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Teenagers 101: What a Top Teacher Wishes You Knew About Helping Your Kid Succeed
Rebecca Deurlein Ed.D. · AMACOM
Pages: 245
Format: Print book |
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As a parent, you want to see your teen succeed in school and in life--and you do your best to help. But how do you know what will make a difference? Maybe it's time to listen to a teacher. Day in and day out, teachers watch kids interact with peers, make decisions, deal with difficulty,... |
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Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We're Saying Now
Ann Imig · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover |
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Irreverent, thought-provoking, hilarious, and edgy: a collection of personal stories celebrating motherhood, featuring #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jenny Lawson and Jennifer Weiner, and many other notable writers.Listen to Your Mother is a fantastic awakening of why our mothers... |
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Our Black Sons Matter: Mothers Talk about Fears, Sorrows, and Hopes
George Yancy professor of philosophy Emory University · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover |
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Our Black Sons Matter is a powerful collection of original essays, letters, and poems that addresses both the deep joys and the very real challenges of raising black boys today. From Trayvon Martin to Tamir Rice, the list of young black men who have suffered racial violence continues to grow.... |
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Have a Nice Guilt Trip
Lisa Scottoline · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This four book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron.... |
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I've Got Sand In All the Wrong Places
Lisa Scottoline · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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Lisa and Francesca are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This six book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Delia Ephron said... |
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All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Jennifer Senior · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover |
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Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents?In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question,... |
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How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century
Bella DePaulo Ph.D. · Atria Books/Beyond Words
Format: Hardcover |
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A close-up examination and exploration, How We Live Now challenges our old concepts of what it means to be a family and have a home, opening the door to the many diverse and thriving experiments of living in twenty-first century America.Across America and around the world, in cities and suburbs... |
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Strong Mothers, Strong Sons: Lessons Mothers Need to Raise Extraordinary Men
Margaret J Meeker · Ballantine Books
Pages: 341
Format: Hardcover |
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Meg Meeker, M.D., acclaimed author of Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, now turns to an equally powerful relationship in the family: the one between mother and son. From the moment a mother holds her newborn son, his eyes tell her that she is his world. But often, as he grows up, the boy who needs... |
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Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
Robert Kolker · Harper
Format: Hardcover |
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"Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Kolker delivers a haunting and humanizing account of the true-life search for a serial killer still at large on Long Island, in a compelling tale of unsolved murder and Internet prostitution.One late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbert,... |
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Daddy, Stop Talking!: And Other Things My Kids Want But Won't Be Getting
Adam Carolla · Dey Street Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover |
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The comedian, actor, television host, podcast king, and New York Times bestselling author of President Me, Not Taco Bell Material, and In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks now lays down the law on the plight of the modern parent.Parents, do you often think that if your kids had to grow... |
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Middle School: The Inside Story: What Kids Tell Us, But Don't Tell You
Cynthia Ulrich Tobias · Focus on the Family
Format: Book |
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Remember middle school? Many parents would rather not. Its often a rough ride, filled with insecurity, peer pressure, awkwardness, and world-rocking change. This book provides practical, hands-on advice for helping your child through this minefieldwith information about what he or she is really... |
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To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
Cris Beam · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover |
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A triumph of narrative reporting and storytelling. . . . Beam gives foster children a much-needed voice and does what too many adults in the foster-care system cant, or wont She advocates for them. -- New York Times Book ReviewWho are the children of foster care? What, as a country,... |
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