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"Valerie Bertinelli shares an inspiring blueprint that offers women in midlife support and hope. She shares personal stories that many women will relate to from her past decade: hitting her fifties, taking care of her dying mother, the evolving relationship with her husband, a career change, her relationship with food, and the battle to believe in herself as she is"--
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Pediatrician and bestselling author Meg Meeker has a message: Stop undervaluing fatherhood. We live in a culture that hails motherhood as a woman's crowning achievement yet defines men first and foremost by their professional accomplishments, treating fatherhood as almost incidental-a bonus. But from her years spent as a pediatrician listening to children's needs and fears, Dr. Meeker understands just how crucial a father's role is. Hero is a powerful...
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A practical guide to documenting your decisions and preferences in case of incapacitating illness.
It won't happen to me.
I'm too busy to worry about a living will.
My family will know what to do.
No one wants to plan for incapacitating illness or death. But to spare loved ones from needless emotional suffering, or even legal battles, people of all ages need to document and communicate clear decisions about the final details of their lives while...
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This invaluable guide will help the historical number of eightysomethings live fulfilled, happy lives long into their twilight years.
Old age is not what it used to be. For the first time ever, most people in the United States are living into their eighties. The first guide of its kind, Eightysomethings changes our understanding of old age with an upbeat and emotionally savvy view of the uncharted territory of the last stage of life. With insight...
1485) Good Grief, the Ground
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Margaret Ray is pulling back the curtains on our societal performance of culture, guiding an exposing light to the daily performance that is life in a woman's body.
Ray's Good Grief, the Ground interrogates the everyday violences nonchalantly inflicted unto women through personal, political, and national lenses. Moving between adolescence and adulthood, Ray alternates between dark humor and heart-wrenching honesty to explore grief, anxiety, queer...
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With limited resources for hopeful home birth parents, the unknowns can feel overwhelming. The Many Faces of Home Birth fills that void for knowledge by providing a rare glimpse into the private moments of twenty-five unique and modern home births from around the world. With honesty, humor, and confidence, these personal narratives and shared experiences leave readers with the understanding that home birth isn't just for one type of woman.
Through...
1487) EFT for Teens
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The teenage years hold all the promise of adulthood, as well as being a transition from childhood. Yet they're also full of challenges, for teens themselves and for their parents, siblings, friends, and communities. A story at Examiner.com calls Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT): "one of the most successful psychology self-help techniques ever developed."
It's a powerful stress-reduction method that combines elements of proven psychotherapy methods...
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According to retirement expert Donna McCaw, successful retirees approach their retirement the way an experienced outdoors person approaches a canoe trip, by over-preparing and then going with the flow. Like a canoe trip, retirement can be both safe and exciting, and retirement expert Donna McCaw shows readers how in this practical and entertaining book, now fully revised and updated. It's Your Time focuses on retirement advice for Canadians, but its...
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Is my child too sick to go to daycare today?
When can my child go back to daycare?
What should I look for when I am considering a daycare center for my new baby?
Every parent of a child in daycare asks these questions. Dr. Leigh Grossman's new book, THE PARENT'S SURVIVAL GUIDE TO DAYCARE INFECTIONS, presents the facts about different germs and provides guidance on what to do when your child has been exposed to or is sick with a specific infection.
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Abandoning the comfort and security of a typical retirement, a couple travels and treks through the most isolated parts of the world. After their retirement, Dennis James and Barbara Grossman decide to travel where tour buses won't and where the US government says "don't," incorporating trekking into their travels as a way to see untouched areas of the world considered inhospitable by many. Armed with a passport, an interest in non-Western and indigenous...
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An inviting and informative guide to sex for seniors, with a clear message that "as far as sex in the senior years goes... the best is yet to come" (Dr. Dean Edell)
Joan Price is talking out loud about a subject that is often ignored or ridiculed in our society: later-life sexuality.
In Naked at Our Age, she offers a candid, straight-talking exploration of senior sexuality - the challenges, the disappointments, and the surprises, as well as the...
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At some point in everyone's life, everyone will be placed in the position of dealing with the death of a loved one. Arranging all the necessary details at such a difficult time can prove overwhelming. However, help is now at hand in this guide that covers all the essential aspects:
Ways to avoid probate and other estate problems while you're still alive through gifts and trusts
Pre-funeral formalities, such as when the loved one dies in another state...
1493) The Rogue's Road to Retirement: How I Got My Groove Back after Sixty-Five?And How You Can, Too!
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George S. K. Rider's The Rogue's Road to Retirement takes a unique approach to growing old-don't do it! After retiring, Rider embarks on a bumpy journey to find himself and a new lease on life. For the first time, he gets in touch with his creative side-an unusual direction indeed, since he spent seventy years of his life as a college athlete turned Navy officer turned Wall Street trader and weekend jock. Told through a series of uproariously humorous...
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Are you searching for purpose and a life of fulfillment? Are you stuck in a cycle of regret or looking for an easy path to success?
According to Market Research, the total US self-improvement market was worth $9.9 billion in 2016. In this uncertain time, the need for resources increases tenfold each year-not to mention a growing desire for instant gratification.
In Claim Your Worth Now: Weekly Inspiration to Conquer Your Dreams, Toddchelle Young's...
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A No Nonsense You helps readers find and FULFILL their destinies, so they can stop waiting for the right time to live the life of their dreams. Being a jack of all trades does nothing but keep someone the master of none. So many women have a gift-something on the inside knocking to get out-but have no idea how to master that message. Cynthia Reese shows readers that while it's okay to have some fear, it's not okay to let fear rule their lives. A No...
1496) Making Waves at River View Cottage: An escapist, heartwarming read from Jennifer Bohnet for 2022
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Making Waves at River View Cottage is a delightful, well-written novel in an idyllic setting. What more could you ask for?' Jo Bartlett Life doesn't always give you a second chance to make another choice...
Cassie Lewis, a widow for over 20 years has begun to realise there must be more to life.
In-between working at the family boatyard in picture perfect Dartmouth and raising two children, she wonders where the years have gone.
Both her children,...
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A collection of poetry that moves from family history and the heartbreaks of navigating a predominantly white high school into adulthood, exploring the ways the speaker's experiences echo those of an expansive and intricate history of Black girls and women.
In this beautiful debut from an exciting new poet, Alexa Patrick's Remedies for Disappearing memorializes Blackness in its quiet and unexpected forms, bringing the peripheral into focus. These...
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The College Diaries: How a Budding Black Feminist Found Her Voice explores the intersection of race, gender and culture. In her first novel, author DeAsia Paige highlights the college experience of a young Black woman trying to understand the world around her, while studying at a predominately, white institution. Through experiences like Donald Trump becoming the 45th President of the United States to the inaugural Women's March in 2016 to the moments...
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« On ne choisit pas ses parents, on ne choisit pas sa famille. On ne se choisit même pas soi-même » - Philippe Geluck
Dans ce troisième tome de la collection « Des choses de la vie », la psychanalyste Diane Drory pose un regard perspicace sur les relations parfois chahutées entre frères et sœurs ainsi que sur les rapports souvent difficiles des parents avec leurs enfants et ados. Chamboulée par les nouvelles technologies, le règne de...
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If you're interested in witty, moving, and transformational experiences, written by authors, who answered destiny's call, this book is a must-have. A treasured, most timely collection of 46 incredible stories will have you laughing, crying, and most of all, resonating with these scribe's sacred journey called life.
Wisdom of the Silver Sisters, Guiding Grace co-compilers, net weavers, and JOY-Bringers Sandy Rogers and Sharyn G. Jordan is joined by...
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