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Magination Press
Pub. Date
2000
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28 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
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After reluctantly talking with her parents about their upcoming divorce, a young girl discovers that there will be some big changes but that their love for her will remain the same. Includes an afterword for parents on helping children through such a change.
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The beginning of the end is when a secret is exposed. The secret keeper must be made to feel safe, and they must be invited into your life. They must believe they are in control.
#2 Therese was tired of feeling like she was not in control of the situation, so she had decided to meet with Martin in person. She wanted the meeting to take place in a neutral location,...
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"A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide. In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment, Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions,...
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"Candid, insightful, and wildly entertaining essays about life, love, and lessons learned as an actress in Hollywood, from the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and New York Times bestselling author of Talking as Fast as I Can. With her signature sense of humor and down-to-earth storytelling, Lauren Graham opens up about her years working in the entertainment business-from the sublime to the ridiculous-and shares personal stories about everything from...
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Harper Wave
Pub. Date
[2021]
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257 pages ; 24 cm.
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"A guide to having productive conversations about race"--
"A self-described 'light-skinned Black Jew,' Celeste Headlee has been forced to speak about race?including having to defend or define her own?since childhood. In her career as a journalist for public media, she?s made it a priority to talk about race proactively. She?s discovered, however, that those exchanges have rarely been productive. While many people say they want to talk about race,...
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Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
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322 pages ; 24 cm
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"If you're a parent, you've had a moment--maybe many of them--when you've thought, "How did that conversation go so badly?" At some point after the sixth grade, the same kid who asked "why" non-stop at age four suddenly stops talking to you. And the conversations that you wish you could have--ones fueled by your desire to see your kid not just safe and healthy, but passionately engaged--suddenly feel nearly impossible to execute. The good news is...
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Atria
Pub. Date
[2019]
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xii, 276 pages ; 22 cm
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"Mary Laura Philpott thought she'd cracked the code: Always be right, and you'll always be happy. But once she'd completed her life's to-do list (job, spouse, house, babies--check!), she found that instead of feeling content and successful, she felt anxious. Lost. Stuck in a daily grind of overflowing calendars, grueling small talk, and sprawling traffic. She'd done everything "right," but she felt all wrong. What's the worse failure, she wondered:...
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Capitol
Pub. Date
©2013
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2 CDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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From the vaults of the BBC comes a second collection of Beatles recordings. Along with performances of the band's hits, this two-disc set includes ten songs that were never recorded by their label, two of which make their debut here.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2016]
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xxv, 371 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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"If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must read this illuminating, engaging book." --SiddharthaMukherjee,author ofThe Gene In 2014, James Hamblin launched a series of videos for The Atlantic called "If Our Bodies Could Talk." With it, the doctor-turned-journalist established himself as a seriously entertaining authority in the field of health. Now, in illuminating and genuinely funny prose,...
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[2022]
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The tragedies and reckonings around racism that have rocked the country have created a specific crisis for parents and other caregivers: how do we talk to our children about it? How do we guide our children to avoid repeating our racist history? While wework to dismantle racist behaviors in ourselves and the world around us, how do we raise our children to be antiracists? After he wrote the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning, readers...
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Tribeca View Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
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221 pages ; 23 cm.
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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 what scientists have learned and parents know about raising readers. Though many parents are concerned about their children?́?s reading abilities, they have no idea...
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"A gripping and groundbreaking account of how all but one of FDR's ambassadors in Europe misjudged Hitler and his intentions As German tanks rolled toward Paris in late May 1940, the U.S. Ambassador to France, William Bullitt, was determined to stay put, holed up in the Chateau St. Firmin in Chantilly, his country residence. Bullitt told the president that he would neither evacuate the embassy nor his chateau, an eighteenth Renaissance manse with...
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
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351 pages ; 21 cm
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Una exploración procesable del panorama racial actual, que ofrece una claridad directa que los lectores de todas las razas deben contribuir al desmantelamiento de la división racial. Juicios por brutalidad policial, mítines de supremacistas blancos, protestas de Black Lives Matter. La raza es la historia detrás de muchos de los temas que aparecen en los titulares todos los días. Pero hablar sobre la raza en sí misma, para examinar la forma en...
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