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Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce

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Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

Jennifer Breheny Wallace - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

The definitive book on the rise of "toxic achievement culture" overtaking our kids' and parents' lives, and a new framework for fighting back. In the ever more competitive race to secure the best possible future, today's students face unprecedented pressure to succeed....
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Help Your Kids with Adolescence: A No-Nonsense Guide to Puberty and the Teenage Years

INC DORLING KINDERSLEY - DK
Format: Paperback

Your guide to answering your kid's awkward questions about growing up, from cyberbullying to eating disorders to sex.Help your child navigate the tricky and difficult changes of puberty with this straightforward guide. With age-appropriate text and an innovative visual approach, Help...
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Blending Families: Merging Households with Kids 8-18

Trevor Crow - Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
Format: Print book

Blending Families responds to the need for a book that explores step-parenting by starting with the marriage as the central relationship in a new blended family unit. Just as you are better able to help your child in an airplane emergency if you put your oxygen mask on first, you are better...
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The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss

Hope Edelman - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

"This is perhaps one of the most important books about grief ever written. It finally dispels the myth that we are all supposed to get over the death of a loved one." - Claire Bidwell Smith, author of Anxiety: The Missing Stage of GriefAren't you over it yet? Anyone who has experienced...
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Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have To

Melanie Cullen - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Get It Together provides a complete system for structuring and organizing your information and documents into a records binder. For each topic, you will find step-by-step instructions, helpful content, and rich resources. Do your loved ones know where to find your life insurance policies,...
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Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

Robin DiAngelo - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also made a provocative claim: white progressives cause the most daily harm to people...
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Remedies for Sorrow: An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother's Pursuit of the Truth

Megan Nix - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

This "compulsively readable memoir...brings to light an issue that has been too long ignored...An immensely important book" (Emily Oster, New York Times bestselling author of Cribsheet) .. A new classic memoir about a mother's fierce love for her exceptional child and her courageous...
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Advanced Parenting: Advice for Helping Kids Through Diagnoses, Differences, and Mental Health Challenges

Kelly Fradin - Balance
Format: Hardcover

"An invaluable resource for parents and caregivers," this important, empathetic guidebook offers practical steps for managing children's health (Emily Oster, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Cribsheet and Expecting Better) .. Any parent who has ever walked out of a concerning...
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Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason

Gina Frangello - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

Gina Frangello spent her early adulthood trying to outrun a youth marked by poverty and violence. Now a long-married wife and devoted mother, the better life she carefully built is emotionally upended by the death of her closest friend. Soon, awakened to fault lines in her troubled marriage,...
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