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Hands-On Parenting: A Resource Guide for Parents who are Blind or Partially Sighted
by Debbie BaconChapters include topics such as: newborns and the basics, communicating with your child, organizing and children's clothing, toilet training, traveling with your children, social issues for blind parents, and toys and game suggestions for families.
How To Manage Your Mother: Understanding The Most Difficult, Complicated, And Fascinating Relationship In Your Life
by Alyce Faye Cleese Brian BatesGuilt. Embarrassment. Friendship. Anger. Who can bring out all these feelings ... and often in the same day? Your mother. No matter how mature or successful we are in our adult lives, with one word our mothers can somehow send us scurrying back to childhood. Can mothers and adult children ever learn to set aside their earlier elationship and talk to each other as adults? In this warm, funny book, dozens of revealing stories from such well-known personalities as Colin Powell, Helena Bonham Carter, Mia Farrow, and Lauren Hutton show that it is possible to improve your relationship with your mother-or at the very least begin to understand it. Alyce Faye Cleese and Brian Bates include a practical ten-step plan and questionnaire to help you get on track with your mother. You will learn to address specific issues and develop valuable insights that will help you start thinking about your mother in a profoundly new way.
The Summer I Shrank My Grandmother
by Elvira WoodruffFrom the book Jacket: When aspiring scientist Nelly Brown shares a beach cottage with her grandmother one summer, she is thrilled to discover an old chemistry set in the basement. Equipped with bottles and beakers, test tubes and chemicals, it also has instructions for mixing up magic formulas. Each child using the set can make a wish that will come true. Nelly, who loves her 70-year-old grandmother more than anyone else in world, decides to mix up a formula for making her young. Little does she realize that she'll meet Grandma at age 30, 15, 10, 6, 4, 2 and finally as an infant. Horrified that her grandmother might shrink into nothing, Nelly calls on her cousin Ben to help reverse the effects of the formula. But is he able to help? And will Nelly ever see Grandma as a 70-year-old again? ELVIRA WOODRUFF has worked as both a children's librarian and a storyteller. She is also the author of one other novel, Awfully Short for the Fourth Grade, and a picture book, Tubtime. She lives in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania, with her two sons, Noah and Jess. KATHERINE COVILLE has illustrated both picture books and middle-grade fiction. The mother of three children, she lives in Syracuse, New York.
Detour for Emmy (True-to-Life Series from Hamilton High)
by Marilyn ReynoldsEmmy, who once had a bright future, struggles with being a teen mother without support from her boyfriend or family.
101 Ways To Get And Keep His Attention
by Michelle Mckinney-HammondScripture offers women guidance for winning the heart of the man she loves. This book is based both on Scripture and interviews with men of all ages, races, and backgrounds. The author reveals 101 powerful tips for attracting the right man for you, a man of quality, integrity, and who appeals to your senses too.
Proactive Parenting
by James R. LucasOne of the greatest fears of parenting is that there is simply no way of predicting how your kids will turn out. Even well-meaning friends and childhood experts say, "Just try to survive adolescence. There is not much you can do; so just hope for the best." But nowhere does the Bible say parents must settle for less. In fact, God's Word teaches numerous strategies for effective parenting. Author Jim Lucas passionately shares those strategies with you in Proactive Parenting. Why is this the only kind of parenting that works? Because it is based strictly on what God's Word says-not the unreliable wisdom of men. And every one of these strategies is supported with dynamic illustrations that will help you put these lessons to work right away in your family life.
When Couples Pray Together: Creating Intimacy and Spiritual Wholeness
by Jan Stoop David StoopNot many married couples have discovered the secret of daily prayer together. In fact, informal statistics reveal that only about 4% of all Christian married couples do so. After years of marriage without the spiritual intimacy of praying together daily, Jan and David Stoop overcame their reluctance and took the plunge. Thirty years later, they can testify to the indisputable value of their simple prayer times together. They only regret that they didn't start sooner. In this practical, encouraging book, you will be inspired and challenged to try an experiment-one that might revolutionize your married life. Jan and David have written a book that is honest, practical, and realistic. Their thoughts on resistance and barriers to praying together, and their suggestions for how to pray together are the best I've ever seen. Any couple will be encouraged to try to pray together after reading this book.
Nellie's Promise
by Valerie TrippNellie is thankful to be living with her best friend Samantha and her wealthy family, but is afraid that she will not be able to keep the promise she made to her mother to hold the family together.
What To Expect the First Year, Second Edition
by Heidi Murkoff Arlene Eisenberg Sandee HathawayGives a month by month guide to your baby's first year.
Fragile Innocence
by James Reston Jr.When the author's daughter suffers brain damage from a high fever, he and his wife go on a quest to find the cause and hopefully a cure.
Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession
by Erma BaumbeckThere is much to laugh about when one becomes a mother. Consider Baumbeck's words: I was one of the luckier women who came to motherhood with some experience. I owned a Yorkshire Terrier for three years. At ten months, my children could stay and heel. At a year, they could catch a Frisbee in their teeth in midair. At fifteen months, after weeks of rubbing their noses in it and putting them outside, they were paper trained. Want more laughs? Read this book! Other books by this author are available from Bookshare.
Echoes Of The Dance
by Marcia WillettRoly an English Gentleman leaves London for a quieter life in the country. With his many dogs, and his friend Cate, his life takes a change. Filled withflash backs and many new characters who come into his life, this gives you a look at English Country life.
Call It Sleep
by Henry RothA sensitive boy's growing up is one strand in a complex web of his parent's tense life, their immigrant strangeness in a new land.
What Do You Do When Your Mom and Dad Say Take Care of Your Clothes (Kids Survival Guide)
by Joy BerryBasic kid friendly directions for caring for your clothes, from laundry, putting them away and fixing them.
The New Menopausal Years: Wise Woman Ways
by Susun S. WeedSusun S. Weed spent 13 years talking with more than 50,000 women about menopause. Here are the remedies, the wisdom, and the humor she found. Whether your menopause is natural or induced, you, too, will treasure this book called "the menopausal bible" by millions of women. All the remedies women know and trust plus 100 new pages including: Fibromyalgia Hairy Problems Restless Leg Syndrome Fertility After Forty Thyroid Health Interstitial Cystitis Herbs for Women on ERT/HRT Memory Problems
Just for You (Little Critter Series)
by Mercer MayerIn this hilarious picture book, which includes picture descriptions, Little Critter plans to help his Mom. He meant to fix breakfast ... He tried to mop the floor ... and he might have gotten his bath had the storm not come! Little Critter ends his day perfectly, though. Other books by Mercer Mayer are available from Bookshare. This file should make an excellent embossed braille copy.
Beautiful Girlhood
by M. Hale Karen Andreola"Oh, girls! life is so great, so wonderful, so full of possibilities, that none of us can afford to be anything but what is good and pure and true! Let us make the perfect rose an emblem of our womanhood and strive that its fragrance shall bless all who come in contact with it." And that, young ladies, is where this book leads you--toward becoming beautiful servants of God.
Discipline For Home and School
by Edward E. FordThis book describes the heart of how learning to be responsible takes place within students, and how educators and parents can aid, rather than hinder, that learning, even for the most difficult students.
A Love Like Lilly
by Kay Lynn MangumFifteen-year-old Jamie learns about her grandparents' courtship and her grandfather's work in the CCC when he was a young man during the Depression.
The New Boy Is Blind
by William J. Thomasfrom the book jacket: Ricky is in the fourth grade-but he's never been in school before. He is just like all his classmates except for one special difference-he is blind. How he adjusts to this new world of the clasroom, the playground, and the people around him-and how they adjust to him-makes a sensitive story about frustration and triumph. Ricky's friends, teachers, and, most of all, his mother learn an important lesson that while Ricky is blind, he is still able to do everything.
Bound By Honor
by Gary Smalley Greg SmalleyGary and Greg Smalley are psychologists as well as father and son. They share insights from their relationship as well as their experience with their clients. They teach parents how to create a loving, respectful, and nurturing relationship with teenagers. Topics include offering loving discipline, handling the family car, dating, and letting go as teens reach adulthood.
Everything is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer, a character bearing the same name as the author, is looking for the woman he believes saved his grandfather Safran from the Nazis.
The Officer's Wife: A True Story of Unspeakable Betrayal and Cold-blooded Murder
by Michael FleemanA true story of unspeakable betrayal and cold-blooded murder.
The War Against Parents
by Sylvia Ann Hewlett Cornel WestSylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West, a white woman and a black man, join to address the burning social issue of our time: the virtual abandonment of parents-poor and middle class-by America's business, political, and cultural elites. In what is both a visionary and intimate book, Hewlett and West present a blueprint for parent empowerment, which they call the Parents' Bill of Rights for the 21st century, which gives new value and dignity to the parental role and restores America's commitment to the well-being of children. With candor and hope for the future, the authors seek to unite America's 62 million parents behind an agenda that spans the divides of race, gender, and class.