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"Almost everything about puberty has changed since today's adults went through it. Gens Z and Alpha are also contending with a whole host of thorny issues that parents didn't experience in their own youth but nonetheless need to understand: everything from social media and easy-access pornography to gender identities and new or newly-potent drugs. Talking about any of this is like puberty itself: Awkward! But it's also critical for the health, happiness,...
2) Day: a novel
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An already-troubled married couple, Isabel and Dan, both become obsessed with Isabel’s younger brother and must deal with the challenges and changes wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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St. Martin's Press
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2024.
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English
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NPR's Rhaina Cohen invites us into the lives of people who have defied convention by choosing a friend as a life partner--these are friends who are home co-owners, co-parents or each other’s caregivers. Their riveting stories unsettle widespread assumptions about relationships, including the idea that sex is a defining feature of partnership and that people who raise kids together should be in a romantic relationship. Platonic partners from different...
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"The powerful Murdaugh dynasty had dominated rural South Carolina for generations. No one dared to cross them. When Mandy and her reporting partner Liz Farrell looked closer at a fatal boat crash involving the storied family's teenage son Paul, they began to uncover a web of mysteries surrounding the deaths of the Murdaughs' long-time housekeeper and a young man found slain years earlier on a backcountry road. Just as their investigations were unfolding,...
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National Geographic
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[2024]
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English
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This beautifully illustrated guide provides all the know-how to fulfill your own family’s bucket list—including how-tos for picking a destination, packing, budgeting, and even surviving a 12-hour plane ride. Along with personal Bucket List Family anecdotes, Jess offers 50 itineraries for family-friendly destinations (in the U.S. and international) and inspiring top-10 lists with destinations for every age.
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Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
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Early childhood experts Alyssa Campbell and Lauren Stauble are at the forefront of a parenting and education revolution with their proven Collaborative Emotional Processing (CEP) method. Designed for the tricky infant and toddler years when the tiniest humans have some of the biggest emotions, this innovative book shows parents how to handle their children's outbursts while empowering their children to recognize and manage difficult feelings like...
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2023.
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Growing up as the only child of affluent and overprotective parents, Norma, troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination, searches for the truth, leading her to the blueberry fields of Maine, where a family secret is finally revealed.
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Rowman & Littlefield
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[2019]
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English
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"In an effort to discover the truth about his family, the author uses DNA testing and interviews to learn the real story behind his paternity and that of his eight brothers and sisters. What the DNA reveals, and how the author and siblings handle it, serves as a lesson to anyone undertaking ancestry research"--
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On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp—an area known as “The Waters” —herbalist and eccentric Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the locals, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngest—the beautiful, inscrutable Rose Thorn—has left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy “Donkey”...
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Universal
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[2024]
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English
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Poppy discovers that Branch was once part of a boy band, BroZone, with his brothers: Floyd, John Dory, Spruce, and Clay. But when Floyd is kidnapped, Branch and Poppy embark on a journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2019]
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English
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After returning to their childhood home for a funeral, the Hemingway sisters bond with one another, as they learn the truth about what happened to their mother and younger sister and reveal secrets about their own lives.
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Headline Publishing Group
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2023.
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English
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Tutankhamun: Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma takes a familiar tale and turns on its head. Leading Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley has gathered ten unique perspectives together for the first time: that of the teenage pharaoh and his family, ancient embalmers and tomb robbers, famous explorers and forgotten archaeologists. It's a journey that spans from ancient Thebes in 1336 BCE - when a young king on a mission to restore his land met an unexpected and violent...
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2024.
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The charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, TJ Devlin finds his world turned upside down when his lawyer brother confesses he has just killed one of his clients and, seizing this chance to prove his worth, becomes entangled in a deadly web of deception and murder to save his brother.
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Simon Element
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2023.
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English
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"Calm the Chaos is a clearly organized, methodical approach to parenting. Dayna has created a road map to help parents find peace and meet their kids where they are at when conventional parenting tools have failed. There are five steps to calming the chaos--Getting to Safety, Restoring Trust and Energy, Finding Calm in the Moment, Getting Ahead of the Moment, and Defining Family Success. Each step employs a framework that is easy to remember, even...
18) Throwback
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2023.
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English
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Priscilla is first-generation Korean American, a former high school cheerleader who expects her daughter Sam to want the same all-American nightmare. Meanwhile, Sam is a girl of the times who has no energy for clichéd high school aspirations. After a huge blowup, Sam finds herself thrown back. Way back. To her shock, Sam lands in the '90s . . . alongside a 17-year-old Priscilla. Now, Sam has to deal with outdated tech, regressive '90s attitudes,...
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JLML Press
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[2014]
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English
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In this book, through personal anecdotes and many first-person stories from parents seeking her advice, Janet challenges readers to perceive the world through their toddler's eyes, transforming the prevalent notion of discipline into an act of compassion and love.
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