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The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents

Lisa Damour Ph.D. - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers' intense and often fraught emotional lives - and how to support them through this critical developmental stage - from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled and Under PressureIn teenagers, powerful emotions...
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Dave Hill Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Dave Hill - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book

A painfully funny series of autobiographical essays, centered around the relationship between comedian Dave Hill and his dad, in the wake of his mother's death, as father and son redefine their relationship - and Dave, finally, becomes a man.
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

Malcolm Gladwell - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong.How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville...
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The Nursing Mother's Quick Reference Guide and Planner: Essential Breastfeeding Information for Mothers with New Babies

Huggins, Kathleen - HARVARD COMMON PR


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The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There

Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

Receptionist Pam Beesly and accountant Angela Martin had very little in common when they toiled together at Scranton’s Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. But, in reality, the two bonded in their very first days on set and, over the nine seasons of the series’ run, built a friendship that...
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Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

Jessica Grose - ?Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

In this timely and necessary book, New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today's mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communitiesClose your eyes and picture...
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Mom Enough: Inspiring Letters for the Wonderfully Exhausting but Totally Normal Days of Motherhood

Rachel Marie Martin - Dexterity
Format: Hardcover

Author, influencer, and founder of the popular social media community FindingJoy, Rachel Martin offers encouragement for moms by sharing her own personal journey through heartache, self-doubt, and the challenges of motherhood. With over forty letters of encouragement, from one mom to another,...
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I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool

LISA SCOTTOLINE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"Lisa and Francesca, mother and daughter, bring you the laughter of their lives." -- Delia Ephron, bestselling author The bestselling and "perennially hilarious" mother-daughter team is back with a new collection of stories from their real lives, guaranteed to make...
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I've Got Sand In All the Wrong Places

Lisa Scottoline - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

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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The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

Samantha Leach - ?Legacy Lit
Format: Hardcover

Three suburban girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens.Eight years later, they were dead.Bustle editor Samantha Leach and her childhood best friend, Elissa, met as infants in the suburbs of Providence, Rhode Island, where they attended nursery, elementary school, and temple together....
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