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How to Really Love Your Child

by D. Ross Campbell

Published: 2004-01-02

Paperback: 250 pages

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Many parents would be dismayed to discover that their child feels unloved. After all, they make sure that their child has the things they need. They attend their child's school events. They buy their child the things they want. So why is it then that most children doubt that th...

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What We Say Matters: Practicing Nonviolent Communication

by P.T. Judith Hanson Lasater Ph.D., Ike K. Lasater

Published: 2009-10-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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For yoga teacher Judith Hanson Lasater and her husband, mediator Ike K. Lasater, language is a spiritual practice based on giving and receiving with compassion. In What We Say Matters, they offer new and nurturing ways of communicating. Long-term students of yoga and Buddhism, the authors ...

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Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons

by Frederick Buechner

Published: 2007-03-13

Paperback: 320 pages

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Frederick Buechner has long been a kindred spirit to those who find elements of doubt as constant companions on their journey of faith. He is a passionate writer and preacher who can alter lives with a simple phrase. Buechner's words, both written and spoken, have the power to revolutioniz...

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Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated) (Top Five Classics)

by Jane Austen

Published: 2019-09-15

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical ...

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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

by Gertrude Stein

Published: 1990-03-17

Paperback: 252 pages

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Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written.

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Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy

by Karen Foxlee

Published: 2014-01-28

Hardcover: 240 pages

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A luminous retelling of the Snow Queen, this is the story of unlikely heroine Ophelia Jane Worthington-Whittard who doesn't believe in anything that can't be proven by science. She and her sister Alice are still grieving for their dead mother when their father takes a job in a strange muse...

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The Fixer: A Novel

by Bernard Malamud

Published: 2004-05-05

Paperback: 352 pages

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The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel -- one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel.Set in Kiev in 1911 ...

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The Dollmaker

by Harriette Arnow

Published: 2009-06-09

Paperback: 688 pages

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The Dollmaker was originally published in 1954 to immediate success and critical acclaim. In unadorned and powerful prose, Harriette Arnow tells the unforgettable and heartbreaking story of the Nevels family and their quest to preserve their deep-rooted values amidst the turmoil of war and...

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Chinese Girl in the Ghetto

by Ying Ma

Published: 2011-03-18

Paperback: 155 pages

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As China opens itself to the world and undertakes historic economic reforms, a little girl in the southern city of Guangzhou immerses herself in a world of fantasy and foreign influences while grappling with the mundane vagaries of Communist rule. She happily immigrates to Oakland, Califor...

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The Guest Cat

by Takashi Hiraide

Published: 2014-01-28

Paperback: 144 pages

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A wonderful sui generis novel about a visiting cat who brings joy into a couple’s life in TokyoA bestseller in France and winner of Japan’s Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the...