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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot (a Tonight Show Summer Read pick) and You Should Have Known, adapted as HBO's The Undoing, Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer is the story of three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and the upending of their family by the late arrival of a fourth. The Oppenheimer triplets have been reared with every advantage: wealth, education, and the determined attention of at least one of their...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 417 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Contains scenes of miscarriage and childbirth, as well as cancer survival and implied animal endangerment.
"The Push meets The Silent Patient in a gripping thriller that follows a woman convinced a sinister figure is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens--while the men in her life refuse to believe a word she says. Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie...
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English
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"Minerva Promise claimed that her three "test tube" daughters--gifted pianist Joanie, artistic Meg, and storyteller Avery--were engineered and molded to be geniuses. Now twenty years later, the sisters reluctantly agree to take part in a documentary that will reveal secrets and spur them to forge their own extraordinary lives at last"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
423, [3] p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After a health scare, Brighton-based Lou is forced to confront the fact that her time to have a baby is running out. She can't imagine a future without children, but her partner doesn't seem to feel the same way, and she's not sure whether she could go it alone. Meanwhile, in Yorkshire, Cath is longing to start a family with her husband, Rich. No one would be happier to have children than Rich, but Cath is infertile. Could these strangers help one...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
485 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This indispensable, comprehensive, and accessible reference book to infertility provides people with the tools they need to be their own best advocates as they navigate fertility treatments and highs and lows of their infertility journey. Author Heather Huhman guides readers through every stage of the process-from knowing when to seek medical advice to parenting after infertility, and everything in between. There's the medical nitty gritty: getting...
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Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 296 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The in vitro fertilization mistake was simply stated: Carolyn Savage was pregnant with someone else's embryos. She and her husband Sean were forced to make a seemingly inconceivable choice: Either terminate the pregnancy, sue for custody, or deliver the baby--and relinquish it. The Savages decided to do what they would hope that another couple would do in a comparable situation. This is their story.--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Orion Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Richard and Rosie started trying to conceive after five years of being together but, two and a half years and countless prenatal vitamins and ovulation kits later, there hadn't been even a phantom pregnancy. So began their adventure into IVF, via blood tests, sperm tests, injections and probes, becoming involuntary experts on embryology through failure, despair, persistence and success. After 4 years, 3 different clinics, 2 positive pregnancy tests...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A provocative examination of reproductive technologies that questions our understanding of fertility, motherhood, and the female body Since the world's first test-tube baby was born in 1978, in vitro fertilization has made the unimaginable possible for millions of people. Yet today, the revolutionary potential of babies in bottles remains unrealized. Fertility centers continue to reinforce conservative norms of motherhood and family, and infertility...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (446 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Clara's Heart: Clara Mayfield, a Jamaican housekeeper, enters the Harts' luxurious suburban Baltimore home as an interloper, but her unshakable dignity and bounteous humor act like sunshine on the tight bud of David's soul. He flowers under her care and even fashions his speech after hers.
Corrina, Corrina: A funny, heart-warming story of a newly widowed man struggling to raise his little girl, and the woman who brings magic and laughter back into...
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Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At twenty-two, Chicagoan Nadine Kenney is thrilled to meet her future husband, Jamie, while vacationing in Florida. After a whirlwind, long-distance romance, Nadine leaves her friends, family, and city to join Jamie in suburban Massachusetts. Once married, they begin trying for a baby without knowing how hard that road will become.
Nadine soon faces the little-known horrors of IVF when a procedure causes severe internal bleeding, and she wakes...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 286 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle Tea, the hilarious, powerfully written, taboo-breaking story of her journey to pregnancy and motherhood as a 40 year-old, queer, uninsured woman. Written in intimate, gleefully TMI prose, Knocking Myself Up is the irreverent account of Tea's route to parenthood-with a group of ride-or-die friends, a generous drag queen, and a whole lot of can-do pluck....
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
US edition.
Physical Desc
152 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Conrad and Joanne met in their final year of university and have been virtually inseparable since then. For a while, it felt like they had all the time in the world. Yet now, when they are finally ready to have kids, they find that getting pregnant isn't always so easy. Ahead of them lies a difficult, expensive, and emotional journey into the world of assisted fertility, where each 'successful' implantation is followed by a two-week wait to see if...
14) True North
Author
Publisher
Heather Ehrman Krill
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xvii, 171 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of She Left Me The Gun, an explosive and hilarious memoir about the exceptional and life-changing decision to conceive a child on one's own via assisted reproduction. When British journalist, memoirist, and New York-transplant Emma Brockes decides to become pregnant, she quickly realizes that, being single, 37, and in the early stages of a same-sex relationship, she's going to have to be untraditional about it. From the moment she...
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