Laura Hunter and Jennifer Walker are on-call pediatric nurses and mothers. While answering parents' questions, they realized new parents lack the basic information needed to care for their infants. Moms and dads no longer have the advantage of grandma living next door to share her years of wisdom. They're on their own--and they need help. This simple guide addresses real-life, basic infant care needs for new moms and dads. Topics range from feedings and bedtime routines to common medical questions. The included instructional DVD gives parents visual step-by-step demonstrations of how to care for a newborn to six-month-old.

Moms on Call Guide to Basic Baby Care, The: The First 6 Months

Walker, Jennifer

Hunter, Laura

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Revell

With instructional DVD! A book for every new parent! Finally, someone has put together a book and instructional DVD for first-time parents, detailing everything from how to take a temperature to how to get the new family member to sleep all night, including what to expect, what to be alarmed about, and when to seek medical attention. Written by two pediatric nurses, who are together moms to EIGHT children of their own!

Moms on Call: Basic Baby Essentials, 0-6 Months

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Cedar Hill Pub

A story of the lives of three women, tightly woven together and surviving the harsh societal environment of an Appalachian mining town in the early to mid-1900s. Two religions contrast with each other—the Cherokee spirits of the native people and the Old Testament God of the white settlers—as each woman struggles to find her place. Love and hate, marriage and adultery, childbirth and abortion, all have their parts to play. Beloved Mother accurately portrays the evilness in humanity, in which the wicked corrupt the innocent to create a vicious cycle of abuse, until one person—with a heart of understanding and forgiveness—has the courage to end it.

Beloved Mother

Literature & Fiction

United States

Bluewater Publications

There's a certain energy in the South...that feeling that you can't get anywhere else. Thepeople, the language, the land-they all lend themselves to rich, unforgettable stories.Laura Hunter is a master storyteller who captures not only the romance of life in theSouth, but also the pain and grittiness. The stories in this collection give glimpses into thelives of fascinating characters-stories of life, death, love, and loss, of dreams shattered andhopes rebuilt. Through it all, Hunter weaves a common thread that remains with thereader long after the book is closed. Containing award-winning stories, such as: - Moon Shadows Dancing - Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Award- A Widow's Mite - Patricia Boatner Award; Tennessee Mountain Writers- She (Carter's Woman) - H E Francis Award; University of Alabama, HuntsvilleCampus, Harriet Arnow Award for Short Stories - Appalachian Writers Association- Waiting for the Pink - Hackney Award; Birmingham Southern College

Southern Voices: A Book of Short Stories

Review\n"In this YA novel, a multiracial girl finds herself the subject of strange medical experiments in rural Alabama. It's the summer of 1968. Heat and drought have dried out the fields around Hyssop, where 12-year-old Margaret Ann Odom lives with her Black Cherokee mother, M'dear. . . . The medicine, whatever it is, causes Margaret Ann to feel depressed, but the truth behind the treatment is even darker than she can imagine. The majority of the book is narrated by Margaret Ann, and Hunter gives her a poet's eye for the world around her . . . . the novel is based on a true story, one that many readers likely have never heard of, and Hunter tells it in a way that highlights the horrors." - Kirkus Reviews\nAs a timid biracial girl growing up in Sweetwater, Alabama during the 1960s, Margaret Ann Odom’s childhood was all but pleasant. Constantly targeted by her peers due to her different texture of hair, and struggling to live up to her M’dear’s expectations, Margaret's life becomes worse when Claire Whitehurst appears at her home insisting she is due for a sudden medical examination and a series of injections. Thinking her life couldn’t get any worse, her entire childhood spirals out of control as she faces depression and struggles to learn the value of her life amongst those intent on treating her differently.\n“In this YA novel, a multiracial girl finds herself the subject of strange medical experiments in rural Alabama. It’s the summer of 1968. Heat and drought have dried out the fields around Hyssop, where 12-year-old Margaret Ann Odom lives with her Black Cherokee mother, M’dear. . . . The medicine, whatever it is, causes Margaret Ann to feel depressed, but the truth behind the treatment is even darker than she can imagine. The majority of the book is narrated by Margaret Ann, and Hunter gives her a poet’s eye for the world around her . . . . the novel is based on a true story, one that many readers likely have never heard of, and Hunter tells it in a way that highlights the horrors.” 
– Kirkus Reviews

Summer of No Rain

BWPublications.com

Gritty Southern Christmas Anthology, is not your typical Southern Christmas stories some might find written in the Southern Living style. Yet it's your gritty salt of the earth writing about the hardworking people of the south. Stories about the people that might grieve the most deeply over this period of time each year. Many see it as the happy weeks from Thanksgiving to Christmas, when others have the greatest voids and our hearts ache in silent grief. The time that Momma worked all year trying to keep her children fed, only to find she has no extra money to put a gift under the tree. When the months that follow cause great stress trying to pay off the credit card debt taken on to try to do what could be done. In our childhood we might have been paying for a few items through layaway. This is our writing, maybe your people. One thing for sure no one tells it better than those who have lived it. Come along, meet our families and see our lives full of hard times, tears, laughter and love. 
"A collection of short stories that aims to inject real-world drama into tales of the holiday season." 
- Kirkus Review\n"'Tis the season to be truthful: the diverse stories collected in Gritty Southern Christmas Anthology are candid about the complications that mark many Southern Christmas celebrations. . . . Tribulations surround the book's cast. They deal with divorces, dead-end jobs, losses, imprisonments, and disappointments. Many struggle to make ends meet, let alone buy the perfect present. . . . While the book's characters are rarely cozy or idealized, they are an identifiable bunch. They slide into the holiday season on their foibles and mistakes, and many are in no mood to apologize for their faults. At the same time: they collectively yearn for the magic that Christmas used to hold for them, and that seemed to fade beneath the realities of adulthood. Their pains are sympathetic, familiar, and humanizing. . . . The short stories collected in Gritty Southern Christmas Anthology would not deign to suggest that the magic of Christmas washes all one's troubles away-but they still manage to wish their audience a merry holiday." - Foreword Review\n"..I think I fell in love with every last page. Well written and exactly what I needed to lift my spirits." 
- Brianna Minor NetGalley 5 Star Review

Gritty Southern Christmas Anthology: A Collection of Short Stories

King, Bill

Fulton, C.R.

Horne, Jennifer

Jones, Ashley

Griggs, Vanessa Davis

Benton, W.R.

Cooper, Christal Ann Rice

Nunnally, Ann

Hubbs, M. E.

Genre Fiction

Gritty South

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