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National twins guru and founder of Twiniversity--and mother of twins herself--Natalie Diaz provides a no-holds-barred resource about life with twins,…
from pregnancy and birth all the way through your duo's first year of life. 2018.What did I do wrong?: mothers, children, guilt
By Lynn Caine. 1985
Interviews with thousands of mothers deplores the tendency of mothers to accept blame for what happens in their children's lives.…
Other factors include genes, fathers, health, school, peers, economics and luck. Some strong language. 1985.What do you really want for your children?
By Wayne W Dyer. 1985
We were brothers: a memoir (Southern voices)
By Barry Moser. 2016
Brothers Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents in Chattanooga, Tennessee, slept in the same bedroom, went…
to the same school, and were both poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older, their perspectives and their paths grew further and further apart. The brothers began to think so differently that they could no longer find common ground. After one particularly fractious conversation when Barry was in his late fifties and Tommy was in his early sixties, their fragile relationship fell apart. With the raw emotions that so often surface when we talk of our siblings, Barry recalls how they were finally able to traverse that great divide and reconcile their troubled brotherhood before it was too late. 2016.Votre enfant est-il trop sensible?: comment le comprendre, l'aider, l'aimer
By Janet Poland, Judith E Craig, Rosemarie Bélisle. 1997
Cet ouvrage montre que la trop grandesensibilité peut être gérée, modifiée et atténuée. Les auteures amènent le lecteur à découvrir…
les nombreux avantages qu'offre un tel tempérament, un don qu'il faut mettre à profit. Elles fournissent aux parents inquiets des points de repère pour favoriser l'éclosion des qualités potentielles de l'enfant. 1997.Vermeer's hat: the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
By Timothy Brook. 2008
A painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl, while in another, a…
woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. These pictures offer a remarkable view of a rapidly expanding world. Moving outward from Vermeer's studio, Brook traces the web of trade that was spreading across the globe, and shows how the urge to acquire foreign goods was refashioning the world more powerfully than we have yet understood. Explicit descriptions of violence. c2008.Venturegirls: raising girls to be tomorrow's leaders
By Crystal Glangchai. 2018
As the female CEO of a tech startup, Dr. Cristal Glangchai was outnumbered twenty to one, and she wants to…
change that for the next generation. She argues that a key part of raising strong, confident young women is giving them the tools of entrepreneurship to engage in STEM. 2018.Une femme
By Anne Delbée. 1982
Pour la première fois, un livre nous révèle la vie extraordinaire de Camille Claudel. Soeur ainée de l'écrivain Paul Claudel,…
Camille a connu, en tant que femme et en tant qu'artiste (sculpteur), un destin hors du commun. 1982.Tout pour être heureuse
By Priscille Deborah, Julia Pavlowitch-Beck, Élise Bergeron. 2015
" Comment se donner le droit d'exister quand son frère de neuf ans vient de mourir d'une maladie incurable? Prisonnière…
de ce drame familial, Priscille Deborah peine à donner un sens à sa vie. Longtemps, elle se refuse au bonheur. Jeune mariée et professionnelle brillante, elle est rattrapée par la dépression. L'amour des siens n'y peut rien: à bout de forces, elle se jette devant le métro. Sauvée par miracle, elle se réveille sur un lit d'hôpital amputée des deux jambes et d'un bras. Elle est un bloc de désespoir, d'amertume et de honte. Son salut vient de plusieurs rencontres. Elle retrouve la force de vivre, cesse de sauver les apparences, solde les comptes du passé et renoue avec sa passion de toujours: la peinture. En quelques années, elle devient une artiste exposée dans le monde entier. Aujourd'hui, avec son compagnon et ses deux filles, Priscille Deborah a enfin trouvé le bonheur. Oui, chaque heure est une lutte acharnée contre le handicap. Mais Tout pour être heureuse témoigne d'une incroyable histoire de résilience, de création et d'amour. Je suis tombée amoureuse de la vie. "Tough love: how parents can deal with drug abuse
By Pauline Neff. 1982
The weekend parent: learning to live without full-time kids
By Carolyn Pogue. 1990
Written for mothers and fathers who have lost or given up custody of their children. This book follows the stories…
of 20 men and women who have had to adjust to daily life without their children and examines how to ensure a good relationship with the children. c1990.The voice that challenged a nation: Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights
By Russell Freedman. 2005
In the 1930s, black singer Marian Anderson was not allowed to perform at Constitution Hall. But with help from Eleanor…
Roosevelt, Anderson staged an amazing concert at the Lincoln Memorial and became an activist for civil rights. Junior High. 2005.The unknown Matisse: a life of Henri Matisse: the early years, 1869-1908
By Hilary Spurling. 2001
Hilary Spurling presents an account of Matisse's early life, from his beginnings as the son of shopkeepers in Flanders through…
his impoverished days as a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Tracing Matisse's life through his thirties, Spurling describes how the artist's stubborn northern temperament helped sustain him through many challenges, both artistic and financial, as he found his way as a painter. 2001.The ultimate guide for gay dads: everything you need to know about LGBTQ parenting but are (mostly) afraid to ask
By Eric Rosswood, Greg Berlanti. 2018
The shameful life of Salvador Dalí
By Ian Gibson. 1998
Biography of the twentieth-century surrealist Spanish painter. Gibson describes Dalí's escapades in Europe, New York, and Hollywood. Explores his confused…
sexual relationships with poet García Lorca and others, and the role of the painter's superstitious wife, Gala. Examines Dalí's major accomplishments, all achieved before age forty; summarizes events preceding his death in 1989. 1998.The secret life of the unborn child
By John Kelly, Thomas R Verny. 1981
The school solution: getting Canada's schools to work for your children
By Paul Kropp, Lynda Hodson. 1995
Paul Kropp, author of "The reading solution" (DC11908), and Lynda Hodson, a principal for a large suburban school board, have…
produced a guide to everything parents need and want to know about Canada's schools. The book outlines what children really learn at each grade level, and tackles tough issues such as declining standards and increasing violence. It also contains a question and answer section detailing the concerns parents most often raise with teachers and principals. c1995.The rare and the beautiful: the art, loves, and lives of the Garman sisters
By Cressida Connolly. 2004
The scandalous, bohemian Garman sisters were famous for their passion for the arts, defiance of convention, and the power to…
turn heads and break hearts. Kathleen, an artist's model and aspiring pianist, was the lover of sculptor Jacob Epstein; Mary married poet Roy Campbell; and Lorna became the lover of poet Laurie Lee and of painter Lucian Freud. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.The perfect house: a journey with the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio
By Witold Rybczynski. 2002
An appreciation of the residential work of Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. The author provides a detailed analysis, both historical and…
architectural, of ten of the 30 villas attributed to Palladio. Includes biographical detail, precise descriptions of design elements, and insights into daily life in the 16th century. 2002.The paper garden: an artist {begins her life's work} at 72 (Maple leaf audio)
By Molly Peacock. 2011
Celebrated poet Molly Peacock explores the remarkable life of 18th-century British gentlewoman-turned-artist Mary Delany. In the 1770s, at the age…
of 72, the twice-widowed and nearly broke Delany turned her interest in botany into beautiful paper "mosaick" flowers still revered today. 2011.