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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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Viral Parenting: A Guide to Setting Boundaries, Building Trust, and Raising Responsible Kids in an Online World

Mindy McKnight - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Mindy McKnight, YouTube's favorite mom, shares the tools parents need to keep kids safe in their online lives--and shows how to create stronger family relationships as they do. A cross between Jen Hatmaker and Rosalind Wiseman, VIRAL PARENTING is a guide to raising responsible, safe,...
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Baby-Led Weaning: The

TERESA PITMAN - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback

Put down the spoon and forget the pures -- baby-led weaning is the easy, natural way for your baby to start solid foods. Around 6 months, most babies are developmentally ready to self-feed. The philosophy behind baby-led weaning is to offer your baby healthy finger foods and let her determine...
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The Parents' Guide to Specific Learning Difficulties: Information, Advice and Practical Tips

Veronica Bidwell - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format: Paperback

Packed full of advice and practical strategies for parents and educators, this book is a one-stop-shop for supporting children with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs) . Part one introduces a spectrum of SpLDs, ranging from "poor working memory, " " dyslexia, " "dyspraxia,...
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5-Minute Parenting Fixes: Quick Tips and Advice for the Everyday Challenges of Raising Children

Liat Hughes Joshi - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback

Many of us turn to the internet when we want a snap answer to a parenting dilemma, but how do we determine what is reliable information? This book is the antidote to those overwhelming search engine results. It's a one-stop source for time-poor parents who need reliable, tried and tested...
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Winter Cottage

Mary Ellen Taylor
Format: Large Print


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No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

Rachel Louise Snyder - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"Gut-wrenching, required reading."-Esquire, "Most Anticipated Books of 2019"An award-winning journalist's intimate investigation of the true scope of domestic violence, revealing how the roots of America's most pressing social crises are buried in abuse that happens...
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I See Life Through Ros-Colored Glasses

LISA SCOTTOLINE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

In I See Life Through Ros Colored-Glasses, the bestselling mother/daughter pair is back with another hilarious and heartfelt collection of essays about the possibilities and pitfalls of everyday life. Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella's delightful essays are sure to strike...
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Love Her Well: 10 Ways to Find Joy and Connection with Your Teenage Daughter

Kari Kampakis - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

Moms are eager for tips and wisdom to help them build strong relationships with their daughters, and Kari Kampakis's Love Her Well gives them ten practical ways to do so, not by changing their daughters but by changing their own thoughts, actions, and mind-set.For many women, having...
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Middle School Matters: The 10 Key Skills Kids Need to Thrive in Middle School and Beyond--and How Parents Can Help

Phyllis L. Fagell - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Paperback

A counselor and popular Washington Post contributor offers a new take on grades 6-8 as a distinct developmental phase--and the perfect time to set up kids to thrive.Middle school is its own important, distinct territory, and yet it's either written off as an uncomfortable rite of passage...
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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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The Baby Feeding Book: Your essential guide to breastfeeding, bottle-feeding and starting solids with confidence

Vanessa Christie - Piatkus
Format: Paperback

'I love The Baby Feeding Book's no-nonsense, realistic, empowering and compassionate approach. It's a must-have book for all new parents' Rebecca Schiller, author of The No Guilt Pregnancy PlanFrom breastfeeding and bottle-feeding to giving solids, this is the only book...
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Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer

Barbara Ehrenreich - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, NATURAL CAUSES describes how we over-prepare...
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Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2019

BOB SEHLINGER - Unofficial Guides
Format: Paperback

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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Age in Place: A Guide to Modifying, Organizing and Decluttering Mom and Dad's Home

Lynda G Shrager - Bull Publishing Company
Format: Paperback

A practical step-by-step, room-by-room guide to simple modifications that can help seniors make their homes safer and easier to navigate, this reference offers readers clear and practical solutions. Author Lynda Shrager is a registered, national board certified occupational therapist, a master's...
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CREATING COMPASSIONATE KIDS : 50 essential conversations to have with young children

SHAUNA TOMINEY - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Learning easy ways to talk with children about difficult topics.Young children look to the adults in their lives for everything. Sometimes we're prepared for their questions and sometimes we're not.All child development research is clear about the importance of language and conversation...
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Unofficial Guide to FamilySearch.org: How to Find Your Family History on the World's Largest Free Genealogy Website

Dana McCullough - Family Tree Books
Format: Paperback

Discover how to use FamilySearch.org! Learn how to tackle the largest free genealogy website with this in-depth user guide, newly updated to reflect the site's latest developments. The Unofficial Guide to FamilySearch.org, second edition, shows you how to find your family in the site's...
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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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I Don't Belong to You: Quiet the Noise and Find Your Voice

Keke Palmer - North Star Way
Format: Print book

A sometimes serious, often hilarious, and always inspiring guide that encourages young women to live a life full of ownership, confidence, and freedom from singer and popular Scream Queens and Grease Live! actress Keke Palmer, delightfully illustrated in four color with Keke's...
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Parenting Toolbox: 125 Activities Therapists Use to Reduce Meltdowns, Increase Positive Behaviors & Manage Emotions

Lisa Weed Phifer - PESI Publishing & Media
Format: Paperback

Get Kids to Listen, Stay Focused and OrganizedWritten from the bestselling author of CBT Toolbox for Children and Adolescents comes the all-in-one resource you need to start dealing with problem behaviors at home. The Parenting Toolbox is filled with easy-to-use strategies, backed by science,...
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Give, a Novel

Erica C. Witsell - Boutique of Quality Books
Format: Paperback

A very unusual family saga written with unusual intelligence and compassion. Erica Witsell has a gift for depicting complex relationships. - Phyllis Rose, author of Parallel Lives, The Year of Reading Proust, and The Shelf Every summer, Jessie and Emma leave their suburban home in the Central...
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How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results

Esther Wojcicki - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a Super Family shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness: TRICK. Esther Wojcicki - "Woj" to her many friends...
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High Risk: A Doctor's Notes on Pregnancy, Birth, and the Unexpected

Chavi Eve Karkowsky MD - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

A doctor's revelatory account of pregnancy and the complexity of reproductive life -- and everything we lose when we don't speak honestly about women's health."My work offers a window into the darkest and lightest corners of people's lives, into the extremes of human...
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce

EMILY DOSKOW - NOLO
Format: Paperback

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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Wisdom from Adoptive Families: Joys and Challenges in Older Child Adoption

PhD Kris Kittle - Marcinson Press
Format: Paperback

"Wisdom from Adoptive Families" provides parents with experienced advice from families who have adopted older children as well as experts in the field. Together, there's much hard-earned knowledge from those who can help parents help their children transition into their new families...
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Second Dad Summer

Klas, Benjamin - RED CHAIR PR


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Parenting Our Parents: Transforming the Challenge into a Journey of Love

Jane Wolf Frances - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

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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Quichotte: A Novel

Salman Rushdie - Random House
Format: Hardcover

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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The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children

Ronald F. Ferguson - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

We all want our children to reach their fullest potential - to be smart and well adjusted, and to make a difference in the world. We wonder why, for some people, success seems to come so naturally. Could the secret be how they were parented? This book unveils how parenting helped shape...
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Mom and Me, Me and Mom

Miguel Tanco - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

The joy of being a mom is palpable in this touching tribute to parenthood. Whimsical illustrations capture the poignant moments that make motherhood so special: pinning up a daughter's hair, getting messy during playtime, reading quietly side by side, and, above all, cherishing precious...
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What Girls Need: How to Raise Bold, Courageous, and Resilient Women

Marisa Porges PhD - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"A powerful book about how we can raise girls to become bold, ambitious women." --Adam GrantWhat do girls really need to succeed? Children today face an uncertain future, and parents and teachers can't fully predict what's in store for their daughter and sons. But one thing...
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Beyond Piggy Banks and Lemonade Stands: How to Teach Young Kids About Finance

Liz Frazier - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Beyond Piggy Banks is written for you: the loving, responsible and overworked parents of young children. It takes the stress and mystery out of finance, and focuses on the basic fundamentals elementary children should understand so they can make smart decisions as they grow. This usable,...
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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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Where to Retire: America's Best & Most Affordable Places

John Howells - Globe Pequot
Format: Paperback

Where to Retire offers the best advice not only on where to relocate in the retirement years, but why people should pick up and move just as life is settling down and provides well-researched and completely revised and updated information on how to find the ideal home base for the retirement...
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Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society

Judy Christie - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

The compelling, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate's bestselling novel Before We Were Yours and were reunited with birth family members as a result of its wide reach From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann...
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Kids, Sex & Screens: Raising Strong, Resilient Children in the Sexualized Digital Age

Jillian Roberts - Fair Winds Press
Format: Paperback

Kids, Sex & Screens is Dr. Jillian Roberts' primer for parents that know they need to speak with their children about sexualized media, but don't know where to start. Our kids are being exposed to sexual content at a younger and younger age, whether through the Internet, advertisements,...
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How To Raise A Boy: The Power of Connection to Build Good Men

Michael C. Reichert - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

At a time when many boys are in crisis, a much-needed roadmap for helping boys grow into strong and compassionate menOver the past two decades there has been an explosion of new studies that have expanded our knowledge of how boys think and feel. In How to Raise a Boy, psychologist...
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Finding the Magic in Mommyhood: How to Create the Illusion of Sanity amid Raging Hormones, Sleep Deprivation, and Diaper Rash

Sara Sadik - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

In the gaping cracks between our mommyhood expectations and the messy reality, magic shines through. So much legend, tradition, and everyday talk makes pregnancy out to be a magical experience. But there's no sparkle, no glitter and glamour when you need to pee 3,302 times per night...
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Unlatched: The Evolution of Breastfeeding and the Making of a Controversy

Jennifer Grayson - Harper
Format: Print book

Since the rise of artificial formula, we have turned a biological process into a never-ending controversy: A mother breastfeeding her three-year-old son on the cover of Time magazine sets off a firestorm. Facebook takes down photos of women nursing, citing the content as "offensive."...
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The New Baby Blueprint: Caring for You and Your Little One

Whitney Casares - American Academy of Pediatrics
Format: Paperback

Pediatrician and mother of two young daughters, Dr. Whitney Casares, delivers a modern, empathetic guide to preparing for a baby and those first few days, weeks, and months of being a parent. From basic newborn care to breastfeeding success and from childcare choices to the emotional ups and downs...
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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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The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss

Hope Edelman - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

"This is perhaps one of the most important books about grief ever written. It finally dispels the myth that we are all supposed to get over the death of a loved one." - Claire Bidwell Smith, author of Anxiety: The Missing Stage of GriefAren't you over it yet? Anyone who has experienced...
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Child Sense: From Birth to Age 5, How to Use the 5 Senses to Make Sleeping, Eating, Dressing, and Other Everyday Activities Easier While Strengthening Your Bond With Child

Priscilla Dunstan - Bantam Books
Format: Print book

Your infant is crying and you don't know why. Your toddler refuses every kind of food-except one. Your preschooler wages war with you each morning over what to wear. Every day, parents struggle unsuccessfully to understand why their children act the way they do. Now child development...
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All About ADHD: A Family Resource for Helping Your Child Succeed with ADHD

Thomas W Phelan - Sourcebooks Inc
Format: Print book

By the author of the bestselling parent book 1-2-3 MagicFor the estimated 20 million Americans with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder comes the third edition of All About ADHD by Dr. Thomas W. Phelan, an internationally renowned expert and lecturer on child discipline and ADHD. Completely...
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My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children

Denene Millner - Agate Bolden
Format: Paperback

"The best site for thoughtful, fierce advice about parenting from a Black perspective" - EbonyFor almost a decade, national parenting expert and bestselling author Denene Millner has published thought-provoking, insightful, sometimes wickedly funny commentary about motherhood...
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The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad

Mike Birbiglia - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

With laugh-out-loud observations on the rollercoaster ride that is being a new parent, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning comedian Mike Birbiglia delivers a book that is perfect for anyone who has ever raised a child, been a child, or refuses to stop acting like a child....
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Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives

Rachel Simmons - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Is it wrong that I wanted to underline every single word in this book? Simmons brilliantly crystallizes contemporary girls' dilemma: the way old expectations and new imperatives collide; how a narrow, virtually unattainable vision of 'success' comes at the expense of self-worth and well-being....
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Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life

Jen Hatmaker - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

Life is messy for each of us. But Jen Hatmaker reminds us that its okay to admit that were all in the same boat. Join New York Times bestselling author and honorary big sister Jen as she shares hilarious tales, shameless honesty, and unconditional hope for the woman whos forgotten her moxie.We...
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The Science of Parenting Adopted Children: A Brain-Based, Trauma-informed Approach to Cultivating Your Child's Social, Emotional and Moral Development

Arleta James - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format: Paperback

Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with attachment theory, this book shows how adoptive parents can help their traumatised child develop. It looks at the many different factors that can manifest in trauma, and how parents should respond to them.
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Knights in Training: Ten Principles for Raising Honorable, Courageous, and Compassionate Boys

Heather Haupt - Tarcherperigree
Format: Print book

Bringing chivalry back into our modern-day world, this book shows us how to inspire today's generation of young boys to pursue honor, courage, and compassion.In an age when respect and honor seem like distant and antiquated relics, how can we equip boys to pursue valor and courageously...
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The 2019 Baby Names Almanac

Emily Larson - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback


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A Practical Wedding: Creative Ideas for a Beautiful, Affordable, and Stress-free Celebration

Meg Keene - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Paperback

A companion to the popular website APracticalWedding.com and A Practical Wedding Planner, A Practical Wedding helps you sort through the basics to create the wedding you want -- without going broke or crazy in the process. After all, what really matters on your wedding day is not so much...
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The Lines On Nanas Face

Simona Ciraolo - Flying Eye Books
Format: Hardcover

Its grannys birthday, but her little granddaughter wonders why, because of the lines on her face, she looks so worried! But they are simply wrinkles, and grandma is very fond of her lines because they are where she keeps her memories.In this imaginative and charming story, Simona Ciraolo...
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Dad's Maybe Book

Tim O'Brien - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Best-selling author Tim O'Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons."We are all writing our maybe books full of maybe tomorrows, and each maybe tomorrow brings another maybe tomorrow, and then...
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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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The Adventurous Eaters Club: Mastering the Art of Family Mealtime

Misha Collins - HarperOne; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLERTV star Misha Collins and his wife, journalist and historian Vicki Collins, show families how to be mealtime adventurers so that kids might have a lifelong relationship with real foodChicken nuggets. Hot dogs. Macaroni and cheese. These are just some of the greatest hits...
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Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing In Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction

Sharon Roszia - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format: Paperback

Based on a hugely successful US model, the Seven Core Issues in Adoption is the first conceptual framework of its kind to offer a unifying lens that was inclusive of all individuals touched by the adoption experience. The Seven Core Issues are Loss, Rejection, Shame/Guilt, Grief, Identity,...
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Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life

Ali Wong - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Ali Wong's heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they were still in utero) cover everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mom in a male-dominated profession,...
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The Enlightened College Applicant: A New Approach to the Search and Admissions Process

ANDREW BERGMAN DAVE BELASCO - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback

Deluged with messages that range from "It's Ivy League or bust" to "It doesn't matter where you go," college applicants and their families often find themselves lost, adrift in a sea of information overload. Finally - a worthy life preserver has arrived. The Enlightened...
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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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Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity

Peggy Orenstein - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter now turns her focus to the sexual lives of young men, once again offering "both an examination of sexual culture and a guide on how to improve it" (Washington Post) .Peggy...
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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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Raising a Strong Daughter: 11 Steps to Keep Her Safe, Happy, and Healthy

Meg Meeker - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Pediatrician and parenting expert Meg Meeker, author of Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters (over half a million sold!) , focuses in on the challenges, pressures, and dilemmas facing adolescent and teenage girls today. How can parents help shepherd their daughters into womanhood while guarding...
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Caring for Your School-Age Child, 3rd Edition: Ages 5-12

American Academy Of Pediatrics - Bantam
Format: Paperback

From the American Academy of Pediatrics, the most up-to-date advice for mothers, fathers, and caregivers of school-age children You've outgrown the baby books - but your school-age child needs your guidance and support more than ever. During the ages of 5 to 12, children continue to grow...
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The Carer's Bible

Amanda Waring - Souvenir Press
Format: Paperback

This accessible and detailed guide includes practical tips, checklists for best practice, descriptions of their experience from a wide range of carers that addresses solutions to common problems, and expert advice on how to deliver compassionate and dignified care to older people. Uniquely,...
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Group: HowOneTherapistandaCircleof StrangersSavedMyLife

Christie Tate - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers - her psychotherapy group - and in turn finds human connection, and herself.Christie...
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To Have and to Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma

Molly Millwood PhD - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover

A clinical psychologist's exploration of the modern dilemmas women face in the wake of new motherhood When Molly Millwood became a mother, she was fully prepared for what she would gain: an adorable baby boy; hard-won mothering skills; and a messy, chaotic, beautiful life. But what she did not expect...
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100,000 Baby Names: The most helpful, complete, & up-to-date name book

Bruce Lansky - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Paperback

The most helpful, complete, and yearly up-to-date name bookWhat's new about names? The new edition of 100,000 Baby Names by Bruce Lansky features the most up-to-date lists of names, trends, advice, and fascinating facts about names, including:Hundreds of newly popular names and variationsThe...
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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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The New Adolescence: Raising Happy and Successful Teens in an Age of Anxiety and Distraction

Carter, Christine - BENBELLA BOOKS

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Count Girls In: Empowering Girls to Combine Any Interests with STEM to Open Up a World of Opportunity

Karen Panetta - Dreamscape Media, LLC
Format: Audiobook

To succeed in science and tech fields today, girls dont have to change who they are. A girl who combines her natural talents, interests, and dreams with STEM skills has a greater shot at a career she loves and a salary she deserves.The authors present compelling research in a conversational,...
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Beyond Mars and Venus: The Power of Evolutionary Relationships

John Gray - Benbella Books
Format: Print book

For more than twenty years, John Gray's Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus has helped couples deepen their intimacy and rejuvenate their love lives. Men and women, it revealed, communicate so differently, we might as well be from different planets. By learning to speak each other's...
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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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Overcomer

Chris Fabry
Format: Hardcover


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The Little Book of Foster Care Wisdom: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement for Foster Care Families

John DeGarmo - Familius
Format: Hardcover

Foster parenting is both a rewarding and a challenging job, a lifestyle of continuous learning and new experiences, and The Little Book of Foster Care Wisdom: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement for Foster Care Families will be there to support you as you, in turn, support your foster...
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Raising Boys to be Good Men: A Parent's Guide to Bringing up Happy Sons in a World Filled with Toxic Masculinity

Aaron Gouveia - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover

From the dad who created the viral tweet supporting his son wearing nail polish, this essential parenting guide shares 38 parenting tips for battling gender norms, bringing down "man up" culture, and helping sons realize their potential. Our boys are in a crisis. Toxic masculinity...
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The Positive Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Feed Your Baby with Confidence

Amy Brown - Pinter & Martin Ltd
Format: Paperback

'With its combination of straight talking, science-based information and reassuring advice from fellow mums and experts, the invaluable Positive Breastfeeding Book empowers new mums.' Mother & Baby 'I wish I'd had this splendid book a few months ago: warm, funny &...
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Grown and Flown: How to Support Your Teen, Stay Close as a Family, and Raise Independent Adults

Lisa Heffernan - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

PARENTING NEVER ENDS. . From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood . The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster...
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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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The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being

Simone Davies - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback

Turn your home into a Montessori home - and become a more mindful, attentive, and easygoing parent. It's time to change the way we see toddlers. Using the principles developed by the educator Dr. Maria Montessori, Simone Davies shows how to turn life with a "terrible two" into...
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The Power of Presence: Be a Voice in Your Child's Ear Even When You're Not with Them

Joy Thomas Moore - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Hardcover

For single parents, working parents, and caregivers who worry about the time they spend away from their children, the mother of The Other Wes Moore shares strategies to raise happy, well adjusted kids.As the mother of Wes Moore, whose memoir about overcoming the obstacles that face...
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Black, Pregnant and Loving It: The Comprehensive Pregnancy Guide for Today's Woman of Color

Suzanne Greenidge-Hewitt - Page Street Pub Co
Format: Print book

The Only Month-By-Month Pregnancy Guide for Black Women Let's face it: Not all pregnancies are created equal. African American women are at a higher risk for complications such as hypertension, asthma and preterm birth. That's why Dr. Suzanne Greenidge-Hewitt and Yvette Allen-Campbell...
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Obviously: Stories from My Timeline

Akilah Hughes - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

"A refreshingly funny and blisteringly unsentimental coming-of-age memoir." -John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our StarsIn Akilah Hughes's world, family--and life--are often complicated, but always funny. Through intimate and hilarious...
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Blend: The Secret to Co-Parenting and Creating a Balanced Family

MASHONDA TIFRERE - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

A wise and inspiring guide to creating a happy and healthy blended family by Mashonda Tifrere with contributions from her co-parents--Swizz Beatz and his wife, Grammy-Award winning singer and songwriter Alicia Keys.In January 2010, founder of ArtLeadHer Mashonda Tifrere and music producer...
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Warrior Rising: How Four Men Helped a Boy on His Journey to Manhood

MaryAnne Howland - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening look at one mothers determination to provide positive male role models for her son, and the power of great mentoring to change lives.When MaryAnne Howlands son was turning 13, she organized a "Black Mitzvah" rite of passage celebration for him. Max is one of the one-in-three...
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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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From Anger to Action: Powerful Mindfulness Tools to Help Teens Harness Anger for Positive Change

Mitch R. Abblett PhD - Instant Help
Format: Paperback

A comprehensive mindfulness program to help teens understand and channel anger into healthy expressions of creativity, advocacy, and empowerment.Sometimes you just feel pissed off, and that's okay. Maybe you missed a deadline in school, flunked a test, didn't get invited to a party, or feel...
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The Happy Stepcouple: How Couples with Stepchildren Can Strengthen Their Relationships

Katz, Rachelle - ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD

The Happy Stepcouple is a comprehensive and practical self-help book designed to help couples with children from prior relationships thrive despite the complexity of stepfamily life. The number of issues stepfamilies juggle, from supporting multiple households to establishing healthy boundaries...
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Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls

Lisa Damour - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An urgently needed guide to the alarming increase in anxiety and stress experienced by girls from elementary school through college, from the author of Untangled"An invaluable read for anyone who has girls, works with girls, or cares about girls - for everyone!"...
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Helping Your Child with Language-Based Learning Disabilities: Strategies to Succeed in School and Life with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, ADHD, and Processing Disorders

Daniel Franklin - New Harbinger Publications
Format: Paperback

Based in cutting-edge research in neuroscience, education, and the principles of attachment-based teaching, this important guide for parents offers tools and practices to help children transcend language-based learning difficulties, do better in school, and gain self-confidence and self-esteem.If...
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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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The Brink of Being: Talking About Miscarriage

Julia Bueno - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

"Wise and compassionate . . . a profound game-changer of a book." --Caroline Leavitt, author of Pictures of YouThough approximately one in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage, it remains a rarely talked about, under-researched, and largely misunderstood area of women's...
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What to Believe When You're Expecting: A New Look at Old Wives' Tales in Pregnancy

Jonathan Schaffir - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Pregnant women encounter advice from many directions about how to have a healthy pregnancy - not only from health care providers, but from relatives, friends, and the Internet. Some of these pieces of advice (on topics that range from inducing labor to telling the baby's gender to improving...
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The Sh!t No One Tells You About Pregnancy: A Guide to Surviving Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Beyond

DAWN DAIS - Seal Press
Format: Paperback

The fourth book in Dawn Dais's popular Sh!t No One Tells You series offers "been there, freaked out about that" advice for expectant parents The fourth title in Dawn Dais's popular parenting series, The Sh!t No One Tells You About Pregnancy is quite possibly the funniest,...
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No More Mean Girls: The Secret to Raising Strong, Confident, and Compassionate Girls

Katie Hurley - TarcherPerigee
Format: Paperback

In this Queen Bees and Wannabes for the elementary and middle school set, child and adolescent psychotherapist Katie Hurley shows parents of young girls how to nip mean girl behavior in the bud.Once upon a time, mean girls primarily existed in high school, while elementary school-aged...
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United in Autism: Finding Strength inside the Spectrum

Julie Hornok - Brown Books Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

A diagnosis of autism can rock a family's world. The toll it takes on everyone involved can be one of isolation; a child who doesn't respond to the world around them, a parent who gives dedication, patience and love often with no expressible love given back. It's a messy equation...
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