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The Happiest Toddler on the Block: How to Eliminate Tantrums and Raise a Patient, Respectful and Cooperative One- to Four-Year-Old: Revised Edition [Secure]
by Harvey Karp, M.D.
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Toddlers can drive you bonkers ... so adorable and fun one minute ... so stubborn and demanding the next! Yet, as unbelievable as it sounds, there is a way to turn the daily stream of "nos" and "don'ts" into "yeses" and hugs ... if you know how to speak your toddler's language. In one of the most useful advances in parenting techniques of the past twenty-five years, Dr. Karp reveals that toddlers, with their immature brains and stormy outbursts, should be thought of not as pint-size people but a... more info>>
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Blow Him Away: How to Give Him Mind-Blowing Oral Sex [Secure]
by Marcy Michaels, Marie Desalle
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Keep him begging for more ... it's nothing to be ashamed of. When it comes to performing oral sex, most people fall somewhere between fumbling and clueless. But now, in Blow Him Away you'll find practical, easy-to-master techniques that will give you the confidence and skills you need to become an expert in the delicate art of fellatio. Inside you'll find: Exercises to whip your tongue, lips, and jaw into shape so you can perform with exquisite control; An anatomy class you need to pass; Sensual... more info>>
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Dating Secrets of the Ten Commandments [Secure]
by Shmuley Boteach
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Are you tired of the dating game? Do you fear never finding that special someone? Don't give up hope. Just when you begin to dream of moving to Antarctica, or making your pet your lifelong companion, Shmuley Boteach can help you experience the overwhelming rewards of making someone else happy. Drawing on the ancient wisdom of the Ten Commandments, he will demonstrate the timeless attraction of mystique and explain the four steps of intimacy: attraction, exploration, emotional intimacy, and physi... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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It's a Boy!: Your Son's Development from Birth to Age 18 [Secure]
by Michael Thompson, Ph.D.
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From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Raising Cain, It's a Boy! is the first major parenting book to chart every stage of a boy's life. This upbeat, authoritative, and reassuring guide--written by psychologist Michael Thompson, Ph.D., a leading international expert on boys' development, and journalist Teresa H. Barker--shows how a boy's inner life progresses through infancy, childhood, and adolescence. What do boys actually need? How exactly does a healthy boy look and act? It's a Boy... more info>>
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Size Matters: The Hard Facts About Male Sexuality That Every Woman Should Know [Secure]
by Kara Baskin
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A man's anatomy is a lot easier to understand than his mind, and knowing what's going on down there is just as important to a happy relationship as figuring out the deeper meaning of his every word. You can analyze your relationship with your girlfriends, but who can you turn to with the more ... sensitive questions? In Size Matters, Dr. Harry Fisch, an expert on the male reproductive system, and writer Kara Baskin team up to introduce you, metaphorically speaking, to the penis. Clearing up myst... more info>>
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'HER' and Other Extremes: A Guide for Older Men Who Fall In Love With Younger Women
by Jack Turley
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Retired screenwriter Jack Turley looks back at his long-suffering relationship with a stunning Hollywood woman-child half his age. He'll take you along on his emotional rollercoaster ride down Memory Lane--and it is a trip, indeed. This bittersweet true story is beautifully told in Turley's lyrical trademark writing style. (Published: 2006)
Words: 56149 - Reading Time: 160-224 min.
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4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone [Secure]
by Barbara Ann Kipfer
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4,000 ways to achieve instant intimacy.... What, more than anything, makes you angry? Who were your childhood idols? What kind of leader are you most inclined to follow? What has happened to the art of conversation? In the age of Internet chat rooms, speed dating, and frantic text messaging, have we forgotten how to meaningfully connect? This book of 4,000 provocative questions will help you get to know anyone and everyone in every social situation. Use it to go beyond small talk at parties, net... more info>>
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7 Keys to Comprehension: How to Help Your Kids Read It and Get It! [Secure]
by Susan Zimmermann
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It's simple: If children don't understand what they read, they will never embrace reading. And that limits what they can learn while in school. This fact frightens parents, worries teachers, and ultimately hurts children. 7 Keys to Comprehension is the result of cutting-edge research. It gives parents and teachers--those who aren't already using this valuable program--practical, thoughtful advice about the seven simple thinking strategies that proficient readers use: * Connecting reading to thei... more info>>
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A Child of My Own
by Virginia Gill
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The adoption of a baby is always special, but when that adoption comes as a special gift from God, both families know they are blessed. This is a true story of how love can build bridges and bring two families together to share in the blessed event of the birth of one special baby and keep these families close to share in the love and joy as she grows up. (Published: 2002)
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A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting [Secure]
by Hara Estroff Marano
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Wake up, America: We're raising a nation of wimps. Hara Marano, editor-at-large and the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today, has been watching a disturbing trend: kids are growing up to be wimps. They can't make their own decisions, cope with anxiety, or handle difficult emotions without going off the deep end. Teens lack leadership skills. College students engage in deadly binge drinking. Graduates can't even negotiate their own salaries without bringing mom or dad in for a consult. Why?... more info>>
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And Baby Makes Three: The Six Step Plan for Preserving Marital Intimacy and Rekindling Romance after Baby Arrives [Secure]
by John M. Gottman, Ph.D.
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Having a baby is a joyous experience, but even the best relationships are strained during the transition from duo to trio. Lack of sleep, never-ending housework, and new fiscal concerns often lead to conflict, disappointment, and hurt feelings. In And Baby Makes Three, Love experts John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman teach couples the skills from their successful workshops, so partners can avoid the pitfalls of parenthood by: maintaining intimacy and romance; replacing a culture of criticism... more info>>
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Baby Prodigy: A Guidg to Raising a Smarter, Happier Baby [Secure]
by Barbara Candiano-Marcus
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ENHANCE YOUR BABYS POTENTIAL! Winner of thirteen national awards, the Baby Prodigy Companys DVDs and CDs have opened up an exciting new world for babies to explore. Now the creator of this landmark series presents a simple, straightforward guide no parent should be without. This fascinating book shows how stimulation affects the intelligence and happiness of your baby. It provides a program of activities that will enrich your infants sensory awarenesshearing, seeing, touching, feeling, and tast... more info>>
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Beside Every Successful Man: A Woman's Guide to Having It All [Secure]
by Megan Basham
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There is a reason this book is titled beside every successful man rather than behind him. It is about taking the best part of the progress women have made and combining it with age-old wisdom to create a more satisfying future for both you and your husband. The wives who were the models for this book are not put-upon 'little women.' They didn't abandon their own ambitions and desires by helping their husbands achieve theirs. They fulfilled them. Their service isn't the same thing as subservience... more info>>
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Best Friends: The Pleasures and Perils of Girls' and Women's Friendships [Secure]
by Terri Apter, Ph.D., and Ruthellen Josselson, Ph.D.
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Best Friends provides the missing link to understanding and recognizing the impact of some of the most important relationships in girls' and women's lives. Every woman remembers the sting of betrayal of a girlfriend, and every parent of a daughter has seen her come home from school in tears because a girl she thought was her best friend suddenly and inexplicably became her enemy. While boys hash out differences with fists and kicks, girls' societies are marked by secrets and whispers and shift... more info>>
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Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce [Secure]
by Elizabeth Marquardt
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Is there really such a thing as a "good divorce"? Determined to uncover the truth, Elizabeth Marquardt--herself a child of divorce--conducted, with Professor Norval Glenn, a pioneering national study of children of divorce, surveying 1,500 young adults from both divorced and intact families between 2001 and 2003. In Between Two Worlds, she weaves the findings of that study together with powerful, unsentimental stories of the childhoods of young people from divorced families. The hard truth, she ... more info>>
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Black Hole [Secure]
by Charles Burns
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Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways--from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable)--but once you've got it, that's it. There's no turning back.As we inhabit the heads of several key characters--some kids who have it, some who don?t, some who are about to get it--what unfolds isn't the expected battle to fight the plagu... more info>>
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Blindsided by a Diaper: Over 30 Men and Women Reveal How Parenthood Changes a Relationship [Secure]
by Dana Bedford Hilmer
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It used to be just the two of you. Now you have a baby, or maybe even a few kids, and the luxury of time--to frolic, talk, romance, and simply hang out--is gone, replaced by a big dose of chaos and the demands of little people who rule your home with small, adorable iron fists. Parenthood brings changes to your relationship, changes that are at once profound, beautiful, irrevocable, and scary. These changes knock you off balance, forcing even the most secure couples to go back to the basics in f... more info>>
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Boyfriend 101: A Gay Guy's Guide to Dating, Romance, and Finding True Love [Secure]
by Jim Sullivan
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You've done the bar thing. You've let your best friend set you up. You've even logged on to a gay dating website. But the man of your dreams is still out there, just waiting for you to find him. What's a gay guy to do? Look no further than this book. Whether you're new to the dating scene or just wanting a refresher course, in Boyfriend 101 you'll find an abundance of practical tips for meeting the right man (and avoiding the wrong ones) and keeping him (and you) interested for the long term. To... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember [Secure]
by Mark Salter
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John McCain and Mark Salter have written three acclaimed bestsellers, but Character Is Destiny may be their most influential and enduring book yet--a work for parents to share with their children, and, for Americans of all ages to read for inspiration and guidance. McCain has been called "one of the most inspiring public figures of his generation" by The Washington Post. In Character Is Destiny, he shows us why, by telling the stories of celebrated historical figures and lesser-known heroes whos... more info>>
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Chasing the Demons [Chasing the Demons Series Book 1]
by Anna Katherine Johnson
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Chasing the Demons is based on a true story. Jenny married Michael Angel Fuentes and began twenty years of chaos and uncertainty with the unstable man. After two children, a nasty divorce and reconciliation, she agrees to move to Arizona to find peace in desert living. She cannot begin to foresee the nightmare they will soon be living. (Published: 2004)
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Child Care Today [Secure]
by Penelope Leach
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From the universally admired author of the best-selling classic Your Baby and Child, the first comprehensive--and objective?book on the state of child care in America and the world today. Who is caring for today's children? How well are they succeeding? What does care cost, and who is paying for it? How do parents go about choosing care for their children, and are they satisfied with what they find? Penelope Leach answers these and other urgent questions with facts and figures gathered from the ... more info>>
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Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness [Secure]
by Edward M. Hallowell
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Here, at last, is a book brimming with the good news of raising children--the basic reassuring news about happiness and unconditional love, about enduring family connections and kids who grow up right. Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., father of three and a clinical psychiatrist, has thought long and hard about what makes children feel good about themselves and the world they live in. Now, in The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness, Dr. Hallowell shares his findings with all of us who care about childre... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 100000 - Reading Time: 285-400 min.
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Circleforks
by Trish Dozier
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Meet Middle, the voice of Circleforks, a layered rarity of a woman who determined that she couldn't be that unique, and decided to unfold herself by pasting the naked-nonfiction of her life against self-preservation. Watch her weave through a world of quirky, unrefined, troubling, and hilarious characters with metaphorical labels as she diagnoses and defines what she coins the 'Middle Disease.' Circleforks turns self-motivation inside out and uncovers the ticking within; a sort of edgy inspirati... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 78790 - Reading Time: 225-315 min.
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Classic Biblical Baby Names: Timeless Names for Modern Parents [Secure]
by Judith Tropea
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The perfect name is one of the first and most important gifts parents can give their children-and often one of the most challenging decisions of parenthood. Expectant parents who want their child's name to be meaningful will find Classic Biblical Baby Names a unique and invaluable resource. Drawing from both the Old and New Testaments, here are hundreds of history's most enduring names, carefully selected to appeal to contemporary tastes yet outlast trends. Organized alphabetically by gender, an... more info>>
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Creative Divorce
by Mel Krantzler
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opportunities for personal growth to those struggling to recognize and renew their individuality. Creative Divorce draws parallels between the relationship and the life cycle, in order to help men and women cope during their period of mourning and find a new life after the death of their old one. Krantzler addresses the myriad of emotions that the divorce crisis stirs up in both men and women such as guilt, rejection, loneliness and anger, and teaches how to allow divorce to be the catalyst for ... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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