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Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
Peter Orner - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist takes the form to new heights.In his orchestral and moving new book, Peter Orner, a writer who "doesn't simply bring his characters to life, he gives them souls" (New... |
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Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel
Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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"Just the sort of thing that Philip Roth or John Updike might have produced in their prime (except, of course, that the author understands women) ." - Elizabeth Gilbert "This is a remarkable... |
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Blend: The Secret to Co-Parenting and Creating a Balanced Family
MASHONDA TIFRERE - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover
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A wise and inspiring guide to creating a happy and healthy blended family by Mashonda Tifrere with contributions from her co-parents--Swizz Beatz and his wife, Grammy-Award winning singer and songwriter Alicia Keys.In January 2010, founder of ArtLeadHer Mashonda Tifrere and music producer... |
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Preemies - Second Edition: The Essential Guide for Parents of Premature Babies
Dana Wechsler Linden - Pocket; 2nd edition
Format: Paperback
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The comprehensive “Dr. Spock”-like reference that is both reassuring and realistic—now updated to reflect the many advances in neonatology.Preemies, Second Edition is the only parents’ reference resource of its kind—delivering up-to-the-minute information on medical... |
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What to Expect When You're Expecting
Heidi Eisenberg Murkoff - Workman Publishing
Format: Print book
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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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Better Apart: The Radically Positive Way to Separate
Gabrielle Hartley - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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Marital strife and divorce can be your chance to profoundly transform yourself, your mindset and your relationship with a more harmonious and steady vision. While many of us may be better together, some of us can actually become better apart.What if you emerged from your divorce stronger... |
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Hurts Like a Mother: A Cautionary Alphabet
Jennifer Weiss - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Amy overdid the Pinot at the parent potluckBrenda was concave from a post-partum nip/tuck. At last - the book that truly feels your pain... Whether youve had a kid for decades or a few minutes, you know it can hurt - physically, emotionally, and, lets just say it: like a motherf*&^%! In the vein... |
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The Artful Parent: Simple Ways to Fill Your Familys Life with Art and Creativity
Jean Vant Hul - Roost Books
Format: Paperback
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Bring out your childs creativity and imagination with more than 60 artful activities in this completely revised and updated edition. Art making is a wonderful way for young children to tap into their imagination, deepen their creativity, and explore new materials, all while strengthening... |
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All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Jennifer Senior - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents?In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question,... |
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You, Your Child, and School: Navigate Your Way to the Best Education
Ken Robinson - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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An essential book for parents to help their children get the education they need to live happy, productive lives from The New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Creative Schools Parents everywhere are deeply concerned about the education of their... |
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The Confession Club: A Novel (Mason Book 3)
Elizabeth Berg - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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USA TODAY BESTSELLER * An uplifting novel about friendship, surprising revelations, and a second chance at love, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv. When a group of friends in Mason, Missouri, decide to start a monthly supper club, they get more than... |
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Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
Adrienne Brodeur - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A daughter's tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity. On a hot August night on Cape Cod when Adrienne was fourteen, her mother, Malabar, woke her at midnight with five simple words that would set the course of both... |
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Parenting: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures
Amber Dusick - Harlequin
Format: Hardcover
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The drawings arent very good Mama Crappy Boy age Of course you love being a parent But sometimes it just sucks I know Im Amber Dusick and I started my blog Parenting Illustrated with Crappy Pictures because I needed a place to vent about the funny and frustrating day-to-day things that... |
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The Nanny Manual
ALYCE DESROSIERS - Chirp Publishing
Format: Paperback
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What's the secret to hiring the right nanny? The thought of leaving your child in the care of a stranger can seem daunting - but it doesn't have to be that way. With compassion and clarity, The Nanny Manual, takes parents on a journey of self-discovery through their heart, soul... |
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Quichotte: A Novel
Salman Rushdie - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An epic Don Quixote for the modern age, "a brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder" (Time) from internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE * "Lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming . . . a remembrance... |
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The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption
Kathryn Joyce - PublicAffairs; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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When Jessie Hawkins adopted daughter told her she had another mom back in Ethiopia, Jessie didnt, at first, know what to think. Shed wanted her adoption to be great story about a child who needed a home and got one, and a family led by God to adopt. Instead, she felt like shed done something... |
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Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
Robert Kolker - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller * Now a Netflix Film"Rich, tragic...monumental . . . true-crime reporting at its best." - Washington PostThe bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island Serial Killer. Now updated,... |
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A Tall History of Sugar
Curdella Forbes - Akashic Books
Format: Hardcover
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"In her immersive modern fairy tale, Forbes unspools an unlikely love story as well as a haunting, hypnotic piece of postcolonial Jamaican history...Arrienne's recount moves in hopscotch fashion, but it's driven forward by her enchanting voice, to which Forbes brings an electric lyricism.... |
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The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
Ross W. PhD Greene - Harper; Revised Updated edition
Format: Paperback
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What′s an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration-crying, screaming, swearing, kicking, hitting, biting, spitting, destroying property, and worse. A child whose frequent, severe outbursts leave his or her parents... |
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Complete IEP Guide, The: How to Advocate for Your Special Ed Child
Lawrence M Siegel - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Put the law on your child's side Federal law guarantees every child a free, appropriate education, and the goal of the Individualized Education Program (IEP) is to assure that every child with special needs receives what the law promises. But if you have a special ed child, you know... |
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Southern Lady Code: Essays
Helen Ellis - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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"I loved it." - Ann Patchett The bestselling author of American Housewife ("Dark, deadpan and truly inventive." --The New York Times Book Review) is back with a fiercely... |
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Strong Mothers, Strong Sons: Lessons Mothers Need to Raise Extraordinary Men
Margaret J Meeker - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Meg Meeker, M.D., acclaimed author of Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, now turns to an equally powerful relationship in the family: the one between mother and son. From the moment a mother holds her newborn son, his eyes tell her that she is his world. But often, as he grows up, the boy who needs... |
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The Power of Nunchi: The Korean Secret to Happiness and Success
Euny Hong - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Korean sixth sense for winning friends and influencing people, nunchi (pronounced noon-chee) can help you connect with others so you can succeed in everything from business to love. The Power of Nunchi will show you how.If you're thinking, "Not another Eastern... |
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Permission to Feel
Marc A Brackett - Celadon Books
Format: Paperback
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The mental well-being of children and adults is shockingly poor. Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, knows why. And he knows what we can do. "We have a crisis on our hands, and its victims are our children."Marc Brackett is a professor in Yale Universitys Child Study... |
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Autism Spectrum Disorders: What Every Parent Needs to Know
Alan I. Rosenblatt - American Academy of Pediatrics; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Autism Spectrum Disorders: What Every Parent Needs to Know is an invaluable resource for parents and caregivers of children who have been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Prepared under the editorial direction of 2 distinguished pediatricians who are autism experts—one... |
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The Awakened Family: A Revolution in Parenting
Shefali Tsabary - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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FINALIST FOR THE BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE AWARD * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Parents . . . you will be wowed and awed by [Dr. Shefali]." - Oprah WinfreyAs seen on Oprah's SuperSoul Sunday, a radically transformative plan that shows parents how to raise children to be their... |
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The Informed Parent: A Science-Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years
Tara Haelle - Perigee Books
Format: Paperback
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The latest scientific research on home birth, breastfeeding, sleep training, vaccines, and other key topics - to help parents make their own best-informed decisions. In the era of questionable Internet "facts" and parental oversharing, it's more important than ever to find... |
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To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
Cris Beam - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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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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My Brother's Book
Maurice Sendak - HarperCollins; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Fifty years after Where the Wild Things Are was published comes the last book Maurice Sendak completed before his death in May 2012, My Brother's Book. With influences from Shakespeare and William Blake, Sendak pays homage to his late brother, Jack, whom he credited for his passion... |
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Beyond the Tiger Mom: East-West Parenting for the Global Age
Maya Thiagarajan - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Print book
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"Beyond the Tiger Mom is a brilliant book - hard-hitting and brutally honest but also balanced, insightful, and funny." - Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger MomDispel the hype and myths about Asian parenting and uncover the practical with this effective parenting guide.How... |
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How To Raise A Boy: The Power of Connection to Build Good Men
Michael C. Reichert - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover
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At a time when many boys are in crisis, a much-needed roadmap for helping boys grow into strong and compassionate menOver the past two decades there has been an explosion of new studies that have expanded our knowledge of how boys think and feel. In How to Raise a Boy, psychologist... |
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Roxane Gay - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on. "Roxane Gay is the brilliant girl-next-door: your best friend and your... |
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Have a Nice Guilt Trip
Lisa Scottoline - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This four book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron.... |
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Daditude: The Joys & Absurdities of Modern Fatherhood
Chris Erskine - Prospect Park Books
Format: Hardcover
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Life is never peaceful in Chris Erskine's house, what with the four kids, 300-pound beagle, chronically leaky roof, and long-suffering wife, Posh. And that's exactly the way he likes it, except when he doesn't. Every week in the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune (and now and then... |
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Talking Baby: Helping Your Child Discover Language
Margaret Maclagen - Finch Publishing
Format: Paperback
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This book starts by describing a baby's language development alongside their physical development in the first 18 months. It then discusses play - the way young children learn. It also explores childrens' very early acquisition of words, and how they use them, and it covers the exciting... |
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Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
ANGELA GARBES - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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What to read after What to Expect . . . . A badass, feminist, and personal deep-dive into the science and culture of pregnancy and early motherhood that debunks myths and dated assumptions, offering guidance and camaraderie to women navigating one of the biggest and most profound changes... |
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No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
Rachel Louise Snyder - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"Gut-wrenching, required reading."-Esquire, "Most Anticipated Books of 2019"An award-winning journalist's intimate investigation of the true scope of domestic violence, revealing how the roots of America's most pressing social crises are buried in abuse that happens... |
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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
Margaret Renkl - Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family -- and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world. Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads,... |
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The Silent Garden: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Deaf Child
Paul W Ogden - Gallaudet University Press
Format: Print book
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For over 30 years, The Silent Garden has offered parents of deaf children the support and unbiased information needed to fully realize their children's potential. This completely revised third edition is a must-have resource that will help parents navigate the complex and unique challenges... |
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Child Custody and Support
Emily Doskow - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Custody and Support: Get the Answers You Need When you're getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for your children (and yourself) if you work with the other parent to agree on a custody plan and child support. If you can't resolve these issues, you'll have to head to court,... |
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I've Got Sand In All the Wrong Places
Lisa Scottoline - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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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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Connected Parenting: Set Loving Limits and Build Strong Bonds with Your Child for Life
Jennifer Kolari MSW RSW - Avery Trade; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Read Jennifer Kolari's posts on the Penguin Blog. A groundbreaking, counterintuitive parenting approach to create deep, empathic bonds with challenging children A child and family therapist for more than twenty years, Jennifer Kolari began her career working with children who suffer... |
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American Mom: A Celebration of Motherhood in Pop Culture
Meredith Hale - Sterling
Format: Hardcover
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A celebration of motherhood from the nineteenth century through the present day, as seen through American pop culture. There is nothing more American than Mom and apple pie. But how exactly have Americans viewed motherhood over the years? Take a stunning visual journey through American... |
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Out of Control: Why Disciplining Your Child Doesn't Work and What Will
Dr. Shefali Tsabary - Namaste Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Every parent wants the golden key to raising well-behaved, academically gifted, successful, happy children. Embedded in the collective psyche is the notion that discipline is the cornerstone to achieving these goals. Out of Control offers a never-before-published perspective on why the entire... |
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The Teenage Body Book, Revised and Updated Edition
Kathy Ph D Mccoy - Hatherleigh Pr
Format: Print book
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Everything teenagers need to know about nutrition, health, fitness, emotions, and sexuality.Some teen issues are timeless: self-consciousness and uncertainty over rapidly changing bodies, tumultuous feelings, and dramatically changing lives. Many parents remember vividly their own youthful... |
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Dad's Maybe Book
Tim O'Brien - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Best-selling author Tim O'Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons."We are all writing our maybe books full of maybe tomorrows, and each maybe tomorrow brings another maybe tomorrow, and then... |
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Real Food for Pregnancy
Lily Nichols - Lily Nichols
Format: Paperback
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Prenatal nutrition can be confusing. A lot of the advice you have been given about what to eat (or what not to eat) is well-meaning, but frankly, outdated or not evidenced-based. In Real Food for Pregnancy, you will get clear answers on what to eat and why, with research to back up every... |
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My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children
Denene Millner - Agate Bolden
Format: Paperback
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"The best site for thoughtful, fierce advice about parenting from a Black perspective" - EbonyFor almost a decade, national parenting expert and bestselling author Denene Millner has published thought-provoking, insightful, sometimes wickedly funny commentary about motherhood... |
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Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief
David Kessler - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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In this groundbreaking new work, David Kessler - an expert on grief and the coauthor with Elisabeth Kbler-Ross of the iconic On Grief and Grieving - journeys beyond the classic five stages to discover a sixth stage: meaning.In 1969, Elisabeth Kbler Ross first identified the stages... |
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Daddy, Stop Talking!: And Other Things My Kids Want But Won't Be Getting
Adam Carolla - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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The comedian, actor, television host, podcast king, and New York Times bestselling author of President Me, Not Taco Bell Material, and In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks now lays down the law on the plight of the modern parent.Parents, do you often think that if your kids had to grow up the way you did - without... |
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Baby Care Basics
Jeremy Friedman - Robert Rose Inc., 2015.
Format: Print book
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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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One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One
Lauren Sandler - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A humorous, tough-minded, and honest case for being and having an only child . Journalist Lauren Sandler is an only child and the mother of one. After investigating what only children are really like and whether stopping at one child is an answer to reconciling motherhood and modernity,... |
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How To Raise An Amazing Child the Montessori Way, 2nd Edition
TIM SELDIN - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Format: Paperback
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"A practical parenting program to help build a calm and happy home life with your child, from birth through age six. This guide is based on Montessori school methods and packed with creative activities to help children discover more about their world as well as foster independence,... |
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Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells us About Raising Successful Children
Roberta M Golinkoff - American Psychological Association
Format: Print book
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In just a few years, today's children and teens will forge careers that look nothing like those that were available to their parents or grandparents. While the U.S. economy becomes ever more information-driven, our system of education seems stuck on the idea that "content is king,"... |
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I See Life Through Ros-Colored Glasses
LISA SCOTTOLINE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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In I See Life Through Ros Colored-Glasses, the bestselling mother/daughter pair is back with another hilarious and heartfelt collection of essays about the possibilities and pitfalls of everyday life. Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella's delightful essays are sure to strike... |
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The Lines
Anthony Varallo - University Of Iowa Press
Format: Paperback
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Set in the summer of 1979, when America was running out of gas, The Lines tells the story of a family of four - the mother, the father, the girl, and the boy - in the first months of a marital separation. Through alternating perspectives, we follow the family as they explore new territory,... |
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Parenting gifted children 101 : an introduction to gifted kids and their needs
Tracy F Inman - Prufrock Press Inc.
Format: Print book
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This practical, easy-to-read book explores the basics of parenting gifted children, truly giving parents the "introductory course" they need to better understand and help their gifted child. Topics include myths about gifted children, characteristics of the gifted, the hows and whys... |
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Another day in the death of America : a chronicle of ten short lives
Gary Younge - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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On an average day in America, seven young people, aged nineteen or under, will be shot dead.In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost on one random day - November 23, 2013. Ten children died that day.... |
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Dragonfly: A Daughter's Emergence from Autism: A Practical Guide for Parents
Lori Ashley Taylor - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A parent's guide to helping children with autism maximize their potential. Over a decade ago, an autism diagnosis had confined Lori Ashley Taylor's daughter Hannah to an inaccessible world. Lori became a tireless researcher, worker, and advocate, and her dedication showed results.... |
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