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Crazy Love

By: Leslie Morgan Steiner

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In this gripping, compulsively readable story of romantic love and its dreadful underside (Susan Cheever), "Crazy Love" recounts Steiner's experiences as an abused wife--and how she found the courage to leave.

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0312377452

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9780312377458

The Baby Chase

How Surrogacy Is Transforming the American Family

By: Leslie Morgan Steiner

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The Baby Chase

How Surrogacy Is Transforming the American Family

By: Leslie Morgan Steiner

From the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Love comes a startling new narrative about surrogacy from both sides of the equation--the parents and the gestational carrier Rhonda Wile and her husband Gerry struggled for years with infertility. With perseverance shocking to all around them, there wasn't a procedure they wouldn't and didn't try--unsuccessfully--until they decided to look for a surrogate. Once considered a desperate, even morally suspect option, surrogacy had started to claim headlines and transform the lives of celebrities like Nicole Kidman and Elton John. For Rhonda, surrogacy seemed like an impossible and unaffordable dream, until she came across the beaming smile of a beautiful Indian woman on the internet. Within a few short months, she had embarked on a journey that would take her into the shadowy, emerging world of Indian carriers and the global surrogacy community. In The Baby Chase, acclaimed writer Leslie Morgan Steiner weaves the stories together-- of a nurse, a firefighter, and the Indian gestational carrier who made their baby dreams come true. Moving, page-turning, and meticulously researched, this deeply complex human journey is paired with an examination of the issues--religious, legal, medical and emotional--that shapes surrogacy as a solution both exciting and imperfect. Steiner revels in the joy that ultimately infuses one couple's lives when--against the odds--their intense, almost irrational desire to bear a child meets with success"--

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125000294X

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Mommy Wars

Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families

By: Leslie Morgan Steiner

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Mommy Wars

Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families

By: Leslie Morgan Steiner

With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman’s life: Stay at home or pursue a career? The dilemma not only divides mothers into hostile, defensive camps but pits individual mothers against themselves. Leslie Morgan Steiner has been there. As an executive at The Washington Post, a writer, and mother of three, she has lived and breathed every side of the “mommy wars.” Rather than just watch the battles rage, Steiner decided to do something about it. She commissioned twenty-six outspoken mothers to write about their lives, their families, and the choices that have worked for them. The result is a frank, surprising, and utterly refreshing look at American motherhood. Ranging in age from twenty-five to seventy-two and scattered across the country from New Hampshire to California, these mothers reflect the full spectrum of lifestyle choices. Women who have been home with the kids from day one, moms who shuttle from full-time office jobs to part-time at-home work, hard-driving executives who put in seventy-hour-plus weeks: they all get a turn. The one thing these women have in common, aside from having kids, is that they’re all terrific writers. Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley vividly recounts how her generation stormed the American workplace–only to take refuge at home when the workplace drove them out. Lizzie McGuire creator Terri Minsky describes what it felt like to hear her kids scream “I hope you never come back!” when she flew to L.A. to launch the show that made her career. Susan Cheever, novelist, biographer, and Newsday columnist, reports on the furious battles between the stroller pushers and the briefcase bearers on the streets of Manhattan. Lois R. Shea traded the journalistic fast track for a house in the country where she could raise her daughter in peace. Ann Misiaszek Sarnoff, chief operating officer of the Women’s National Basketball Association, argues fiercely that you can combine ambition and motherhood–and have a blast in the process. Candid, engaging, by turns unflinchingly honest and painfully funny, the essays collected here offer an astonishingly intimate portrait of the state of motherhood today. Mommy Wars is a book by and for and about the real experts on motherhood and hard work: the women at home, in the office, on the job every day of their lives. Including these essays: “Neither Here nor There” by Sandy Hingston “The Mother Load” by Terri Minsky “Sharks and Jets” by Page Evans “Baby Battle” by Susan Cheever “Guilty” by Dawn Drzal “The Donna Reed Syndrome” by Lonnae O’Neal Parker “Mother Superior” by Catherine Clifford “Good Enough” by Beth Brophy “Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn” by Lois R. Shea “What Goes Unsaid” by Sydney Trent “I Hate Everybody” by Leslie Lehr “Before; After” by Molly Jong-Fast “I Do Know How She Does It” by Ann Misiaszek Sarnoff “Red Boots and Cole Haans” by Monica Buckley Price “Working Mother, Not Guilty” by Sara Nelson “Feminism Meets the Free Market” by Jane Smiley “Happy” by Anne Marie Feld “I Never Dreamed I’d Have So Many Children” by Lila Leff “On Being a Radical Feminist Stay-at-Home Mom” by Inda Schaenen “Being There” by Reshma Memon Yaqub “Russian Dolls” by Veronica Chambers “Peace and Carrots” by Carolyn Hax “Unprotected” by Natalie Smith Parra “Julia” by Anna Fels “On Balance” by Jane Juska “My Baby’s Feet Are Size 13” by Iris Krasnow

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1588365980

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Crazy Love

By: Leslie Morgan Steiner

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The Baby Chase

How Surrogacy Is Transforming the American Family

By: Leslie Morgan Steiner

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The Baby Chase

How Surrogacy Is Transforming the American Family

By: Leslie Morgan Steiner

From the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Love comes a riveting new narrative about surrogate pregnancy from both sides of the equation—the parents and the gestational carrier. Once considered a desperate, even morally suspect option, surrogacy is now sweeping headlines, transforming the lives of celebrity mothers and fathers like Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicole Kidman and Elton John, and changing the face of motherhood and the American family. But how much do we really know about it? And is it really as easy and accessible – emotionally, financially, legally and physically – as magazines make it out to be? We often hear about successful outcomes, but little about the journey – about the precious hope that starts it all, the ups and downs of finding a surrogate, the heartache and obstacles, the risks and expenses at every step, or the unbelievable joy when years of determination pay off. In The Baby Chase, acclaimed writer Leslie Morgan Steiner weaves three stories together — of a nurse, a firefighter, and the Indian gestational carriers and doctors who helped them — to provide one intensely personal look at what makes surrogacy so controversial, fascinating, and in some cases, the only ray of hope for today's infertile parents-to-be. Rhonda Wile and her husband Gerry struggled for years with infertility. With perseverance that shocked everyone around them, they tried every procedure and option available – unsuccessfully – until they finally decided to hire a surrogate. While surrogacy was being touted as a miracle for hopeful parents, for Rhonda and Gerry, it seemed an impossible and unaffordable dream. Until they came across the beaming smile of a beautiful Indian woman on the internet... and, within a few short months, embarked on a journey that would take them deep into the emerging world of Indian carriers, international medical tourism, and the global surrogacy community. Moving, page-turning, and meticulously researched, this complex human story is paired with an examination of the issues—religious, legal, medical and emotional—that shapes surrogacy as a solution both imperfect and life-changing.

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St. Martin's Press

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1466834684

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Mommy Wars

Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families

By: Leslie Morgan Steiner

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Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families

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The Feminine Mistake

Are We Giving Up Too Much?

By: Leslie Bennetts

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The Feminine Mistake

Are We Giving Up Too Much?

By: Leslie Bennetts

Women are constantly being told that it's simply too difficult to balance work and family, so if they don't really "have to" work, it's better for their families if they stay home. Not only is this untrue, Leslie Bennetts says, but the arguments in favor of stay-at-home motherhood fail to consider the surprising benefits of work and the unexpected toll of giving it up. It's time, she says, to get the message across -- combining work and family really is the best choice for most women, and it's eminently doable. Bennetts and millions of other working women provide ample proof that there are many different ways to have kids, maintain a challenging career, and have a richly rewarding life as a result. Earning money and being successful not only make women feel great, but when women sacrifice their financial autonomy by quitting their jobs, they become vulnerable to divorce as well as the potential illness, death, or unemployment of their breadwinner husbands. Further, they forfeit the intellectual, emotional, psychological, and even medical benefits of self-sufficiency. The truth is that when women gamble on dependancy, most eventually end up on the wrong side of the odds. In riveting interviews with women from a wide range of backgrounds, Bennetts tells their dramatic stories -- some triumphant, others heartbreaking. The Feminine Mistake will inspire women to accept the challenge of figuring out who they are and what they want to do with their lives in addition to raising children. Not since Betty Friedan has anyone offered such an eye-opening and persuasive argument for why women can -- and should -- embrace the joyously complex lives they deserve.

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Hachette Books

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1401387667

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Wife Goes On

By: Leslie Lehr

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Wife Goes On

By: Leslie Lehr

Against all odds, four very different women become unlikely friends, offering each other humor, healing, and hope as they leave their pasts behind and enter into a new world bursting with possibilities.

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0758222416

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Halliwell's Film & Video Guide 2004

By: Leslie Halliwell

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Halliwell's Film & Video Guide 2004

By: Leslie Halliwell

This guide to the film industry from the 1900s to the present day has now been updated with John Walker's critiques of the films that have been turning heads in 2002/3. It delivers all the cast and crew credits, fun trivia and behind-the-scenes information you need on thousands of movies (over 23,000) including hundreds of new ones. This perennial guide also includes plot synopses and critical evaluations, as well as video cassette, laser disc and DVD availability. Reader friendly icons denote films suitable for family viewing, Academy Award Winners and nominees, soundtrack availability and video format compatibility. The guide also contains lists of four-star and three-star films by title and year.

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0007167121

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Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion

By: Leslie Halliwell

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Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion

By: Leslie Halliwell

The most popular, authoritative, and complete reference book on film for movie and video fans--updated and revised to include the latest major films, actors, directors, writers, and everyone else of importance in the movie industry. More comprehensive than any other film encyclopedia. "A knockout compilation".--Chicago Tribune. 100 photographs.

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HarperCollins Publishers

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0062732390

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9780062732392

The Filmgoer's Companion

By: Leslie Halliwell

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The Filmgoer's Companion

By: Leslie Halliwell

Oorspr. dr. 1965.- Ook aanwezig: 2nd ed. (rev. and enl.). London : Macgibbon & Kee, 1967. 847 p. - 3rd ed. rev. and expanded. New York : Avon, 1971. 1072 p. - (Equinox books). - 3rd ed.; repr. London : Paladin, 1972. - 1072 p. - 9th ed.;London [etc.] : Grafton, cop. 1988. - 10th ed.; ed. by John Walker. - London : HarperCollins, cop. 1993. - 834 p. - ISBN O-586-09174-2 pbk. - 14th ed., getiteld: Halliwell's who is who in the movies - ed. by John Walker. - London : HarperCollins, 2001. - 593 p. - ISBN 0-00-257214-1).

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0380401215

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9780380401215

Book's by Leslie Morgan Steiner

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Crazy Love

The Baby Chase

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Mommy Wars

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Crazy Love

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The Baby Chase

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Mommy Wars

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The Feminine Mistake

The Feminine Mistake

Wife Goes On

Wife Goes On

Halliwell's Film & Video Guide 2004

Halliwell's Film & Video Guide 2004

Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion

Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion

The Filmgoer's Companion

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