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To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
Cris Beam · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A triumph of narrative reporting and storytelling. . . . Beam gives foster children a much-needed voice and does what too many adults in the foster-care system cant, or wont She advocates for them. -- New York Times Book ReviewWho are the children of foster care? What, as a country,... |
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Permission to Parent: How to Raise Your Child with Love and Limits
Robin Berman · Harperwave
Pages: 253
Format: Hardcover
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After being bombarded by parenting fad after parenting fad, moms and dads finally have a friendly, commonsense guide to raising thriving children.Today, many parents have rejected the dictatorships they resented from their own childhoods. But they overcorrected by turning into child-pleasers.... |
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The Heart Is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai
ELIZABETH FLOCK · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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"Elizabeth Flock takes us on an intimate cruise on the shifting sea of the heart, in the best book set in Bombay that I've read in years. Flock's total access to her characters, and her highly sympathetic and nonjudgmental gaze, prove that love and literature know no borders.... |
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I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool
LISA SCOTTOLINE · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 323
Format: Hardcover
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"Lisa and Francesca, mother and daughter, bring you the laughter of their lives." -- Delia Ephron, bestselling author The bestselling and "perennially hilarious" mother-daughter team is back with a new collection of stories from their real lives, guaranteed to make... |
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Mommy Burnout: How to Reclaim Your Life and Raise Healthier Children in the Process
SHERYL GONZALEZ-ZIEGLER · Dey Street Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The ultimate must-read handbook for the modern mother: a practical, and positive tool to help free women from the debilitating notion of being the "perfect mom," filled with funny and all too relatable true-life stories and realistic suggestions to stop the burnout cycle, and protect... |
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Baby Care Basics
Jeremy Friedman · Robert Rose Inc., 2015.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Despite all the planning in the world, nothing can really prepare a soon-to-be new parent for that big step after the baby is born. All that well-intentioned information and counsel offered by family and friends is just not enough and likely confusing when the stressful days arrive. Written... |
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Raising Girls: How to Help Your Daughter Grow Up Happy, Healthy, and Strong
Steve Biddulph · Random House Inc
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
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A practical guidebook and passionate call-to-arms for parents of girls that empowers them to raise confident, well-rounded daughters in an exploitative world, from the author of the international bestseller Raising Boys.Raising a happy, healthy, well-adjusted daughter from babyhood to womanhood... |
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Uncommon Voyage: Parenting Children With Special Needs - A Guidebook
Laura Shapiro Kramer · BookBaby
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
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Laura Shapiro Kramer has turned her experience raising a special-needs child (already detailed in her successful memoir) into a guidebook for other parents.The e-book and web site contain multiple resources and she is building a community of support through Facebook, Twitter, and at uncommonvoyage.com. |
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Thinking Differently: An Inspiring Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities
David Flink · William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition
Format: Print book
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An innovative, comprehensive guide - the first of its kind - to help parents understand and accept learning disabilities in their children, offering tips and strategies for successfully advocating on their behalf and helping them become their own best advocates.In Thinking Differently,... |
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