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The Common Sense Guide to Raising Kids in the Digital Age
The founder of Common Sense Media counsels parents and teachers on how to protect children from vulnerabilities in today's online and social technology outlets, providing coverage of such topics as content filters, unhealthy media messages, ADD and privacy.
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This Life Is In Your Hands
One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone
With urban farming and backyard chicken flocks becoming increasingly popular, Coleman has written this timely and honest portrait of her own childhood experience in Maine with her two homesteading parents during the turbulent 1970s. A luminous, evocative memoir that explores the hope and struggle behind one family's search for a self-sufficient life.
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Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake
The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author of A Short Guide to a Happy Life presents a candid and whimsical personal account that explores what matters to middle-aged women and how they regard life stages.NPR Bestseller
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Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.NPR Bestseller
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Quiet
The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in modern culture, charting the rise of extrovert ideology while sharing anecdotal examples of how to use introvert talents to adapt to various situations.NPR Bestseller
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Some Assembly Required
A Journal Of My Son's First Son
The best-selling author of Operating Instructions and her son chronicle his first year as a teenage father and her journey as a mother and new grandmother, describing their respective experiences with changing roles, the baby's mother and poignant family losses.NPR Bestseller
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Rurally Screwed
My Life Off the Grid With the Cowboy I Love
The true love story of a New York City magazine editor who falls for a bull rider while on assignment covering a rodeo and moves off the grid with him in Montana making jerky, chopping firewood and raising chickens.
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No Biking in the House Without a Helmet
The author describes the humorous and heartwarming moments from her and her husband's life as perpetual adoptive parents. By the author of Praying for Sheetrock. 75,000 first printing.
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A Wedding in Haiti
In Julia Alvarez's memoir A Wedding in Haiti, the author befriends a Haitian teenager named Piti, starts an organic coffee farm in the Dominican Republic with her husband and comes face to face with overwhelming poverty.
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The Long Goodbye
The author discusses how caring for her terminally ill mother ultimately strengthened the bond between the two, as well as fortified the author's family during the difficult time. By the author of the poetry collection Halflife.
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The Mama's Boy Myth
Why Keeping Our Sons Close Makes Them Stronger
A reexamination of the mother-son relationship challenges the "mama's boy" taboo, exploring the societal pressures for mothers to push away their boys while considering how men with close bonds to their mothers can show higher levels of emotional intelligence.
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Bringing Up Bebe
One American Mother Discovers The Wisdom Of French Parenting
After becoming used to the stereotype of screaming, ill-tempered children, an American mother living in Paris was amazed at how well-behaved French children were. In this book she explains how parents can make their lives less stressful by taking some pointers from the French art of child-rearing.NPR Bestseller
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All There Is
Love Stories from StoryCorps
The founder of StoryCorps, a national project that records, shares and preserves the lives of Americans from all backgrounds, presents individuals' love stories, from early dating to finding connections and lifelong commitment.NPR Bestseller
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Go the F- - - to Sleep
A bedtime book for adults portrays the trials and tribulations of a parent whose little angel just won't nod off.NPR Bestseller
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The Journal of Best Practices
A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband
Traces the author's battle with Asperger Syndrome, describing his adult diagnosis and the painstaking and often whimsical exercises he uses to preserve his family and build social skills.
