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Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Every year hundreds of thousands of American women become stepmothers. Committing to partners who are already parents, we gain relationships with young people who may--or may not--be pleased by our presence. When Dorothy Bass married a man with a four-year-old daughter, she was hesitant to embrace the title "stepmother," with its many negative cultural associations, and she soon realized she had very little sense of what this new role required of...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Martin
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Half of all women in the United States will live with or marry a man with children. And what woman with stepchildren has not -- in order to defuse the often overwhelming challenges and anxieties she experiences -- referred to herself as a "stepmonster"? This book illuminates the harrowing process of becoming a stepmother, exposes the myths and realities of being married to a man with children, counteracts the prevailing notion that stepmothers are...
Author
Publisher
Islamic Foundation
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After Snow White's parents die she finds herself alone with a stepmother whose vanity is only matched by her wickedness. When the stepmother's jinn reveals that Snow White is the 'fairest of them all,' she starts plotting agains her. To survive, Snow White must escape the devious plans of her poisonous stepmother, who will not stop until she is dead. This lyrically-told tale of flight, friendship and forgiveness, also includes seven dwarf sister-in-faith,...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The story of a woman who stepped into the shoes of another mother taken too soon, who learned along the way that she'd need to find her own stride in the journey her new family would walk together--a story of how love and loss are not opposites but cohabitants in family life, and how family is the richest inheritance of all.
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Language
English
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Camille Lammenais has grown up in the beauty of the Napa Valley, surrounded by acres of her family's vineyards. Her parents, Christophe and Joy, still deeply in love after two decades of marriage, have built a renowned winery and château modeled after Christophe's ancient family estate in his native Bordeaux. Camille has had a perfect childhood, safe in her parents' love. After graduating from Stanford, she returns to help manage Château Joy, her...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"When Samantha is given a second chance at love at the age of 40, she moves to southwestern France, thinking she's prepared for her new role in life as an instant American wife and stepmom. It turns out, though, that making a French family takes more than just good intentions and a quick lesson in croissant-baking. Even while suffering from culture shock and struggling to parent her 10-year-old stepson and 13-year-old stepdaughter in a culture drastically...
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