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I'm So Effing Hungry: Why We Crave What We Crave – and What to Do About It

Amy Shah - Harvest
Format: Hardcover

Amy Shah, MD, leading medical doctor and Instagram personality @fastingmd, shares her proven 5-step program for battling excessive hunger and food cravings by harnessing the power of psychobiotics and intermittent fasting."My mission is to revolutionize the way we think about hunger...
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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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Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives

Rachel Simmons - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Is it wrong that I wanted to underline every single word in this book? Simmons brilliantly crystallizes contemporary girls' dilemma: the way old expectations and new imperatives collide; how a narrow, virtually unattainable vision of 'success' comes at the expense of self-worth and well-being....
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This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained

Cara Natterson MD - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate roadmap for adults helping tweens and teens navigate the rollercoaster of puberty.. Almost everything about puberty has changed since today's adults went through it. It starts, on average, two years earlier and stretches through high school ... and for some, beyond. Gens...
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How Do I Explain This to My Kids?: Parenting in the Age of Trump

Sarah Swong - The New Press
Format: Paperback

The day after the 2016 presidential election, filmmaker Carlos Sandoval found Ku Klux Klan fliers on the seats of the Long Island Railroad and recounts how his Cuban American niece Lexi's world was "shattered" by the election - she is one of thousands of children wondering if they...
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Baby Care Basics

Jeremy Friedman - Robert Rose Inc., 2015.
Format: Print book

Despite all the planning in the world, nothing can really prepare a soon-to-be new parent for that big step after the baby is born. All that well-intentioned information and counsel offered by family and friends is just not enough and likely confusing when the stressful days arrive. Written...
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Decoding Boys: New Science Behind the Subtle Art of Raising Sons

Cara Natterson - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

When boys enter puberty, they tend to get quiet - or at least quieter than before - and parents often misread their signals. Here's how to navigate their retreat and steer them through this confusing passage, by the bestselling author of The Care and Keeping of You series and Guy Stuff:...
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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children -- and a searing indictment of the American foster care system.. On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff...
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Do Right by Me: Learning to Raise Black Children in White Spaces

Valerie I. Harrison
Format: Paperback(1)

For decades, Katie D&;Angelo and Valerie Harrison engaged in conversations about race and racism. However, when Katie and her husband, who are white, adopted Gabriel, a biracial child, Katie&;s conversations with Val, who is black, were no longer theoretical and academic. The stakes...
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Permission to Parent: How to Raise Your Child with Love and Limits

Robin Berman - Harperwave
Format: Hardcover

After being bombarded by parenting fad after parenting fad, moms and dads finally have a friendly, commonsense guide to raising thriving children.Today, many parents have rejected the dictatorships they resented from their own childhoods. But they overcorrected by turning into child-pleasers....
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