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Good Talk, Dad: The Birds and the Bees...and Other Conversations We Forgot to Have

Bill Geist · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Bill Geist--the beloved, award-winning, long-time special correspondent for "CBS: Sunday Morning," whose debut Little League Confidential was a New York Times bestseller in hardcover and paper--and Willie Geist, the Today Show host, popular member of MSNBC's "Morning...
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Digest

Gregory Pardlo · Four Way; First Edition /First Printing edition

Rich in intertextuality, 'Digest' improvises form and contemplates the canon while pushing us to question the identities we create.
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When Parents Part: How Mothers and Fathers Can Help Their Children Deal with Separation and Divorce

Penelope Leach · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed, best-selling author of Your Baby & Child and one of the world's leading experts on child development and parenting, a practical, comprehensively researched guide to doing the best for your child during and after separation or divorce. Recent research clarifies...
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The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany

Donald E. Westlake · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 223
Format: Paperback

Over the course of a fifty-year career, Donald E. Westlake published nearly one hundred books, including not one but two long-running series, starring the hard-hitting Parker and the hapless John Dortmunder. In the six years since his death, Westlake's reputation has only grown, with...
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Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?: True Stories and Confessions

Lisa Scottoline · St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

The unstoppable, irreverent mother-daughter team presents a new collection of funny stories and true confessions that every woman can relate to. From identity theft to the hazards of bicycling to college reunions and eating on the beach, Lisa and Francesca tackle the quirks, absurdities,...
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Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

Brigid Schulte · Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pages: 353
Format: Hardcover

Can working parents in America - or anywhere - ever find true leisure time?According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that's true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously...
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You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About

Dave Barry · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 240

A brilliantly funny exploration of the twin mysteries of parenthood and families from the Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author of Insane City. In his New York Times-bestselling I'll Mature When I'm Dead, Dave Barry embarked on the treacherous seas of adulthood,...
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Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems

Louise Glück · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for PoetryA luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize-winning poetLouise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962-2012 was hailed as "a major event...
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The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes

Zach Dundas · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A wickedly smart and rollicking journey through the birth, life, and afterlives of popular culture's most beloved sleuth Today he is the inspiration for fiction adaptations, blockbuster movies, hit television shows, raucous Twitter banter, and thriving subcultures. More than a century after...
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Unfriending My Ex: Confessions of a Social Media Addict

Kim Stolz · Scribner,
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

"In this candid and insightful new memoir, Kim Stolz discusses the trials and tribulations of our obsession with social media and mobile technology...a Tweet-worthy, share-worthy, Instagrammable look into our society and the lives we create online." - Harper's Bazaar An incisive,...
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