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Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World
DEBORAH REBER - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover
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Today millions of kids are stuck in a world that doesn't respect, support, or embrace who they really are - these are what Deborah Reber is calling the "differently wired" kids, the one in five children with ADHD, dyslexia, Asperger's, giftedness, anxiety, sensory processing... |
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The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom
Nancy Reddy - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Timely and thought-provoking, Nancy Reddy unpacks and debunks the bad ideas that have for too long defined what it means to be a "good" mom.When Nancy Reddy had her first child, she found herself suddenly confronted with the ideal of a perfect mother -- a woman who was constantly... |
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American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
Gabrielle Glaser - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each otherDuring the Baby Boom in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth... |
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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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The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age
Amy Sohn - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Anthony Comstock, special agent to the U.S. Post Office, was one of the most important men in the lives of nineteenth-century women. His eponymous law, passed in 1873, penalized the mailing of contraception and obscenity with long sentences and steep fines. The word Comstockery came to connote... |
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How to Raise an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
Format: Hardcover
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The book that every parent, caregiver, and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist thinkers, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an AntiracistThe tragedies and reckonings around racism that have rocked the country have created a specific crisis for parents... |
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Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter
Lan Cao - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A dual first-person memoir by the acclaimed Vietnamese-American novelist and her thoroughly American teenage daughterAfter more than forty years in the United States, Lan Cao still feels tentative about her place in her adoptive country, one which she came to as a thirteen-year old refugee.... |
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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
Roxanna Asgarian - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children -- and a searing indictment of the American foster care system.. On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff... |
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