Learning

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
by Siegfried Engelmann

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Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read? Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading? Are you worried that your child will become lost in overcrowded classrooms? Did you know that early readers hold an... (read more)
 
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Special Needs

The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal
by Jonathan Mooney

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“What makes this journey so inspiring is Mooney’s transcendent humor; the self he has become does not turn away from old pain but can laugh at it, make fun of it, make it into something beautiful.”—Los Angeles Times Labeled... (read more)
 
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Pregnancy and Birth

What to Expect When You're Expecting
by Heidi Murkoff

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Announcing a brand new, cover-to-cover revision of America's pregnancy bible. What to Expect When You're Expectingis a perennial New York Times bestseller and one of USA Today's 25 most influential books of the past 25 years. It's read by more than 90... (read more)
 
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Alcohol and Drug Issues

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
by David Sheff

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What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of renowned journalist David Sheff's harrowing journey through his son Nic's addiction to drugs and tentative steps... (read more)
 
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General

Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
by Alfie Kohn

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A must read! Parenting has come around to attachment again, and moved far, far away from the punitive cruelties of Victorian caregivers. Alfie Kohn has applied, in academic terms, the reasons to parent unconditionally. We have evolved! Recommended by... (read more)
 
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Parenting Teens

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
by Sean Covey

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Being a teenager is both wonderful and challenging. In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, author Sean Covey applies the timeless principles of the 7 Habits to teens and the tough issues and life-changing decisions they face. In an entertaining style,... (read more)
 
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Children's Nutrition

Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food
by Jessica Seinfeld

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It has become common knowledge that childhood obesity rates are increasing every year. But the rates continue to rise. And between busy work schedules and the inconvenient truth that kids simply refuse to eat vegetables and other healthy foods, how can... (read more)
 
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Travel with Kids

Out & About Portland With Kids 3RD Edition
by Nelle Nix

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Expanded and updated, this opinionated, easy-to-use guide profiles a wealth of leisure family activities in Portland. The book sketches the city's irresistible bike trails, skateboard ramps, stables, fishing spots, and even a submarine. Theater venues... (read more)
 
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Family Planning

Taking Charge of Your Fertility Rev Edition
by Toni Weschler

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Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters
by Joann Deak

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Mary Pipher told about the problems girls face in "Reviving Ophelia"; now in "Girls Will Be Girls, " Deak gives readers the solutions. Deak looks past the "scare" stories to those that enlighten parents and enable them to empower girls.... (read more)
 
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Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother
by Lois Wyse

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Smart, warm, telling, and funny, Funny, Your Don't Look Like a Grandmother is the perfect bouquet for today's grandmother, that active and interesting woman who is old enough to be somebody's grandmother and young enough to run around the world. <BR... (read more)
 
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Midwifery

Ina Mays Guide To Childbirth
by Ina May Gaskin

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In 1976, Gaskin wrote "Spiritual Midwifery, " the handbook for midwives. Gaskin now shares with all women her knowledge and wisdom about what she calls the "true capacities of the female body, " based on her more than three decades as a midwife.... (read more)
 
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Infancy and Toddlerhood

Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child 3RD Edition
by Marc Weissbluth

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One of the country's leading researchers updates his revolutionary approach to solving--and preventing--your children's sleep problems <BR>Here Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a distinguished pediatrician and father of four, offers his groundbreaking program... (read more)
 
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Toilet Training

Little Monkey's Big Peeing Circus
by Tjibbe Veldkamp

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In a sensibility only the Netherlands' most popular children's author could bring to the subject, the mysteries of girl and boy "parts" are finally revealed. With a seriously silly premise and totally cute illustrations, it's sure to gain a place in the "... (read more)
 
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Children's Health

Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food
by Eric Schlosser

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'In the New York Times bestseller Chew on This, Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson unwrap the fast-food industry to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at a business that both feeds and feeds off the young. Find out what really goes on at your favorite... (read more)
 
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Living Skills

Serious Trouble
by Arthur Howard

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More than anything, Ernest wants to make people laugh. But his parents, King Olaf and Queen Olive, are serious people with a very serious problem in their kingdom: a fire-breathing, people-eating, three-headed DRAGON. Can Ernest remain true to himself... (read more)
 
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Single Parenting

Accidentally on Purpose: A One-Night Stand, My Unplanned Parenthood, and Loving the Best Mistake I Ever Made
by Mary F. Pols

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At thirty-nine, movie critic Mary Pols knew she wanted to have a baby. But never — not in a million years — on her own. To take on the physical, emotional, and financial challenges of motherhood without a perfect soul mate/husband would be... (read more)
 
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