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At thirty-nine, movie critic Mary Pols knew she wanted to have a baby. But never—not in a million years—on her own. To take on the physical, emotional, and financial challenges of motherhood without a perfect soul mate/husband would be absurd, kind of like not bothering to use a condom during a one-night stand with an adorable but jobless guy ten years her junior.

Pols spends the ensuing weeks despairing over everything, from the financial nightmare of single motherhood to the end of her hopes for a traditional life. Not the least of her worries is finding the right way to drop the bombshell on loved ones, including her five siblings and eighty-four-year-old father, who has a German temper and an Irish Catholic attitude toward babies out of wedlock. Yet faced with the frightening, lonely truth that this might be her only chance at motherhood, she plunges ahead with the pregnancy and an Odd Couple version of a co-parenting relationship that looks like one more disaster in a long line of romantic disappointments. But even as she tries to give her son's young father a radical makeover, she realizes that his devotion and love for their child matters more than his spotty résumé or his inability to remember to put oil in the car. With humor, insight, and compelling honesty, Pols reveals what it means to compromise in the name of love and to find joy in an accidental life, suddenly brimming with purpose.

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When Mari Gallion, an unmarried tour guide in Alaska, discovered she was pregnant, she immediately made the decision to have the baby. What she never expected was the hypocrisy of the movement that condemns a woman's right to choose while witholding information that could empower single women who had chosen to continue with unplanned pregnancies. In response, Gallion set out to write a guide that offers unconditional assistance to the women who have chosen to take the unorthodox path of pregnancy without a partner. The Single Woman's Guide to a Happy Pregnancy is Gallion's gift to those women who find themselves pregnant and going it alone. It is a positive, affirming, and sometimes humorous how-to that covers all the bases: staying positive, getting organized, preventing depression, and finding the agencies that offer assistance. The author also gives valuable advice about living circumstances, money management, and even what mothers need to acquire before the baby comes. The Single Woman's Guide to a Happy Pregnancy is not a book about morning sickness and blotchy skin. Instead, it is about well-being, attaining power through knowledge, and planning ahead..
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I Think I'm Pregnant What Should I Do???? Educate yourself. Make a plan. Take action.

Okay, you're pregnant and this is now how you planned things. It was a surprise, an accident, and unexpected event and you just don't know what to do.

The Unplanned Pregnancy Book for Teens and College Students is a helpful guide written to provide you with information and resources that can help you come to terms with how to handle your unplanned pregnancy. This book is not written to influence you or to change your mind about how you should deal with your unplanned pregnancy. This book aims to education. Only you and the people who are helping you with your current situation can help you determine what is the best thing for you to do. Whether you plan to continue your pregnancy and become a parent, decide to terminate your pregnancy, or if you decide that adoption is the best option for you, The Unplanned Pregnancy Book for Teens and College Students is here to help you.

Special features include prenatal care guide, new baby item check list, DNA paternity testing information, listing of universities that offer family housing, information about programs such as WIC, Food Stamps, and Medicaid for low income mothers, information about mandatory waiting laws and parental consent and notification laws, information about types of adoption, birth control guide, web links and other valuable resources. Also includes real life stories from women who faced unplanned pregnancies..
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Jayne Schooler offers comfort and advice for parents and families of unwed mothers and fathers .
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"If you are looking for adventure," I said to Liz, "why don't you go to Mt. Rushmore, attach a bungee cord to Lincoln's wart, and jump!"

-- from the foreword by Erma Bombeck

Well into her seventies, the indomitable Liz Carpenter took on the task of bringing up three teenagers -- and bring them up she did. Her warm, witty, wonderful, and rambunctious story will make all readers proud to be part of the human race. Unplanned Parenthood relates how she and the kids not only survived it all, but reaped the rewards only one generation can bestow upon another.

"This great salty Texan inherits three teenagers in her seventies, and wisecracking firmly gives their lives family structure. She opens your eyes to the new world, 'free of fear, that the old and young of the nineties can seek by being here for each other.' "

-- Betty Friedan, Author of The Fountain of Age

Unplanned Parenthood is a book that parents and grandparents of all stripes and persuasions will want to read. Humorous, yes, but also revealing about the real trials and tribulations of raising kids in the 1990s and what our society has to offer them.

"I was supposed to give this book a quickie plug, preferably with a Texas accent: something along the lines of 'Take on three teenage children at the age of seventy-three? That's enough to drive buzzards off a roadkill. Only the unsinkable Liz Carpenter...' Actually, I found the book both moving and wise. Hell, it made me cry. Yeah, sure Liz is funny. Liz is always funny. But Liz is not always funny, moving, and wise. That is why this book is good value for money."

-- Molly Ivins, political columnist.
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Cost-efficient business contingency and continuity planning for a post-9/11 and Katrina world


Disasters can happen. Contingency plans are necessary But how detailed and expensive do your contingency and continuity plans really need to be?

Employing a thoroughly practical approach, Business Continuity Strategies: Protecting Against Unplanned Disasters, Third Edition provides a proven methodology for implementing a realistic and cost-efficient business contingency program. Kenneth Myers--an internationally recognized contingency planning specialist--shows corporate leaders how to prepare a logical "what if" plan that would enable an organization to retain market share, service customers, and maintain cash flow if a disaster occurs.

Completely updated throughout to reflect lessons learned from 9/11 and hurricanes Katrina and Wilma, Business Continuity Strategies, Third Edition helps cost-conscious senior management:
* Establish a corporate contingency program policy and strategy that ensures timely completion of a plan, with minimal disruption to operations
* Minimize plan development costs
* Understand the importance of conducting briefings to communicate the proper mindset before the program development process begins
* Save time and money by avoiding a consultant's traditional approach of extensive information-gathering that contributes little to the development of practical solutions, but much in the way of consultant fees

Addressing countless hypothetical disaster scenarios doesn't make good business sense. Business Continuity Strategies, Third Edition helps companies focus on what is necessary to survive a natural catastrophe, workplace violence, or a terrorist attack..
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A novel about the afterlife, guardian angels in training and how someone who has passed on interacts with his/her family to bring them piece. It is a fun fiction romp through Heaven and a great way to look at life!

Do you want to know if...

angels leave presents for us?

angels play with babies, when no one is looking?

angels dance alongside of us, when we're happy?

angels hold us up, when our strength is gone?

angels paint sunrises for us?

Once you read Angel On Board you'll be convinced the answer is 'YES!' and this book will change your perspective forever... and then you'll know why they say... Angel On Board

is the most positive and powerful angel book ever written!

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