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"Marital strife and divorce often tear families apart, but it doesn't have to be that way. Better Apart shows how instead they can be opportunities to exercise mindfulness and a deep understanding that change, while difficult, can put the struggling couple and their family on a path towards more harmonious lives"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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700L
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"Twelve-year-old Izzy's life just seems to get more and more complicated: she is upset by her father's new marriage, and a new baby on the way; she is expected to look out for her ten-year-old cousin, Oliver, who has moved in with her family since his mother committed suicide, because his father is depressed and having trouble coping; and now Ben, the rebellious sixteen-year-old son of Izzy's mother's boyfriend, is also living with them--but when...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Families come in all shapes and sizes. Readers will learn all about kids who split their time between two households through everyday and relatable situations. They may just find out that this special family situation isn't so different from their own!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Families come in all shapes and sizes. Readers will learn all about families with two moms through everyday and relatable situations. They may just find out that a two-mom family isn't so different from their own!
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Between Earth and Empire focuses on the crucial position of humanity, at the present moment in Earth history. We are now in the midst of the Necrocene, an epoch of death and mass extinction. Nearing the end of the long history of Empire and domination, we are faced with the choice of either continuing the path of social and ecological disintegration or initiating a new era of social and ecological regeneration.
The book shows that conventional approaches...
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2019.
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"Rebecca Eckler's newest book chronicles the hard truth of what it's really like to make a blended family. Blissfully Blended Bullshit is a witty, engaging, refreshingly candid chronicle of a modern family's journey as they blend households. We follow Eckler as her partner and two children move in with her and her daughter. Then, they add another baby to the mix, thanks to a reverse vasectomy. Readers go along for the ride in this poignant, often...
15) Fatherhood
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For adoptees, the word 'lucky' gets thrown around a lot. They're regularly told they're lucky to not be in an orphanage, lucky to have been brought into a family, lucky to be adopted at all. Often they're depicted in media as being broken, in need of saving and fixing. Then they're expected to become the hero of their own journeys and overcome their origins.
Whatever Next? considers how these traditional narratives surrounding adoption have both dominated...
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Embrace the adventure ahead with your new blended family-an inclusive approach.
Blended is beautiful. But, as one of the 1,300 new stepfamilies forming in the US every day, you know that there are always obstacles to overcome. Our Modern Blended Family can help-celebrating your family's diversity while delivering practical advice, common-sense strategies, and handy tips to help you-and your partner-create a happy, healthy blended family. Together....
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"You must be adopted you don't look like anyone else in your family." Have you ever wondered who you really are? Have you ever had a deep knowing in your gut that your family was lying to you? I did. I always felt that the man that I was told was my father was not really my dad. What I felt did not match what I was told.
And so, I set off on a journey in search of the truth. These are the deck recollections of decades of looking. Looking for a family,...
18) Zeitgeist
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Raised by his grandparents, Luke Hudson has never really known his parents. But when a birthday wish catapults him back in time, he gets the rare chance to alter history for the better. Racing against time, Luke must change the past to save the future. For great change there must be great sacrifice. What will Luke's be?
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War is a man's game,' or so goes the saying. Whether this is true or not, patriarchal capitalism is certainly one of the driving forces behind war in the modern era. So can we end war with feminism? This book argues that this is possible, and is in fact already happening.
Each chapter provides a solution to war using innovative examples of how feminist and queer theory and practice inform pacifist treaties, movements and methods, from the international...
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"Karen L. Kristjanson shares the stories of a variety of divorced and separated couples who co-parent.Effective co-parenting, or sharing significant parenting time with an ex-spouse, is one of the best gifts separated parents can give to their children. The interviews in Co-Parenting from the Inside Out are with real moms and dads in diverse circumstances, showing them making choices, sometimes struggling, and often growing. Their stories offer insights...
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