Whether adopting or giving birth, Moms Choice Award winning book Transformational Mothering: A Prayerful Companion for New Mothers by Amy Robbins-Wilson provides the comfort and inspiration new mothers need in those confusing and transformational first years of motherhood. This beautifully written book of prayers, poetry, affirmations, and stories acts as a guide by addressing the emotional issues associated with becoming a mother, from infertility to time spent in the neonatal intensive care unit to sleepless nights. Whether single, married, working, or a stay-at-home mother, all will find...

The diary of a teenage girl, Josephine Knight, who kept this journal from January 1885 to August 1888 in Searsmont, Maine. She attended school in nearby Camden and when not in school herself, she taught and gave music lessons. She shares her impressions of journies many nearby towns including Belfast, Thomaston, Boothbay, Rockland, Hope, Liberty, Appleton and Northport. Josephine was a keen observer and provides us with extraordinary and often humorous accounts, of teaching and growing up in Maine, of Native Americans and gypsies passing through town, and deaths at sea. She also provides us...