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Eight Setbacks That Can Make a Child a Success: What to Do and What to Say to Turn "Failures" into Character-Building Moments

Michelle Icard - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover

Turn common adolescent missteps, from relationship blunders to rebellions that backfire, into character-building moments - by the author of Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen.. Every child messes up, sometimes in ways that seem sure to wreck their futures: a bad report card, poor sportsmanship,...
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How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations

Marc Freedman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

The secret to happiness, longevity, and living on is through mentoring the next generationIn How to Live Forever, Encore.org founder and CEO Marc Freedman tells the story of his thirty-year quest to answer some of contemporary life's most urgent questions: With so many living so much...
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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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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

Malcolm Gladwell - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong.How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville...
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Rattled: How to Calm New Mom Anxiety with the Power of the Postpartum Brain

Nicole Pensak PhD - Countryman Press
Format: Hardcover

matrescence noun /ma'tres.?nts/ the process of becoming a mother: The physical, psychological, and emotional changes you go through after the birth of your child . . . largely unexplored in the medical community. -- Cambridge Dictionary Most new mothers bring their infants to the doctor...
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Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults

Mitch Weiss - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

"I can't imagine a more important book." - Jeff Guinn, New York Times bestselling authorAn explosive investigation into Word of Faith Fellowship, a secretive evangelical cult whose charismatic female leader is a master of manipulationIn 1979, Jane Whaley, a fiery preacher...
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Colleges Worth Your Money: A Guide to What America's Top Schools Can Do for You

Andrew Belasco - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback

Unlike existing college guidebooks, which contain easy-to-Google admissions statistics and anecdotal generalizations about campus life, Colleges Worth Your Money reveals where graduates work, salaries, grad school acceptances, internships and research opportunities, career services ratings,...
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Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power

Rose Hackman - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Fair Play by Eve Rodsky and Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski comes a scathing, deeply-researched foray into the invisible, uncompensated work women perform every day. . We're tired.. A stranger insists you "smile more," even as you navigate a high-stress...
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Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racismand How to Do It

Celeste Headlee - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

In this urgently needed guide, the PBS host, award-winning journalist, and author of We Need to Talk teaches us how to have productive conversations about race, offering insights, advice, and support.A self-described "light-skinned Black Jew," Celeste Headlee has been forced to speak...
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Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

Adrienne Brodeur - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A daughter's tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity. On a hot August night on Cape Cod when Adrienne was fourteen, her mother, Malabar, woke her at midnight with five simple words that would set the course of both...
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