Podcasts about mother's will

The hosts of Unabridged once again gathered to reflect on our year of reading and to choose some of our favorites. While Jen (as is typical) wanted to talk about all the books, Sara and Ashley did a much better job reining it in. Check out the episode to hear us talk about The Song of Achilles, Good Talk​, and The Heart's Invisible Furies. We revisit favorites from the podcast and share some of our favorite books for kids.We'd love to know about your favorites of the year! Head over to social media to boost your picks.   Our Individual Awards Jen  *​Best Reinterpretation of a Classic - Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles  *Most Tear-Jerking YA Novel - Adib Khorram’s Darius the Great Is Not Okay     Ashley *Poignant, Hilarious, and Brilliant Graphic Memoir with a One-of-a-Kind Style - Mira Jacob’s Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations *Gripping Story that’s All about Sports, Except that It’s Really All about Life - Fredrik Backman’s Beartown   Sara *​Best Non-fiction that Reads like a Thriller - Nick Bilton’s American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road *Best Book of My Year and on My Top 5 of All Time - John Boyne’s The Heart's Invisible Furies   Children's and Young Adult Books *Ashley - Most Affirming Story about Accepting Oneself - Grace Byers’s I Am Enough, illustrated by Keturah A. Bobo  *Sara - Best Graphic Novel I Have Read and Also Got to Meet the Author - Jarrett J. Krosoczka's Hey Kiddo *Jen - Best Series to Re-read - J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series   Not My Cup of Tea *Ashley - Alafair Burke’s The Ex *Jen - Elizabeth McCracken’s Bowlaway *Sara - Stephanie Land’s Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive   Favorite Book from the Podcast *Ashley - Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption *Jen - Ibi Zoboi's Pride *Sara - Beth Macy's Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America   Give Me One - A Fact People Might Be Surprised to Know about Us *Jen - studied biology and loves science *Sara - has an MBA and used to work in banking *Ashley - was a white water rafting guide Other Mentions *Anne Bogel's What Should I Read Next? podcast   Check out what's coming up next.   want to support unabridged? Check out our Merch Store! Become a patron on Patreon.​ Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram. Like and follow our Facebook Page. Follow us @unabridgedpod on Twitter. Subscribe to our podcast and rate us on iTunes or on Stitcher. Check us out on Podbean.

As underemployment grows and many who once seemed solidly middle-class are losing their economic foothold, the working class is getting larger and more frustrated. Both its size and perspective make the working class more important than ever before. So perhaps, more than ever, Americans across the class spectrum have good reason to try and understand working-class culture and experience. Millions of words have been written about the economic divide in America. An equally powerful divide is the one between those who make policy and those who live with the consequences of that policy. Even among well-meaning progressives, sometimes the consequences of their efforts are counter to their real objectives Part of that comes from not really understanding the lives of working people in America. Perceptions of poverty and struggling come from our personal experience and often from popular culture and political rhetoric. That’s why it's so singularly unique and powerful when a voice emerges that can make us see what that world is really like. Today Stephanie Land adds her voice in Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive. My conversation with Stephanie Land:

The Amazon Books editors discuss their favorite books of February, plus an interview with Stephanie Land, author of "Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive"

This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Golden State, The Red Address Book, Unmarriageable, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, The Wicked King by Holly Black, and ThirdLove. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: Golden State by Ben H. Winters The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer The Cold Is in Her Bones by Peternelle van Arsdale The Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg Unmarriageable: A Novel by Soniah Kamal As Long As We Both Shall Live by JoAnn Chaney Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe What we're reading: Transcription by Kate Atkinson Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark  More books out this week: Restoration Heights: A Novel by Wil Medearis Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros by Michael Chabon Talent by Juliet Lapidos The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Hanrahan That Churchill Woman: A Novel by Stephanie Barron Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia The Eulogist: A Novel by Terry Gamble Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring by Richard Gergel The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious) by Maureen Johnson Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison - Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out by Jason Rezaian Song of the Dead (Reign of the Fallen) by Sarah Glenn Marsh The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy) by S. A Chakraborty The Golden Tresses of the Dead: A Flavia de Luce Novel by Alan Bradley The Wartime Sisters: A Novel by Lynda Cohen Loigman Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land Circle of Shadows by Evelyn Skye Escape from the Palace (The Royal Rabbits of London) by Santa Montefiore and Simon Sebag Montefiore Ship of Smoke and Steel (The Wells of Sorcery Trilogy) by Django Wexler The Burning Island by Hester Young The Suspect by Fiona Barton Imprison the Sky (The Elementae) by A.C. Gaughen Miraculum by Steph Post The Hod King (The Books of Babel) by Josiah Bancroft The Woman Inside: A Novel by E. G. Scott Holy Lands by Amanda Sthers 99 Nights in Logar by Jamil Jan Kochai The Weight of a Piano: A novel by Chris Cander The Current: A Novel by Tim Johnston The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation by Alex Dehgan The Birds, the Bees, and You and Me by Olivia Hinebaugh Someday We Will Fly by Rachel Dewoskin Only a Breath Apart: A Novel Katie McGarry Vultures by Chuck Wendig The Nowhere Child: A Novel by Christian White The Kindness of Strangers (New York Review Books Classics) by Salka Viertel Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America by Elise Hooper The Witches of St. Petersburg: A Novel by Imogen Edwards-Jones