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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

Margaret Renkl - Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover

An Indie Next Selection for July 2019 An Indies Introduce Selection for Summer/Fall 2019 A 2019 Okra Pick A Publishers Weekly "Pick of the Week" From New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family -- and of the cycles of joy and grief...
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What to Expect When You're Expecting

Heidi Eisenberg Murkoff - Workman Publishing
Format: Print book

A completely revised and updated edition of America's pregnancy bible, the longest-running New York Times bestseller ever. With 18.5 million copies in print, What to Expect When You're Expecting is read by 93% of women who read a pregnancy book and was named one of the "Most...
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Dad's Guide to Baby's First Year For Dummies

Consumer Dummies. - John Wiley
Format: Print book

Dad's Guide to Baby's First Year is a comprehensive and practical guide to For Dummies dad hood, with advice on topics ranging from conception to looking after your baby, connecting with your little one and helping your child develop and grow. Know what to expect during pregnancy...
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Hangry: 5 Simple Steps to Balance Your Hormones and Restore Your Joy (Including a Customizable Paleo/Mediterranean Plan!)

Sarah Fragoso - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

HANGRY IS THE COMPREHENSIVE HORMONE BOOK WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. Get ready to restore your joy, heal your hormones, and reset your metabolism in just four weeks.Sarah Fragoso, the bestselling author and creator of Everyday Paleo, and Dr. Brooke Kalanick, a leading expert in functional...
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Banish Boredom: Activities to Do with Kids That Youll Actually Enjoy

Rebecca Green - Gryphon House Inc.
Format: Hardcover

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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Southern Lady Code: Essays

Helen Ellis - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

"I loved it." - Ann Patchett The bestselling author of American Housewife ("Dark, deadpan and truly inventive." --The New York Times Book Review) is back with a fiercely...
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Infant Massage

Vimala Schneider McClure - Bantam
Format: Paperback

Master the techniques of infant massage and incorporate this joyful and wonderful healing art into your baby's life with this revised and updated edition.For generations, mothers around the world have known that the soft touch of their hands soothes, calms, and communicates their love...
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Talking with Your Toddler: 75 Fun Activities and Interactive Games that Teach Your Child to Talk

Teresa Laikko M.S. CCC-SLP - Ulysses Press
Format: Print book

A HANDY PARENT'S GUIDE THAT TURNS PROFESSIONAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT INTO CHILD'S PLAYAre you concerned that your child is not verbalizing? The solution may be as simple as a game. Talking with Your Toddler teaches you how to stimulate speech using everyday play. It makes learning...
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The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up: Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder in the Adolescent and Young Adult Years

Carol Kranowitz - Tarcherperigee
Format: Print book

The long-awaited follow-up to the million-copy bestseller The Out-of-Sync Child, presenting information and advice for tweens, teens, and young adults living with Sensory Processing Disorder, and their parents. The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up will be the new bible for the vast audience...
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Geek Parenting: What Joffrey, Jor-El, Maleficent, and the McFlys Teach Us about Raising a Family

Stephen H Segal - Quirk Books
Format: Print book

It takes a starship to raise a child. Or a time machine. Or a tribe of elves. Fortunately, Geek Parenting offers all that and more, with thoughtful mini-essays that reveal profound child-rearing advice (and mistakes) from the most beloved tales of geek culture. Nerds and norms alike...
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Your special education rights : what your school district won't tell you

Jennifer Laviano - Skyhorse Publishing

Drawing on decades of experience, Jennifer Laviano, a high-profile special education attorney, and Julie Swanson, a sought-after special education advocate, help parents of students with disabilities navigate their school systems to get the services they need for their children. Parents...
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Just Feel: How to Be Stronger, Happier, Healthier, and More

Mallika Chopra - Running Press Kids
Format: Paperback

From the author of Just Breathe, Mallika Chopra, daughter of Deepak Chopra, comes a full-color guide empowering kids ages 8-12 to problem solve, harness inner strength, and gain grit and emotional awareness.

Featuring full-color illustrations, Just Feel is an engaging...

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The Conscious Parent's Guide to Positive Discipline: A Mindful Approach for Building a Healthy, Respectful Relationship with Your Child

Jennifer Costa - Adams Media Corporation, 2016.
Format: Print book

Help your child learn self-discipline, cooperation, and responsibility!When a child misbehaves, the situation can quickly escalate into an uphill battle of yelling, tears, and resistance--on both sides. But what if you could avoid all that? Conscious parenting is about being present with...
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Dealing with Doctors, Denial, and Death: A Guide to Living Well with Serious Illness

Aroop Mangalik - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Format: Hardcover

Often when death is the inevitable and impending outcome of a health diagnosis, doctors are reluctant to discuss alternatives to treatment, feeding into a culture of denial that can result in expensive, ineffective, and unnecessary over treatment that may or may not extend life but almost...
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Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells us About Raising Successful Children

Roberta M Golinkoff - American Psychological Association
Format: Print book

In just a few years, today's children and teens will forge careers that look nothing like those that were available to their parents or grandparents. While the U.S. economy becomes ever more information-driven, our system of education seems stuck on the idea that "content is king,"...
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Screen Schooled: Two Veteran Teachers Expose How Technology Overuse Is Making Our Kids Dumber

Joe Clement - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback

Over the past decade, educational instruction has become increasingly digitized as districts rush to dole out laptops and iPads to every student. Yet the most important question, "Is this what is best for students?" is glossed over. Veteran teachers Joe Clement and Matt Miles...
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There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids

Linda Akeson McGurk - Touchstone
Format: Paperback

Bringing Up Bb meets Last Child in the Woods in this "fascinating exploration of the importance of the outdoors to childhood development" (Kirkus Reviews) from a Swedish-American mother who sets out to discover if the nature-centric parenting philosophy of her native Scandinavia...
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The Girl Who Just Wanted to Belong: The Powerful True Story of a Devastated Little Girl and the Foster Carer who Healed her Broken Heart

Angela Hart - Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback

Lucy is eight-years-old and ends up in foster care after being abandoned by her mum and kicked out by her new stepmother. Two aunties and then her elderly grandmother take her in but it seems nobody can cope with Lucy's disruptive behaviour. Social Services hope a stay with experienced...
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Raising Twins: Parenting Multiples From Pregnancy Through the School Years

Shelly Vaziri Flais - American Academy of Pediatrics
Format: Paperback

Pediatrician and twin-mom, Dr. Shelly Vaziri Flais, offers expert advice for raising healthy, well-adjusted twins and triplets in this fully revised and updated third edition. Her guidance will help parents of multiples prepare for their babies' arrival, weather the first few months of infancy,...
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Don't Divorce: Powerful Arguments for Saving and Revitalizing Your Marriage

Diane Medved - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

If you're in a troubled marriage, divorce might seem like a reasonable option. But in most cases, it's a calamity. Shows like Bravo's Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce and HBO's Divorce normalize the dissolution of marriage, making couples feel that divorce can be a happy...
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Making It Legal: A Guide to Same-Sex Marriage, Domestic Partnerships & Civil Unions

Frederick Hertz - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Although same-sex marriage is legal nationwide, there is no federal recognition for domestic partners or civil union registrants, and many couples have messy and unresolved agreements and/or registrations that need to be cleaned up. Couples also need to consider whether they want to extend...
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The ABA Consumer Guide to Assisted Reproduction: Techniques, Legal Issues, and Pathways to Success

Jeffrey A. Kasky - American Bar Association
Format: Print book

For some hopeful parents, traditional methods of conception and carrying a pregnancy are simply not an option. For these parents, assisted reproductive technology ART provides a mechanism to achieve pregnancy and birth, whether through assisted insemination, in vitro fertilization, or gestational...
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Your Pregnancy Week by Week, 8th Edition

Glade B Curtis - Da Capo
Format: Print book

In print for twenty-five years, Your Pregnancy Week by Week has sold millions of copies worldwide as an established go-to resource. The book's trademark week-by-week formula helps expectant parents easily and effortlessly compare the details of their pregnancy with the same weekly schedule...
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The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2018

Bob Sehlinger - Unofficial Guides
Format: Paperback

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 deeper and offers more than any other guide. The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World...
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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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Better Apart: The Radically Positive Way to Separate

Gabrielle Hartley - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

Marital strife and divorce can be your chance to profoundly transform yourself, your mindset and your relationship with a more harmonious and steady vision. While many of us may be better together, some of us can actually become better apart.What if you emerged from your divorce stronger...
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Spit that Out!: The Overly Informed Parent's Guide to Raising Healthy Kids in the Age of Environmental Guilt

Paige Wolf - New Society Publishers
Format: Print book

From BPA in baby bottles and asbestos in crayons to misleading "natural" labels - it can despair even the most steadfast parent.Lighthearted yet authoritative, Spit That Out! cuts through the information overload, sorts cloth from disposable, and empowers readers to make simple...
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Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief

David Kessler - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

In this groundbreaking new work, David Kessler - an expert on grief and the coauthor with Elisabeth Kbler-Ross of the iconic On Grief and Grieving - journeys beyond the classic five stages to discover a sixth stage: meaning.In 1969, Elisabeth Kbler Ross first identified the stages...
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Loose Parts 2: Inspiring Play with Infants and Toddlers

Miriam Beloglovsky - Redleaf Press
Format: Print book

Loose parts capture children's curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and encourage creativity. This form of play allows infants to be in control and recognize the power of their bodies and actions. A variety of new and innovative loose parts ideas are paired with beautiful photography...
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You, Your Child, and School: Navigate Your Way to the Best Education

Ken Robinson - Viking
Format: Hardcover

An essential book for parents to help their children get the education they need to live happy, productive lives from The New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Creative Schools Parents everywhere are deeply concerned about the education of their...
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Your Pregnancy, Your Way: Everything You Need to Know about Natural Pregnancy and Childbirth

Allison Hill - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Print book

As an OB/GYN, Dr. Allison Hill has delivered thousands of babies; as a mom, she's given birth to her own two children. Hill has a unique perspective on the many questions moms have surrounding pregnancy and childbirth - especially when it comes to "going natural." Drawing...
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Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World

DEBORAH REBER - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

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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How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids

Jancee Dunn - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, with life-changing, real-world advice. How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids tackles the last taboo subject of parenthood: the startling, white-hot fury that new (and not-so-new) mothers...
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My Caesarean: Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After

Amanda Fields - The Experiment
Format: Paperback

A deeply personal essay collection that explores the physical, emotional, and psychological impact of C-section births on motherhood and identityMy son's birth was not a test I needed to pass, not something I needed to do in a certain way to become a worthy mother . . . An astute and vivid...
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"Don't You Know Who I Am?": How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility

Ramani S. Durvasula Ph.D - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover

It's time to take our lives back from a world of narcissism, entitlement, and toxic relationships. "Don't You Know Who I Am?" has become the mantra of the famous and infamous, the entitled and the insecure. It's the tagline of the modern narcissist. Health and wellness...
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Connecting in the Land of Dementia: Creative Activities to Explore Together

Deborah Shouse - Central Recovery Press
Format: Print book

"Innovative ideas designed so care partners can engage and connect with people living with dementia. " On the dementia journey, each quality moment of connection is priceless. Deborah Shouse and dozens of experts in the field of dementia share ideas that engage the creative spirit...
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On the Other Side of Chaos: Understanding the Addiction of a Loved One

Ellen Van Vechten JD - Central Recovery Press
Format: Paperback

A lawyer turned counselor examines the chaos many families endure when addiction disrupts their lives. Based in part on her own family's journey, Van Vechten explains the science of addiction, the theory of treatment, and the Twelve-Step model of recovery, providing sensible information...
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Fertility for Couples: Best-Odds Strategies for Getting Pregnant, Staying Pregnant, and Having a Baby

Mark Trolice - Harvard Common Press
Format: Paperback

Give yourself the best-possible odds for getting pregnant and having a baby with this concise, expert, and encouraging companion as your guide! In the only general guide to infertility written by a medical doctor who specializes in the subject, Mark Trolice, MD - who is board-certified...
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The Emotionally Absent Mother, Second Edition: How to Recognize and Cope with the Invisible Effects of Childhood Emotional Neglect

Jasmin Lee Cori MS LPC - The Experiment
Format: Paperback

The groundbreaking guide to self-healing and getting the love you missed. Was your mother preoccupied, distant, or even demeaning? Have you struggled with relationships - or with your own self-worth? Often, the grown children of emotionally absent mothers cant quite put a finger on whats...
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We Regret to Inform You: A Survival Guide for Gold Star Parents and Those Who Support Them

Joanne Steen - Central Recovery Press
Format: Paperback

Author Joanne Steen tackles the subject that terrifies parents of military personnel -- the death of their son or daughter on active duty. In short, easy-to-read chapters Gold Star parents find thoughtful explanations and trustworthy advice for coping with military grief. Steen weaves together...
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Teach Your Child Meditation: 70 Fun & Easy Ways to Help Kids De-Stress and Chill Out

Lisa Roberts - Sterling
Format: Paperback

Help your child calm down, relieve stress, and achieve greater mindfulness with this illustrated guide to teaching kids meditation and breathing techniques - complete with 70 step-by-step exercises. Even children need to learn ways to calm and center themselves. With its hands-on exercises,...
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Hopeless to Hopeful: A Mom's Guide to Raising Children with Special Needs and Staying Inspired

CATHERINE TODD - Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Press
Format: Paperback

Hopeless to Hopeful: A Mom's Guide to Raising Children with Special Needs and Staying Inspired is a blueprint for any mom raising a special needs child looking to live a balanced life. Cathrine Todd shares the story of two of her children who struggle with autism, ADHD, and anxiety...
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Calmer, Easier, Happier Homework

Noël Janis-Norton - Yellow Kite
Format: Paperback

All parents want their child to get the most out of school and to acquire the knowledge and skills that will stand them in good stead for later life. But with an ever-expanding curriculum, increasing class sizes, and the lure of TV and computer games, parents are sometimes at a loss as to how to help...
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Lyme Disease: Why It’s Spreading, How It Makes You Sick, and What to Do about It (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

Alan G. Barbour - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: 1st Edition

A world-renowned Lyme disease expert explains everything you need to know if you live, work, or play in areas with the ticks that carry disease.Once restricted to small forested areas in the northeast and north-central United States, Lyme disease is now a common infection in North America...
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Growing Strong Girls: Practical Tools to Cultivate Connection in the Preteen Years

SEALEY LINDSAY. - LifeTree Media
Format: Paperback

Girls today face an astounding degree of pressure to grow up fast, to be "perfect" in every way, and to be all things to all people. They yearn to connect, but sometimes this yearning turns into negative, even destructive patterns such as passive aggressiveness, gossip, or excessive...
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8 Simple Tools for Raising Great Kids

Todd Cartmell - Moody Publishers, 2016.
Format: Print book

"I love my child, but parenting is hard." Whether you find parenting intuitive or impossible, we could all use a hand here and there. Let child psychologist and father Todd Cartmell walk you through the nuts and bolts of healthy, effective parenting.Using examples from his home...
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Family Engagement in Early Childhood Settings

Mary Muhs - Redleaf Press
Format: Paperback

Working with parents and families can be a challenge, especially when there are contradicting expectations. However, it can also be a joyful and empowering experience for both the program and the family if partnering with families is built into the program's culture. Following a strengths-based...
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My Child Is Sick!: Expert Advice for Managing Common Illnesses and Injuries

Barton D Schmitt - Amer Acad Of Pediatrics
Format: Print book

Know when to call your doctor - and when it's safe to treat your child at home! Caring for your sick child can be a daunting experience. You want to ensure the best for him or her, but you also know that every illness doesn't require a trip to the doctor's office or emergency...
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Keeping Up With the Johnsons: Bow's Guide to Black-ish Parenting

Rainbow Johnson - Kingswell
Format: Hardcover

Bow Johnson, a doctor and the beloved mother of five hilarious children on ABC's hit comedy "black-ish" is writing a parenting book. Bow will share some of the outrageous scenarios she has faced as a mom and how she dealt with the situations and the consequences. Bow will...
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Mama Natural's Week to Week Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth

Genevieve Grace - North Star Way
Format: Paperback

With more than 1.3 million video views each month and over fifty-two million total views on her YouTube channel, Howland's (a.k.a. Mama Natural) funny but informational videos have empowered millions of women to embrace natural pregnancy and parenting. Now Howland is turning to the page,...
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The Nerdy Parent's Guide to Raising a Nerdy Child: An Unofficial Parenting Guide

Sourcebooks - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback

Raise the coolest nerd the world has ever known!Once upon a time, you were a nerdy child, and now that you're a parent, let's make sure your kid can be a nerdy child too! In a world filled with superheroes, wizards, spaceships, and magical telephone booths, everyone should be part...
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Baby Sign Language Basics: Early Communication for Hearing Babies and Toddlers, 3rd Edition

MONTA Z BRIANT - Hay House, Inc.
Format: Paperback

Now includes streaming video, additional tips, advice, and updated resources!

Since 2004, Baby Sign Language Basics has introduced hundreds of thousands of parents and caregivers around the globe to the miracle of signing with their babies - and left them wanting more!

Now,...

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The Family Gratitude Project: Raise a Thankful Child with 52 Fun Activities and Crafts for Every Season

Joanna Grzeszczak - Ulysses Press
Format: Paperback

A month-by-month guide to fostering an attitude of gratitude as a familyGratitude is a key component of happiness and mindfulness. But not only for adults. Children benefit greatly from learning, understanding and appreciating gratefulness. An interactive journal and activity book for parents...
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Genealogy Basics In 30 Minutes: The quick guide to creating a family tree, building connections with relatives, and discovering the stories of your ancestors

Shannon Combs-Bennett - I30 Media Corporation
Format: Paperback

Genealogists are like detectives. Working out puzzles is the name of their game! If you have ever wanted to research and document your family history the right way, then the award-winning Genealogy Basics In 30 Minutes is for you! Authored by professional genealogist Shannon Combs-Bennett,...
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Your Dad Stole My Rake: And Other Family Dilemmas

TOM PAPA - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"I have been a close friend of Tom Papa for 17 years. His lack of ability to perceive even the most basic principles of human functioning have made him an invaluable asset to me as a friend and colleague. Because he sees nothing, knows nothing and understands nothing, I always seek...
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Raising Empowered Daughters: A Dad-to-Dad Guide

Mike Adamick
Format: Paperback


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Daddy, Stop Talking!: And Other Things My Kids Want But Won't Be Getting

Adam Carolla - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

The comedian, actor, television host, podcast king, and New York Times bestselling author of President Me, Not Taco Bell Material, and In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks now lays down the law on the plight of the modern parent.Parents, do you often think that if your kids had to grow up the way you did - without...
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Celebrate Your Body

Sonya Renee Taylor - Rockridge Press
Format: Paperback

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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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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What Your Fourth Grader Needs to Know

E D Jr Hirsch - Bantam
Format: Print book

Grade by grade, these groundbreaking and successful books provide a solid foundation in the fundamentals of a good education for first to sixth graders. B & W photographs, linecuts, and maps throughout; two-color printing. "From the Trade Paperback edition."
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The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed

Jessica Lahey - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the tradition of Paul Tough's How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel's The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, this groundbreaking manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration...
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I Just Want Out: Seven Careful Steps to Leaving Your Emotionally Abusive Husband

Jodi Schuelke - Morgan James Publishing
Format: Hardcover

No more spinning your wheels trying to figure out how to leave your abusive spouse.Have you ever wished you had the perfect guidebook that would give you step-by-step information to help you carefully plan a swift and safe departure from your emotionally abusive husband and help you prepare...
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Parenting the Addicted Teen: A 5-Step Foundational Program

Barbara Krovitz-Neren - Central Recovery Press
Format: Paperback

An innovative approach that teaches parents how to reconnect with the entire family and reclaim their parenting power. The program is designed to help parents let go of the addicted family system and begin parenting with renewed strength and positive power. Krovitz-Neren's 5-Step Foundational...
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What Do I Say About That?

Julia Cook - National Center for Youth Issues
Format: Paperback

When a loved one is sentenced to prison, the emotional turmoil is difficult for everyone to handle. Children of incarcerated parents often suffer the heaviest burden of all and pay the price of hardship. As a result, they often develop mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic...
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Respect: Everything a Guy Needs to Know About Sex, Love, and Consent

Inti Chavez Perez - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

An all-encompassing guide to help guys navigate sex, relationships, and consent in the post-#MeToo world.The world has changed, and the revelations of the #MeToo movement have raised serious questions about how men are raised to understand consent and their own sexuality. Respect...
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Mindful Games: Sharing Mindfulness and Meditation with Children, Teens, and Families

Susan Kaiser Greenland - Shambhala
Format: Print book

A playful approach for cultivating mindfulness in kids, with sixty simple games to develop attention and focus, and identify and regulate emotions--by the author of The Mindful Child. Playing games is a great way for kids to develop their focusing and attention skills and to become...
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Autistic Logistics: A Parent's Guide to Tackling Bedtime, Toilet Training, Tantrums, Hitting, and Other Everyday Challenges

Kate Wilde - Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd
Format: Paperback

Have you ever wished that your child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) came with a manual? This book provides just that, offering clear, precise, step-by-step advice on everything you want to know, including:- How to toilet train your child without pushing or pressuring- How to get your...
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Looking Out for Number Two: A Slightly Irreverent Guide to Poo, Gas, and Other Things That Come Out of Your Baby

Bryan S Vartabedian - Harper Wave
Format: Print book

Dr. Spock meets Go the F*ck to Sleep in this informative, entertaining, and practical guide to understanding your baby's digestion.Let's face it: babies don't do much. So when we want to know how a baby is feeling, we look at how they are eating, sleeping, and pooping. But baby...
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The Littlest Learners: Preparing Your Child for Kindergarten

DAWN R ROGINSKI - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

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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Raising Cooperative Kids: Proven Practices for a Connected, Happy Family

Marion Forgatch - Conari Press
Format: Paperback

What's the recipe for a happy family? A spirit of cooperation. Instilling a spirit of cooperation in children is the real secret to providing the gift of a happy childhood, being a "good" parent, and building the family you've always wanted.In Raising Cooperative Kids,...
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Weird Parenting Wins: Bathtub Dining, Family Screams, and Other Hacks from the Parenting Trenches

Hillary Frank - TarcherPerigee
Format: Paperback

Unconventional--yet effective--parenting strategies, carefully curated by the creator of the popular podcast The Longest Shortest TimeSome of the best parenting advice that Hillary Frank ever received did not come from parenting experts, but from friends and podcast listeners who acted...
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World Class: One Mothers Journey Halfway Around the Globe in Search of the Best Education for Her Children

Teru Clavel - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

"An upbeat chronicle of [Clavels] childrens school experiences in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo ... [offering] advice about vetting schools and enriching childrens education." - Kirkus Reviews "An intriguing volume on the differences in global education." - Library...
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The Unexpected Journey of Caring: The Transformation from Loved One to Caregiver

Donna Thomson - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

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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Winning the Math Homework Challenge: Insights for Parents to See Math Differently

Catheryne Draper - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

If youve ever been stumped by your childs math homework, this is the book for you. Winning the Math Homework Challenge shares students reasoning, thinking, and even misunderstandings about mathematics to provide you with the opportunity to see math through their eyes, including both the clarity...
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Parenting Through Puberty: Mood Swings, Acne, and Growing Pains

Suanne Kowal-Connelly - American Academy of Pediatrics
Format: Paperback

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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Permission to Feel

Marc A Brackett - Celadon Books
Format: Paperback

The mental well-being of children and adults is shockingly poor. Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, knows why. And he knows what we can do. "We have a crisis on our hands, and its victims are our children."Marc Brackett is a professor in Yale Universitys Child Study...
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When Your Child Has Food Allergies: A Parent's Guide to Managing It All - From the Everyday to the Extreme

MIREILLE SCHWARTZ - AMACOM
Format: Paperback

All the answers parents need. Keeping kids safe takes vigilance. But when your child has food allergies, the challenge is greater and you worry that much more. As a food-allergy mom (and someone seriously allergic herself) , author Mireille Schwartz has been through it all. Now, in this...
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The Self-Motivated Kid: How to Raise Happy, Healthy Children Who Know What They Want and Go After It

Dr. Shimi Kang - Tarcher; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Winner of the 2015 USA Book News International Book Award for Parenting and FamilyIn this inspiring book, Dr. Shimi Kang, a Harvard-trained child and adult psychiatrist and an expert in human motivation, provides a guide to the art and science of encouraging children to develop their own internal...
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The Birth Guy's Go-To Guide for New Dads: How to Support Your Partner Through Birth, Breastfeeding, and Beyond

Brian W. Salmon - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Paperback

A must-have baby shower gift for expectant dads! In this one-of-a-kind guide, dad, doula, and certified lactation counselor Brian Salmon and perinatal mental health and relationship expert Kirsten Brunner offer practical, modern-day survival tips for expectant dads and birth partners.Gone...
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The Heart Is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai

ELIZABETH FLOCK - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Elizabeth Flock takes us on an intimate cruise on the shifting sea of the heart, in the best book set in Bombay that I've read in years. Flock's total access to her characters, and her highly sympathetic and nonjudgmental gaze, prove that love and literature know no borders....
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Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters

Erica Komisar - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

In this important and conversation-starting book, veteran psychoanalyst Erica Komisar offers a provocative and compelling premise: a mother's emotional and physical presence in her child's life--especially during the first three years--means that her child has a greater chance of growing...
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HELP! My Child Hates School: An Awakened Parents Guide To Action

Mara Linaberger - Morgan James Publishing
Format: Paperback

Were you just Googling this: "Help! My child hates school"? Is your child depressed, unmotivated, resentful, or angry when its time to go to school each morning? Does your child come home from school and share stories of being bullied, made fun of, or just plain feeling unheard...
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Second Nature: How Parents Can Use Neuroscience to Help Kids Develop Empathy, Creativity, and Self-Control

Erin Clabough PhD - Sounds True
Format: Paperback

Use Neuroscience to Raise an Awesome Person - Starting Now Searching for a roadmap to raise a successful child who makes a positive difference in this world? Neuroscientist and mother Erin Clabough teaches that to thrive as adults, children need to learn self-regulation, a master life...
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The Strength Switch: How The New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Can Help Your Child and Your Teen to Flourish

Lea Waters - Avery
Format: Hardcover

Unlock your children's potential by helping them build their strengths.This game-changing book shows us the extraordinary results of focusing on our children's strengths rather than always trying to correct their weaknesses. Most parents struggle with this shift because they suffer from...
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Whoa, Baby!: A Guide for New Moms Who Feel Overwhelmed and Freaked Out

Kelly Rowland - ‎Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Hardcover

When global pop star Kelly Rowland became a mom for the first time, giving birth to her son Titan, she felt the most incredible love she had ever experienced. But after spending nine months so focused on the baby growing inside her, she was caught completely off guard by how much...
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In Sickness and in Health: Love, Disability, and a Quest to Understand the Perils and Pleasures of Inter-abled Romance

BEN MATTLIN - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

In this chronicle of will and hope, Ben Mattlin demystifies the inter-abled relationship, showing that it should be a matter neither of wonder nor of pity. This is an urgent, deeply felt, and sometimes hilarious account of marriages that feel as obvious to those within them as they do bewildering...
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The Swedish Way to Parent and Play: Advice for Raising Gender-Equal Kids

Kristina Henkel - Countryman Press
Format: Paperback

Enter a world where Batman does the dishes and Barbie fights crime In the US and around the world, people are striving to close the gender gap. Ranked fifth globally for gender equality, Sweden is doing something right. But to truly close the gap, Swedish experts Kristina Henkel and Marie...
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Raising Grandkids: Inside Skipped-Generation Families

GARY GARRISON - University of Regina Press
Format: Paperback

Raising Grandkids focuses on "skipped generation" families or grandparent-headed households. Collecting together stories from grandparents and reflecting on his own experience as an older caregiver to his stepchildren, Gary Garrison paints a compassionate yet compelling...
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Gender: Your Guide: A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say, and What to Do in the New Gender Culture

Lee Airton - Adams Media
Format: Hardcover

An authentic and accessible guide to understanding - and engaging in - today's gender conversation.The days of two genders - male, female; boy, girl; blue, pink - are over, if they ever existed at all. Gender is now a global conversation, and one that is constantly evolving. More people...
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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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Do Parents Matter?: Why Japanese Babies Sleep Soundly, Mexican Siblings Don't Fight, and American Families Should Just Relax

Robert Levine - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

When it comes to parenting, more isn't always better-but it is always more tiringIn Japan, a boy sleeps in his parents' bed until age ten, but still shows independence in all other areas of his life. In rural India, toilet training begins one month after infants are born and is accomplished...
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Fine Motor Skills for Children with Down Syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Professionals

Maryanne Bruni - Woodbine House
Format: Print book

The popular book, Fine Motor Skills for Children with Down Syndrome is now available in a completely revised third edition. The author, an occupational therapist and parent of an adult with Down syndrome, describes how the characteristics of Down syndrome can impact the acquisition and progression...
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Prenuptial Agreements: How to Write a Fair & Lasting Contract

Katherine Stoner Attorney - NOLO
Format: Print book

Marriage is one of the few personal contracts in which your state dictates the terms -- unless you create your own customized premarital agreement. Combining Nolo's legal expertise and plain-English writing, Prenuptial Agreements makes a potentially touchy subject easy to deal with...
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I've Got Sand In All the Wrong Places

Lisa Scottoline - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Lisa and Francesca are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This six book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron. Delia Ephron said...
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Ask: Building Consent Culture

KITTY STRYKER - Thorntree Press
Format: Paperback

Have you ever heard the phrase "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?" Violating consent isn't limited to sexual relationships, and our discussions around consent shouldn't be, either. To resist rape culture, we need a consent culture - and one that is more...
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The Un-Prescription for Autism: A Natural Approach for a Calmer, Happier, and More Focused Child

Janet Lintala - AMACOM
Format: Print book

Each year, more than 50,000 U.S. families receive an autism diagnosis. On top of turmoil and worry, they share the same urgent question: What can we do to help our child? The answers parents find can be contradictory...even dangerous. The conventional approach (employed by too many pediatricians)...
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Nolo's IEP Guide: Learning Disabilities

LAWRENCE M SIEGEL - NOLO
Format: Paperback

How to advocate for your child's education. According to the National Center for Learning Disabilities, 2.4 million children in the U.S. are diagnosed with learning disabilities - and these children have unique educational needs. While federal law entitles each of these children to an "appropriate"...
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The Science of Pregnancy: The Complete Illustrated Guide From Conception to Birth

DK - DK
Format: Hardcover

Follow the amazing journey of the earliest stages of human life, with month-by-month development shown in unprecedented detail.The complex concepts and processes of emerging life are demystified with clear, jargon-free text, while exclusive 3-D images, extraordinary photographs, and detailed...
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Rewiring Education: How Technology Can Unlock Every Student's Potential

John Couch - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

What if we could unlock the potential in every child? As it turns out, we can.Apple's iconic co-founder Steve Jobs had a powerful vision for education, employing technology to make an enormous positive effect on the lives of millions of students. The man Jobs tapped to realize this vision...
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Building Brotherhood One Step at a Time

KATHERINE E L NORRIS - Authorhouse
Format: Paperback

At first Kyle was excited that his new adopted brother, Carter, would be moving in permanently. He couldn't wait to be a big brother. It wasn't long before he realized that being a big brother was not always fun. Maybe he didn't want to be a big brother after all. Can Mommy...
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Mommy Burnout: How to Reclaim Your Life and Raise Healthier Children in the Process

SHERYL GONZALEZ-ZIEGLER - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate must-read handbook for the modern mother: a practical, and positive tool to help free women from the debilitating notion of being the "perfect mom," filled with funny and all too relatable true-life stories and realistic suggestions to stop the burnout cycle, and protect...
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Retirement Reinvention: Make Your Next Act Your Best Act

Robin Ryan - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

Retirement has changed, and America's most trusted career counselor is here to guide you through your own Retirement Reinvention. "Robin Ryan is the most knowledgeable career expert in the nation today. "- PBS For twenty years, Robin Ryan has been helping clients get the most...
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Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy: 2nd Edition: Fully Revised and Updated

MYRA J WICK - Mayo Clinic
Format: Paperback

An essential pregnancy resource for all parents-to-be.Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy, second edition is an authoritative, yet practical reference manual from the pregnancy experts at the #1 ranked hospital in America. The newly updated book includes information on everything...
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The Unofficial Guide to Washington, D.C.

Renee Sklarew
Format: Paperback(14th Revised ed.)


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A Parent's Guide to Teen Addiction: Professional Advice on Signs, Symptoms, What to Say, and How to Help

Laurence M. Westreich - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From Berkeley to the Bronx, teenage addiction has reached epidemic levels. Parents may suspect their teen's substance use, but often don't know if their teen is addicted or what to do about it. Dr. Laurence Westreich, an addiction expert and the father of two teenagers, helps parents...
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Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother's Suggestions

Patricia Marx - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover

The perfect Mother's Day gift: A collection of witty one-line advice New Yorker writer Patricia Marx heard from her mother, accompanied by full-color illustrations by New Yorker staff cartoonist Roz Chast.Every mother knows best, but New Yorker writer Patty Marx's knows...
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Divorce After 50: Your Guide to the Unique Legal and Financial Challenges

Janice Green Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

A road map for late-life divorce Divorce can be emotionally devastating at any time, but the emotional and financial challenges are even greater for people who divorce later in life and can face complicated issues of blended families, health care concerns, and retirement planning. Attorney...
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How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well

Kathleen Peddicord - Plume
Format: Paperback

It's not just Florida anymore! This definitive step-by-step guide helps anyone to find, relocate, and save on a home away from home The effects of the economic downturn on IRAs, 401(k) s, and other retirement savings plans have forced thousands of people to rethink their plans for retirement....
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Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships With Your Partner, Your Parents and Your Children

Jonice Webb - Morgan James Publishing
Format: Paperback

Since the publication of Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect, many thousands of people have learned that invisible Childhood Emotional Neglect, or CEN, has been weighing on them their entire lives, and are now in the process of recovery. Running on Empty No More:...
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Ready, Set . . . Baby!

Elizabeth Rusch - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

Big kids Anna and Oliver give young readers the inside scoop on what to expect when a new baby is expected. In a fresh picture book/comic style, Ready, Set . . . Baby offers up a funny, loving, reassuring peek into life as a big brother or sister - with solid information, kid-friendly humor,...
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The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Newborns: Amazing Sleep from Day One - For Baby and You

Elizabeth Pantley - Mcgraw-Hill Education
Format: Print book

Elizabeth Pantley spins her baby magic She towers above her competitors by showing us what babies really need, and how best to give it to them. James J. McKenna, PhD, Director, Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory, University of Notre Dame You have a newborn, so sleep is impossible,...
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YOGA FOR YOU AND YOUR CHILD: The Step-by-step Guide to Enjoying Yoga with Children of All Ages

Mark Singleton - Watkins
Format: Print book

This is a comprehensive introduction to the inspirational world of yoga for children. Mark Singleton adapts more than 40 yoga positions to make them safe, effective and fun for children. Practical and fun, the book contains everything you need to know to start practising yoga with your...
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The Children Money Can Buy: Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption

Anne Moody - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

The Children Money Can Buy covers decades of dramatic societal change in foster care and adoption, including the pendulum swings regarding open adoption and attitudes toward birth parents, the gradual acceptance of gay and lesbian adoption, the proliferation of unregulated adoption facilitators...
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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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The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole

Lori Holden - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Format: Print book

Prior to 1990, fewer than five percent of domestic infant adoptions were open. In 2012, ninety percent or more of adoption agencies are recommending open adoption. Yet these agencies do not often or adequately prepare either adopting parents or birth parents for the road ahead of them!...
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Understanding the NICU: What Parents of Preemies and other Hospitalized Newborns Need to Know

Jeanette Zaichkin - Amer Acad Of Pediatrics
Format: Print book

Most parents do not expect to begin life with their new baby in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) . They often feel lost and powerless amidst this new world of medical vocabulary, technology, and numerous health care providers.Understanding the NICU will guide you through...
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Baby 411: Clear Answers and Smart Advice for Your Baby's First Year

Ari Brown - Windsor Peak Press; Seventh Edition, Revised edition
Format: Print book

"(Baby 411 is) my go-to reference so I don't bother Charlotte's pediatrician!" -- Chelsea Clinton (US Weekly, Sept. 2015). You are having a baby! Congratulations! Now, the reality hits you - what the heck am I doing? What if you could bottle the wisdom of all those...
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Two Homes, One Childhood : A Parenting Plan to Last a Lifetime.

Robert E Emery - Avery
Format: Print book

A paradigm-shifting model of parenting children in two homes from an internationally recognized expert. A researcher, therapist, and mediator, Robert Emery, Ph.D., details a new approach to sharing custody with children in two homes. Huge numbers of children are affected by separation,...
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Don't Wait Up: Confessions of a Stay-at-Work Mom

Liz Astrof - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Let's Pretend This Never Happened and I Heart My Little A-Holes comes a candid and hilarious collection of essays on motherhood from the award-winning television comedy writer and producer of 2 Broke Girls and The King of Queens, who swears...
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Pregnancy, OMG!: The First Ever Photographic Guide for Modern Mamas-to-Be

NANCY AMANDA REDD - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Nancy Redd's visual guide to pregnancy and all the bizarre, hilarious, and often unanticipated changes a woman's body can go through.WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME THIS COULD HAPPEN?! -- This is not the thought you want to be having when you're frantically...
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White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America

Margaret A Hagerman - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover

Riveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race American kids are living in a world of ongoing public debates about race, daily displays of racial injustice, and for some, an increased awareness surrounding diversity and inclusion. In this heated context, sociologist...
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Smart, Successful, and Abused: The Unspoken Problem of Domestic Violence and High-Achieving Women

Angela Mailis - Sutherland House
Format: Paperback

In 2016, neuroscientist Angela Mailis, a world-renowned expert on chronic pain management, was brought face to face with domestic violence when an accomplished colleague was murdered by her equally accomplished husband. It was familiar territory for Dr. Mailis, who herself had been involved...
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Overcoming Distractions: Thriving with Adult ADD/ADHD

David A Greenwood - Sterling
Format: Print book

We know that Attention Deficit Disorder makes it tough for children to focus in school. But what happens when those kids grow up? How can they make the transition to a successful professional life? And how can newly diagnosed adults meet the challenges of the workplace? David Greenwood,...
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Newborn 101: Secrets from Expert Nurses on Preparing and Caring for Your Baby at Home

Carole Kramer Arsenault - The Experiment
Format: Paperback

National Parenting Publications Gold Award WinnerEver wish you could have a baby nurse at home to answer your most urgent questions around the clock? Now you can!Carole Kramer Arsenault has spent the last two decades helping parents through pregnancy, labor, and all of their new responsibilities...
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The Science of Parenting, 2nd Edition

Margot Sunderland - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book

Backed by the most up-to-date scientific research, The Science of Parenting, 2nd Edition provides evidence-based parenting advice about how you should care for your child, with practical strategies from birth to 12 years of age. Child psychotherapist Dr. Margot Sunderland has more than...
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