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Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

Brodeur, Adrienne · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A daughter's tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity. On a hot August night on Cape Cod when Adrienne was fourteen, her mother, Malabar, woke her at midnight with five simple words that would set the course of both...
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Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Making a Living

Liz O'Donnell · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Working Daughter is a revelatory look at who's caring for our aging population and how these unpaid family caregivers are trying to manage caring for their parents, raising their children, maintaining relationships, and pursuing their careers. It follows the author, who was enjoying...
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How to Raise a Reader

Pamela Paul · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

An indispensable guide to welcoming children - from babies to teens - to a lifelong love of reading, written by Pamela Paul and Maria Russo, editors of The New York Times Book Review. Do you remember your first visit to where the wild things are? How about curling up for hours on end to discover...
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The Call of the Wild and Free: Reclaiming Wonder in Your Child's Education

Ainsley Arment · HarperOne
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Allow your children to experience the adventure, freedom, and wonder of childhood with this practical guide that provides all the information, inspiration, and advice you need for creating a modern, quality homeschool education.Inspired by the spirit of Henry David Thoreau - "All good...
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

MalcolmGladwell · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong.How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain...
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Finding Magic in the Mess: A Path to Greater Presence and More Joy, One Parenting Moment at a Time

Fonso, Steven · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

A supportive guide for busy parents who want to connect more and stress less.In our stressed-out culture, too many parents are just coping rather than thriving, juggling demands on their time and energy, and tuning out their inner voices and deeper visions for family life in order to keep...
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Is There Still Sex in the City?

Candace Bushnell · Grove Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Twenty years after her sharp, seminal first book Sex and the City reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly on the wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace Bushnell delivers a new book on the wilds and lows of sex and dating after...
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