Part 1: Rosetta Taylor started writing stories and poems as she was raising 11 children. She wrote about the struggles and triumphs of living in a big family. She wrote about her friends and family. She wrote about John Taylor, the love the of her life and advice to her children on how to raise their own. Part 2: Rosetta & John's children and their children contributed with more to share. The perspectives come from different generations and ages. The stories vary in length and message. Part 3: A series of collages showcasing the family. Some of the pictures relate to a story in the book. Others will spark different memories. Everyone in the family is in this book in one way or another. Whether it was adding a story, being mentioned in one, or adding a picture, everyone was involved.
Kate Reddy, a hedge fund manager and mother of two, struggles to juggle her professional and personal lives and to balance--often unsuccessfully--on the tightrope of work and home.
As far as Jay-B was concerned, Kate was only forty-two, and a viable employee, not an old trout like the Queen of Pop. It was then that the door to the meeting room swung open and in came a trolley followed by Rosita. “Oh, hullo, Kate!
Laura Vanderkam shares the time-logs from 1001 days in the lives of women who make at least $100,000 a year and still make time for their families and friends, for sleep and exercise, and for leisure activities they love.
A victim of time famine, 35 year-old Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. A comedy about failure, a tragedy about success, this novel is the untold story of the professional working mum at the start of the 21st century.
Or if we don't make excuses, we make sacrifices- taking time out from other things in order to fit it all in. There has to be a better way...and Laura Vanderkam has found one.
Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?
It is 1974, and 13-year-old Petra Williams is prey to self-doubt and teenage angst.
Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better.
As the story unfolds, Dawn’s two possible futures unspool side by side, as do the secrets and doubts long buried with them. Dawn must confront the questions she’s never truly asked: What does a life well lived look like?
From “candid tales of celebrity life, mom life, and general Busy-ness” (W Magazine), This Will Only Hurt a Little “is everything we’ve been dying to hear about” (Bustle).