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I've Got Sand In All the Wrong Places
Lisa Scottoline - St. Martin's Press Format: Print book
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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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Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive
Devorah Heitner - Bibliomotion Format: Print book
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Screenwise offers a realistic and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age. Many parents feel that their kids are addicted, detached, or distracted because of their digital devices. Media expert Devorah Heitner, however, believes that technology offers... |
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Ready, Set, Go!: A Gentle Parenting Guide to Calmer, Quicker Potty Training
SARAH OCKWELL-SMITH - TarcherPerigee Format: Paperback
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A calmer, simpler approach to potty training If you're like most parents, you're as nervous about potty training as your little one is. But help is on the way. This supportive guide provides step-by-step advice for a compassionate and emotionally aware process - one that focuses on positive... |
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Prenuptial Agreements: How to Write a Fair & Lasting Contract
Katherine Stoner Attorney - NOLO Format: Print book
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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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Keeping Up With the Johnsons: Bow's Guide to Black-ish Parenting
Rainbow Johnson - Kingswell Format: Hardcover
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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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Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World with Kids 2019
BOB SEHLINGER - Unofficial Guides Format: Paperback
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An indispensable read when visiting Walt Disney World with kids The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World with Kids 2018 is JAM-PACKED with useful tips, great advice, excellent discussion, and practical travel knowledge gleaned from years of Walt Disney World travel experience. In this... |
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Breaking Through!: Helping Girls Succeed in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
Harriet S Mosatche - Prufrock Press Inc. Format: Print book
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Even with increased pressure to involve more girls in STEM areas in education, parents are often left wondering what they can do to encourage their daughter's love of science, math, and technology from fading. In Breaking Through! Helping Girls Succeed in Science, Technology, Engineering,... |
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Permission to Parent: How to Raise Your Child with Love and Limits
Robin Berman - Harperwave Format: Hardcover
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After being bombarded by parenting fad after parenting fad, moms and dads finally have a friendly, commonsense guide to raising thriving children.Today, many parents have rejected the dictatorships they resented from their own childhoods. But they overcorrected by turning into child-pleasers.... |
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Raising Boy Readers
Michael Sullivan - Independent Pub Group Format: Paperback
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Using stories and anecdotes to humanize the research presented, Raising Boy Readers conveys an understanding of the differences that are common among many boys and how these differences affect reading. It provides practical approaches to promote reading to boys, addressing physical differences,... |
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All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Jennifer Senior - Ecco Format: Hardcover
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Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents?In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question,... |
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The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2017
BOB SEHLINGER - UNOFFICIAL GUIDES Format: Print book
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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... |
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Blending Families: Merging Households with Kids 8-18
Trevor Crow - Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. Format: Print book
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Blending Families responds to the need for a book that explores step-parenting by starting with the marriage as the central relationship in a new blended family unit. Just as you are better able to help your child in an airplane emergency if you put your oxygen mask on first, you are better... |
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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
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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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What to Believe When You're Expecting: A New Look at Old Wives' Tales in Pregnancy
Jonathan Schaffir - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Hardcover
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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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Another day in the death of America : a chronicle of ten short lives
Gary Younge - Nation Books Format: Print book
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On an average day in America, seven young people, aged nineteen or under, will be shot dead.In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost on one random day - November 23, 2013. Ten children died that day.... |
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Living Together: A Legal Guide for Unmarried Couples
Frederick Hertz Attorney - NOLO Format: Paperback
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Find answers you need br> Living together out of wedlock can mean anything, especially in court -- unlike married couples, Unmarried couples living together should take certain precautions, whether you've lived together for years on end, or are simply considering the idea. For over... |
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I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool
LISA SCOTTOLINE - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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"Lisa and Francesca, mother and daughter, bring you the laughter of their lives." -- Delia Ephron, bestselling author The bestselling and "perennially hilarious" mother-daughter team is back with a new collection of stories from their real lives, guaranteed to make... |
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The Expectant Father: The Ultimate Guide for Dads-to-Be
Armin A. Brott - Abbeville Press Format: Hardcover
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The fourth edition of this best-selling, ground-breaking, information-packed guide for dads-to-be is now significantly, updated, revised, and expanded.We are expecting! The twentieth-anniversary edition of this thoroughly updated and revised parenting classic remains the most informative... |
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Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
Nishta J. Mehra - Picador Format: Hardcover
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Intimate and honest essays on motherhood, marriage, love, and acceptanceBrown, White, Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra's family: her wife, who is white; her adopted son, who is black; and their experiences dealing with America's rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality. Her clear-eyed... |
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Nolo's IEP Guide: Learning Disabilities
Lawrence M. Siegel - NOLO; Sixth Edition edition Format: Paperback
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Create an individualized education plan (IEP) and secure the education your child deserves!Children with learning disabilities have different needs than other kids in special education -- let Nolo's IEP Guide: Learning Disabilities help you work with your child's school to make... |
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The Asperkid's Game Plan
Jennifer Cook O'Toole - Jessica Kingsley Pub; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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The Asperkid's Game Plan looks from the inside at the learning style of children with Asperger syndrome and explains how to introduce structured play that engages Asperkids and explicitly addresses ASD weaknesses while reinforcing ASD strengths.Demonstrating how just about anything... |
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Redefining Aging: A Caregiver's Guide to Living Your Best Life
Ann Kaiser Stearns - Johns Hopkins University Press Format: Paperback
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Caring for an elderly family member can be overwhelming. But fulfilling life experiences are still possible for both caregivers and their loved ones, despite the stress and fatigue of caregiving. Even an elderly spouse, parent, or other family member who is significantly impaired or increasingly... |
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Teenagers 101: What a Top Teacher Wishes You Knew About Helping Your Kid Succeed
Rebecca Deurlein Ed.D. - AMACOM Format: Print book
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As a parent, you want to see your teen succeed in school and in life--and you do your best to help. But how do you know what will make a difference? Maybe it's time to listen to a teacher. Day in and day out, teachers watch kids interact with peers, make decisions, deal with difficulty,... |
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The Heart Is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai
ELIZABETH FLOCK - Harper Format: Hardcover
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"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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No More Mean Girls: The Secret to Raising Strong, Confident, and Compassionate Girls
Katie Hurley - TarcherPerigee Format: Paperback
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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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Raising Passionate Readers: 5 Easy Steps to Success in School and Life
Nancy Newman - Tribeca View Press, LLC Format: Book
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When neuroscientists cracked the mystery of reading in the 1980s, they pinpointed the simple steps parents can take to help all children become skilled, avid readers. Yet this information still hasn't spread from the research community to the general public, leaving a huge gap between... |
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Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child
Ross W Greene - Scribner Book Company Format: Hardcover
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In Raising Human Beings, the renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence. Parents have an important... |
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Child Custody and Support
Emily Doskow - NOLO Format: Paperback
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Custody and Support: Get the Answers You Need When you're getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for your children (and yourself) if you work with the other parent to agree on a custody plan and child support. If you can't resolve these issues, you'll have to head to court,... |
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The Inward Empire: Mapping the Wilds of Mortality and Fatherhood
CHRISTIAN DONLAN - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of The Noonday Demon and When Breath Becomes Air, a father's gorgeous account of navigating his own neurological decline while watching in wonder as his young daughter's brain activity blossoms, a stunning examination of neurology, loss, and the meaning of life.Soon... |
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Autism Spectrum Disorder: What Every Parent Needs to Know
American Academy of Pediatrics American Academy of Pediatrics - American Academy of Pediatrics Format: Paperback
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This guide helps parents understand how ASDs are defined and diagnosed and offers an overview of the most current behavioral and developmental therapies. Topics include: symptoms and types of ASDs, accessing care, services in the community, and the role of complementary and alternative... |
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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
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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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What to Expect When You're Expecting
Heidi Murkoff - Workman Publishing Company Format: Print book
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Announcing a brand new, cover-to-cover revision of America's pregnancy bible. What to Expect When You're Expecting is a perennial New York Times bestseller and one of USA Today's 25 most influential books of the past 25 years. It's read by more than 90% of pregnant women who read... |
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To Have and to Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma
Molly Millwood PhD - Harper Wave Format: Hardcover
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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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Blend: The Secret to Co-Parenting and Creating a Balanced Family
MASHONDA TIFRERE - TarcherPerigee Format: Hardcover
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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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Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce
Emily Doskow - NOLO; Fifth Edition edition Format: Paperback
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce provides clear answers that can help make divorce simpler and reduce its financial and emotional cost. Readers will even learn how to complete the divorce with minimal help from an attorney. With compassion and understanding, Nolo's Essential... |
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Potty Superhero: Get ready for big boy pants!
Mabel Forsyth - IMCL Council Format: Print book
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Every little superhero needs to use a potty, he just needs to know how to go! Help your own little superhero as he makes the journey toward wearing big boy undies. |
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The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
Dan Barry - Harper Format: Print book
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With this Dickensian tale from America's heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice... |
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The Formula: Unlocking the Secrets to Raising Highly Successful Children
Ronald F. Ferguson - BenBella Books Format: Hardcover
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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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Minnesota Day Trips by Theme
Mary M. Bauer - Adventure Publications Format: Paperback
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Discover unique attractions around the Land of 10,000 Lakes! Take a simple day trip, or string together a longer vacation of activities that catch your interest. No more information overload! Destinations in the book are based on such themes as waterfalls, garden tours, family days and extreme... |
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The Awakened Family: A Revolution in Parenting
Shefali Tsabary - Viking Format: Hardcover
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FINALIST FOR THE BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE AWARD * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Parents . . . you will be wowed and awed by [Dr. Shefali]." - Oprah WinfreyAs seen on Oprah's SuperSoul Sunday, a radically transformative plan that shows parents how to raise children to be their... |
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Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense
Mona Charen - Crown Forum Format: Hardcover
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Author of the New York Times bestseller Useful Idiots and popular columnist Mona Charen takes a close, reasoned look at the aggressive feminist agenda undermining the success and happiness of men and women across the countryIn this smart, deeply necessary critique, Mona Charen unpacks the ways... |
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The Unofficial Guide to Disney Cruise Line 2017
Len Testa - Unofficial Guides Format: Print book
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The Unofficial Guide to the Disney Cruise Line is a no-nonsense, consumer-oriented guide to Disney's cruise vacations. This detailed guide points out the best of Disney's ships and itineraries, including a couple of stellar restaurants, top-notch children's activities, and Castaway... |
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The Unofficial Guide to Disneyland 2017
Bob Sehlinger - Unofficial Guides Format: Print book
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A great destination and thorough preparation are what make a wonderful vacation, and The Unofficial Guide to Disneyland makes Disneyland one of the most accessible theme parks in the world. With advice that is direct, prescriptive, and detailed, it takes the guesswork out of the reader's... |
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce
Emily Doskow Attorney - NOLO Format: Paperback
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce provides clear answers that can help make divorce simpler and reduce its financial and emotional cost. Readers will even learn how to complete the divorce with minimal help from an attorney. With compassion and understanding, Nolo's Essential Guide... |
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Baby Knows Best: Raising a Confident and Resourceful Child, the RIE Way
Deborah Carlisle Solomon - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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Raise self-confident, self-reliant children using the RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) Approach.Your baby knows more than you think. That's the heart of the principles and teachings of Magda Gerber, founder of RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers), and Educaring. BABY KNOWS BEST... |
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Have a Nice Guilt Trip
Lisa Scottoline - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella are back with another collection of warm and witty stories that will strike a chord with every woman. This four book series is among the best reviewed humor books published today and has been compared to the late greats, Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron.... |
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The MomShift: Women Share their Stories of Career Success After Having Children
Reva Seth - Random House Canada, 2014. 2014 Format: Print book
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The MomShift is the first book to exclusively research and showcase the stories of a diverse range of relatable women who share the multitude of ways in which they achieved greater career success after starting their families. Women are regularly told that having children will hurt their... |
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Loose Parts 2: Inspiring Play with Infants and Toddlers
Miriam Beloglovsky - Redleaf Press Format: Print book
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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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Watch My Baby Grow
DK - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Format: Hardcover
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Lots of books tell you about child development and a baby's first year, but Watch My Baby Grow shows you everything that happens in the first year of life in step-by-step pictures with detailed explanations. Every milestone of baby development, from gurgles to coos to first words, is documented... |
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Scattered Seeds: In Search of Family and Identity in the Sperm Donor Generation
Jacqueline Mroz - Seal Press Format: Paperback
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As typical as donor-conceived children have become, with at least a million such children in the US alone, their experiences are still unusual in many ways. In Scattered Seeds, journalist and writer Jacqueline Mroz looks at the growth of sperm donation and assisted reproduction and how it affects... |
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The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening
David Rakel - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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"This book explains not only the healing power of compassionate human connection, but in the most accessible and practical ways, how to cultivate our capacity to create that connection and thereby empower others to find their best selves." -- John Makransky, author of Awakening... |
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Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old
John Leland - Sarah Crichton Books Format: Hardcover
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Based on the popular New York Times series, life-changing wisdom from an unexpected source: America's oldest oldIn 2015, the award-winning New York Times journalist John Leland set out to meet some of the city's oldest inhabitants for a series on America's fastest-growing... |
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Act Natural: A Cultural History of Misadventures in Parenting
Jennifer Traig - Ecco Format: Hardcover
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From a distinctive, inimitable voice, a wickedly funny and fascinating romp through the strange and often contradictory history of Western parentingWhy do we read our kids fairy tales about homicidal stepparents? How did helicopter parenting develop if it used to be perfectly socially acceptable... |
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Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating
Moira Weigel - Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Print book
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Does anyone date anymore? Today, the authorities tell us that courtship is in crisis. But when Moira Weigel dives into the history of sex and romance in modern America, she discovers that authorities have always said this. Ever since young men and women started to go out together, older... |
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