Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child: Eliminating Conflict by Establishing Clear, Firm, and Respectful Boundaries

Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child: Eliminating Conflict by Establishing Clear, Firm, and Respectful Boundaries
by Robert J. MacKenzie (Author), Alan Sklar (Narrator)
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Here is an essential manual for creating a positive, respectful, and rewarding relationship with a strong-willed child. Based on proven techniques and procedures, parents and teachers alike will welcome this book.

• Rank: #203 in Audible
• Published on: 2011-11-28
• Format: Unabridged
• Running time: 27840 seconds

Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home

Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home
Nina Stibbe (Author)
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"Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read." --Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette

In 1982, 20-year-old Nina Stibbe moved to London to work as a nanny to two opinionated and lively young boys. In frequent letters home to her sister, Nina described her trials and triumphs: there's a cat nobody likes, suppertime visits from a famous local playwright, a mysteriously unpaid milk bill, and repeated misadventures parking the family car. Dinner table discussions cover the gamut, from the greats of English literature, to swearing in German, to sexually transmitted diseases. There's no end to what Nina can learn from these boys (rude words) and their broad-minded mother (the who's who of literary London).

A charming, hilarious, sweetly inspiring celebration of bad food and good company, Love, Nina makes a young woman's adventures in a new world come alive.

• Rank: #1202 in eBooks
• Published on: 2014-04-22
• Released on: 2014-04-22
• Format: Kindle eBook

The Kind Mama: A Simple Guide to Supercharged Fertility, a Radiant Pregnancy, a Sweeter Birth, and a Healthier, More Beautiful Beginning

The Kind Mama: A Simple Guide to Supercharged Fertility, a Radiant Pregnancy, a Sweeter Birth, and a Healthier, More Beautiful Beginning
Alicia Silverstone (Author)
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The bestselling author of The Kind Diet offers practical solutions for a healthier, more vibrant approach to new motherhood

When did making babies get to be so hard? Infertility is on the rise globally, affecting as many as one in six couples. But instead of considering diet and lifestyle factors, doctors pump their patients full of expensive and invasive fertility treatments. Once pregnant, women just accept that carrying a baby will be the gassy, swollen, irritable, sleepless nightmare that has become the new normal—and then assume that new motherhood will be just as challenging, from breastfeeding woes to screaming fits.

It doesn't have to be that way. In The Kind Mama, Alicia Silverstone has created a comprehensive and practical guide empowering women to take charge of their fertility, pregnancy, and first 6 months with baby. Drawing on her own experience, as well as that of obstetricians, midwives, nutritionists, holistic health counselors, and others, Silverstone offers advice on getting one's "baby house" in order through nutrient-rocking foods that heal and nourish, and, once pregnant, gentle ways to boost comfort, energy, and health during each trimester. She helps readers navigate everything from prenatal testing and birth plans to successful breastfeeding and creating a supportive "baby nest." The result is an authoritative, one-stop guide that empowers women to trust their instincts during this vital milestone, while helping them embark on a healthy and more vibrant path to motherhood.

• Rank: #4829 in eBooks
• Published on: 2014-04-15
• Released on: 2014-04-15
• Format: Kindle eBook

Dad's Book of Awesome Science Experiments: From Boiling Ice and Exploding Soap to Erupting Volcanoes and Launching Rockets, 30 Inventive Experiments to Excite the Whole Family!

Dad's Book of Awesome Science Experiments: From Boiling Ice and Exploding Soap to Erupting Volcanoes and Launching Rockets, 30 Inventive Experiments to Excite the Whole Family!
Mike Adamick (Author)
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The science behind, "But, why?"

Don't get caught off guard by your kids' science questions! You and your family can learn all about the ins and outs of chemistry, biology, physics, the human body, and our planet with Dad's Book of Awesome Science Experiments. From Rock Candy Crystals to Magnetic Fields, each of these fun science projects features easy-to-understand instructions that can be carried out by even the youngest of lab partners, as well as awesome, full-color photographs that guide you through each step. Complete with 30 interactive experiments and explanations for how and why they work, this book will inspire your family to explore the science behind:

• Chemistry, with Soap Clouds
• Biology, with Hole-y Walls
• Physics, with Straw Balloon Rocket Blasters
• Planet Earth, with Acid Rain
• The Human Body, with Marshmallow Pulse Keepers

Best of all, every single one of these projects can be tossed together with items around the house or with inexpensive supplies from the grocery store. Whether your kid wants to create his or her own Mount Vesuvius or discover why leaves change colors in the fall, Dad's Book of Awesome Science Experiments will bring out the mad scientists in your family--in no time!

• Rank: #1470 in Books
• Published on: 2014-04-18
• Released on: 2014-04-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .50" h x 8.17" w x 9.21" l, 1.23 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Family: The Good "F" Word: The Life-Changing Action Plan for Building Your Best Family

Family: The Good "F" Word: The Life-Changing Action Plan for Building Your Best Family
Troy Dunn (Author), Dr. Phil McGraw (Foreword)
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Troy Dunn shares his tested and proven tools for repairing a broken family. He believes that whether you are just feeling a little stagnant in your home life or are already at your wit’s end, there are clear steps to restore joy, connectedness and unity within your family or partnerships. This book focuses on recognizing both personal and family needs, how to break old patterns to improve individual happiness, as well as happiness within a partnership and within the family unit as a whole. Dunn explains that although we can’t necessarily fix our given family, we owe it to ourselves to fix the family we have or are founding. His Life Changing Action Plan (LCA) includes four steps to determine what is wrong with your relationship, embrace the idea of change in a long-lasting way, repair damage and rebuild one’s marriage or relationship, and provide empowerment and tools to permanently stabilize a family. Also dissected, diagnosed and given rules for remedy are 10 Relationship Roadblocks, including the biggest taboos of all: money and sex! This is a wake-up call for anyone who needs a little or larger dose of relationship remedy.

• Rank: #2409 in Books
• Published on: 2014-04-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.18" h x 6.34" w x 9.19" l, 1.33 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 252 pages

Raising Cubby: A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives

Raising Cubby: A Father and Son's Adventures with Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives
John Elder Robison (Author)
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The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble 
 
John Robison was not your typical dad. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at the age of forty, he approached fatherhood as a series of logic puzzles and practical jokes. Instead of a speech about the birds and the bees, he told his son, Cubby, that he'd bought him at the Kid Store—and that the salesman had cheated him by promising Cubby would “do all chores.” While other parents played catch with their kids, John taught Cubby to drive the family's antique Rolls-Royce. Still, Cubby seemed to be turning out pretty well, at least until school authorities decided that he was dumb and stubborn—the very same thing John had been told as a child. Did Cubby have Asperger’s too? The answer was unclear.

One thing was clear, though: By the time he turned seventeen, Cubby had become a brilliant and curious chemist—smart enough to make military-grade explosives and bring federal agents calling. With Cubby facing a felony trial—and up to sixty years in prison—both father and son were forced to take stock of their lives, finally accepting that being “on the spectrum” is both a challenge and a unique gift.

• Rank: #1040 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-03-12
• Released on: 2013-03-12
• Format: Kindle eBook

Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty

Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty
Diane Keaton (Author)

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From Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to yourself—no matter what anyone else thinks.
 
Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring outside the lines of the conventional notion of beauty. In Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty, she shares the wisdom she’s accumulated through the years as a mother, daughter, actress, artist, and international style icon. This is a book only Diane Keaton could write—a smart and funny chronicle of the ups and downs of living and working in a world obsessed with beauty.
 
In her one-of-a-kind voice, Keaton offers up a message of empowerment for anyone who’s ever dreamed of kicking back against the “should”s and “supposed to”s that undermine our pursuit of beauty in all its forms. From a mortifying encounter with a makeup artist who tells her she needs to get her eyes fixed to an awkward excursion to Victoria’s Secret with her teenage daughter, Keaton shares funny and not-so-funny moments from her life in and out of the public eye.
 
For Diane Keaton, being beautiful starts with being true to who you are, and in this book she also offers self-knowing commentary on the bold personal choices she’s made through the years: the wide-brimmed hats, outrageous shoes, and all-weather turtlenecks that have made her an inspiration to anyone who cherishes truly individual style—and catnip to paparazzi worldwide. She recounts her experiences with the many men in her life—including Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, and Sam Shepard—shows how our ideals of beauty change as we age, and explains why a life well lived may be the most beautiful thing of all.
 
Wryly observant and as fiercely original as Diane Keaton herself, Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty is a head-turner of a book that holds up a mirror to our beauty obsessions—and encourages us to like what we see.
 
Praise for Diane Keaton’s Then Again
 
“A far-reaching, heartbreaking, absolutely lucid book about mothers, daughters, childhood, aging, mortality, joyfulness, love, work and the search for self-knowledge.”—The New York Times
 
“A poem about women living in one another’s not uncomplicated memories . . . Part of what makes Diane Keaton’s memoir, Then Again, truly amazing is that she does away with the star’s ‘me’ and replaces it with a daughter’s ‘I.’ ”—Hilton Als, The New Yorker
 
“As warm, funny, and self-deprecating as Keaton’s onscreen persona—[Then Again] traces a profound dramatic arc: that of a young woman coming into her own as an artist, and of a daughter becoming a mother.”—Vogue
 
“Both heartbreaking and joyful, [Then Again] covers the gamut of life experiences facing all women.”—Chicago Sun-Times


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• Rank: #8071 in eBooks
• Published on: 2014-04-29
• Released on: 2014-04-29

Spilled Milk: Based On A True Story

Spilled Milk: Based On A True Story
K.L Randis (Author)
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"Randis later would testify at a criminal trial against her father, who was sentenced to prison for his crimes. He was sentenced to up to 16 years in 2004. Her painful — and ultimately triumphant — story is recounted in Randis' first novel, "Spilled Milk." - Brown, Stacy. Interview with the Pocono Record Newspaper

ATTENTION: In observance of April being Sexual Assault Awareness Month, for a LIMITED TIME ONLY- SPILLED MILK is available at a discounted price of $1.99 (as of 04/10/2014 20:36 PST) Read it for yourself or gift it to someone who can use the invaluable inspiration to begin the transformation from victim into survivor. HURRY! Promotion ends Sunday, April 13th.

In the United States April marks Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). During SAAM activists raise awareness about sexual violence and educate communities and individuals on how to prevent it. If you or someone you know needs to speak to a counselor anonymously, please call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE

"Spilled Milk is a story about resilience. The strength of the human mind and will power to live a better life." - The Weekly Sparkle

"Beautifully written, hauntingly real, Spilled Milk is a must read for any young adult today." - F.P Lione, Author

Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call about the escalating brutality in her home.

When social services jeopardize her safety condemning her to keep her father’s secret, it’s a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she’s been hiding. In her pursuit for safety and justice Brooke battles a broken system that pushes to keep her father in the home.

When jury members and a love interest congregate to inspire her to fight, she risks losing the support of family and comes to the realization that some people simply do not want to be saved.

Spilled Milk is a novel of shocking narrative, triumph and resiliency.

• Rank: #910 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-12-04
• Released on: 2013-12-04
• Format: Kindle eBook

Rhinestone Jesus: Saying Yes to God When Sparkly, Safe Faith Is No Longer Enough

Rhinestone Jesus: Saying Yes to God When Sparkly, Safe Faith Is No Longer Enough
Kristen Welch (Author), Ann Voskamp (Foreword)

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In high school, Kristen Welch wore a big, sparkly rhinestone “Jesus” pin to school every day and carried her Bible wherever she went. (Yes, she was that girl.) But she didn’t realize her faith, though sincere, was shallow; much like her artificial accessory, it would one day tarnish, no longer a true fit for who she was. As real life catapulted Kristen into places and situations she’d never imagined, there came a day when she stood shocked in the slums of Africa and realized in one desperate moment that Jesus wasn’t enough for her. At least . . . she wasn’t living like He was. On the brink of a risk bigger than any she’d ever taken, Kristen knew she didn’t stand a chance—unless she was willing to put aside the rhinestones and get branded by the real thing. Rhinestone Jesus is the story of one woman’s journey from comfortably living a safe, “good-girl” faith that didn’t cost much, to realizing that God was daring her to say yes to a bolder, more authentic, more dangerous way. This story of spiritual adventure throws the doors wide open for any woman who’s ever thought of herself as “just a mom.” Kristen will inspire and empower you to say yes to God right where you are—and stand amazed at how your life will shine.

• Rank: #1027 in Books
• Published on: 2014-04-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Living in the Land of Limbo: Fiction and Poetry about Family Caregiving

Living in the Land of Limbo: Fiction and Poetry about Family Caregiving
Carol Levine (Editor)

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Living in the Land of Limbo is the first anthology of short stories and poems about family caregivers. These men and women find themselves in "limbo," as they struggle to take care of a family member or friend in the uncertain world of chronic illness. The authors explore caregivers' experiences as they deal with family conflicts, the complexities of the health care system, and the impact of their choices on their lives and the lives of others. The book includes selections devoted to caregivers of aging parents; husbands and wives; ill children; and relatives, lovers, and friends. A final section is devoted to paid caregivers and their clients. Among the conditions that form the background of the selections are dementia, HIV/AIDS, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, and pediatric cancer.

Many of the authors are well-known poets and writers, but others have not been published in mainstream media. They represent a range of cultural backgrounds. Although their works approach caregiving in very different ways, the authors share a commitment to emotional truth, unvarnished by societal ideals of what caregivers should feel and do. These stories and poems paint profoundly moving and revealing portraits of family caregivers.

• Rank: #2491 in Books
• Published on: 2014-04-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .90" h x 6.90" w x 9.90" l, 1.35 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 296 pages

The Power of the Pussy - Part Two: Marriage, Divorce, Relationship, and Dating Advice for Women

The Power of the Pussy - Part Two: Marriage, Divorce, Relationship, and Dating Advice for Women
Kara King (Author)
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Whether You're Single, Married, or Divorced…
You Have The Power!

In the follow-up to the best selling dating advice book, "The Power of the Pussy", Kara King delves further into the controversial subject of Pussy Power. Part Two picks up right where Part One left off and covers everything from the single life, to marriage, and even divorce. In this book you'll discover unique and compelling advice specifically designed to conquer a variety of real life issues that women may face when dealing with men. Just like Part One, this book is packed with relationship tips, dating secrets, and real-life advice that actually works!

"The Power of the Pussy: Part Two" will help you:

-Discover powers that men have and use this knowledge to your advantage.

-Draw men to you naturally and effortlessly.

-Heal from a divorce and come out of it better than ever!

-Use your powers within a marriage to re-ignite the flame or change the dynamics of the relationship.

-Learn tips and tricks to make men fall head over heels in love with you, eager to remain faithful, and happy to stand by your side for life.

-Overcome heartache, rejection, infidelity, and other real life issues that other dating advice books won't dare discuss!

"The Power of the Pussy" has been hailed the ultimate must-read dating guide for women of all ages. The first book laid the foundation, while Part Two digs deeper into the world of feminine power. This book will make you laugh, leave you feeling empowered, and enable you to deal with anything a man throws your way!

DISCLAIMER: This book contains strong language, sexual content, and subject matter that may be offensive to some readers.

• Rank: #6661 in eBooks
• Published on: 2014-03-25
• Released on: 2014-03-25
• Format: Kindle eBook

The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana

The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana
Tony Dokoupil (Author)

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In the tradition of Blow and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, The Last Pirate is a vivid, haunting and often hilarious memoir recounting the life of Big Tony, a family man who joined the biggest pot ring of the Reagan era and exploded his life in the process. Three decades later, his son came back to put together the pieces.

As he relates his father’s rise from hey-man hippie dealer to multi-ton smuggler extraordinaire, Tony Dokoupil tells the larger history of marijuana and untangles the controversies still stirring furious debate today. He blends superb reportage with searing personal memories, presenting a probing chronicle of pot-smoking, drug-taking America from the perspective of the generation that grew up in the aftermath of the Great Stoned Age. Back then, everyone knew a drug dealer. The Last Pirate is the story of what happened to one of them, to his family, and in a pharmacological sense, to us all.      
     The Last Pirate is a cultural portrait of marijuana’s endless allure set against the Technicolor backdrop of South Florida in the era of Miami Vice. It’s a public saga complete with a real pirate’s booty: more than a million dollars lost, buried, or stolen—but it’s also a deeply personal pursuit, the product of a son’s determination to replant the family tree in richer soil.

• Rank: #103 in Books
• Published on: 2014-04-01
• Released on: 2014-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.20" h x 6.50" w x 9.40" l, 1.15 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages