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In a household with children, disasters lurk around every corner. Laundry soap in the dishwasher. Baseballs launched through the neighbor's window. Heads stuck between stair railings. Sandwiches in the VCR. What's a parent to do? Mom, the Toilet's Clogged! takes on common kid-induced household problems and provides hands-on, rational solutions that work. Offering practical and funny advice in the bestselling tradition of The Worst Case Scenario Survival...
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The Year without a Purchase is the story of one family's quest to stop shopping and start connecting. Scott Dannemiller and his wife, Gabby, are former missionaries who served in Guatemala. Ten years removed from their vow of simple living, they found themselves on a never-ending treadmill of consumption where each purchase created a desire for more and never led to true satisfaction. The difference between needs and wants had grown very
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"The transition to parenthood is one of the most life-altering and destabilizing life events that adults experience, even those with significant financial and social resources. We commonly hear about dual-career, professional couples coping with the wage penalties associated with new motherhood or a woman's career being derailed on the "mommy track." But we know much less about how low-wage, employed mothers and fathers manage the demands of full-time...
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How is it that the internet connects us to a world of people, yet so many of us feel more isolated than ever? That we have hundreds, even thousands of friends on social media, but not a single person to truly confide in? Radha Agrawal calls this "community confusion," and in Belong she offers every reader a blueprint to find their people and build and nurture community, because connectedness--as more and more studies show--is our key to happiness,...
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Shares the inspirational story of how the author's family, witnessing the disparity between a homeless man and the owner of a luxury car, sold their Atlanta mansion and eventually moved across the world in order to dedicate their lives to charity and helping others.
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George Anders explains the remarkable power of a liberal arts education, and the ways it can open the door to cutting-edge jobs. The curiosity, creativity, and empathy that are hallmarks of a liberal arts education aren't unruly traits that must be reined in. You can be yourself, as an English major, and thrive in sales. You can segue from anthropology into the booming new field of user research; from classics into management consulting, and from...
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"We may not realize it, but children are hyperaware of money. They have scores of questions about its nuances that parents often don't answer, or know how to answer well. But for Ron Lieber, a personal finance columnist and father, good parenting means talking about money with our kids much more often. When parents avoid these conversations, they lose a tremendous opportunity--not just to model important financial behaviors, but also to imprint lessons...
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Sending a teenager to a flagship state university for four years of on-campus living costs more than $100,000 in many parts of the United States. Many private colleges cost triple that. Lieber helps families navigate this journey, which has been compounded by a global pandemic and the resulting chaos in higher education. He asks the questions most parents don't know (or are afraid) to ask, and summarizes the research about what matters and what doesn't....
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"A Fatherly Top Ten Best Parenting Book of the Decade" "A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Matthias Doepke is professor of economics at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois. Fabrizio Zilibotti is the Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics at Yale University. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequality
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International adoption is in a state of virtual collapse, rates having fallen by more than half since 2004 and continuing to fall. Yet around the world millions of orphaned and vulnerable children need permanent homes, and thousands of American and European families are eager to take them in. Many government officials, international bureaucrats, and social commentators claim these adoptions are not "in the best interests" of the child. They claim...
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The book "Estate Planning for Single Mothers" is a guidebook that provides information and advice on how single mothers can effectively plan their estate. The book is written specifically for single mothers who want to ensure that their assets are protected and their children are taken care of in the event of their death or incapacity.
The book covers a range of topics related to estate planning, including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, guardianship,...
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I was born and raised on a working ranch twenty-eight miles north of Philip, South Dakota. As a young person, we worked hard and played hard, and events that occurred caused considerable pain to me both mentally and physically. My choices were not the best, and at seventeen, I was much on my own. The saying "I was the only hell my mother ever raised" was probably very accurate. I write this to tell what it was like growing up and to let others know...
18) Castalia Heist
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Five childhood transform their lives the hood way...We hungry in these South Castalia streets
Ain't nobody gone give us a goddamn thing
It's mob till we die, and that's on God!
We got to take what's ours.
All we ever known in the cut is robbing and drugs.
It's how the game go out here.
Everyday you gotta watch your back and stay strapped for the jump off.
Starting from the mud, Oski has a vision for him and his crew to be hood rich.
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Ce livre s'adresse aux femmes, à toutes les femmes. Celles qui ont des enfants, celles qui en veulent, celles qui n'en veulent pas. Egalement à celles qui ne savent pas encore si elles en voudront un jour.
Ce livre est à propos d'une femme qui ne voulait pas d'enfants jusqu'à ce qu'elle décide d'en avoir un à l'âge de trente-deux ans et qui, dix ans plus tard, se retrouve mère de quatre beaux enfants. Comme quoi on ne sait jamais ce que la...
20) Her First Place
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Get a Place of Your Own
Are you tired of throwing your money away renting? Did your landlord put a wrench in your plan to paint the bedroom wall a fashionable bluish-purple? Has the landlord notified you that the rent is going up at the end of the lease? Did you have to give away Fluffy because of the no-pet policy? When you did your taxes, did the H&R Block guy say you had nearly no deductibles, so you paid higher taxes? Girl, you need to buy a...
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