Mama Tried

Author: Emily Flake
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455558249
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 199

Book Description
New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake relates the hilarious horrors of pregnancy, birth, and early parenting in this funny, poignant, and beautifully illustrated book. For most people, having a child doesn't go exactly as planned. Not many are willing to admit that not only did they dislike the early days of parenting, they sometimes hated it. Mama Tried is a relatable collection of cartoons and essays pertaining to the good, bad, and (very) ugly parenting experiences we all face. Subjects range from "are you ready for children?" to "baby gear class-warfare." With incredible honesty, Flake tackles everything from morning sickness to sleep training, shedding much needed light on the gnarly realities of breastfeeding, child proofing, mommy groups, and every unrealistic expectation in between. Mama Tried will be an indispensable companion for sleepless parents and a fond reminder for those already out of the woods.

Mama Tried

Author:
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
ISBN: 1621065057
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
Cecilia Granata grew up cooking with her family in Italy. As a vegan, she learned to adapt her favorite recipes from around the country to be animal free while retaining the flavor and feeling of true Italian home cooking. She shares her commitment to ethical and artful eating in this alphabetically-arranged volume with over 100 recipes, ranging from traditional favorites to homemade liquors to aphrodisiacs—all "senza sofferenza," without suffering. The recipes are lushly illustrated with Granata's food-inspired tattoo art.

Crooked Hallelujah

Author: Kelli Jo Ford
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802149146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247

Book Description
“A masterful debut” that follows four generations of Cherokee women across four decades—from the Plimpton Prize–winning author (Sarah Jessica Parker). It’s 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and fifteen-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine’s father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout member of the Holiness Church—a community that Justine at times finds stifling and terrifying. But Justine does her best as a devoted daughter, until an act of violence sends her on a different path forever. Crooked Hallelujah tells the stories of Justine—a mixed-blood Cherokee woman—and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahoma’s Indian Country in the hopes of starting a new, more stable life in Texas amid the oil bust of the 1980s. However, life in Texas isn’t easy, and Reney feels unmoored from her family in Indian Country. Against the vivid backdrop of the Red River, we see their struggle to survive in a world—of unreliable men and near-Biblical natural forces, like wildfires and tornados—intent on stripping away their connections to one another and their very ideas of home. In lush and empathic prose, Kelli Jo Ford depicts what this family of proud, stubborn, Cherokee women sacrifices for those they love, amid larger forces of history, religion, class, and culture. This is a big-hearted and ambitious novel of the powerful bonds between mothers and daughters by an exquisite and rare new talent. “A compelling journey through the evolving terrain of multiple generations of women.” —The Washington Post

Mama Tried

Author: Kathy Des Jardins
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN: 1509239677
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383

Book Description
Disc jockey Joy Faye Savoy plays country songs written about women like her mother, the comely, exasperating Quida Raye Perkins. When Joy treats her audience to good-natured gripes about her big-haired and bossy mother, who's known to hitch rides in semi trucks, she is shocked to find herself syndicated…with one catch—she must keep poking fun at feisty Quida Raye. Joy makes the best of small-town stardom despite big-time baggage, a load not lightened by hunky co-workers or her overbearing best friend until true love strikes. She finally hears in those old melodies what she and her mother have had in common all along—yesterday, with its shared memories of happiness and tragedy…and they know all the words by heart.

Summer Tour

Author: B. Elizabeth Beck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
Summer Adventure with Phish. Follow these characters as they jump on the train for Summer Tour '19. When Sam Abernathy spends the summer in Maywood, Ohio in the Calico House with his Aunt Karen, he meets a group of phans who change his life. Chris serves as Captain, ala Neal Cassady. Claire is an artist who installs her work at SPAC. Taylor is a poet and Alex holds down the group as wise sage. Augmented with set lists and detailed show accounts, this piece of fiction reads like memoir. A must-read for any Phish Phan.

M Is for Mama

Author: Abbie Halberstadt
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736983783
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
Mama of ten Abbie Halberstadt helps women humbly and gracefully rise to the high calling of motherhood without settling for mediocrity or losing their minds in the process. Motherhood is a challenge. Unfortunately, our worldly culture offers moms little in the way of real help. Mamas only connect to celebrate surviving another day and to share in their misery rather than rejoice in what God has done and to build each other up in hard times. There has a be a better way, a biblical way, for mamas to grow and thrive. As a daughter of Christ, you have been called to be more than an average mama. Attaining excellence doesn’t have to be unsettling but it will take committed focus and a desire to parent well according to God’s grace and for His glory. M is for Mama offers advice, encouragement, and scripturally sound strategies seasoned with a little bit of humor to help you embrace the challenge of biblical motherhood and raise your children with love and wisdom. Mama, you are worthy of the awesome responsibility God has given you. Now it’s time to start believing you can live up to it.

The Hoosier Mama Book of Pie

Author: Paula Haney
Publisher: Agate Publishing
ISBN: 1572847190
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 417

Book Description
Making a delicious pie has never been easier with this extensive cookbook from the popular Chicago bakery. When Paula Haney first opened the Hoosier Mama Pie Company on March 14, 2009 (Pi day, appropriately enough), she worried whether her new business could survive by specializing in just one thing. But with a line around the block, Paula realized she had a more immediate problem: had she made enough pie? The shop closed early that day, but it has been churning out plenty of the Chicago’s most delectable pies ever since. Specializing in hand-made, artisanal pies that only use locally sourced and in-season ingredients, Hoosier Mama Pie Company has become a local favorite and a national destination gaining praise from Bon Appetit, the Food Network, and Food & Wine as one of the top pie shops in the country. Now, The Hoosier Mama Book of Pie delivers all the sumptuous secrets of buttery crusts, fruity fillings, creams and custards, chess pies, over-the-top pies, and even the stout and hearty savory pie. The practically oriented, easy-going, and accessible style of this book will help bakers both new and old make the perfect pie for every occasion. On top of all of this, The Hoosier Mama Book of Pie also includes tips on technique, fascinating historical anecdotes, and an emphasis on special seasonal recipes, as well as quiches, hand pies, and scones. This beautifully photographed and designed book has the classic retro feel of the mid-20th century golden age of pie, and all the warmth and personality of the Hoosier Mama Pie Co.’s cozy Chicago storefront. The focus on using local produce and employing the farm-to-table philosophy gives the book a contemporary twist, helping home bakers make the freshest, most delicious pies imaginable. Now readers can take a little piece of the Hoosier Mama Pie Company anywhere they go. Praise for the Hoosier Mama Book of Pie “Paula Haney . . . just put out a massive cookbook with her recipes . . . and it’s something very special. The almost-400-page tome details Hoosier Mama’s opening and development, as well as Haney’s recipes for everything from crust to biscuits to custard fillings. The photos make everything look delicious and, to the above-average baker, everything seems relatively easy to execute.” —Marah Eakin, The AV Club “Everything you could possibly want to know about proper pie making is covered . . . No facet of the process is too humble for discussion; the merits of salt in the crust is given as much thought as the best way to combine butter and flour. If you’ve ever wanted to learn the right way to crimp a pie, or how to make lattice work actually work, this is the book for you.” —Serious Eats, naming Hoosier Mama a top dessert cookbook of 2013

Good Night Captain Mama

Author: Graciela Tiscareño-Sato
Publisher: Gracefully Global Group LLC
ISBN: 0983476039
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41

Book Description
This ground-breaking bilingual book was written by a Latina military officer and former aviator. It's the first bilingual children's book, in English and Spanish, about why mommies wear military uniforms and serve in the armed forces. Synopsis: A little boy named Marco is walking to his bedroom in pajamas carrying his stuffed puppy dog when he notices his mommy in an olive-green military flight suit. His curiosity about the colorful patches on her uniform evolves into a sweet, reassuring bedtime conversation between a military mother and her child about why she serves and what she does in the unusual KC-135R aerial refueling airplane. He drifts off to sleep with thoughts of his mommy in the airplane and the special surprise she gave him stuck to his fleece pajamas. The book includes an art activity for parents and teachers to enjoy with children. It's the first in a planned aviation adventure series.

This Great Green Valley

Author: Lynnell Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937968632
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Poetry. "Genius loci." The pervading spirit of a place. This little book from Lynnell Edwards is all about the spirit of a very specific place, in this case the environs of central Kentucky, and she writes about this place in two very different times, in two very different styles. So different, in fact, that one might first wonder what the two parts of the book have in common. The answer, of course, is genius loci. In the original Roman use of the term, "spirit" meant the protective deity of a place. And in pioneer Kentucky, a place that Edwards's McAfee ancestors helped to settle, that deity could be cruel. The historical narrative poems in the first part of the book recount many instances of hardship and violence, both as experienced by white settlers, and as dealt by them upon the Native Americans from whom they "conquered" this place. So harsh a place, in fact, that Governor Patrick Henry (when this land was still part of Virginia) begged his own sister, "Pray don't go to Kentuckie to live." But many did, and endured. In the more contemporary sense, "spirit" means the unique sense and feel of a place, and in the second part of this book Edwards captures that spirit through her lyrical recollections of boating on the Kentucky River with her family, in her childhood, when she could imagine herself a "mermaid, my hair loosed / and living as tall field grass / drifting in the summer air, / white hands luminous / and slow, parting / the water below, open eyes / peering / into silence, the dark distance." In effect she becomes, in this moment at least, the spirit of the place. A part of its deep past. The violence of history, and the beauty and peace of nature. Edwards understands that both are present in the story of Kentucky, and of our nation as a whole, and she expresses both eloquently through the poetry here. Her love of this place is palpable, but it is no naive love. She knows what it has cost, and she knows that it is fragile. Like the ancient limestone palisades along the Kentucky River, her words serve as a "record of what our great green Earth once was, and where, if we can keep it, we might still find our place."

Mama Tried

Author: Andy Andersen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783933649027
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 149

Book Description