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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 Optimist's Guide to Divorce: How to Get Through Your Breakup and Create a New Life You Love

Suzanne Riss - Workman
Format: Print book

For the more than one million women who get divorced each year, welcome to your support group. Wise, comforting, and uplifting, The Optimist's Guide to Divorce captures the experience of sisterhood through the voices of its authors and their community of women in the Maplewood Divorce...
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Crazy Family: 101 Stories about the Wacky, Lovable People in Our Lives

Amy Newmark - Chicken Soup for the Soul
Format: Paperback

Everyone thinks their own family is crazy. In these 101 stories of crazy, embarassing, annoying and dysfunctional families, Chicken Soup for the Soul contributors humorously and lovingly share those special moments that have become cherished memories. Family. It's a cast of characters...
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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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Secrets of the Centenarians: What is it Like to Live for a Century and Which of Us Will Survive to Find Out?

John Withington - Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover

In October 1995, a blind, deaf, French grandmother broke a world record. Jeanne Calment became, so far as we know, the oldest human being who has ever lived when she reached the age of 120 years and 238 days. She went on to survive for nearly three more years - dying in 1997 at 122 years...
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Divorce Without Court: A Guide to Mediation and Collaborative Divorce

Katherine Stoner Attorney - NOLO; Sixth edition
Format: Sixth Edition

Learn how to end a marriage fairly and inexpensively. This book guides you through a negotiated divorce, using mediation or an increasingly popular approach called collaborative divorce. Encouraging and straightforward, Divorce Without Court explains: how divorce mediation works. how collaborative...
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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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Ocean Butterfly: A True Story of Surviving Domestic Violence

Hof 's-Gravenhage. - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

I had always wanted to be married. However, when I was married I hated it. Really really hated it! He would punch me, and then he would laugh at me when I told him it hurt. Marriage is supposed to be about love and spending the rest of your life with that person. Sometimes though, it doesn't...
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The Last Ocean: A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting

Nicci Gerrard - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning journalist and author, a lyrical, raw and humane investigation of dementia that explores both the journeys of the people who live with the condition and those of their loved onesAfter a diagnosis of dementia, Nicci Gerrard's father, John, continued to live life on his own terms,...
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The Grief Handbook: A guide through the worst days of your life

Bridget McNulty - Watkins Publishing
Format: Paperback

The Grief Handbook provides guidance from someone who has been there. Bridget McNulty lost her mum suddenly, and found herself unexpectedly amongst the chaos of grief while bringing up small children. She couldn't find the support that she needed, so she created this handbook. This...
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