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When Mortals Play God: Eugenics and One Family's Story of Tragedy, Loss, and Perseverance

John Erickson - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

American history is full of examples of discrimination in all forms, but never before has the wreckage from America's infatuation with eugenics and its state-sanctioned policy of hate toward the mentally ill been put in such personal terms.In this extraordinary debut book, Pulitzer...
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The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child

Ron Clark - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

From the Disney Teacher of the Year and New York Times bestselling author Ron Clark comes the classic guide to bringing out the best in your students, revised and updated for today's teachers. Over 1 million copies sold!When Ron Clark walked into his fifth-grade class in rural North...
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A Ramadan to Remember

Marzieh A. Ali - Dreamscape Media
Format: Audiobook

Ramadan is almost here! It's Zain's favorite time of the year.Well, it usually is. After a recent move and with no mosque or Islamic school in his new neighborhood, will Zain find a new Muslim friend to celebrate with him?Children will learn what makes the ninth Islamic month special...
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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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The Lost Art of Listening, Third Edition: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships

Michael P. Nichols PhD - The Guilford Press; Third edition
Format: Paperback

"That isn't what I meant!" Truly listening and being heard is far from simple, even between people who care about each other. This perennial bestseller--now revised and updated for the digital age--analyzes how any conversation can go off the rails and provides essential skills...
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Big Science for Little People: 52 Activities to Help You and Your Child Discover the Wonders of Science

Lynn Brunelle - Roost Books
Format: Print book

Make your child's first forays into science fun! 52 clever and easy experiments for things that will zip, zoom, and fly, and fizz, bubble, and burst. For children ages 4 to 8.Introduce future engineers, inventors, naturalists, and artists to the physics and chemistry, biology and ecology...
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Manners Matter!

Veronica Zysk - Future Horizons
Format: Paperback

For decades, Temple Grandin has been a voice and a positive force in the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) community. Through her books and speaking engagements she has inspired and enlightened teachers, therapists, professionals, mother, fathers and family members with her perspectives...
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Military Life 101: Basic Training for New Military Families

Janet I Farley - Rowan & Littlefield
Format: Print book

Making the most of all your new military life has to offer can be difficult when you aren't familiar with what life in the military really means. Military Life 101: Basic Training for New Military Families answers many of the questions that service members and their family may have...
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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

Abigail Shrier - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into a mental health industry that is harming, not healing, American children. In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant...
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Silver on the Tree: Book 5 of The Dark Is Rising Sequence

Susan Cooper - Listening Library
Format: Audiobook

Book 5 of The Dark Is Rising Sequence The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. And Will Stanton -- last-born of the immortal Old Ones, dedicated to keeping the world free -- must join forces with his ageless master and Bran, the Welsh boy whose destiny ties...
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