Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“nancy reddy”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “nancy reddy”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Good Mother Myth

    Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom

    by Nancy Reddy ...
    Timely and thought-provoking, Nancy Reddy unpacks and debunks the bad ideas that have for too long defined what it means to be a "good" mom.When Nancy Reddy had her first child, she found herself suddenly confronted with the ideal of a perfect mother—a woman who was constantly available, endlessly patient, and immediately invested in her child to the exclusion of all else. Reddy had been raised by ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Double Jinx

    Poems

    by Nancy Reddy, Alex Lemon ...
    "Dark narratives about femininity . . . Reddy channels the vibe and energy of Plath and Sexton, but it's her arresting language that's the real draw here." — Publishers WeeklyDouble Jinx follows the multiple transformations—both figurative and literal—that accompany adolescence and adulthood, particularly for young women. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Ovid's Metamorphoses, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pocket Universe

    Poems

    by Nancy Reddy ...
    Nancy Reddy’s Pocket Universe explores how the world becomes more wondrous and more perilous in the permanent after of parenthood. The collection begins in the public hospitals in sixteenth-century Paris—where women giving birth were as likely to die of fever as go home with healthy newborns—travels through the dizzying world of Instamommies and celebrities who effortlessly got their body “back” ... Read more

    Was $19.99 USD Now $9.95 USD

  • The Long Devotion

    Poets Writing Motherhood

    by Carmen Giménez Smith, Emari DiGiorgio, Chanda Feldman, Pamela Hart, Shara Lessley, Erika Meitner, Jasminne Mendez, Chelsea Rathburn, Megan Snyder-Camp, Molly Spencer, Sasha West, Diannely Antigua, Zeina Hashem Beck, Remica Bingham-Risher, Sarah Blake, Allison Blevins, Mahogany L. Browne, Julie Carr, Sunu P. Chandy, Tina Chang, Victoria Chang, Nicole Cooley, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Laura Da’, Meg Day, Kendra Decolo, Chelsea Dingman, Alexa Doran, Carolina Ebeid, Heid Erdrich, Beth Fennelly, Carrie Fountain, Krista Franklin, Shamala Gallagher, Sherine Gilmour, Aracelis Girmay, Jenn Givhan, Camille Guthrie, Lauren Haldeman, Faylita Hicks, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Joy Katz, Keetje Kuipers, Joy Ladin, Eugenia Leigh, Raina J. León, Kim-An Lieberman, Layli Long Soldier, Kwoya Fagin Maples, Joyelle McSweeney, Lynn Melnick, Clarissa Mendiola, Emily Mohn-Slate, Lisa L. Moore, Sara Mumolo, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, January Gill O’Neil, Emmy Pérez, Kiki Petrosino, Catherine Pierce, Khadijah Queen, Jordan Rice, Natalie Shapero, Brenda Shaughnessy, Sun Yung Shin, Maggie Smith, Melissa Stephenson, Alison Stine, Angela Narciso Torres, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Sarah Vap, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Hope Wabuke, Monica Youn, Rachel Zucker ...
    The Long Devotion is a collection of poems, essays, and writing prompts that celebrates motherhood and creates a space, as poet Molly Spencer has written, to “tell an unlovely truth about family life and not have to take it back.”The poets in this book represent and describe a wide range of experiences. They write about encountering the world anew through their children; intersections of parenting ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Good Mother Myth

    Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom

    by Nancy Reddy ...
    Narrated by Sara Sheckells ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 56 min

    Timely and thought-provoking, Nancy Reddy unpacks and debunks the bad ideas that have for too long defined what it means to be a "good" mom.When Nancy Reddy had her first child, she found herself suddenly confronted with the ideal of a perfect mother—a woman who was constantly available, endlessly patient, and immediately invested in her child to the exclusion of all else. Reddy had been raised by ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Water I Won’t Touch

    by Kayleb Rae Candrilli ...
    Both radically tender and desperate for change, Water I Won’t Touch is a life raft and a self-portrait, concerned with the vitality of trans people living in a dangerous and inhospitable landscape. Through the brambles of the Pennsylvania forest to a stretch of the Jersey Shore, in quiet moments and violent memories, Kayleb Rae Candrilli touches the broken earth and examines the whole in its ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Book of Marvels

    A Compendium of Everyday Things

    by Lorna Crozier ...
    In The Book of Marvels, award-winning poet Lorna Crozier offers a delightful series of prose meditations on household objects: everything from doorknobs, washing machines, rakes, and zippers to the kitchen sink. Operating as a kind of a literary detective, Crozier brings her rapt attention to the everyday things she explores, uncovering the mystery that lies at their essence. She offers ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 101 Amazing Facts About The Human Body

    by Jack Goldstein ...
    In this amazing eBook you can find more than one hundred facts about the human body. Separated into sections such as the brain, vision, bones and many more you will find some fascinating information inside! Whether you are working on a human biology project or you just want to know more about how your body works, this is an excellent addition to your bookshelf. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Subliminal

    How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior (PEN Literary Award Winner)

    by Leonard Mlodinow ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Drunkard’s Walk, a startling, eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world.“Mlodinow plunges into the realm of the unconscious mind accompanied by the latest scientific research ... [with] plenty of his trademark humor.” —Los Angeles Times**Over the past two decades of neurological research, it has ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself

    by Peter Ho Davies ...
    From an award-winning author, this novel about the choice to start a family is an "achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of fatherhood."*A People ten Best Books of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • An Independent (UK) twenty Best Books of the Year"Wise, bracingly honest . . .... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Best American Essays 2021

    by Robert Atwan ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz"The world is abundant even in bad times," guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in her introduction, "it is lush with interestingness, and always, somewhere, offering up consolation or beauty or humor or happiness, or at least the hope of future happiness." The essays Schulz ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tales of The Friendly Forest (Illustrated Promo Fairy Tales Edition)

    by Alexei Lukshin ...
    “Tales of The Friendly Forest” is a colorfully illustrated collection of fairy tales for children. The book contains ten instructive fairy stories about the adventures of kind and funny inhabitants of the forest: the traveling Hedgehog, the hare Turbo, the wolf Straight Tail and other great beasts. These tales teach the children friendship, humanity and respect to each other, the ability to ... Read more

    Free