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How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results
Esther Wojcicki · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a Super Family shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness: TRICK.
Esther Wojcicki - "Woj" to her many... |
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Respect: Everything a Guy Needs to Know About Sex, Love, and Consent
Inti Chavez Perez · Penguin Books
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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An all-encompassing guide to help guys navigate sex, relationships, and consent in the post-#MeToo world.
The world has changed, and the revelations of the #MeToo movement have raised serious questions about how men are raised to understand consent and their own sexuality. Respect... |
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Raising Twins: Parenting Multiples From Pregnancy Through the School Years
Shelly Vaziri Flais · American Academy of Pediatrics
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
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Pediatrician and twin-mom, Dr. Shelly Vaziri Flais, offers expert advice for raising healthy, well-adjusted twins and triplets in this fully revised and updated third edition. Her guidance will help parents of multiples prepare for their babies' arrival, weather the first few months of infancy,... |
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Help Your Kids with Adolescence: A No-Nonsense Guide to Puberty and the Teenage Years
INC DORLING KINDERSLEY · DK
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Your guide to answering your kid's awkward questions about growing up, from cyberbullying to eating disorders to sex.Help your child navigate the tricky and difficult changes of puberty with this straightforward guide. With age-appropriate text and an innovative visual approach, Help... |
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Polygamy: An Early American History
Sarah M. S. Pearsall · Yale University Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking examination of polygamy showing that monogamy was not the only form marriage took in early America Today we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement characteristic of fringe sects or uncivilized peoples. Historian Sarah Pearsall shows us that polygamy's... |
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Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
Peter Orner · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist takes the form to new heights.
In his orchestral and moving new book, Peter Orner, a writer who "doesn't simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls"... |
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My Parent's Keeper: The Guilt, Grief, Guesswork, and Unexpected Gifts of Caregiving
JODY GASTFRIEND · Yale University Press
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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When it comes time to provide care for those who once cared for us, where can we turn? This book offers practical guidance for a broad range of caregiving situations when family caregivers assume their new role.Uses the latest research and draws on case histories and interviews.Is a resource... |
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Connoisseur Kids: Etiquette, Manners, and Living Well for Parents and Their Little Ones
Jennifer L. Scott · Chronicle Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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From Jennifer Scott - author of the New York Times bestselling Madame Chic series and founder of the Daily Connoisseur blog - comes this playful take on manners and being a good global citizen. Parents and younger children work together to read about a wide range of topics: communication,... |
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Astrology and Relationships: Simple Ways to Improve Your Relationship with Anyone
DAVID POND · Llewellyn Publications
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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Most of the advice you've read about astrological relationships covers the same ideas over and over. Libra gets along well with Leo, Aries clashes with Capricorn, and so on. But there's one problem: people are not that simple, and neither are relationships. Using the power and wisdom... |
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The Inward Empire: Mapping the Wilds of Mortality and Fatherhood
CHRISTIAN DONLAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of The Noonday Demon and When Breath Becomes Air, a father's gorgeous account of navigating his own neurological decline while watching in wonder as his young daughter's brain activity blossoms, a stunning examination of neurology, loss, and the meaning of life.
Soon... |
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Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime
Scott Simon · Flatiron Books
Format: Kindle Edition
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Instant New York Times BestsellerIn a return to the bighearted storytelling that made him a star NPR correspondent, Simon pays full tribute to the ex-showgirl who...taught her only son to be honest, kind, and entertaining. Be assured, tears will fall.--People Magazine In his poignant,... |
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Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
Nishta J. Mehra · Picador
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Intimate and honest essays on motherhood, marriage, love, and acceptance Brown, White, Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra's family: her wife, who is white; her adopted son, who is black; and their experiences dealing with America's rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality.... |
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