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Author
Publisher
Troubador Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Handy Hints for Humans is an A-Z manual that uses Transactional Analysis (TA) in a way that is accessible to the average self-help book reader. TA addresses what it is about your particular make-up and experiences that makes you vulnerable thus allowing you to build better responses and defences against difficult situations and future stresses.
The book covers major life events and how to handle them, the fundamental knowledge that you...
The book covers major life events and how to handle them, the fundamental knowledge that you...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raising My Rainbow is Lori Duron's frank, heartfelt, and brutally funny account of her and her family's adventures of distress and happiness raising a gender-creative son. Whereas her older son, Chase, is a Lego-loving, sports-playing boy's boy, her younger son, C.J., would much rather twirl around in a pink sparkly tutu, with a Disney Princess in each hand while singing Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi."
C.J. is gender variant or gender nonconforming, whichever...
4023) Slingshot
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Grace Welles is barely surviving life at a third-tier boarding school in the Florida swamps when she accidentally saves new student Wade Scholfield and everything changes.
4024) Briarcliff Prep
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Avi LeBeau juggles navigating her first year at a Historically Black Boarding School with the revelation that her older sister Belle is in an abusive romantic relationship"--
It's fourteen-year-old Avielle "Avi" LeBeau's turn to do what everyone in her family has done: leave home to attend Briarcliff Prep--a Historically Black Boarding School (HBBS). And as scared as she is to say goodbye to her parents and move to Georgia, she knows her fearless...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Second Vintage Books edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 596 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From one of the world's leading experts on reading and dyslexia comes the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical book yet to help one understand, identify, and overcome the reading problems that plague American children today. For the one in every five children who has dyslexia and the millions of others who struggle to read at their own grade levels--as well as for their parents, teachers, and tutors--this book can make a difference. Dr....
4026) The bicycle spy
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Marcel loves riding his bicycle, and dreams of competing in the Tour de France, but it is 1942 and German soldiers are everywhere, stopping him as he delivers bread from his parents' bakery around Aucoin--then one day he discovers that it is not just bread he is delivering, and suddenly he finds himself in position of dangerous secrets about his parents and his new friend from Paris, Delphine.
4027) We are not free
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
Author
Language
English
Description
The author chronicles her decision to raise her daughters, Sophia and Lulu, in a way that reflects the Chinese way of childrearing, which puts an emphasis on preparing them for the future, by demanding that her children perform at the top of their classes in all subjects besides drama and physical education, play the piano or violin, and spend their time studying and practicing rather than playing with other kids.
4031) The Mindful Mom
Series
Publisher
A360 Media, LLC
Edition
The Mindful Mom
Language
English
Description
One thing moms across the country can agree on: there's always something they can do better. Be a more present parent. Prepare healthier yet delicious meals. Make smarter financial decisions. Throw the best kid birthday party ever. Not helping matters is the steady social media stream of Pinterest-perfect, impeccably outfitted women doing all of the above, complete with flattering lighting and whimsical fonts. Well, we gathered a bunch of those
...4032) Mombaby 媽媽寶寶雜誌
Series
Publisher
Acer Inc
Edition
No.446_Apr-24
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
全方位豐富、完整的懷孕、生產保健資訊報導，並針對0-1歲寶寶教養方面，設計各類育兒話題，協助指導新手父母照顧寶寶大小問題，讓e世代爸媽，時時接受最新養育資訊。
4033) MADURO マデュロ
Series
Publisher
RR Digital Media, K.K
Edition
No.73 JULY-2021
Language
日本語
Description
妻、子ども、家族 etc・・・一番愛する人と上質な時間を過ごすためのライフスタイル提案マガジン。 家族との時間を大切にする良き男性像をイメージに、 ファッション、車、時計、旅、グルメなどの情報を展開、 一番愛する人と快適な時間を過ごすために必要なモノコトを提案していきます。
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great-aunt's secrets in this sweeping debut, a family saga confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage. In a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family's ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin turns a vibrant, permanent cobalt blue. On the same day, the Rummanis' centuries-old soap factory in Nablus is destroyed...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 27 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
In 2007 a group of Aboriginal women from the Fitzroy Valley in Australia's remote northwest decided enough was enough. Their community had experienced 13 suicides in 13 months. Reports of family violence and child abuse were commonplace and alcohol consumption was rising at an alarming rate. Something had to be done. Something had to change. A group of courageous Aboriginal women from across the Valley came together to fight for a future. For everyone...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
360 pages : 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Two sisters. A shocking racist incident. The summer that will change both of their lives forever. Annalie and Margaret are sisters who agree on only one thing: that they have nothing in common. Nineteen-year-old Margaret is driven, ambitious, and keenly aware of social justice issues. She couldn't wait to leave their oppressive small hometown and take flight in New York. Meanwhile sweet, popular, seventeen-year-old Annalie can't think of anything...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Life, like a poem, is a series of choices." In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman's personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist...
4038) Karen's roller skates
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
When Karen falls down on her new roller skates, she breaks her wrist. Will she be able to find someone famous to sign her cast?
4039) Summer with my sisters
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Poppy Higgins left Yorktide, Maine, for Boston, she pictured future visits home as brief diversions from her real life in the big city. Fate had different ideas, and at twenty-five, Poppy has been called back to care for her two younger sisters following their father's death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
The Potty Training Answer Book breaks down the top 200 questions parents ask when faced with the potty-training challenge. Compiled through both her own experiences and Q&A sessions with parents, parenting expert Karen Deerwester covers the difficult-and funny-questions you'll encounter with detailed advice and information. Real-world answers to all your potty-training questions: What is the average age for girls to be potty trained?; What is the...
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