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Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly

Evy Poumpouras - ATRIA
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Former Secret Service agent and star of Bravo's Spy Games Evy Poumpouras shares lessons learned from protecting presidents, as well insights and skills from the oldest and most elite security force in the world to help you prepare for stressful situations, instantly read people,...
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150 Screen-Free Activities for Kids: The Very Best and Easiest Playtime Activities from FunAtHomeWithKids.com!

Asia Citro - Adams Media Corporation
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Bring back playtime, all the time!Dive into a Bubbling Swamp World. Drum on an Outdoor Sound Wall. Explore the gooeyness of Glowing Slime.With the one-of-a-kind projects in 150 Screen-Free Activities for Kids, your family will rediscover the spirit of imaginative play! These fun activities...
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Beyond the Checkup from Birth to Age Four: A Pediatrician's Guide to Calm, Confident Parenting

Luke Voytas - Sasquatch Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

This health and wellness handbook follows the typical checkup schedule from birth to age four with the goal of instilling calm and confidence in new or anxious parents. With the tangle of information available on the internet, it's easy for new parents to become overwhelmed. In this handbook,...
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Grandparenting Grandchildren: New knowledge and know-how for grandparenting the under 5's

Jane Williams - Exisle Publishing
Pages: Paperback
Format: Paperback


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121 First Dates: How to Succeed at Online Dating, Fall in Love, and Live Happily Ever After

Wendy Newman - Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2016.
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

Based on years of research and 121 real-life first dates, relationship expert Wendy Newman dishes up practical wisdom for navigating the online dating trenches with grace, efficiency, and a strong dose of humor.Wendy Newman has made every imaginable dating mistake so you don't have to. Part...
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The Family Roe: An American Story

Joshua Prager - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A masterpiece of reporting on the Supreme Court's most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart.Despite her famous pseudonym, no one knows the truth about "Jane Roe," Norma McCorvey (1947-2017) , whose unwanted pregnancy in 1970 opened a great fracture...
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What to Do When You're Having Two: The Twins Survival Guide from Pregnancy Through the First Year

Natalie Diaz - Avery Trade
Format: Paperback

The creator of Twiniversity delivers the ultimate survival guide for parents of twinsThe rate of twin births has risen 79 percent over the last three decades, and continues to increase. A mom of fraternal twins and a national guru on having two, Natalie Diaz launched Twiniversity, a supportive...
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Including Families of Children with Special Needs: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians, Revised Edition

Sandra Feinberg - ALA Neal-Schuman Publishers; Revised edition
Format: Paperback

More than 6.5 million children in the US receive special education services; in any given community, approximately one child out of every six will get speech therapy, go to counseling, attend classes exclusively with other children with disabilities, or receive some other service that allows...
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Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light: Essays

Helen Ellis - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

When Helen Ellis and her lifelong friends arrive for a reunion on the Redneck Riviera they unpack more than their suitcases: stories of husbands and kids, lost parents and lost jobs powdered onion dip and photographs you have to hold by the edges; dirty jokes and sunscreen with SPF higher...
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Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

Robin DiAngelo - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also made a provocative claim: white progressives cause the most daily harm to people...
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