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Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change in a Nonlinear Age

Bruce Feiler - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets of Happy Families and Council of Dads, a pioneering study of the disruptions upending contemporary life and a bold guide for how to navigate life's growing number of transitions with more meaning, balance, and joy. Bruce Feiler...
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Giving Birth with Confidence: 3rd Edition

Judith Lothian - Meadowbrook
Format: Paperback

For a Safe and Healthy Birth ... Your Way! Giving Birth with Confidence will help take the mystery out of having a baby and help you better understand how your body works during pregnancy and childbirth, giving you the confidence to make decisions that best ensure the safety and health...
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How to Grow a Baby: A Science-Based Guide to Nurturing New Life, from Pregnancy to Childbirth and Beyond

Amy Hammer - Roost Books
Format: Paperback

Get the answers to the big questions about pregnancy: What kinds of foods should you eat and how do you prepare your body for labor and birth? How does movement impact pelvic health and the baby's position in the womb? How does the endocrine system and your brain change...
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The Mamas: What I Learned About Kids, Class, and Race from Moms Not Like Me

HELENA ANDREWS-DYER - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Can white moms and Black moms ever truly be friends? Not just mom friends, but like really real friends? And does it matter?"Utterly addictive . . . Through her sharp wit and dynamic anecdotal storytelling, Helena Andrews-Dyer shines a light on the cultural differences that separate...
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The Smart Guide to Life After Divorce

Tanya Stewart - Smart Guide Publications, Inc.; Second Edition, Second edition edition
Format: Book

Fusing practical legal advice with caring support, this guide helps readers direct their lives and control their stress following an emotionally fraught and financially costly divorce. Attorney Tanya Stewart brings more than a dozen years of legal, consulting, and life-coaching experience...
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Raising Critical Thinkers: A Parent's Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age

Julie Bogart - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

Education is not solely about acquiring information and skills across subject areas, but also about understanding how and why we believe what we do. At a time when online media has created a virtual firehose of information and opinions, parents and teachers worry how students will interpret...
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Parenting for the Digital Generation: A Guide to Digital Education and the Online Environment

Jon M. Garon - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Parenting for the Digital Generation provides a practical handbook for parents, grandparents, teachers, and counselors who want to understand both the opportunities and the threats that exist for the generation of digital natives who are more familiar with a smartphone than they are with...
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Spit that Out!: The Overly Informed Parent's Guide to Raising Healthy Kids in the Age of Environmental Guilt

Paige Wolf - New Society Publishers
Format: Print book

From BPA in baby bottles and asbestos in crayons to misleading "natural" labels - it can despair even the most steadfast parent.Lighthearted yet authoritative, Spit That Out! cuts through the information overload, sorts cloth from disposable, and empowers readers to make simple...
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Now Say This: The Right Words to Solve Every Parenting Dilemma

HEATHER TURGEON - TarcherPerigee
Format: Paperback

A powerful new parenting book that gives flustered parents the exact words to use to solve any sticky parenting situation!Language is powerful and the exact words, tone, and non-verbal communication parents use when trying to move through a stuck moment with their child means everything....
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Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

Robin DiAngelo - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also made a provocative claim: white progressives cause the most daily harm to people...
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