Beautiful Chaos
On Motherhood, Finding Yourself and Overwhelming Love
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Jessica Urlichs
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Jessica Urlichs
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Brought to you by Penguin.
The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children, and sometimes we miss ourselves. Beautiful Chaos is a collection of raw, honest poems about motherhood - capturing everything from pregnancy to school age.
Upon becoming a mother, poet Jessica Urlichs was reminded that the everyday ordinary is extraordinary. Beautiful Chaos is a collection that chronicles it all - the highs, the lows, the confusion, the loss of identity, the becoming, and the brutal but beautiful ways our children hold up a mirrors to ourselves. This collection inspires vulnerability and will be a cathartic, healing listen for anyone who needs it.
These poems will remind you of a time gone by or ground you in the current moment. Either way, they will make you feel seen and comforted amid the beautiful chaos that is motherhood.
'The words awaken the magic of life by celebrating the ordinary' - Giovanna Fletcher
'Beautifully heartfelt, inspiringly poignant and therapeutically validating' - Anna Mathur
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Trois individus qui trempent dans le voyeurisme, la pornographie, le cannibalisme et la nécrophilie. Une étudiante universitaire menant une vie bien rangée qui se retrouve à la morgue après avoir consommé du Flakka. Un tueur à gages qui revient dans sa ville natale afin de mettre sa soeur en terre et qui découvre de troublantes vérités à son sujet. Une rousse excentrique à la libido débridée et dénuée de tout sens moral, capable de pervertir les âmes les plus pures.
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loved it!
- By Sara on 01-20-24
By: Christian Boivin
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The Black Envelope
- By: Norman Manea, Patrick Camiller - translator
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "moral grounds", is investigating his father's death 40 years after the fact and is drawn into a web of suspicion and black humor.
By: Norman Manea, and others
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When We Were Friends
- A Short Story
- By: Jane Green
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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By all accounts, Lucy’s handled her divorce well. She’s finally in the cozy, plant-filled house of her dreams. And although she doesn’t fit in with the other divorcées—all busy looking for their next ex—she’s excited to get down to earth and savor the small joys of life. When Lucy meets Elle, a hip younger woman who shares her same passions, their connection is instant. Taking a chance on kismet, Lucy forges a friendship that fills her days with meaning. She and Elle are inseparable, from sunup to sundown, enjoying the immediate ease and familiarity of each other’s company.
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Loved the ending
- By Cumbrlnd on 01-09-25
By: Jane Green
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The Power Pause
- How to Plan a Career Break After Kids—and Come Back Stronger Than Ever
- By: Neha Ruch
- Narrated by: Neha Ruch
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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"So, what do you do?" When Neha Ruch had to answer this seemingly innocent question for the first time after leaving her corporate job to care for her infant son, she drew a shameful blank. She couldn’t find the words to describe this new stage of life she’d just embarked on. How, then, was she to navigate this identity shift? Frustrated, Ruch embarked on a mission to rebrand the stay-at-home mother for a new generation of women who don’t want to leave their ambition behind just because they decide to pause or change their careers post-kids.
By: Neha Ruch
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Entitlement
- A Novel
- By: Rumaan Alam
- Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Brooke wants. She isn’t in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to impress her mother along the way, to spend time with friends and secure her independence. Her job assisting an octogenarian billionaire in his quest to give away a vast fortune could help her achieve many of these goals. It may inspire new desires as well: proximity to wealth turns out to be nothing less than transformative. What is money, really, but a kind of belief?
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so disappointing
- By K. Wagner on 09-22-24
By: Rumaan Alam
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Want
- Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
- By: Gillian Anderson
- Narrated by: Gillian Anderson, Anonymous
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. And yet for many reasons—some complicated, some not—so many of us don’t talk about it. Our deepest, most intimate fears and fantasies remain locked away inside of us, until someone comes along with the key. Here’s the key. In this generation-defining book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous letters of hundreds of self-identifying women from around the world (along with her own anonymous letter).
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Gillian goes over the top
- By MRD on 10-24-24
By: Gillian Anderson
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Bleak House
- By: Charles Dickens, Marty Ross
- Narrated by: Thandiwe Newton, Ambika Mod, Mackenzie Crook, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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London. A city drowning in fog. Amid that fog, a man with no name dies above a strange junkshop. Threads of mist and intrigue weave around a court case with no resolution, linking great country houses with the lowest slum in the city, mingling the high-born with a boy who sweeps the filthy streets, enshrouding devious plots and sudden murder, bringing together two extraordinary women – Lady Dedlock and Esther Summerson - who seem to have nothing whatsoever in common but who will find themselves inextricably linked.
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What can one say - it’s Dickens!
- By Patsy on 09-29-24
By: Charles Dickens, and others
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- Melyssa Bruce
- 11-24-24
AMAZING read
This had me laughing and crying the entire way through. Each of the poems were perfectly placed and written. Cannot wait to pass this down to my daughters with my handwritten margin notes when they enter motherhood themselves.
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- Sasha
- 12-01-24
Relatable for all mamas
Be prepared to become emotional throughout this book. Definitely a must read for postpartum mamas!
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