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Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason's Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together

Leah Boden - Tyndale Momentum
Format: Paperback

For every mother who desires to cultivate a lasting foundation of curiosity and wonder for her children from home, whilst continuing a rich life of learning for herself.. Modern Miss Mason is your invitation into an adventure, a call to turn a corner on your already incredible journey of parenting...
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The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make

Ron Lieber - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The hugely popular New York Times "Your Money" columnist and author of the bestselling The Opposite of Spoiled offers a deeply reported and emotionally honest approach to the biggest financial decision families will ever make: what to pay for college. Sending a teenager to a flagship...
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Hard Landings: Looking Into the Future for a Child With Autism

Cammie McGovern - Avery
Format: Hardcover

After sleepless nights, intensive research, and twenty-one years of raising a child, Ethan, with autism and intellectual disability, Cammie McGovern is approaching a distinct catch-22. Once Ethan turns twenty-two, he will fall off the "Disability Cliff." By aging out of the school...
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Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It

Emily Kenway - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover

An intimate and deeply researched account of the experiences of unpaid caregivers and a call for us all to put care at the center of our lives When Emily Kenway became the primary caregiver for her terminally ill mother, her life was changed forever. Although she was lonely, she was far from...
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Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales

Sabrina Orah Mark - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A beautifully written memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to modern life, from a Jewish woman raising Black children in the American South - based on her acclaimed Paris Review column "Happily". The literary tradition of the fairy tale has long endured...
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Baby Steps to STEM: Infant and Toddler Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Activities

Jean Barbre - Redleaf Press
Format: Paperback

Innately curious, infants and toddlers love to explore, investigate, and discover -- making the earliest years a perfect time to begin teaching the foundations of STEM. This book defines what science, technology, engineering, and math education looks like for this age group, and why it is so vital...
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Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

Angela Garbes - ?Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America, and an exploration of mothering as a means of social change.The Covid-19 pandemic shed fresh light on a long-overlooked truth: mothering is among the only essential work humans do. In response...
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A Journey for Two: Mother and Daughter Caregiving Relationships

Jeanne R. Lord - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Explores the mother-daughter relationship in the context of caregivingAcross the Unites States, about 34.2 million Americans have provided unpaid care to an adult age 50 or older in the last 12 months. Much of this caregiving is performed by women and often for their mothers or mothers-in-law,...
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From The Foster House To The White House

Terrence K Williams
Format: Hardcover

This is the poignant and triumphant story of Terrence K. Williams, who was born into nothing; neglected, starved, abused, and beaten, a product of the foster home system. He grew up without a table to sit at, let alone food to eat, yet today is endeared by millions of fans and followers...and...
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Be Period Positive: Reframe Your Thinking and Reshape the Future of Menstruation

Chella Quint - DK
Format: Paperback

This informative, irreverent, and absorbing book covers all your period-related questions - why they're taboo (and needn't be) and how to navigate the whole bleeding thing, from first periods to fertility, euphemisms to uteruses, menstrual products to menopause.Period Positive...
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