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Parenting & Families (fiction & non-fiction)
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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from books about parenting, family and relationships
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Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids and a Journey to the Ends of the Earth
by Daniel Glick
Hardcover: May 2003
Paperback: 15 Jun 2004
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| For anyone who dreams of traveling to the world's most exotic places, for anyone already navigating that wild journey called parenting, Monkey Dancing is by turns fascinating, funny, and wise. |
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Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships
by John Gray
Hardcover: Jun 1992
Paperback: 1 Jan 2004
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| A unique, practical and proven way for men and women to communicate and relate better by acknowledging the differences between them. Available in paperback for the first time! |
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Blue Shoe
by Anne Lamott
Hardcover: Sep 2002
Paperback: 1 Oct 2003
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| An honest, irreverent and compelling story laced with self-deprecating humor, grace, and wit. As always, Anne Lamott creates characters with whom we can identify, as she explores the depths of human emotion. |
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I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother
by Allison Pearson
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: 1 Aug 2003
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| In a novel that is at once uproariously funny and achingly sad, Allison Pearson captures the guilty secret lives of working women--the self-recrimination, the comic deceptions, the giddy exhaustion, the despair--as no other writer has. |
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Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters
by Teresa Barker, Dr. JoAnn Deak
Hardcover: Aug 2002
Paperback: 1 Aug 2003
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| Looks past the "scare" stories to those that enlighten parents and enable them to empower girls. Offers a comprehensive road map to the many emotional and physical challenges girls ages six to sixteen face in today's challenging world. |
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The Whore's Child
by Richard Russo
Hardcover: Jul 2002
Paperback: 1 Jul 2003
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| With a fluency of tone that will surprise even his devoted readers these short stories capture both bewildering horror and heartrending tenderness with an absorbing, compassionate authority. |
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How to Behave So Your Children Will, Too!
by Dr. Sal Severe
Hardcover: Jul 2000
Paperback: 1 Jul 2003
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| Children learn what they live...your children do as you do." Instead of focusing on what children do wrong, this book teaches parents what they can do right. |
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Find Me
by Rosie O'Donnell
Hardcover: Apr 2002
Paperback: 1 Apr 2003
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| Part memoir, part mystery, Find Me is a compelling and utterly original tale that will break your heart as it heals it. |
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