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One of the autism community's most beloved classics, Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew has informed, delighted, and guided millions of families and professionals the world over since its first edition was published in 2005. A child's voice leads into each chapter, offering a one-of-a-kind exploration into how ten core characteristics of autism affect our children's perceptions and reactions to the surrounding physical, sensory and...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xvi, 671 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
How to Care for Aging Parents is an authoritative, clear, and comforting source of advice and support for the ever-growing number of Americans — now 42 million — who care for an elderly parent, relative, or friend. And now, in its third edition, it is completely overhauled and updated, chapter-by-chapter and page-by-page, with the most recent medical findings and recommendations. It includes a whole new chapter on fraud; details on the latest...
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997, c1992
Physical Desc
x, 239 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shares the intimate experiences of two hospice nurses with their terminally ill patients, offering additional advice on how to respond to the requests of the dying while helping them to prepare for death.
26) Delirious
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
One day, Charlie Giles is an up-and-coming electronics superstar. The next, he's a prime homicide suspect as his former employers are picked off one by one. Charlie watches his life unravel as his company and inventions are wrenched from his control, and his family is decimated. With nowhere else to turn, he enlists his schizophrenic brother to uncover the dark family secrets that lie at the heart of the unfolding terror.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
367 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eloise Hempel is on her way to teach a class at Harvard when she receives devastating news. Her sister and her husband have been killed in a tragic accident, and Eloise must return home to Cincinnati to take her sister's three children, Theodora, Josh, and Claire, out of the hands of her own incapable mother. She moves back into her mother's ancient house and, after her mother leaves, pours her own money into its upkeep. Nearly two decades later,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Two women -- a century apart -- embark on a journey to healing, faith, forgiveness, and romance. In 2012, art historian Gwen Morris travels to England's Lake District to appraise the paintings and antiques of an old family friend, hoping to prove herself to her prestigious grandfather. While at Longdale Manor, she meets David Bradford -- the owner's handsome grandson -- who is desperate to save the crumbling estate by turning it into a luxury hotel....
32) Alone
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Series
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English
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In a split second of time, police sniper Bobby Dodge takes the fateful shot, killing a husband who appears on the verge of murdering his wife. In the cold light of day, however, it becomes clear there was more to the scene than meets the eye. As Detective D.D. Warren investigates her fellow officer–and uncovers the dirty secrets of a privileged Boston family–the body count quickly climbs. No one is safe, and no one will see death coming until...
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English
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Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the School of Divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying, when she began to feel jabbing pains in her stomach. She lost thirty pounds, chugged antacid, and visited doctors for three months before she was finally diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. As she navigates the aftermath of her diagnosis, Kate pulls the reader deeply into her life, which...
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English
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"Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria--severe discomfort in one's biological sex--was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively. But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as transgender. These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast’s memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of forty-six. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a years-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction. In Beautiful Things, Hunter recounts his descent into substance abuse and his tortuous...
37) River's end
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Language
English
Description
With the help of a writer, a young woman seeks to confront her childhood past and learn the truth about the infamous night when her mother was murdered.
Author
Series
Michael Bennett mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When a dozen men take hostage some of the most powerful people in the world at the funeral of a beloved former first lady, Detective Michael Bennett must find a way to rescue the hostages while at the same time attending his dying wife's hospital bedside.
39) Mighty Jack
Author
Series
Mighty Jack volume 1
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
203 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack might be the only kid in the world who's dreading summer. But he's got a good reason: summer is when his single mom takes a second job and leaves him at home to watch his autistic kid sister, Maddy. It's a lot of responsibility, and it's boring, too, because Maddy doesn't talk. Ever. But then, one day at the flea market, Maddy does talkto tell Jack to trade their mom's car for a box of mysterious seeds. It's the best mistake Jack has...
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Publisher
New Harbinger
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
204 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
An adoption expert, therapist, and adoptive parent of seven older children provides a comprehensive guide to help readers overcome the unique challenges of parenting adopted older children, including bonding, culture shock, fetal alcohol syndrome, aggressive behaviours, loss, hyperactivity, and creating a sense of belonging. Parenting Your Adopted Older Child is the only book to address all of the challenges faced by the increasing number of parents...
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