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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

Abigail Shrier - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into a mental health industry that is harming, not healing, American children. In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant...
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The Breakthrough Years: A New Scientific Framework for Raising Thriving Teens

Ellen Galinsky - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Blending cutting-edge research with engaging storytelling, The Breakthrough Years offers readers a paradigm-shifting comprehensive understanding of adolescence.. "Just wait until they're a teenager!". Many parents of newborns have heard this warning about the stressful phase...
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Staying Connected with Your Teen: Polyvagal Parenting Strategies to Reduce Reactivity, Set Limits, and Build Authentic Connection

Yshai Boussi LPC - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Paperback

Powerful parenting strategies grounded in polyvagal theory to help you stay connected with your teen, reduce conflict, and set limits with love. When it comes to your teen, do you feel like you're walking on eggshells? Do they lash out at you when you try to set limits, or stomp off to their...
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New Marriage, Same Couple: Don't Let Your Worst Days Be Your Last Days

Josh Walters - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

"For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health." We say those words and mean them. Until we don't. This is a book about creating a different, better, new kind of marriage with the exact same person - no matter how dire the circumstances - with...
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Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls

Chelsey Goodan - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of Reviving Ophelia and Untangled comes a fresh, unexpected, and empowering guide to better understand teenage girls, revealing how their insights can create heartfelt connections and impactful change. Written with warmth and humor, Underestimated is the first book to invite...
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Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be

Timothy P Carney - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the same questions: why is parenting so much harder even though the kids are less happy than than a generation ago?Parenting seems harder these days, and Millennials and Generation Z don't seem...
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Ask Questions, Save Money, Make More: How to Take Control of Your Financial Life

Matt Schulz - Countryman Press
Format: Paperback

Asking credit card companies, banks, hospitals, schools, and other businesses for better rates and discounts works. Here's how to do it. In this must-have money manual, personal finance expert Matt Schulz empowers you to ask 45 fiscal questions in seven key areas of life: credit and debt,...
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Estate Planning Basics

Denis Clifford Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Estate planning, in plain EnglishThis book provides concise, straightforward, and easy to read information about the major components of estate planning - without going into endless detail about arcane options that apply only to the wealthy. Topics include:Wills. Why you need one, how to make...
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Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

Gretchen Sisson - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real. Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion...
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Up the Down Escalator: Medicine, Motherhood, and Multiple Sclerosis

Lisa Doggett - Health Communications Inc
Format: Paperback

A memoir of triumph in the face of a terrifying diagnosis, Up the Down Escalator recounts Dr. Lisa Doggett's startling shift from doctor to patient, as she learns to live with multiple sclerosis while running a clinic for uninsured patients in central Austin. Recounting before and after...
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