how the man who got you into this position in this first place is the ally you didn't know you had.

Download or read book the List written by Susan Barbaro and published by EI Alliance. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The List is the story of one woman’s journey to find out what life is really about. Unexpected circumstances and one could say “fate,” lead Mallory on a ride which forces her to see who she really is. Now, with that knowledge, she is left asking: “How do I continue to live in the life I had?” Mallory’s story includes her relationship with her children and the life she had, romance, sex, fun escapades, snowmobiles and a life and death adventure that leads her to a better understanding of who she is and is becoming. She learns to be more fearless, more courageous and most difficult of all, more self-empowered to be truly alive. She is like all of us. Engage in her story and find that part of you that has been waiting to awaken!