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Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker

Jessica Pryce - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

"It's an invaluable insider account of a pressing social issue." - Publishers Weekly Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker's searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system - from foster care to incarceration - that exposes...
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Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls

Chelsey Goodan - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of Reviving Ophelia and Untangled comes a fresh, unexpected, and empowering guide to better understand teenage girls, revealing how their insights can create heartfelt connections and impactful change. Written with warmth and humor, Underestimated is the first book to invite...
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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind,an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health - and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged...
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Estate Planning Basics

Denis Clifford Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Estate planning, in plain EnglishThis book provides concise, straightforward, and easy to read information about the major components of estate planning - without going into endless detail about arcane options that apply only to the wealthy. Topics include:Wills. Why you need one, how to make...
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Ask Questions, Save Money, Make More: How to Take Control of Your Financial Life

Matt Schulz - Countryman Press
Format: Paperback

Asking credit card companies, banks, hospitals, schools, and other businesses for better rates and discounts works. Here's how to do it. In this must-have money manual, personal finance expert Matt Schulz empowers you to ask 45 fiscal questions in seven key areas of life: credit and debt,...
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Your Best Financial Life: Save Smart Now for the Future You Want

Anne Lester - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

From Anne Lester - former head of retirement solutions for JPMorgan Asset Management and award-winning investor - a wildly simple, step-by-step blueprint that anyone can use to understand retirement savings and investing for the future you deserve. Start living Your Best Financial Life!...
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Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country

Alissa Quart - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback

A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans.. Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing...
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Whole Mama Yoga: Meditation, Mantra, and Movement for Pregnancy and Beyond

Alexandra DeSiato - Health Communications Inc
Format: Paperback

A unique way to see and process the motherhood experience through the lens of yoga, Whole Mama Yoga covers all phases and stages of becoming and being a mother or birth parent - offering a way to extend yoga's gifts and tools for all who parent.. Women are drawn to yoga for its physical...
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American Poly: A History

Christopher M. Gleason - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

The first history of polyamory, this work examines the roots of sexual non-monogamy in political thought and countercultural spiritualism and traces its path to mainstream practice and cultural discussion today.Recent studies have found that as many as one in five Americans have experimented...
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Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement and Medical Benefits

Joseph Matthews Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Your complete guide to Social Security retirement and medical benefits The rules for claiming Social Security benefits have changed. Find out if you can still choose between your own benefits and spousal benefits. Learn this and more with Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions...
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