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Noel is a seven-year-old girl who feels anxious and sad that her family moves a lot, due to her father having to relocate because of his job. After their latest move, her father persuades her to reflect on what she loves the most, what makes her heart happiest, despite the circumstances she can't change. That love is swimming, but she also wants to know why she loves the water so much, so she asks her wise Grandmother one day. Through the advice and...
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Divorce is a reality of today's family life, but clinical research has shown that it is possible to mitigate its negative effects on children. Dr. Joseph Nowinski, a family therapist with over 20-years of experience treating families, argues that there is a three-year window in which to acclimate children to the change in family life. Combining case studies with new research, Dr. Nowinski gives parents the information and the tools to work through...
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Create a Natural Learning Environment for Your Child
From the team that forever changed our view of how children learn, in their book How Your Child is Smart, comes a fundamental and intuitive prescription for natural learning right at home.
Natural learning starts at home. Anyone who spends time with young children recognizes their natural intelligence and resilient passion to learn. But as they try to meet the pressures and expectations of school,...
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As a parent or grandparent, the likelihood is that your biggest desire for your son or grandson is that he will grow up to be happy, healthy, and successful- that he will become a man of character. Man, You Rock! 12 Essential Life Skills to Build Your Character, Vision, and Future-
For Young Men, Their Parents, Grandparents, and Mentors will teach you how to help your young man:
➢ Establish a Vision of what he wants and who he can become
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Fay Jacobs is back! Again! The author of the trilogy of humorous memoirs As I Lay Frying, Fried & True and For Frying Out Loud returns with more wise and witty recollections about contemporary life in general and more specifically life in Rehoboth Beach, a small resort town on the Delaware Coast. It's provocative, political, occasionally heartwarming, and reliably hilarious.
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Glenna Johnson Smith writes with eloquence and humor about the complexities, absurdities, and pleasures of the every day, from her nostalgic looks at her childhood on the Maine coast in the 1920s and 1930s, to her observations of life under the big sky and among the rolling potato fields of her beloved Aroostook County, where she has lived for nearly seven decades. The book also includes some of her best fiction pieces.
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This is the story of one man's hobby and its overwhelmingly positive effect physically, emotionally, socially, and mentally on his life. The hobby is scuba diving, but not on the reefs of southern seas. This is about diving in Halifax Harbour. Diving summer and winter in one of the biggest and deepest harbours in the world has given Bob a view of history that few will ever witness.
Inquisitive and energetic, the author spins yarns about the strange...
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Advancing Conversations is a line of interview books documenting conversations with artists, authors, philosophers, economists, scientists, and activists whose works are, aimed at the future and at progress. The bio-gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, as the world's pre-eminent longevity advocate, is nothing if not future oriented. De Grey is the founder of the SENS Research Foundation, an organization developing medical interventions to repair the damage...
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An updated guide to the renowned parenting philosophy
Attachment parenting is the beloved, yet often misunderstood, philosophy of ensuring your children grow up with their needs completely fulfilled. Modern Attachment Parenting gives you all the information you need to choose your own AP adventure.
Modern Attachment Parenting doesn't overload you with parenting rules, but rather empowers you with information. It is an evolution of the science,...
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Growing up as the only child of a woodcarver with a passion for birds was strange enough. But when I acquired a sibling, life got weird-considering that sibling was a museum.
The milestones of my childhood involved hiking through bogs, snipping foliage out of aluminum pie pans, driving an opinionated tractor, and handing out pamphlets as a child activist. Through it all was my father, Bob Spear, a force of nature disguised as a quiet man. He created...
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It is the story of a little girl who will have extraordinary adventures after her parents divorced. In her eyes, in her childhood heart, she does not admit to seeing her parents separate. She doesn't understand. Without really thinking about it, she prefers to turn her back on her mother. Years go by, and she travels alongside her father. She learns to live in her way, unique. She builds herself without a mother by her side. Will she end up regretting...
933) The Blue Notebook
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When Fine Dumas's notorious transvestite Boudoir is shut down after Expo 67, Céline is condemned to go back to working as a waitress at Le Sélect, attending to the frustrated appetites and exquisite pathos of its exotic clientele. Then a newcomer appears, the gorgeous Gilbert Forget, a musician who is not insensitive to her charms. Céline, a midget who has always thought she was unworthy, never having imagined the possibility of a mature loving...
934) Miss Take
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"Sixteen-year-old Miles has run away from home, inviting his childhood companion, the fourteen-year-old Inuit orphan Chateaugué, to join him in a rented flat opposite Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours in Montreal. There they construct a chaste life for themselves, living as brother and sister. They spend their days riding bicycles wildly through the streets of the city, dodging the automobiles that symbolize for them the adult world they despise, a world...
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A timeless free verse poem that encourages us to view our lives like the zoo with the patterns found in nature and valuable life lessons are made inspiring. Illustrated by Daniel J. Middleton to bring smiles to faces. Author Douglas S. Haynes is a practicing attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, who began writing poetry in 2011. He publishes regularly in Louisville Bar Briefs. Zookeeper was the product of his desire to impart advice at the onset of his...
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With almost every family struggling to get their babies to sleep through the night, there is a clear need for a book that specifically focuses on achieving just that. The Gift of Sleep is purely about getting your baby to sleep all night, every night. The background: Four years ago, journalist Mia Freedman hired Elizabeth Sloane to come to her house and teach her baby to sleep. Three days later Mia had a baby that was sleeping through the night. She...
938) The Way of the Dog
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Sam Savage's most intimate, tender novel yet follows Harold Nivenson, a decrepit, aging man who was once a painter and arts patron. The death of Peter Meinenger, his friend turned romantic and intellectual rival, prompts him to ruminate on his own career as a minor artist and collector and make sense of a lifetime of gnawing doubt. Over time, his bitterness toward his family, his gentrifying neighborhood, and the decline of intelligent artistic discourse...
939) Midcentury Miscreant
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In the second half of the last century, a morally-compromised, self-absorbed miscreant routinely ill-treated his family, his schoolmates, his neighbors, and others unfortunate enough to encounter him. Of course, he didn't see it that way; to him, he was simply tending to his own interests. He felt no more concern for the effect of his actions upon others than a gopher might feel toward a manicured golf course. This uncaring attitude threatened to...
940) I'm OK--You're OK
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The Classic Bestseller That has Changed the Lives of Millions
Transactional analysis delineates three ego-states (Parent, Adult and Child) as the basis for the content and quality of interpersonal communication. "Happy childhood" notwithstanding, says Harris, most of us are living out the not OK feelings of a defenseless child wholly dependent on others (parents) for stroking and caring. At some stage early in our lives we adopt a "position" about...