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Right from the Start: A Practical Guide for Helping Young Children with Autism
Karin Donahue - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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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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Caring for Your Adopted Child: An Essential Guide for Parents
Elaine E. Schulte - American Academy of Pediatrics
Format: Paperback
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With knowledge and compassion, Caring for Your Adopted Child offers the wisdom that adoptive parents need to provide the best possible care for their children. Whether a child joins a family through domestic adoption, international adoption, or foster care, he or she may have needs... |
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Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old
John Leland - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover
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Based on the popular New York Times series, life-changing wisdom from an unexpected source: America's oldest oldIn 2015, the award-winning New York Times journalist John Leland set out to meet some of the city's oldest inhabitants for a series on America's fastest-growing... |
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#IMomSoHard
Kristin Hensley - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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Has it been months since you've read a book with actual adult words that had nothing to do with farm animals or superheroes or going potty? Well then, it's time to take a break. Pour yourself some wine. Put on your comfy pants. All good? Ok, welcome to the party.Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley,... |
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Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2019
BOB SEHLINGER - Unofficial Guides
Format: Paperback
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THE trusted source of information for a successful Walt Disney World vacation Compiled and written by a team of experienced researchers whose work has been cited by such diverse sources as USA Today and Operations Research Forum, The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World digs... |
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Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me
Adrienne Brodeur - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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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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Single Girl Problems: Why Being Single Isn't a Problem to Be Solved
Andrea Bain - Dundurn
Format: Paperback
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"If one more person tells me about their third cousin twice removed who met the love of their life online, I'm going to take out my weave and eat it." Being single sucks! Well, that's what everyone says, anyway. In pretty much every culture, single women over the age of twenty-nine... |
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The Littlest Learners: Preparing Your Child for Kindergarten
DAWN R ROGINSKI - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The Littlest Learners connects the most recent research on emergent literacy, the skills necessary to become a reader and concrete activities that parents and caregivers can do to maximize their child's reading readiness. The book is divided into 5 activities:1) talking with young... |
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Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Making a Living
Liz O'Donnell - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Working Daughter is a revelatory look at who's caring for our aging population and how these unpaid family caregivers are trying to manage caring for their parents, raising their children, maintaining relationships, and pursuing their careers. It follows the author, who was enjoying a fast-paced... |
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The Expectant Father: The Ultimate Guide for Dads-to-Be
Armin A. Brott - Abbeville Press
Format: Hardcover
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The fourth edition of this best-selling, ground-breaking, information-packed guide for dads-to-be is now significantly, updated, revised, and expanded.We are expecting! The twentieth-anniversary edition of this thoroughly updated and revised parenting classic remains the most informative... |
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The Power of Nunchi: The Korean Secret to Happiness and Success
Euny Hong - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Eldercare 101: A Practical Guide to Later Life Planning, Care, and Wellbeing
Mary Jo Saavedra - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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The Silver Tsunami is upon us as elder care and crisis management reaches a tipping point with the graying of America. By 2020, 54 million people in the U.S. will be over the age of 65; by 2030, that number will top 80 million. Feeling the squeeze of multi-generational home demands, children... |
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Peppa Pig: The Balloon Ride
John Sparkes - Entertainment One
Format: DVD video
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Fun for children with Peppa Pig and her relatives Daddy Pig, Mummy Pig, and little brother George. |
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The Ultimate Guide to College Transfer: From Surviving to Thriving
Lucia D. Tyler - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The Ultimate Guide to College Transfer is a comprehensive guide, designed to make college transfer between four-year schools as successful as possible. Chapters outline the steps to take from the moment a student finds him/herself considering college transfer to the first semester at his/her... |
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Parenting Our Parents: Transforming the Challenge into a Journey of Love
Jane Wolf Frances - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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This book is a "must read" for anyone who is presently caring for their aging parents, anyone who will eventually care for their aging parents or anyone planning on growing older. The author brings her decades of professional experiences as a psychotherapist, an attorney, a coach... |
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The Happiest Kids in the World: A Stress-Free Approach to Parenting-the Dutch Way
RINA MAE ACOSTA - EXPERIMENT LLC
Format: Print book
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The secret to raising the happiest kids in the world? Whatever it is, it's somewhere in the Netherlands . . . Would parents rather their children be successful or happy? Kids in the US face lots of pressure to excel - often at the expense of happiness. But does it have to be this... |
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The Silent Garden: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Deaf Child
Paul W Ogden - Gallaudet University Press
Format: Print book
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For over 30 years, The Silent Garden has offered parents of deaf children the support and unbiased information needed to fully realize their children's potential. This completely revised third edition is a must-have resource that will help parents navigate the complex and unique challenges... |
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Enlightened Aging: Building Resilience for a Long, Active Life
Eric B Larson - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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A leading expert in the science of healthy aging, Dr. Eric B. Larson offers practical advice for growing old with resilience and foresight. More than just canned advice, Enlightened Aging proposes a path to resilience - one that's proven to help many stave off disability until very... |
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Your End of Life Matters: How to Talk with Family and Friends
Anne F Ziff - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Talking about End of Life Matters is offered at a time when people are starting to talk more about end-of-life matters. Based on the author's own experiences and those of others she's worked with, the book conveys the value of talking about last wishes long before the end is imminent.... |
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Take Control of Dyslexia and Other Reading Difficulties
Jennifer Engel Fisher - Prufrock Press
Format: Print book
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Take Control of Dyslexia and Other Reading Difficulties is a unique guidebook written especially for kids with dyslexia and other reading difficulties to help them overcome their reading struggles and find success in school and beyond. The handbook addresses the fundamentals of reading... |
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Banish Boredom: Activities to Do with Kids That Youll Actually Enjoy
Rebecca Green - Gryphon House Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Banish Boredom helps parents find activities that they enjoy, while their children learn and have fun. Based on her popular blog, Not-So-SAHM, Rebecca Green takes readers on an inspiring journey using beautiful color photos that she took of her children doing activities she describes in the book.... |
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce
EMILY DOSKOW - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce provides clear answers that can help make divorce simpler and reduce its financial and emotional cost. Readers will even learn how to complete the divorce with minimal help from an attorney. With compassion and understanding, Nolo's Essential... |
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Celebrate Your Body
Sonya Renee Taylor - Rockridge Press
Format: Paperback
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Puberty comes with a lot of changes. Celebrate Your Body (And It's Changes, Too!) will help girls understand (and love) their bodies now and as they continue to grow.For many girls, puberty can be an uncertain time. Celebrate Your Body (And Its Changes, Too!) includes everything... |
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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
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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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Calypso
David Sedaris - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina... |
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The Unexpected Journey of Caring: The Transformation from Loved One to Caregiver
Donna Thomson - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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With a foreword by Judy Woodruff, The Unexpected Journey of Caring is a practical guide to finding personal meaning in the 21st century care experience.Personal transformation is usually an experience we actively seek out - not one that hunts us down. Becoming a caregiver is one transformation... |
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Talking Baby: Helping Your Child Discover Language
Margaret Maclagen - Finch Publishing
Format: Paperback
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This book starts by describing a baby's language development alongside their physical development in the first 18 months. It then discusses play - the way young children learn. It also explores childrens' very early acquisition of words, and how they use them, and it covers the exciting... |
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Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler: Tackling These Crazy Awesome YearsNo Time-outs Needed
Jamie Glowacki - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback
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Real-world, from-the-trenches toddler parenting advice from the author of the bestselling Oh Crap! Potty Training. Toddlers - commonly defined as children aged between two and five years old - can be a horribly misunderstood bunch. What most parents view as bad behavior is in fact... |
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Quichotte: A Novel
Salman Rushdie - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An epic Don Quixote for the modern age, "a brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder" (Time) from internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE * "Lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming . . . a remembrance... |
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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Siegfried Engelmann - Touchstone
Format: Paperback
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Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read? Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading? Do you want to help your child read, but are afraid you'll do something wrong? RAs DISTARreg; is the most successful beginning reading program available... |
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Homemade: 707 Products to Make Yourself to Save Money and the Earth
Editors of Reader's Digest - Reader's Digest
Format: Paperback
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Make your own pantry staples, cleaning products, pet food, health and beauty supplies, and hundreds of other household items - fast, fresh, and more naturally.Here are low-cost, all-natural replacement recipes for more than 700 name-brand products that you buy week in and week out at the supermarket,... |
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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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Parenting Through Puberty: Mood Swings, Acne, and Growing Pains
Suanne Kowal-Connelly - American Academy of Pediatrics
Format: Paperback
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Puberty is tough - on kids and maybe even more so on parents! Parenting Through Puberty explains the physical and emotional changes families can expect to see in their child. Dr. Kowal-Connelly covers the nitty-gritty of children's changing bodies, and, critically, she addresses... |
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