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How to Help Children Through a Parent's Serious Illness
Supportive, Practical Advice from a Leading Child Life Specialist

St. Martin's Griffin
How to Help Children Through a Parent’s Serious Illness has become the standard work on an important subject. A classic for over fifteen years, it continues to...
  
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Conversations and Cosmopolitans
Awkward Moments, Mixed Drinks, and How a Mother and Son Finally Shared Who They Really Are

St. Martin's Griffin
Part Augusten Burroughs, part Robert Leleux, this is a hilarious and touching memoir written by a mother, Jane, and her son, Robert, as they navigate their new...
  
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If You Give a Kid a Cookie, Will He Shut the F**k Up?
A Parody for Adults

St. Martin's Griffin
Before they Go the Fuck to Sleep, they need to Shut the Fuck Up If you give a kid a cookie, will he shut the fuck up? That is the question at the heart of...
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Nursery Rhyme Comics
50 Timeless Rhymes from 50 Celebrated Cartoonists

First Second
First Second is very proud to present Nursery Rhyme Comics. Featuring fifty classic nursery rhymes illustrated and interpreted in comics form by fifty of...
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You're Grounded Forever...But First Let's Go Shopping
The Challenges Mothers Face with Their Daughters and Ten Timely Solutions

St. Martin's Griffin
Susan Shapiro Barash’s provocative new book examines the most difficult challenges any woman faces when raising daughters: Are we spoiling them or being too...
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Higher Education?
How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---and What We Can Do About It

St. Martin's Griffin
A quarter of a million dollars. It’s the going tab for four years at most top-tier colleges. Why does it cost so much and is it worth it? In this...
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Joint Custody with a Jerk
Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex: A Hands-on, Practical Guide to Communicating with a Difficult Ex-Spouse

St. Martin's Griffin
From parenting expert Julie A. Ross and writer Judy Corcoran comes the fully revised Joint Custody with a Jerk, the highly praised guide to co-parenting with...
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Don't Tell Me What to Do, Just Send Money
The Essential Parenting Guide to the College Years

Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
This completely revised and updated edition of Don’t Tell Me What To Do, Just Send Money prepares parents for the issues that they will encounter during their...
  
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Morning Song
Poems for New Parents

St. Martin's Press
Poignant, inspiring, and full of wisdom, Morning Song celebrates the joy a new child brings to the life of parents and family. With sources ranging from the...
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A Mother's Gift
An Inspiring Collection of This I Believe Essays Celebrating Motherhood

Macmillan Audio
An inspiring collection of personal essays with a focus on motherhood; the perfect Mother's Day gift.

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Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall
A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
A brand new edition of the bestselling guide to raising teenagers When Anthony E. Wolf's witty and compassionate guide to raising adolescents was first...
  
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Let's Panic About Babies!
How to Endure and Possibly Triumph Over the Adorable Tyrant who Will Ruin Your Body, Destroy Your Life, Liquefy Your Brain, and Finally Turn You into a Worthwhile Human Being

St. Martin's Griffin
BABIES. Maybe you’re thinking of having one. There might even be one inside you right now, draining nutrients from your system via a tube growing from its...
  
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What's Heaven

Golden Books Adult Publishing
This treasure of a book, for people of all faiths, is a starting point for parents who must talk about the difficult topic of death with their...
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Little Girls Can Be Mean
Four Steps to Bully-proof Girls in the Early Grades

St. Martin's Griffin
Worried about mean girls? Help your daughter respond and react to bullying where it starts---in elementary school As experts in developmental psychology and...
  
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Baby Love
Healthy, Easy, Delicious Meals for Your Baby and Toddler

St. Martin's Griffin
Finally, the must-have cookbook is here for the millions of busy parents who have taken on a healthier approach to eating—less processed, more organic—and who...
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families

St. Martin's Griffin
In his first major work since The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven R. Covey presents a practical and philosophical guide to solving the...
  
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Cool Names

St. Martin's Griffin
Five years ago, America’s leading baby-name experts, Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz, wrote a hip little book to answer the question they were...
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Rules for My Unborn Son

St. Martin's Press
RULES FOR MY UNBORN SON is a collection of traditional, humorous, and urbane fatherly advice for boys. From the sartorial ("If you are tempted to wear a cowboy...
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When Good People Have Affairs
Inside the Hearts & Minds of People in Two Relationships

St. Martin's Griffin
A world-renowned therapist, Mira Kirshenbaum has treated thousands of people caught in the powerful drama over what to do when an affair rocks their emotional...
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The Baby Name Bible
The Ultimate Guide By America's Baby-Naming Experts

St. Martin's Griffin
How can you tell if a name is too popular or not mainstream enough, wonderfully creative or just plain weird? How can you find the name that is perfect for you...
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How to Talk to Your Child About Sex
It's Best to Start Early, but It's Never Too Late -- A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents

Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
Linda and Richard Eyre stress that it's never too soon-or too late-to start discussing sex and values with your children, and they've got proven strategies to...
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Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager
7 Steps to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love

St. Martin's Griffin
Every teenager rebels against authority at some point--talks back, breaks curfew, or disobeys. But literally millions of teens take their rebellion to a point...
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The Philosophical Baby
What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life

Picador
In the last decade there has been a revolution in our understanding of the minds of infants and young children. We used to believe that babies were irrational,...
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Recovering From Rape

Holt Paperbacks
Practical advice on overcoming the trauma and coping with police, hospitals, and the courts - for the survivors of sexual assault and their families, lovers,...