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Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays

Siri Hustvedt
Format: Hardcover

Described as "a 21st-century Virginia Woolf" in the Literary Review (UK) , Man Booker longlisted Hustvedt displays her expansive intellect and interdisciplinary knowledge in this collection that moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to artistic...
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Right from the Start: A Practical Guide for Helping Young Children with Autism

Karin Donahue - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Right from the Start: A Practical Guide for Helping Young Children with Autism asserts that autistic children can be successful when parents and teachers understand key principles of autism and have the tools to help these children expand their social and emotional skills. This book explains...
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Mom Hacks: 100 Science-Backed Shortcuts to Reclaim Your Body, Raise Awesome Kids, and Be Unstoppable

Darria Long Gillespie - Lifelong Books
Format: Paperback

100+ self-care hacks for any mom to eat right, move more, stress less and get a good night's sleep, by a doctor who is also a momWhy is it generally accepted that motherhood comes at the expense of our health--with all that weight gain, fatigue, and exhaustion? It doesn't have to be that...
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Building a Parenting Agreement That Works: Child Custody Agreements Step by Step

MIMI LYSTER ZEMMELMAN - ?NOLO; Tenth edition
Format: Tenth Edition

A fair and realistic custody agreement protects children's interests when parents split up. But reaching a parenting agreement is often easier said than done, especially when emotions run high. That's where Building a Parenting Agreement That Works can help. This practical, step-by-step...
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Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities

Aaron J. Jackson - University of California Press; First edition
Format: Hardcover

Vulnerable narratives of fatherhood are few and far between; rarer still is an ethnography that delves into the practical and emotional realities of intensive caregiving. Grounded in the intimate everyday lives of men caring for children with major physical and intellectual disabilities,...
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The Other Side of Impossible: Ordinary People Who Faced Daunting Medical Challenges and Refused to Give Up

Susannah Meadows - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

You're faced with a difficult health condition. You have exhausted medicine's answers. What do you do? In The Other Side of Impossible, Susannah Meadows tells the real-life stories of seven families who were determined to solve the unsolvable. Their adventures take us to the outer...
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Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

Nir Eyal - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

"Indistractable provides a framework that will deliver the focus you need to get results."- James Clear, author of Atomic Habits. You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as youre about to get back...
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Unexpected: Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down Syndrome

Alison Piepmeier - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover

When Alison Piepmeier -- scholar of feminism and disability studies, and mother of Maybelle, an eight-year-old girl with Down syndrome -- died of cancer in August 2016, she left behind an important unfinished manuscript about motherhood, prenatal testing, and disability. In Unexpected,...
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Worldly Things

Michael Kleber-Diggs - Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover

Finalist for the 2022 Minnesota Book Award in PoetryA New York Times Book Review "New & Noteworthy Poetry" SelectionA Library Journal "Poetry Title to Watch 2021"A Chicago Review of Books "Poetry Collection to Read in 2021"A Readers Digest "14 Amazing...
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Why Will No One Play with Me?: The Play Better Plan to Help Children of All Ages Make Friends and Thrive

Caroline Maguire - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From renowned parent expert Caroline Maguire, Why Will No One Play with Me? is a groundbreaking program that has helped thousands of children struggling with social skills to make friends, find acceptance, and have a happy childhood. Every parent wants their child to be okay--to...
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