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"In Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old, Petrow candidly addresses the fears, frustrations, and stereotypes that accompany aging. He offers a blueprint for the new old age, and an understanding that aging and illness are not the same. As he writes, 'I meant the list as a pointed reminder--to me--to make different choices when I eventually cross the threshold to 'old'" -
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At last, the book that answers the question on every parent’s mind: Why does my toddler hate me?
Okay, it’s not really hate. It’s just that a little psychopath who walks through life 100% convinced that he or she is the center of the universe does not care that you have a heart, a mind, or a soul. You are simply a skin-covered robot tall enough to reach the candy on top of the fridge. And clean up the rage-vomit...
Okay, it’s not really hate. It’s just that a little psychopath who walks through life 100% convinced that he or she is the center of the universe does not care that you have a heart, a mind, or a soul. You are simply a skin-covered robot tall enough to reach the candy on top of the fridge. And clean up the rage-vomit...
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2016
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"Laugh-out-loud comments and astute remarks will help lighten any mother's load and keep things in perspective...This is a refreshing look at child rearing, written in short sections that can be read in five to ten minutes a perfect fit for a mother's schedule." –Library Journal
So you thought the difficult stage was over: the midnight feedings, the colic, the breast pumps, the endless diaper changings. Just when you thought you'd...
So you thought the difficult stage was over: the midnight feedings, the colic, the breast pumps, the endless diaper changings. Just when you thought you'd...
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POLITICAL BOOKS WILL MAKE YOU SAD, MY BOOK WILL MAKE YOU GLAD. We all know a Robert Isenberg. He's the one who sees things a little differently than the rest of us. He's the one, who makes you laugh when he tells you what he's thinking. "WHY MEN ARE SUSPICIOUS OF YOGA "encompasses fifty-five short essays that gives you some idea of what he's thinking and about what. Robert actually asserts that elections are, won more by what the candidates eat than...
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The celebrated actor, personality, and all-around nerd revisits his 2004 collection of insightful and humorous blog posts, presents additional later writings, and offers all new material in which he opens up about his life, from his abusive childhood to finding his true purpose.
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Fay Jacobs is back! Again! The author of the trilogy of humorous memoirs As I Lay Frying, Fried & True and For Frying Out Loud returns with more wise and witty recollections about contemporary life in general and more specifically life in Rehoboth Beach, a small resort town on the Delaware Coast. It's provocative, political, occasionally heartwarming, and reliably hilarious.
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The most important job in the world
This treasury of wisdom, humor, and love is a guide for every step of the exhilarating, sometimes exasperating journey that begins with those three wonderful words: It's a boy! Its hundreds of lessons from mother to son include instilling values and confidence. Knowing when to say yes, and when to say no.
It's filled with the importance of nurturing responsibility: Teach him that the world will judge him by his...
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At six, despite being isolated on a farm in Southwest Australia, Johnston believed he was a boy soprano meant for great things. With inspiration from the Bronte sisters and spurred on by literary "pearls of wisdom" introduced around the kitchen table by his dad, he conscripts little sister Hope into his phantasmagorical world of Gondal, to mother creative exploits which he records his diary for posterity. Hope's cello prowess eclipses Johnston's self-proclaimed...
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Motherhood is not what it used to be, as more moms than ever before are having children later on in life.
This is the must-have book for all moms who had a child after the age of 35-a group the medical profession not-so-kindly calls-'advanced maternal age.' Sharon O'Donnell writes about the humorous and poignant stories of having a child at 38 and how she discovered that breastfeeding and AARP membership aren't really all that far apart.
Sharon...
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One day you're staring out the window of your office - actually, you're staring out the window across the room of cubicles you sit in for nearly 60 hours per week - when your boss pops his fat head in to tell you to "think outside the box" on this project he's dumping on your lap. What the actual hell does that even mean? "Think outside the box"? You live and work in a box, surrounded by boxes and now you need to think the opposite of the very way...
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"Not buying it, huh?" My mother acknowledged her assertion that the woman she pointed out at the rehab center as being her dead husband was a bit of a stretch. But this was the kind of conversation I had with Mom as her cognitive abilities declined and her psychosis fully bloomed. The true, heart-wrenching, and yet hilarious stories at the center of Dementia Sucks were borne of a journal and blog that author Tracey Lawrence kept as her mother transformed...
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#SingleSassySexAgenarian* *(Someone Between the Ages of 60-69) was created during the toilet-paper-hoarding early pandemic days of COVID-19. It gives a true but humorous insight into the life of author Regina A. Byrom as she experiences dating, doctor visits, and sloths as a woman in her 60s. #SingleSassySexAgenarian* will make you realize that life can not only begin at 60, but it can thrive.
Regina A. Byrom was born in Ohio and raised in West Virginia....
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The best twin-tested tips used by real moms The stresses that come with raising two babies are numerous - but they are predictable and manageable. From a mom who's been there, Juggling Twins is a funny, realistic, and reassuring guide for every new mom of twins who may be asking herself, "Can I really pull this off?" From pregnancy to health issues, to eating, sleeping, bathing, and leaving the house, Juggling Twins is packed with the detailed, authoritative...
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For one 1970's family, the center may not hold, but it certainly does fold.
In 1978 Jimmy Carter mediates the Camp David Accords, Fleetwood Mac tops charts with Rumours, Starsky fights crime with Hutch, and twelve-year-old Lou Cove is uprooted from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Salem, Massachusetts— a backwater town of witches, Puritans, and sea-captain wannabes. After his eighth move in a dozen years, Lou figures he should just resign himself...
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When Brian Sack's mother passed away, he was left with a letter and a pink cardigan. The cardigan was promptly placed in a drawer, but the letter was pure gold. In just a few pages of fancy cursive, her posthumous dispatch offered the kind of guidance you would expect from a mother to her young son. And while he didn't necessarily follow all the advice, he never forgot how very important those words-and that letter-were to him. Decades later, on the...
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How to be a dad, hold down a job and keep a sense of humour whilst you are about it. A month-by-month description of the first year of fatherhood dealing with everything from family tax credits, to changing nappies and what to do with your hands during the birth. An easy to read, humourous book combining helpful advice on what to expect at each stage and what you can do about it. Useful facts and further reading at the end of each chapter.
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A woman's work is never done unless... You're fired! No, I quit!
I was relieved of my duties as the wife after 56 years of marriage before that “till death do us part' detail kicked in.
I made a plan. Life began. First, I cleaned out my mental attic and dusted off my stored fantasies of all the things I wanted to do and where I wanted to go. Then I wrote about what I know, seeing life more clearly and not through the eyes of another.
Stop wondering...
20) Texas Spirit
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In The Texas Spirit David M. Smith has written a series of spirited and insightful essays about the chemical industry, events and personalities in his life, and his views on trends in the national economy and other aspects of American life that concern him. The zesty style, folksy humor, and unabashed candor combine in this admirable example of the Texas Spirit.
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