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Our Black Sons Matter: Mothers Talk about Fears, Sorrows, and Hopes

George Yancy professor of philosophy Emory University - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Our Black Sons Matter is a powerful collection of original essays, letters, and poems that addresses both the deep joys and the very real challenges of raising black boys today. From Trayvon Martin to Tamir Rice, the list of young black men who have suffered racial violence continues to grow....
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Your Guide to Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss: Hope and Healing When You're No Longer Expecting

Dr. Kate White M.D. M.P.H. - Mayo Clinic Press
Format: Paperback

In Your Guide to Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss, Kate White, M.D., OB/GYN, miscarriage survivor, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Boston University School of Medicine and Vice Chair of Academics in the OB/GYN department at Boston Medical Center, combines the latest...
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What to Expect When You're Expecting

Heidi Eisenberg Murkoff - Workman Publishing
Format: Print book

A completely revised and updated edition of America's pregnancy bible, the longest-running New York Times bestseller ever. With 18.5 million copies in print, What to Expect When You're Expecting is read by 93% of women who read a pregnancy book and was named one of the "Most...
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Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny

Debora L. Spar - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

What will happen to our notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of creating babies? What will happen to our understanding of gender as medical advances enable individuals to transition from one set of sexual characteristics...
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The Family Roe: An American Story

Joshua Prager - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A masterpiece of reporting on the Supreme Court's most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart.Despite her famous pseudonym, no one knows the truth about "Jane Roe," Norma McCorvey (1947-2017) , whose unwanted pregnancy in 1970 opened a great fracture...
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Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son

Homeira Qaderi - Harper
Format: Hardcover

An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother's unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of the frequent...
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Bringing Up Bookmonsters: The Joyful Way to Turn Your Child into a Fearless, Ravenous Reader

Amber Ankowski PhD
Format: Paperback

How can you turn your distracted, plugged-in child into a voracious reader eager to devour every book in sight? By speaking to their inner bookmonster, of course! In Bringing Up Bookmonsters, wife-and-husband team Amber and Andy Ankowski suggest fun strategies rooted in developmental psychology...
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How To Talk When Kids Won't Listen: Whining, Fighting, Meltdowns, Defiance, and Other Challenges of Childhood

Joanna Faber - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

For forty years, readers have turned to Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish's How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, the book The Boston Globe called, "the parenting Bible," for a respectful and practical approach to communication with children. Expanding...
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The 36-Hour Day, sixth edition: The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss

Nancy L Mace - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Print book

Through five editions, The 36-Hour Day has been the "bible" for families who love and care for people with Alzheimer disease. This book offers much-needed information and support to millions of people throughout the world. Whether a person has Alzheimer disease, vascular dementia,...
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Childhood Speech and Language Disorders: Supporting Children and Families on the Path to Communication

Suzanne M Ducharme - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book

Communication is one of life's most fundamental joys, yet one often taken for granted until it is lost or fails to develop. Yet for millions of children each year, the skills that encompass communication stall or do not emerge at all. Even a mild disorder or temporary interruption in development...
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