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Adolescence is a time of change and growing pains, making it especially challenging for a child's self-esteem. Expert psychologist Judy Kuriansky and author Edie Hand explore these challenges in Self Esteem: Simple Ways to Increase Your Child's Confidence During Adolescence to help you instill values in your adolescents and create a healthy environment in which they can thrive. With easy-to-understand tips, lessons, and exercises in each chapter,...
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Meet the Manoukians-a dysfunctional Armenian family-and the fraying rope that binds them.Set in Queens, New York, while a father deteriorates from terminal illness, three sisters contend with one another, their self-destructive pasts, and their indomitable mother as they face the loss of the one person holding their unstable family together.Kohar, the oldest sister, is happily married, yet grapples with fertility issues and, in turn, her own self-worth....
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Inspired by a true story of how a young narwhal finds himself a new family to love and accept him-a pod of beluga whales!Little Narwhal is lost. After a big storm hits, he wanders the ocean alone, in search of a community to belong to. Eventually he finds other whales . . . but these whales don't look like him at all! Will they welcome him into their family?From the same team behind the bestselling book Dream Flights on Arctic Nights, this story is...
4) Ana Turns
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Featured in Buzz Books 2023 Great Reads Fall/Winter"A wealth of keen insight and just the right touch of delightful humor." -Sigrid Nunez, author of The FriendA kaleidoscopic story, unspooling over the twenty-four hours of a very contemporary woman's sixtieth birthday.Nine years have passed since Ana Koehl had sex with her pot-addicted anesthesiologist husband, seven since she began an affair with a gonzo journalist. She's gratified by her work as...
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Reflections on the Struggles and Joys of Life
Our lives are full of ups and downs, and experiences that break us and fulfill us. Author, minister, radio talk show host, and counselor Hugh Prather explores the many facets of life and ponders the values of love, courage, and more.
Full of personal revelations. True to style, this book by Hugh Prather is packed with honest personal reflections and inspirational thoughts that provide insights into life....
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What is sacred living? It is aligning our living with the rhythms of the Earth and recognizing that those rhythms are sacred.
Bedtime offers an affirmation for each day of the year and includes hundreds of simple suggestions, meditations, and celebrations that can make the ordinary extraordinary.
With selections from D. H. Lawrence, Sappho, Anas Nin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Colette, the Kama Sutra, and experts such as Barbara De Angelis, Daphne Rose...
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From classic
Lower Merion to hip and edgy New York City, Sophia Ito brings out her new style
in Book 2 of The Stitch Clique!
Ever since her parents'
divorce, Sophia's life at home with her mom hasn't been easy. So when her dad
moves back to New York, Sophia jumps on the chance to visit-not only can she go
to her favorite museums and stores again, but she also misses seeing her dad
every day.
Everything about being in
New York feels so...
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Live long and prosper One of America's top yoga and embodied mindfulness teachers reveals secrets and practices for optimal aging Relationships matter: Super Ager has everything you need to know to "live long and prosper"; from movement, diet, fasting, and brain and memory health to the major impact of relationships on longevity. Younger aging: Filled with science, suggestions for gentle daily movement, natural remedies and modern wisdom, Super Ager...
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