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From a Christian perspective, Welch "shares the ups and downs in her own family's journey of discovering why it's healthiest not to give their kids everything. Teaching them the difference between want and need is the first step in the right direction. With ... tips and anecdotes, she shares how to help kids become hardworking, fulfilled, and successful adults"--Amazon.com.
Welch helps readers discover why it's healthiest not to give their kids everything....
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"Instead of presenting love as an ethereal concept or a collection of cliches, Jay Shetty lays out specific, actionable steps to help you develop the skills to practice and nurture love better than ever before. He shares insights on how to win or lose together, how to define love, and why you don't break in a break-up. Inspired by Vedic wisdom and modern science, he tackles the entire relationship cycle, from first dates to moving in together to breaking...
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Drawing on her experience as Stanford University's dean of freshmen, the author, revealing the harms of over-parenting, offers practical strategies that stress the importance of allowing children to make their own mistakes and develop the resilience, resourcefulness and determination necessary to succeed.
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Do you and your partner argue too much? Are you always fighting about who is right? Are you feeling estranged and distant? In How Two: Have a Successful Relationship, experts Phil and Maude share their process and their radically different approach to relating. They insist that conflict is not inevitable and that it is possible to have a passionate and peaceful relationship. Phil and Maude share a simple step by step understanding that is easily...
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Paying It Forward... One of the reasons that I felt compelled to write this book is the fulfillment it gives me to pay it forward to other working parents who are trying to figure out how to manage the juggling act on a day-today basis.
I will never claim to have all of the answers for how to approach being a working parent... but I have spent the past twenty-one years focused on figuring out how to make all aspects of my life work to the best of...
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Written by Margaret Sanger, Family Limitation contains detailed and precise information of various contraceptive methods. As an American birth control activist, Sanger sought to revolutionize the way sexual health was considered in the United States. Family Limitation's 16 pages were challenging the anti-birth control laws of the day and gave ample reasons as to why birth control was necessary, along with instructions to use them properly.
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The first of Stowe's society novels, this amusing tale tells the story of a spoiled, gold-digging belle named Lillie Ellis and the upstanding but unfortunate man who is duped into marrying her. A delightful book that also provides insight into the institution of marriage in the nineteenth century, Pink and White Tyranny is an entertaining work by this iconic American writer.
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Best known for Uncle Tom's Cabin, her classic depiction of slavery that crysalized sentiment in the abolitionist cause, Harriet Beecher Stowe was also the author of this lesser-known but wonderfully rich reminiscence of life in early 19th century New England. Poganuc People was Stowe's last novel.
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The inspiration for the character of Tom Bolton in this novel was Harriet Beecher Stowe's son, Frederick. Frederick fought for the Union in the Civil War and had problems with alcohol for many years. Once home from the war, he became a severe alcoholic. In 1870, he traveled to California, disappeared shortly thereafter and was presumed dead. Beecher Stowe's portrayal in this book, published two years later, of alcoholism as a disease and not as a...
12) Consuelo
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Considered to be George Sand's masterpiece, “Consuelo” tells the riveting story of a gypsy singer who goes on to become one of the great contemporary opera singers. Set in mid-19th century Venice, Austria, and Bohemia, “Consuelo” takes the reader on an emotional and groundbreaking story of love and music.
George Sand was one of the most important writers of the 19th century. She boldly wrote of women like herself. Women who knew what they...
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Following in the footsteps of the success of The Completion Process, bestselling author and modern spiritual leader, Teal Swan offers an in-depth exploration and understanding of loneliness. Drawing on her extraordinary healing technique; the Connection Process Teal offers a way to experience connection once again.
"Have you ever been surrounded by people but felt the pull of loneliness? 'Every moment is a choice to close or to open. Every moment...
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The respected cellular immunologist and author of the best-selling Nickel and Dimed shares cautionary insights into today's healthcare practices to identify the cellular sources of aging and illness while revealing how most treatments are aggressive and offer only an illusion of control and better survivability at the cost of life quality.
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"One in seven mothers suffers from a disorder on the postpartum depression spectrum; another 20-30 percent of them deal with above-average anxiety. First published in 1994, This Isn't What I Expected became the go-to resource for postpartum depression. This second edition has been updated in an effort to help women and their partners sort through all the noise and myths to focus on getting the help they need. Dr. Valerie Davis Raskin and social worker...
16) The Bagpipers
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The Bagpipers is a novel by George Sand, first published in 1853. It forms part of her series of pastoral novels, which evoke the peasant world of the author's home region of Berry. The series also includes, The Devil's Pool, Little Fadette, and François the Waif, which are also available from Hawthorne Classics. The Bagpipers tells the story of two sets of lovers who struggle to find their place in the rural societies of 19th-century France.
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"Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when a brick crumbled from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious. She is immediately rushed to the hospital. Once More We Saw Stars begins with this event, leading the reader into the unimaginable. But although it begins with the anguish Jayson and his wife Stacy confront in the wake of their daughter's trauma and the hours leading...
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Margaret Sanger was a well-known American birth control activist during her time. She believed in educating the masses on sexual and reproductive health and fought often against those who were anti-birth control. Woman and the New Race discusses her stance on the necessary use of widespread birth control.
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Searching for Mom is a "disarmingly honest" mother-daughter story. Sara Easterly spent a lifetime looking for the perfect mother. As an adoptee, she had difficulties attaching to her mother, struggled with her faith, lived the effects of intergenerational wounding, and felt an inherent sense of being unwanted that drove her to perfectionism, suicidal ideations, and fantasy mothers. When she became a mom, her search to find and become "the perfect...
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