One of William Faulkner's most admired and accessible novels, Light in August reveals the great American author at the height of his powers. Lena Grove's resolute search for the father of her unborn child begets a rich, poignant, and ultimately hopeful story of perseverance in the face of morality. It also acquaints us with several of Faulkner's most unforgettable characters, including the Reverend Gail Hightower, plagued by visions of Confederate...

An unplanned pregnancy. An absent father. Can love really endure all things?

Danielle Kent is anything but Amish. But as destiny would have it, she has fallen in love with an Amish man.

Now she’s 18, pregnant, and hopeful that the child’s Amish father—Matthew Lapp—will do the right thing and marry her. She knows Matthew plans to leave his Colorado settlement for a life in the Englisch world. But that plan

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An ideal reference for both medical students and prospective parents, The Pregnant Body Book looks at the nature of human pregnancy, including how it's changed through evolution, and explores the anatomy and physiology of both the reproductive systems. Examining the development of the baby in the womb and the parallel changes in the mother's body and structured to follow the process week by week, The Pregnant Body Book follows every anatomical and...

As I saw my new-born baby's face for the first time I tried desperately to capture her face in my mind-to stamp it onto my eyelids. As she was taken from me I knew I might never see her again. 38 years later... "You were adopted". Three short worlds and Sabina's life fractures. There would forever be a Before those words, and an After. Pregnant with her own child, Sabina can't understand how a mother could abandon her daughter, or why her parents...

Suzanne demonstrates how to stay slim & toned during pregnanacy with her prenatal barre workout. Leigh-Ann Mims, 35 weeks pregnant, exercises along with Suzanne.

Some refer to it as the Colony. To others, it's a cult. Few locals in the Oregon coastal hamlet of Deception Bay have ever been invited into its inner sanctum, but curiosity runs deep. Yet lately, even the sisters who live at Siren Song have begun to question whether it's really the sanctuary their aunt claims. Being isolated from the mainland keeps out strangers who might recoil at the women's unnerving psychic abilities, but there are terrors...

Ivy and David Rose, happily married high school sweethearts and expecting their first child, are plunged into a growing web of suspicion when a young, pregnant high school classmate disappears and David's past is exposed in this tale of obsession.

Pregnancy--unquestionably one of the most profound, meaningful experiences of adulthood--can reduce otherwise intelligent women to, well, babies. Pregnant women are told to avoid cold cuts, sushi, alcohol, and coffee without ever being told why these are forbidden. Rules for prenatal testing are similarly unexplained. Moms-to-be desperately want a resource that empowers them to make their own right choices. When award-winning economist Emily Oster...

Sharing an intimate, decades-long friendship, Jess and Ren, who are each other's person, must adjust to the unexpected when a one-night stand with a tourist leaves Ren pregnant--and leaves both women wondering if this is one more thing they'll do together or if this will in fact change everything--

In the first book of Eileen Goudge's bestselling Carson Springs series, an unlikely wedding upends a tranquil California town     It isn't easy to watch your daughter marry a man who's twice her age, but Samantha Kiley holds her tongue. Wes seems like a good man, and it doesn't hurt that he's also a billionaire. She has no idea that she will soon be caught up in a May–December affair of her own that will set tongues wagging in the idyllic small...