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Built to Belong: Discovering the Power of Community Over Competition

Natalie Franke · Worthy Books
Format: Hardcover

Many of us feel more alone than ever despite living in the most connected society in human history. We need to belong in the same way that we need oxygen-our physical bodies require it. We perform better and have greater successes as individuals when we are connected to the collective.Join...
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The Working Parent's Survival Guide: How to Parent Smarter Not Harder

Anita Cleare · ‎Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Offers strategies and guidance to building a happier family life by doing less not more, and parenting smarter not harder. Most modern parents work. And we have limited time, limited energy, limited patience, and too much to do. We are seldom at our best at the end of a long working day when...
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The Grief Handbook: A guide through the worst days of your life

Bridget McNulty · Watkins Publishing
Format: Paperback

The Grief Handbook provides guidance from someone who has been there. Bridget McNulty lost her mum suddenly, and found herself unexpectedly amongst the chaos of grief while bringing up small children. She couldn't find the support that she needed, so she created this handbook. This...
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How to Talk When Kids Won't Listen: Whining, Fighting, Meltdowns, Defiance, and Other Challenges of Childhood

Joanna Faber · Scribner
Format: Paperback

For forty years, readers have turned to Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish's How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, the book The Boston Globe called, "the parenting Bible," for a respectful and practical approach to communication with children. Expanding...
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What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Oprah Winfrey · Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book
Format: Hardcover

"Through this lens we can build a renewed sense of personal self-worth and ultimately recalibrate our responses to circumstances, situations, and relationships. It is, in other words, the key to reshaping our very lives." -- Oprah WinfreyHave you ever wondered "Why did I do that?"...
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How to Tell Stories to Children

Joseph Sarosy · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Storytelling is one of the oldest and most essential skills known to humankind, a timeless parenting tool that helps families celebrate life's joys, navigate its challenges, and raise healthy, well-adjusted kids. Stories help children manage their emotions, empathize with others, and better...
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License to Parent: How My Career As a Spy Helped Me Raise Resourceful, Self-Sufficient Kids

Christina Hillsberg · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Christina was a single, successful CIA analyst with a burgeoning career in espionage when she met fellow spy, Ryan, a hotshot field operative who turned her world upside down. They fell in love, married, and soon they were raising three children from his first marriage, and later, two more...
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How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes: Science-Based Strategies for Better Parenting--from Tots to Teens

Melinda Wenner Moyer · ‎G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

As an award-winning science journalist, Melinda Wenner Moyer was regularly asked to investigate and address all kinds of parenting questions: how to potty train, when and whether to get vaccines, and how to help kids sleep through the night. But as Melinda's children grew, she found...
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A Guide to Writing College Admissions Essays: Practical Advice for Students and Parents

Cory M. Franklin · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

This book is a guide for students writing their college admissions essays, primarily the 650-word Common App essay and supplementary essays that many schools require as part of their admission applications. With more students applying to college, and those students applying to more schools...
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The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age

Amy Sohn · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Anthony Comstock, special agent to the U.S. Post Office, was one of the most important men in the lives of nineteenth-century women. His eponymous law, passed in 1873, penalized the mailing of contraception and obscenity with long sentences and steep fines. The word Comstockery came to connote...
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