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Baby 411: Clear Answers & Smart Advice for Your Baby's First Year

Brown, Ari · Windsor Peak Press
Format: Paperback(9th ed.)

"(Baby 411 is) my go-to reference so I don't bother Charlotte's pediatrician!" -- Chelsea Clinton (US Weekly, Sept. 2015) . You are having a baby! Congratulations! Now, the reality hits you - what...
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The Dressmaker's Gift

Valpy, Fiona · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 287
Format: Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Beekeeper's Promise comes a gripping story of three young women faced with impossible choices. How will history - and their families - judge them?Paris, 1940. With the city occupied by the Nazis, three young seamstresses go about their normal lives...
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Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

Brodeur, Adrienne · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A daughter's tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity. On a hot August night on Cape Cod when Adrienne was fourteen, her mother, Malabar, woke her at midnight with five simple words that would set the course of both...
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How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t with Your Kids: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Calmer, Happier Parent

Carla Naumburg · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Stop the yelling, lose the guilt, and become a calmer, happier parent. Drawing on evidence-based practices, here is an insight-packed and tip-filled plan for how to stop the parental meltdowns. Its compassionate, pragmatic approach will help readers feel less ashamed and more empowered...
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Grieving Together: A Couple's Journey through Miscarriage

Laura and Franco Fanucci · Our Sunday Visitor
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted, saves those whose spirit is crushed." (Ps 34:19) You might feel, in the days and weeks after a miscarriage, like the Lord is anything but close. Laura and Franco Fanucci understand. After struggling with infertility, they miscarried...
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Parenting Right From the Start: Laying a Healthy Foundation in the Baby and Toddler Years

Vanessa Lapointe · LifeTree Media
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

In this book, her follow-up to the bestseller Discipline Without Damage, Dr. Lapointe advises new parents how to put their child on a path to optimal development during the crucial early years. The baby and toddler years are the most important period for any child's emotional and psychological...
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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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What You Need to Know about ADHD

Stolberg, Victor B. · Greenwood
Pages: 148
Format: Hardcover

This book offers an accessibly written introduction to ADHD, focusing on the topics that matter most to readers. The information it provides makes it an indispensable resource for anyone whose life is affected -- directly or indirectly -- by this disorder.* Approaches the subject in a holistic...
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Raising Twins: Parenting Multiples From Pregnancy Through the School Years

Vaziri Flais MD, Shelly · American Academy of Pediatrics
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback

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...
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The Grandfamily Guidebook: Wisdom and Support for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

Adesman, Andrew · Hazelden Publishing
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

Are you one of nearly 3 million grandparents across North America raising your grandchildren? You may have done all this parenting stuff before, but times have changed since you raised your own kids, and you likely never thought you'd be raising kids again.What has led to all these...
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