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You find out from the doctor that your parent is no longer safe living alone and can't return home from the hospital. And you have 2 days to make arrangements! All of a sudden you are thrust into situation that you have no clue of how to handle. You are facing a whole world of vocabulary, options, financial and legal questions.
What are we going to do? Where do we start? How am I going to handle this? Who is out there to get us through this? What...
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A witty and irresistible celebration of one very cool and boundary-breaking mom's "Indian-ish" cooking--with accessible and innovative Indian-American recipes. Indian food is everyday food! This colorful, lively book is food writer Priya Krishna's loving tribute to her mom's "Indian-ish" cooking--a trove of one-of-a-kind Indian-American hybrids that are easy to make, clever, practical, and packed with flavor. Think Roti Pizza, Tomato Rice with Crispy...
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Singer-songwriter Christine Daley hit the streets of Boston and became a minor celebrity-with a local radio hit-in the 90s, but a "brief" career break to marry and start a family changed all that. Now, sixteen years later, she's a frustrated suburban housewife, struggling to reestablish her sense of identity.
After filing for divorce, forty-six-year-old Chris quickly learns that the challenges she faces are even greater than anticipated. Her two...
64) Mom's sweater
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Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
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2020.
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After the loss of her mother, a young girl and her dad find a new way to live with grief with the help of her mom's sweater.
65) Open book
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Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by the journals she's kept since age fifteen, and brimming with her unique humor and down-to-earth humanity, Open Book is as inspiring as it is entertaining. This was supposed to be a very different book. Five years ago, Jessica Simpson was approached to write a motivational guide to living your best life. She walked away from the offer, and nobody understood...
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Stuntboy volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Portico Reeves' secret identity as Stuntboy allows him to use his superpower keep everybody safe, but when his superhero parents start fighting a lot he feels the responsibility to save them.
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Sisters Claire and Susan have been noticing their independent, introverted mother is sort of... off. Discreet investigation reveals the appalling truth: Mom can't find her way home, pay her bills or even get to the toilet anymore. The move to an assisted living facility only further highlights the many aspects of her life that have quietly fallen through the cracks. Assisted living doesn't render enough assistance for people with advanced dementia,...
68) The Power of Mindfulness, clear your mind and become stress free. Discover how to live in the mom
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Do you struggle to cope with the harsh reality of everyday life? Are you having trouble controlling your thoughts and anxieties? Then you need to keep reading...
An analysis published by JAMA Internal Medicine found there was significant evidence to suggest that mindfulness meditation can reduce signs of depression and anxiety. Even three to six months after mindfulness programs were stopped, researchers found that these benefits lingered. Aside...
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"Fans know her as the spoiled, rich cheerleader Lyla Garrity on Friday Night Lights or as the affluent, mysterious Samantha on the HBO megahit Euphoria. But as revealed for the first time in these pages, Minka Kelly's life has been anything but easy. Raised by a single mother who worked as a stripper and struggled with addiction, Minka spent years waking up in strange apartments as she and her mom bounced around the country, relying on friends and...
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The #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Deceptively Delicious" returns with more everyday delicious meals featuring a hidden boost of essential nutrients; more fast and easy recipes under 30 minutes; more variety, including whole grains and alternatives to processed sugars and flours; more important nutritional information from Joy Bauer and Lisa Sasson about what kids need to thrive; and more tips from other moms--inside the kitchen and out....
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"Peyton has a seat at the anchor desk of the most-watched morning show, an adoring husband and a Princeton-bound daughter. Skye, her sister, is a stay-at-home mom living in a glitzy suburb of New York, but dreams of a life beyond the PTA and pickup. Max, Peyton's daughter, is poised to kiss her fancy private school goodbye and head off to pursue her dreams in film. Until... One little lie. That's all it takes for the illusions to crack. For resentments...
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"T. Kingfisher's A House With Good Bones is a contemporary Southern Gothic from a master of modern horror that explores the deep, dark roots of family and in which grandma's ghost haunting your house may be the least of your worries. In this ordinary North Carolina suburb, family secrets are always in bloom. Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway of her family home to find a massive black vulture perched on the mailbox, staring at the house....
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As a mother of four daughters, Kari Kampakis has learned the hard way how to parent from a place of strength and joy instead of defeat and discouragement. By improving the habits and dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship, moms can earn a voice in their teen girls' lives. By leaning on the promises of God, moms will gain the wisdom, guidance, protection and clarity they need to grow strong relationships with their daughters at every age.
74) Wonderful now
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Emmy's mom always tells her she can do anything. And she used to believe it. But when Emmy has to fly across the country to visit her grandma in the Big City, she's overcome by fear and anxiety. Emmy's mom teaches her about the mindfulness technique of grounding, and the power of living in the now. With her new stress-busting skills, Emmy not only succeeds in her first plane ride, she's able to enjoy all the Big City has to offer!
75) Evening stars
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Blackberry Island novels volume 3
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Sisters Nina and Averil Wentworth deal with life and love--and their tenuous relationship with each other--on Blackberry Island.
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There is one proven method for happier kids, more involved dads, and less stressed-out moms after divorce -- 50/50 custody. It's hard for everyone when parents split up -- but the end of living together doesn't need to mean the end of a functional family. Part of the reason divorces are so traumatic for the kids involved is because of our child custody system, which truly sets everyone up for failure. Throughout the country, the default arrangement...
77) Concrete rose
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IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leaves him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
78) Caspar Lee
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"Caspar Lee entertains millions of subscribers through his YouTube channel with an original brand of comedy and observation on life. Along with his friend and fellow vlogger Joe Sugg, Caspar recently starred in the record-breaking movie Joe & Caspar Hit the Road. Caspar grew up in South Africa and lives in England, and this is his, and his mom Emily Riordan Lee's, first book."--Amazon.
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"Twelve-year-old Rain Winter narrowly escaped an abduction while walking to a friend's house. Her two best friends, Tess and Hank, were not as lucky. Tess never came home, and Hank was held in captivity before managing to escape. Their abductor was sent to prison but years later was released. Then someone delivered real justice and killed him in cold blood. Now Rain is living the perfect suburban life, her dark childhood buried deep ... But when another...
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Berkley
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"A dark, witty page-turner set around a group of wealthy mothers and the young musician who takes a job singing to their babies and finds herself pulled into their glamorous lives and dangerous secrets.... After her former band shot to superstardom without her, Claire reluctantly agrees to a gig as a playgroup musician for overprivileged infants on New York's Park Avenue. Claire is surprised to discover that she is smitten with her new employers,...