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101) Mama Knew Best
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For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11 NIV). As a young child, Edie, raised by a single mother struggling with epilepsy, was placed in a girls group home. Sad, confused, scared, and not understanding why her mother left her at the Simpson Home to live with complete strangers, Edie begins her new life not knowing if she will ever see her family...
103) Zesta and Friendship
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Zesta provides a look at possible responds to an action. It helps to guide and comfort all children in their everyday choices in life.
104) Connecting Families?: Information & Communication Technologies, Generations, and the Life Course
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Are Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) connecting families? And what does this mean in terms of family routines, relationships, norms, work, intimacy and privacy? This edited collection takes a life course and generational perspective covering theory, including posthumanism and strong structuration theory, and methodology, including digital and cross-disciplinary methods. It presents a series of case studies on topics such as intergenerational...
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It's not easy to be a teen girl, and it's definitely not easy parenting one. Parents everywhere struggle to respond appropriately to challenging behavior, hit-or-miss communication, and fluctuating moods commonly exhibited by teenage girls. More than previous generations, today's teen girls face a daunting range of stressors that put them at risk for a range of serious issues, including self-harming behaviors, substance abuse, eating disorders, anxiety,...
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The average age of the people living in the Morning Glory condominium is sixty-two. Together in the well-used recreation room, watching movies, playing cards, holding an art show, or a wake, these seniors are, finally, 'really' living.
Mary is busy with her daughter and pregnant granddaughter, while Alice desperately wants more time with her family. Phil and Helen's affair is discovered, Paul and Sandra agree to become friends with benefits and Lise...
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La Ópera de París se convierte en teatro de horrores en la más célebre obra del periodista y escritor de novelas detectivescas, Gaston Leroux. En un ambiente de novela gótica, este escenario deslumbrante esconde a un hombre -¿o un fantasma?- atormentado, que recordándonos la historia de la Bella y la Bestia, se enamora de un imposible. Para conseguir el amor de la inocente Christine, la lleva a su morada oscura, un laberinto de trampas y mazmorras,...
108) Lame Game
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“Lame Game” seeks to highlight the issues teenagers face as they navigate through grade school. The inability to handle these issues is causing many students to lash out violently or take their own lives. Increased academic learning is the main goal grade school, but social media and pop culture continues to distract the minds of our young people. This book offers practical solutions for people who do not fit in socially. Understanding young people...
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In the fall of 1998, George Cantor and his wife sent off their bright, funny, enthusiastic, 18-year-old daughter, Courtney, to the University of Michigan as a freshman. Six weeks later, the university called Cantor to claim her corpse. Courtney fell from her sixth-floor dormitory window after being served drinks illegally at a fraternity party.
The events surrounding her death were featured on the CBS news magazine 48 Hours. In Cantor's grief over...
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New York Times bestselling author Jefferson Bethke delivers a powerful critique of the Western notion of the nuclear family and calls us to a sweeping new paradigm that brings not only longed-for stability but also radical blessings to the world.
The West's multi-century experiment with the nuclear family has failed. Its toxic hyper-individualism has left us with an unprecedented number of broken homes and rampant confusion over what a family is supposed...
112) The Notebook Girls
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Everyone likes to think they started the notebook. Sophie claims she stole the idea from two girls in her math class. Courtney still has a death grip on the theory that the notebook was her invention. Lindsey doesn't really care; she's just along for the ride. And Julia never knows what's going on anyway. What we do know is that we started the notebook in freshman year at Stuyvesant High School as a way to keep in contact when our conflicting schedules...
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Este texto está pensado para acercar a los niños y jóvenes a una de la experiencias más apasionantes que se han dado en el territorio americano: la Expedición Botánica. La narración no se limita a los asuntos técnicos concernientes a la Expedición; por los 59 breves capítulos discurre la vida cotidiana de aquellos días junto con reflexiones sobre la botánica, la zoología, la entomología y la física, y anécdotas sobre los protagonistas,...
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Una pequeña manatí se aleja del cuidado de su mamá y una niña, Tomasa, pierde su casa al ser destruida por la creciente. El destino de las dos se une tras la tremenda tormenta que se lleva la casa de la niña y, a su vez, arrastra a la manatí lejos de su hogar. Ocurren una serie de aventuras acompañadas de magia, dentro de un contexto de protección del medio ambiente y de los animales, que llevarán al lector a un viaje por el río, el mar...
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WHY DO SO MANY OF US FEEL DISSATISFIED, UNHAPPY – SOMETIMES DEPRESSED?
We have vastly more material possessions than we need, yet we're duped into buying more, because of our need to keep up with others who have more money and 'things' than we have. We're also pressurised by advertising, and glossy images of people living extravagant lives.
There's a noticeable increase in our use of mobile phones. We tend to communicate more by messaging, than...
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The teenage years can be challenging time, but family therapist Jeanne Meijs sees teenage hood as a journey along a path, a journey that parents and teenagers can travel together. This books helps parents to understand the journey, and how to support their child along the way. As the relationship between parents and teenagers changes and develops, it can feel as if the child is rejecting all usual forms of love and care. Meijs explores how to find...
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It is hard to be a teen in today's world and it is hard to be a parent of a teen. This book helps align parents and teens to meet in the middle and form a strong and supportive relationship that can not only survive the teen years but thrive. It helps parents and teens to meet in the middle and bridge the teen years together. The bulk of the book is written for parents, with parenting tips and need-to-know information on current key topics. There...
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Los GuíaBurros son manuales básicos para aprender a utilizar una herramienta, realizar una actividad o adquirir un conocimiento determinado de manera sencilla y fácil.
GuíaBurros Para entender a los adolescentes, la adolescencia y sus claves. Desde ¿qué es la adolescencia?, pasando por el significado de sus actos, hasta cómo podemos ayudarles.
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Remember the good ol' days?" We often hear Baby Boomers ask that question, but do we take the time to really remember? Do we share those stories with our children and grandchildren so they know who we are, how we lived our lives, and why we chose the paths we did? 60 Going on Fifty: The Baby Boomers Memory Book is the story of sixteen "guys" who graduated from Columbus High School (Indiana) in May, 1960. With their 50th high school reunion on the...
120) Ahora estamos en paz
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Gian Calvi, un reconocido ilustrador y autor de libros infantiles nacido en Italia y radicado hasta su fallecimiento en Brasil, recrea a través de situaciones cotidianas, los derechos y deberes de los niños. El autor nos cuenta la historia de una familia que trabaja en el campo; cómo viven, cómo es la relación entre el padre y los hijos, cuál es el rol de la madre y cuál es nuestro deber cuando un miembro de la familia tiene problemas. Es,...
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