Böcker utgivna av Blue Hydrangea Productions

In this sequel to Up Beaver Creek and Seal Rock Sound, set on the beautiful Oregon coast, we again follow the adventures of PD Soares and her friends. Having survived the death of her husband, a tsunami, and a rape attempt, PD believes her new life on the Oregon coast is finally settling down. The music career she dreamed of when she left Montana with a new look and a new name is finally getting underway. She has a new home up Beaver Creek, a good job, and possibly a new romance, but it's 2020, and life is about to take another turn. Or two or three. The whole year is one big riptide, and PD will have to swim her way out of it with a little help from her old friends and a new friend everyone calls The Witch.

First you marry a man who does not want children. He cheats and you divorce him. Then you marry the love of your life and find out he does not want to have children with you either. The three he has are more than enough. Although you always wanted to be a mother, you decide he is worth the sacrifice, expecting to have a long happy life together. But that''s not what happens. This is the story of how a woman becomes childless by marriage and how it affects every aspect of her life. This is the book of my heart, the one I had to write. Ever since I realized I was not going to have children, I have felt recurring grief and an emptiness in my heart. I am different from most women, but I have found that I am not alone. There are many of us childless women, and I think it''s important to share our stories about what it''s like when you don''t have children in a world where most girls grow up to become mothers. I hope this book offers comfort to those who are childless and understanding to those who are not. If it makes you smile here and there, even better.

It''s like this giant secret that is right in front of everyone. One in five women and even more men don''t have children-at least not their own. For more than half of them, it was not by choice. Their partners a) never wanted children, b) already had kids from a previous relationship, c) never quite felt ready for parenthood, d) had had a vasectomy, or e) had fertility problems. They are forced to make a choice between this man or woman they love and the children they might have had. Love or Children features the best of more than 700 posts and comments from the Childless by Marriage blog. Sue Fagalde Lick and her readers unveil situations and feelings they wouldn''t dare tell their families, friends, partners, or even their therapists. 

Nearly one million Portuguese Americans live in California, immigrants or the descendants of immigrants who left poverty behind to seek a better life. Stories Grandma Never Told collects the accounts of the women who settled a foreign land, facing a new language, new customs, and new expectations about their roles as wives, mothers, and workers. Here, too, are the stories of their daughters and granddaughters, and their own struggles to reconcile old-country ways and morality with American lives and identity.