Bell, Darrin
Summary: "This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that--to paraphrase Toni Morrison--does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 BELL, DARRIN BELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BELL BELNakazawa, Donna Jackson
Summary: "Anyone on the front lines of caring for girls today-parents, school nurses, guidance counselors-knows that girls are more anxious and more prone to depression and self-harming than ever before. New science confirms this a biologically-rooted phenomenon, set in motion by the earlier onset of puberty, the evolutionary predisposition of the female brain to react to perceived threats, and the many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.23082 NAKDelahooke, Mona
Summary: From a leading child psychologist comes this groundbreaking new understanding of children's behavior, offering insight and strategies to support both parents and children. Over her decades as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Mona Delahooke has routinely counseled distraught parents who struggle to manage their children's challenging, sometimes oppositional behaviors. These families are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 155.4 DELDempsey-Multack, Michelle
Summary: "We hear about it all the time on the news. The divorce rates are rising. More children are being raised in split up homes. But you didn't think it would happen to you. Luckily, you're not alone. Popular divorce coach Michelle Dempsey-Multack not only survived her own divorce, but figured out how to move on with her life, just like you will, too. Now happily remarried with a blended family,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2022
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Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Amy Dockser Marcus shows what happened when a group of parents joined forces with doctors and researchers to try to save children's lives. Parents whose children had been diagnosed with the rare and fatal genetic condition Niemann-Pick Type C disease recognized there would never be a treatment in time to save their children if things stayed the same, so the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 MARWalls, Jeannette.
Summary: Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 WALLS, JEANNETTE WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B WALLSGinsburg, Kenneth R.
Summary: This book offers coping strategies for facing the combined elements of academic performance, high achievement standards, media messages, peer pressure, and family tension.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Academy of Pediatrics 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 GINRichardson, Justin
Summary: A psychiatrist and a pediatrician present information to help parents understand their children's sexuality, covering every key stage in a child's sexual development and explaining how to address youngsters' questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.65 RICEngel, Beverly.
Contents: Our parents as mirrors -- The seven types of negative parental mirrors -- Your body as a mirror -- How mirror therapy works -- Rejecting your parents' negative reflection -- Emotionally separating from your parents -- Quieting and countering your inner critic -- Looking deeper into the mirror: discovering the real you -- Providing for yourself what you missed as a child -- Learning to love your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2006
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Summary: "Parenting Under Fire presents theoretical frameworks and specific suggestions for the parents of hurt, angry, rejecting, distant children of all ages and all stages of connection"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parent BakerPercy, Benjamin
Summary: "The Teen Titans are settling into their new lives in Titans Tower in San Francisco ... even if answering to Damian Wayne takes a lot of getting used to. But Beast Boy, Raven, Starfire and Kid Flash soon have a lot more than an overbearing Robin to worry about--a prison breakout has led to a string of disappearances, and some of them hit close to home. Now, to rescue the kidnapped, the Titans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "For new parents, those thinking about becoming parents, and old pros, this new title brings together informative and helpful information about parenting styles and strategies for infants, toddlers, school-age children, pre-teens and teenagers. Hundreds of essays take a deep dive into issues that contemporary parents are facing now, and offer tools and strategies to help deal with difficult...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parent MogliaBourne, Brianna
Summary: Flint Larson has known when he was going to die since he was eight because of the Half-Life Institute, and he is spending the last forty-one days quietly with his divorced parents; September is a vibrant aspiring scientist who wants to cure "half-life", especially since she has met Flint--but their time together is getting short.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOURandis, K. L.
Summary: Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call about the escalating brutality in her home. When social services jeopardize her safety condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit for safety and justice Brooke battles a broken system that pushes to keep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace 2013
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Summary: "Thren Felhorn is the greatest assassin of his time. All the thieves' guilds of the city are under his unflinching control. If he has his way, death will soon spill out from the shadows and into the streets. Aaron is Thren's son, trained to be heir to his father's criminal empire. He's cold, ruthless--everything an assassin should be. But when Aaron risks his life to protect a priest's daughter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Collects three stories featuring Disney characters, including "Minnie-rella," in which Minnie falls asleep after doing a lot of hard work and is transformed into Minnie-rella.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2019
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE LOTMaguire, Caroline
Summary: Every parent wants their child to have friends, to be successful, to feel comfortable in his or her own skin. But many children lack important social and executive functioning skills that allow them to navigate through the world with ease. Maguire has worked with thousands of families dealing with chronic social dilemmas, ranging from shyness to aggression to ADHD, and more. Here she shares The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When it comes to her three free-spirited daughters, Daphne is just your normal over-protective, overbearing, over-the-top mother. Worried that her youngest daughter, Millie, will end up alone, Daphne meddles in her daughter's love life until she ends up doing all wrong things for all the right reasons - and all in the name of motherly love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BecauseOomen, Anne-Marie
Summary: "Writer Pam Houston once summed it up, "Nice mother-daughter stories are a dime a dozen; pain-in-the ass mother-daughter stories are the ones that grab us." As Long as I Know You makes a compelling read for any adult grappling with a living elder who might also be a pain in the ass, particularly, any reader who wants a tender take on the lethal combination of dementia and defiance. As Long as I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2022
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 920 OOMKidd, Sue Monk
Summary: This is the Spanish text edition of the New York Times best selling novel, "The Secret Life of Bees". It is a beautifully written, coming of age story, set in rural South Carolina in 1964 against the back drop of the civil rights movement. It is the touching story of a young white girl, fourteen year old Lily Owens, whose mother died in a tragic accident when Lily was about four. Lily lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005