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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"A warm, funny and keenly perceptive novel about the lifecycle of one family -- as the kids become parents, grandchildren become teenagers, and a matriarch confronts the legacy of her mistakes, from the New York Times-bestselling author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days, decades years earlier. Suddenly, Astrid...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
381 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Agreeing to care for the baby that a terminally ill former girlfriend claims is his, recovering alcoholic Noel turns to a loving network of family and friends for help until a social worker attempts to place the baby in a foster home.
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Series
Humor for the heart volume D
Language
English
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Parenting book based on biblical principles with concrete suggestions on how to better raise children, developing self-respect rather than self-esteem--Provided by publisher.
5) The talk
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"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 told him he couldn't play with a white friend's realistic...
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English
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"Like most parents or parents-to-be, [the author] felt the reflex to not talk to his child about racism, which he feared would stain her innocence and steal away her joy. But research and experience changed his mind, and he realized that raising his child to be antiracist would actually protect his child, and preserve her innocence and joy. He realized that teaching students about the reality of racism and the myth of race provides a protective education...
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