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Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict

Joshua Coleman PhD - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

Labeled a silent epidemic by a growing number of therapists and researchers, estrangement is one of the most disorienting and painful experiences of a parent's life. Popular opinion typically tells a one-sided story of parents who got what they deserved or overly entitled adult children...
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Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Dementia and the Hidden Workings of the Mind

Dasha Kiper - Random House
Format: Hardcover

These compelling case histories meld science and storytelling to illuminate the complex relationship between the mind of someone with dementia and the mind of the person caring for them.. "This book will forever change the way we see people with dementia disorders - and the people...
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Help Your Kids with Geography

Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff - DK
Format: Paperback

Perplexed by plate tectonics? Confused by climates? Disoriented by demographics?Help Your Kids with Geography helps parents come to terms with what their children learn in geography class by exploring all these topics and more. Covering all the important areas of human and physical geography,...
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Frontier Follies: Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere

Ree Drummond - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

A warm, hilarious collection of stories and reflections on motherhood from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, photographer, businesswoman, and star of the Food Network show The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond.From her beginnings as an early blogger, Ree Drummond has become a household...
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How to Talk with Anyone about Anything: The Practice of Safe Conversations

Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

Relationships everywhere are in crisis due to our inability to talk about "difference" without polarizing. Since objection to difference is the core human problem, we need a skill that helps us connect beyond difference. That's just what New York Times bestselling authors...
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How to Say Goodbye

Wendy MacNaughton - ?Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"A poem to mortality and the beauty of how we can cope with it."-Atul Gawande, author of Being MortalNew York Times-bestselling artist Wendy MacNaughton shares wisdom from hospice caregivers: how to be, when to help, what to say-with full-color drawings throughout.As artist-in-residence...
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Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most

Timothy Shriver - Sarah Crichton Books, 2014.
Format: Print book

At a time when we are all more rudderless than ever, we look for the very best teachers and mentors to guide us. In Fully Alive, an unusual and gripping memoir, Timothy Shriver shows how his teachers have been the world's most forgotten minority: people with intellectual disabilities.Shriver's...
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Allergy-Free Kids: The Science-Based Approach to Preventing Food Allergies

Robin Nixon Pompa - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Based on recent groundbreaking studies that will change the way parents feed their children, Allergy-Free Kids is a revolutionary guide to preventing food allergies.When her infant daughter was diagnosed with life-threatening food allergies, Robin Nixon Pompa found Dr. Gideon Lack, a clinical...
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