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The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child

Paula S Fass - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book

The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day. Renowned historian Paula Fass shows how, since the beginning of the American republic, independence, self-definition, and individual...
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Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have To

Melanie Cullen - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Everything you need to get organized . Do your loved ones know where to find your insurance policies, passwords, title to your car, real estate deeds, health care directive, or even your will? If you're like a lot of people, you keep important information - from automated bill-pay details...
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The Power of Nunchi: The Korean Secret to Happiness and Success

Euny Hong - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability: Getting & Keeping Your Benefits

III. Morton, David - Nolo
Format: Paperback

Qualify for Social Security disability benefits, quickly and easilyNolo's Guide to Social Security Disability covers the criteria for getting disability benefits for back problems, heart and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, autoimmune diseases, mental issues like depression...
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Another day in the death of America : a chronicle of ten short lives

Gary Younge - Nation Books
Format: Print book

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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Grown and Flown: How to Support Your Teen, Stay Close as a Family, and Raise Independent Adults

Lisa Heffernan - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

PARENTING NEVER ENDS. . From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood . The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster...
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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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Rad Families: A Celebration

Tomas Moniz - Fernwood Books Ltd
Format: Paperback

Rad Families: A Celebration honours the messy, the painful, the playful, the beautiful, the myriad ways we create families. This is not an anthology of experts, or how-to articles on perfect parenting; it often doesn t even try to provide answers. Instead, the writers strive to be honest...
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You Can't F*ck Up Your Kids: A Judgment-Free Guide to Stress-Free Parenting

Powers, Lindsay - ATRIA

Cribsheet meets The Sh t No One Tells You in this no-holds-barred, judgment-free parenting guide that sets the record straight on every hot-button parenting topic by longtime journalist and founder of the viral #NoShameParenting movement. What if you could do more for your kids, by doing...
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