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So Sorry for Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief, and Other Grave Concerns

Dina Gachman - Union Square & Co.
Format: Paperback

A searching, heartfelt exploration about what it means to process grief, by a bestselling author and journalist whose experience with two devastating losses inspired her to bring comfort and understanding to others.. Since losing her mother to cancer in 2018 and her sister to alcoholism...
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American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption

Gabrielle Glaser - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each otherDuring the Baby Boom in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth...
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Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

Ross W Greene - Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardcover

In Raising Human Beings, the renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence. Parents have an important...
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Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity

Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback

Most resources available for parents come out of the medical model of disability--from psychologists, educators, parents, and doctors--offering parents a narrow and technical approach to autism. Furthermore, it is widely believed that many autistic girls and women are underdiagnosed, which...
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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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Programming for Children and Teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Barbara Klipper - Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Paperback

Those who understand the unique sensitivities of young people with autism spectrum disorder, now the second most commonly diagnosed serious developmental disability, know that ordinary library programming guides are not up to the task of effectively serving these library users. Klipper...
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When Your Child Has Food Allergies: A Parent's Guide to Managing It All - From the Everyday to the Extreme

MIREILLE SCHWARTZ - AMACOM
Format: Paperback

All the answers parents need. Keeping kids safe takes vigilance. But when your child has food allergies, the challenge is greater and you worry that much more. As a food-allergy mom (and someone seriously allergic herself) , author Mireille Schwartz has been through it all. Now, in this...
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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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Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time

Victoria L. Dunckley - New World Library
Format: Paperback

A no-cost, nonpharmaceutical treatment plan for children with behavioral and mental health challengesIncreasing numbers of parents grapple with children who are acting out without obvious reason. Revved up and irritable, many of these children are diagnosed with ADHD, bipolar illness, autism,...
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To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care

Cris Beam - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

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.-- NewYork Times Book ReviewWho are the children of foster care What, as a country, do we owe them...
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