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Southern Lady Code: Essays

Helen Ellis · Doubleday
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"I loved it." - Ann Patchett The bestselling author of American Housewife ("Dark, deadpan and truly inventive." --The New York Times Book Review) is back with a fiercely...
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The New Dad's Playbook: Gearing Up for the Biggest Game of Your Life

Watson, Benjamin · Baker Books
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

When it comes to the unknown territory of having a baby, moms-to-be have nearly unending resources to plan and execute a healthy pregnancy and navigate those first months and years as a parent with confidence. New dads? Not so much. They want to get in the game too, but, says Super Bowl...
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Best Self: Be You, Only Better

Bayer, Mike · Dey Street Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

ASK YOURSELF ... ARE YOU TRULY WHO YOU WANT TO BE? IS THIS THE LIFE YOU REALLY WANT? ARE YOU LIVING EACH DAY AS YOUR BEST SELF? WHAT CAN YOU CHANGE, TODAY?How would you answer those questions? Think about your daily life. Are you thriving, or going through the motions? Are your days full...
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The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction

Meghan Cox Gurdon · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A Wall Street Journal writer's conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another,...
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Raising Grandkids: Inside Skipped-Generation Families

Garrison, Gary · University of Regina Press
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback

Raising Grandkids focuses on "skipped generation" families or grandparent-headed households. Collecting together stories from grandparents and reflecting on his own experience as an older caregiver to his stepchildren, Gary Garrison paints a compassionate yet compelling picture...
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Notes for the Everlost: A Field Guide to Grief

Inglis, Kate · Shambhala
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Part memoir, part handbook for the heartbroken, this powerful, unsparing account of losing a premature baby will speak to all who have been bereaved and are grieving, and offers inspiration on moving forward, gently integrating the loss into life.Inglis's story is a springboard that...
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Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

Judy Christie · Ballantine Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The compelling, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate's bestselling novel Before We Were Yours and were reunited with birth family members as a result of its wide reach From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann...
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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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The Nerdy Parent's Guide to Raising a Nerdy Child: An Unofficial Parenting Guide

Sourcebooks · Sourcebooks
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Raise the coolest nerd the world has ever known!Once upon a time, you were a nerdy child, and now that you're a parent, let's make sure your kid can be a nerdy child too! In a world filled with superheroes, wizards, spaceships, and magical telephone booths, everyone should be part...
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Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy: 2nd Edition: Fully Revised and Updated

Wick, Myra J. · Mayo Clinic
Pages: 520
Format: Paperback

An essential pregnancy resource for all parents-to-be.Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy, second edition is an authoritative, yet practical reference manual from the pregnancy experts at the #1 ranked hospital in America. The newly updated book includes information on everything from...
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