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Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Compassionate, groundbreaking, and urgently needed, Stand By Me provides caregivers with new ways to juggle the responsibilities and emotional ups and downs of caregiving. As the founder of the only devoted Caregivers Clinic in the country, clinical psychologist Dr. Allison Applebaum is no stranger to the intensity of being an unpaid, untrained family caregiver. She also understands that it is often the strength and well-being of these very caregivers--the...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When three women receive an unexpected phone call that leaves them reeling, they have no other choice but to reckon with a lifetime of memories they've long tried to bury. Only in facing the past will they find their path forward. Frances Mae Livingston's firm grip of her family's destructive history makes her hold her husband and four children even closer. But she's losing bits of herself while proving to everybody and her mama that she's enough....
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Mathematical genius Dr. Meg Brightwood has just completed her life's work -- a proof of a problem so impenetrable it's nicknamed the Impossible Theorem. Reclusive and burdened by anxiety, Meg has long since been dismissed by academia. Now everyone wants to get their hands on what she alone possesses -- especially her own mathematician father. Having grown up a prodigy in a field plagued by sexism and plagiarism, Meg opts for a public presentation...
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In a perfectionistic parenting culture that tells you that you are never enough no matter how much you do for your kids, this unique approach empowers you with a simple parenting technique to gain confidence, remain grounded, and connect positively with your children. Dr. Alison Escalante is a board-certified pediatrician with more than two decades of experience who has spent the last ten years exploring ways to equip parents to meet their children's...
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Jessica Pryce knows the child welfare system firsthand and, in this long overdue book, breaks it down from the inside out, sharing her professional journey and offering the crucial perspectives of caseworkers and Black women impacted by the system. It is a groundbreaking and eye-opening confrontation of the inherent and systemic racism deeply entrenched within the child welfare system. Pryce started her social work career with an internship where...
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"As the first medical director and attending psychiatrist at the World Trade Center Mental Health Program, Dr. Sue Varma worked directly with civilian and first-responder survivors in the aftermath of 9/11. There, she met people at every point of the stress and trauma continuum. She saw devastation and stagnancy as much as she saw amazing resilience and growth. She asked herself: how do some people survive, even thrive, despite profound challenges?...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Missouri, 1955. Loretta Davenport has led an isolated life as a young mother and a wife to Pete, an ambitious assistant professor at a Bible college. They're the picture of domestic tranquility-until a local girl is murdered and Loretta begins receivingmessages from beyond. Pete dismisses them as delusions of a fevered female imagination. Loretta knows they're real-and frightening. Defying Pete's demands, Loretta finds an encouraging supporter in...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An achingly heartfelt and surprisingly funny memoir about family, grief, and moving forward by an award-winning writer and TV personality. When her brother died from cancer, and then her mother just four months later, Teresa Strasser was left to mourn with her father, a cantankerous retired mechanic. As her son embarked on his first season pitching in Little League, Teresa and her dad formed a grief group of two in beach chairs lined up behind the...
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Find out about every dinosaur that’s ever been discovered in this Dictionary of Dinosaurs! From aardonyx to zuniceratops, read about where they lived, what they ate, and much more. Featuring firm favorites such as the T-rex, ankylosaurus, and triceratops, as well as lesser-known beasts like the baryonyx, rugops, and shanag, there's no dino left behind in this A-Z. Each entry includes a fact file, scale diagram, Latin name, and pronunciation. Best...
Author
Publisher
Stark House Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The Dark Corner: Kathleen Conley is the perfect secretary. And she knows a tail when she sees one. The guy in the white suit has been following her detective boss, Bradford Galt, all evening. So Galt braces the guy and takes him to his office for a little talk, and has Kathleen follow him after he leaves. Turns out the man in the white suit is working for Jardine, his ex-partner, the man who set him up a few years back to take a homicide rap-the...
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