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Jonas Susan; Nissenson Marilyn
Friends for Life: Enriching the Bond Between Mothers and Their Adult Daughters
William Morrow & Co 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. Appears unread. Stated First Edition. Small remainder mark on bottom. NO price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.00. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 355 pages. Synopsis Drawing on interviews expert advice and the authors' own experiences this wise inspiring book will aid every woman who has a mother is a mother or hopes to become one New York Times. William Morrow & Co Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 035937 ISBN : 0688146732 9780688146733
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McCorkle Jill
Ferris Beach: A Novel
Chapel Hill North Carolina U.S.A.: Algonquin Books 1990. Book. Near-Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-fine condition. SIGNED / AUTOGRAPHED by author on title page. NO other writing or marks inside book. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $18.95. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2. Dustcover shows slight wear NO tears. 343 pages. Tight spine clean pages. NO tears inside book. Synopsis "Whimsically entertaining and dramatically compelling." The Boston Globe Kate Burns has heard of the magic of Ferris Beach all her life. Kate needs to believe in a little wonder. Shy and self-conscious she lives with her distant demanding mother and eccentric father. Then Misty moves to town from Ferris Beach no less. She is everything Kate wants to be: daring outrageous and fun. The two girls grow up together sharing secrets about everything until one fateful Fourth of July when their lives change forever. . . . "One of the best in the new generation of Southern writers . . . McCorkle hits all the right notes." Atlanta Journal & Constitution Annotation From the author of Tending to Virginia an acclaimed coming of age novel set in a small southern town. Kate and Misty grow up together sharing secrets about everything until a fateful Fourth of July when all their lives change forever. "As compelling as a soft southern night."--Kirkus. New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Algonquin Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 035968 ISBN : 0945575394 9780945575399
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Pearlman Ann
Infidelity: A Love Story
New York New York U.S.A.: Broadway Books 2001. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Very-good condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine. NO writing or tears inside book. 255 pages. Synopsis It is estimated that an alarming four out of five married couples experience infidelity. Growing up with a mother and grandmother who painfully accepted the existence of their respective husbands' mistresses Ann Pearlman set out to beat the odds. She embarked on a career as a therapist who helped hundreds of unhappily married patients build new lives. She also found a husband with whom she felt secure. But after thirty years of rewarding marriage and parenthood she discovered that her husband was having an affair with one of his art students. Infidelity is the moving account of her shattered trust and the women in her family who endured similar wounds in the radically different climate of America before 1960. Written in precisely drawn vivid scenes Infidelity traces Pearlman's first understanding of unfaithfulness through her father. A gifted and intelligent man he took the time to explain Freud's theories to her during dinner a meal often served late because of his after-work trysts. Falling in love with Ty an African American football player and artist she basked in a strong marriage that even shrugged off interracial bias and inspired her to write a book on how to foster vitality in a marriage. Yet as her own unraveled she arrived at a turning point that would test everything she had taught and believed. Compelling reading for men and women alike Infidelity is an eye-opening testament to commitments made and broken and the experience of matrimony across three very different yet strikingly connected lifetimes. Broadway Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 036143 ISBN : 0767908112 9780767908115
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Sarris Greg;Hyperionat
Watermelon Nights
Hyperion Books 1998. Book. Near-Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. SIGNED / AUTOGRAPHED by author in book front. NO other writing or marks inside book. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.95. NO tears inside book. Tight spine clean pages. Dustcover shows slight wear NO tears. 425 pages. Synopsis In the tradition of Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie a multi-generational epic novel about the love and forgiveness that keep an American Indian family together. Told from the points of view of Johnny Severe his grandmother Elba and his mother Iris Watermelon Nights reaches to the past and toward the future to uncover the secrets behind each of these characters' extraordinary powers of perception. When twenty-year-old Johnny contemplates leaving his grandmother's house for the big city he discovers there's more than his floundering used-clothing store keeping him where he is. As the novel shifts perspectives tracing the history of the tribe we learn how the tragic events of Elba's childhood as well as Iris's attempts to separate herself from her cultural roots make Johnny's dilemma all the more difficult and his choices more crucial. Hyperion Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 036262 ISBN : 078686110X 9780786861101
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Barthelme Frederick
Bob the Gambler
Houghton Mifflin 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $23.00. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 213 pages. From Library Journal In the latest from the stylistically distinctive Barthelme middle-aged Ray and Jewel Kaiser enter Paradisea casino in run-down Biloxi Mississippi. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information Inc. From Kirkus Reviews Barthelme's latest exercise in existential pulse-taking Painted Desert 1995 etc. focuses on the democratic vice of gambling though it's less a study in addiction than a celebration of risk-taking and downward mobility. Raymond Kaiser his wife Jewel and her daughter from a previous marriage RV all quietly enjoy life in Biloxi Miss. a ``simple easy cheap'' town on the Gulf Coast. With work as an architect drying up Ray finds himself increasingly interested in the glitzy world of offshore gambling especially at the Paradise where Jewel wins over $1000 on their first trip. In their daily life ``everything's dull'' so it's no wonder that Jewel and Ray enjoy the visceral excitement of gambling. They soon graduate from slots to the blackjack table and slowly find themselves down by over $4000. Meanwhile back home RV seems headed into a downward spiral of teen rebellion--boy trouble substance experimenting and body piercings. It doesn't help that her parents are largely absent spending their nights at Paradise. When Ray's father dies it sends him further into a midlife crisis. He comes to see himself no longer as ``an ordinary guy'' but as a full-time gambler. The problem is--he's not very good at it. Spending 18 hours at a time in the casino does nothing but increase his debts. Maxing out a handful of credit cards he finds himself over $35000 in the hole but still juiced by ``the losses the excitement the hopes the desperation the high.'' Quitting architecture altogether Ray and Jewel decide to downsize selling their belongings and moving in with Ray's mother. In their new simplicity this besieged family finally finds that happiness is not in middle-class stability nor in the quick fix of gambling's artificial Paradise but in their everyday Edenic lives. Barthelme strains for topical textures--cool repartee is interrupted only by channel surfing. But the real payoff is straight-up and timeless: a novel of surprising heart and soul. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 036276 ISBN : 0395809770 9780395809778
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Gilligan Carol; Ward Janie Victoria; Taylor Jill McLean; Bardige Bett
Mapping the Moral Domain: A Contribution of Women's Thinking to Psychological Theory and Education
Harvard Univ Press 1988. Book. Very Good . Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Very-good clean condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Purple boards with silver lettering. Tight spine clean pages. Pages show slight tabbing. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 324 pages. Synopsis In the fourteen articles collected in this volume Gilligan and her colleagues expand the theoretical base of In A Different Voice and apply their research methods to a variety of life situations. The contrasting voices of justice and care clarify different ways in which women and men speak about relationships and lend different meanings to connection dependence autonomy responsibility loyalty peer pressure and violence. By examining the moral dilemmas and self-descriptions of children high school students urban youth medical students mothers lawyers and others the authors chart a new terrain: a mapping of the moral domain that includes the voices of women. In this new terrain the authors trace far-reaching implications of the inclusion of women's voices for developmental psychology for education for women and for men. Biography Carol Gilligan is University Professor at the New York University School of Law. Jill McLean Taylor is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Human Services Simmons College. Harvard Univ Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 036303 ISBN : 0674548329 9780674548329
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Stoddard Alexandra
Living in Love
William Morrow & Co 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Like-new condition. Appears unread. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $22.00. 259 pages. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Synopsis Love is a wondrous miracle. It has power to heal and to overcome pain; to transform our struggles into opportunities for joy and a deeper appreciation of life. The first step we take on our miraculous journey toward greater love is to open the wellspring of love within ourselves. Living in love is an attitude and a way. It requires living up to our fullest possibilities and giving birth to our higher power. Over the years I've found certain truths that have been helpful to me and may be helpful to you. I offer them to you with love --Alexandra Stoddard. William Morrow & Co Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 036297 ISBN : 0688143385 9780688143381
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Goudge Eileen
Thorns of Truth
New York New York U.S.A.: Viking Press 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Fine condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.95. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Tight spine clean pages. 398 pages. Synopsis Rachel and Rose now women with grown children of their own find themselves face-to-face at last with the destiny that has haunted them nearly half a century since the two of them were switched at birth in the chaos of a hospital fire. What confronts them now threatens to uproot a lifetime of deeply buried secrets: the impending marriage of Rose's capable and caring son to Rachel's emotionally troubled daughter. Once again the two women and their families are pitted against each other.just as Rachel learns that her mother Sylvie is dying. Only Rose knows that Sylvie is in reality her mother - and yearns to be recognized as Sylvie's own before it is too late. Sylvie must choose between the intricate web of lies behind which she shields her loved ones.and a truth that will shatter the lives of both her daughters - as well as that of her fragile granddaughter - before it can begin to heal them. Viking Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 036324 ISBN : 0670879428 9780670879427
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Brodkey Harold
The Runaway Soul
Farrar Straus & Giroux 1991. Book. Near-Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $30.00. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 835 pages. Synopsis Acclaimed New Yorker writer Brodkey set the literary world ablaze with this much-talked-about debut novel--a literary tour de force about an adopted child in the early 1930s who is raised in the St. Louis household of his cousins. "Impressive. . . . The work of a lifetime. . . . As haunted by love death and madness as The Oresteia".--Washington Post Book World. Annotation No writer at work today has plumbed the vagaries of a mind in action with the daring and insight of Harold Brodkey the author of Stories in an Almost Classical Mode. This mesmerizing and heartbreaking novel extends to the reader a rare chance to change his understanding of himself and his world as the author offers an unparalleled access to the inner world of another human being. Publishers Weekly The Novel We Have All Been Waiting For turns out to be a sometimes brilliant evocation of the condition of being pulsing with sensory imagery and with flashes of insight about the inherent qualities of good and evil and the presence of death in life. Brodkey's prose is supple playful often lyrical but his obsession with words and the sensations they evoke is a detriment to dramatic tension. Thus the novel is also flabby bloated overwritten overwrought often tediously self-indulgent. Exquisitely sensitive and introspective Wiley Silenowicz looks back over a painful childhood and youth spent with his foster parents Lila and S.L. and his slightly crazy half-sister Nonie. His stream-of-consciousness narration is an attempt to resolve his relationships with all of them especially with obnoxious manipulative Nonie whom he may have cheated of her parents' love. In a series of vignettes slowly too slowly accruing into the story of his life Wiley's neuroses are examined and explained most of them attributable to the suppurating wound of his natural mother's death. In some respects Brodkey is a master of his craft. His ear for dialogue is beautifully tuned especially in capturing Lila's insistent cliche-laden brassy voice. His meditations on language and his attempts to express the essence of an experience are provocative although in some nearly interminable chapters such as one called On Nearly Getting Laid the repetition of minute detail renders sex virtually unerotic. Moreover since these characters have already appeared in Stories in an Almost Classical Mode much of the time the reader feels a sense of deja vu. In the end the sheer wizardry of words tumbling on the page the turbulent torrent of memories and desires contribute to an intriguing fugal meditation on existence but do not amount to a compelling novel. Farrar Straus & Giroux Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 036347 ISBN : 0374252866 9780374252861
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Miller Sue
The Good Mother
Perennial 2002. Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine clean pages. Pages show slight tanning. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 310 pages. Synopsis Recently divorced Anna Dunlap has two passionate attachments: her daughter four-year-old Molly and her lover Leo the man who makes her feel beautiful and sexual for the first time. Swept away by happiness and passion Anna feels she has everything she's ever wanted. Then come the shocking charges that would threaten her new love her new "family" . that force her to prove she is a good mother. Annotation Sue Miller's critically acclaimed bestseller The Good Mother is now being reissued in trade paperback. This thought-provoking and powerful novel asks the question "to whom is a woman more deeply bound -- the man she loves or her own child" Linda Wolf What makes the book truly remarkable is its authenticity.one of the great pleasures of The Good Mother comes.from the author's skilfull rendition of.the common questions of motherhood. I think virtually no one has done it better. -- The New York Times Book Review Biography Sue Miller is an expert in limning the pain of endings but if this were the extent of her talents she probably would not be as successful as she is. In Miller's books one broken relationship often leads to the development of another. Her stories may not offer pat answers and perfect love stories but readers find something more rewarding in the end. Perennial Paperback
Bookseller reference : 035367 ISBN : 0060505931 9780060505936
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Perkins Spencer; Rice Chris
More Than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel
Downer's Grove Illinois: Intervarsity Press 2000. Book. Near-Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-fine condition. Remainder mark on bottom. Stated Revised & Expanded. NO clippings. Tight spine bright pages. NO tears inside book. Tight spine bright pages. 6 pages show very-light writing. Does NOT interfere with reading. 285 pages. Covers are bright and clean NO tears. Synopsis When Spencer Perkins was sixteen years old he visited his bloodied and swollen father pastor John Perkins in jail. Police had beaten the black activist severely and Spencer has never forgotten the moment. He couldn't imagine living in community with a white person after that. But his plans were changed. Chris Rice grew up in very different circumstances of "Vermont Yankee stock" attending an elite Eastern college and looking forward to a career in law and government. But his plans were changed. Today Spencer and Chris are not only friends but yokefellows - partners for more than a decade in the difficult ministry of racial reconciliation. From their own hard-won experience they insist there is hope for our frightening race problem that whites and African-Americans can live together in peace. Their hope presented here in compellingly practical detail is boldly and radically Christian. "The cause of racial reconciliation needs yokefellows.not solely for the sake of racial harmony - even though it will lead to that - but for the witness of the gospel.". Intervarsity Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 035067 ISBN : 0830822569 9780830822560
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Holman Bynny and Larry
Lessons in Leadership from Your Neighborhood
Lexington Kentucky: A Lessons In Leadership Publication 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $29.95. Nicely illustrated throughout. ONLY writing/mark inside book is a gift dedication in book front on blank page: "11-18-98 It was a great pleasure to meet all the wonderful people from MacMurray College. Hope to see you again soon! Best regards Robin Roth - Lessons in Leadership". Tight spine bright pages. 517 pages. Product Description This book is a journey among the extraordinary individuals in your town on your block within your organization. Through exploration of a neighborhood's features and characteristics the Holman's have drawn together many sources and found the vital links between ideas and people that make communities work. About the Author Bunny and Larry Holman are the founders and principal leaders of WYNCOM Inc. the company behind the phenomenally successful "Lessons In Leadership" series of presentations by the keenest minds in business. Before WYNCOM Bunny was director of a diversified community education program at a small liberal arts college where her role ranged from creating an innovative cultural education program for Japanese newcomers to interviewing university administrators and professors on a regular television program. Before he got the entrepreneurial bug and started his own marketing and training company Larry was executive director of a highly successful management development center at a state university. The couple and company are based out of Lexington Kentucky. A Lessons In Leadership Publication Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 035178 ISBN : 0964882914 9780964882911
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Cosby Bill; Poussaint Alvin F. Introduction
Time Flies
New York New York U.S.A.: Dolphin Books 1987. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $15.95. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Tight spine clean pages. 176 pages. Synopsis WE'RE ALL GETTING OLDER AND BILL COSBY KEEPS GETTING BETTER America's best-loved humorist media personality and bestselling author now brings his unique warmth wisdom and wit to a subject common to all: aging. From five to fifty and beyond Bill Cosby takes us on a hilarious romp through the trials and tribulations of growing and being older. Funny highly personal and with just the right tugs on the heartstrings Time Flies is Cosby at his best. Annotation America's #1 media personality and bestselling author delivers a light-hearted highly personal yet universally appealing look at the different ages and stages through which we live and learn. A book for every age. Publishers Weekly Cosby reached a wide audience with Fatherhood a memoir of his experiences raising children. Now at age 50 he here considers the inevitabilities of the aging process writing with the same winning mixture of common sense and humor that marked the earlier book. He confronts the shibboleths of the geriatric industry in the United States addressing them with wise witticisms in the mini crises of his own aginghis first gray hair his first trifocals etc. As psychiatrist Poussaint points out in his instructive introduction Cosby ``serves as our puckish and empathetic guide to humorous journeys through the fitful stages of life.'' The inimitable Cosby style of personalized self-deprecating humor resonates for all. Dolphin Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 035208 ISBN : 0385240406 9780385240406
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Tyler Anne
Amateur Marriage
Ballantine Books 2004. Book. Near-Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 336 pages. Synopsis From the inimitable Anne Tyler a rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage and its consequences spanning three generations. They seemed like the perfect couple young good-looking made for each other. The moment Pauline a stranger to the Polish Eastern Avenue neighborhood of Baltimore though she lived only twenty minutes away walked into his mother's grocery store Michael was smitten. And in the heat of World War II fervor they are propelled into a hasty wedding. But they never should have married. Pauline impulsive impractical tumbles hit-or-miss through life; Michael plodding cautious judgmental proceeds deliberately. While other young marrieds equally ignorant at the start seemed to grow more seasoned Pauline and Michael remain amateurs. In time their foolish quarrels take their toll. Even when they find themselves almost thirty years later loving instant parents to a little grandson named Pagan whom they rescue from Haight-Ashbury they still cannot bridge their deep-rooted differences. Flighty Pauline clings to the notion that the rifts can always be patched. To the unyielding Michael they become unbearable. From the sound of the cash register in the old grocery to the counterculture jargon of the sixties from the miniskirts to the multilayered apparel of later years Anne Tyler captures the evocative nuances of everyday life during these decades with such telling precision that every page brings smiles of recognition. Throughout as each of the competing voices bears witness we are drawn ever more fully into the complex entanglements of family life in this wise embracing and deeply perceptivenovel. The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani Although acquaintances like to think of them as a perfect couple Pauline and Michael are constantly bickering sulking and fighting at home. And by cutting back and forth among the viewpoints of different characters Ms. Tyler is able to provide a kaleidoscopic view of their marriage and the ripple effect that their contentious relationship has on their children an ode to the complexities of familial love the centripetal and centrifugal forces that keep families together and send their members flying apart the supremely ordinary pleasures and frustrations of middle-class American life. Biography Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Anne Tyler has made a glorious career of telling the often less-than glorious stories of small-town people enduring life's every day ups and downs. Having come of age in rural Raleigh North Carolina the enigmatic Tyler draws upon her background to fashion tales of the South that are quirky humorous and insightful. Ballantine Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 035234 ISBN : 0345470613 9780345470614
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Lerner Harriet
Life Preservers: Staying Afloat in Love and Life
Harpercollins 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. Remainder mark on bottom. NO price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $23.50. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 337 pages. Tight spine bright pages. Harpercollins Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 035256 ISBN : 006017420X 9780060174200
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Lerner Harriet
Life Preservers: Staying Afloat in Love and Life
Harpercollins 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. Remainder mark on bottom. NO price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $23.50. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 337 pages. Tight spine bright pages. Harpercollins Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 035257 ISBN : 006017420X 9780060174200
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Boyd Julia A.
Embracing the Fire: Sisters Talk About Sex and Relationships
New York New York U.S.A.: Plume 2001. Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears. 163 pages. Synopsis In Embracing the Fire Julia Boyd and her Sister Circle settle in for a long and intimate chat about every woman's favorite topics: sex and love. Told in the candid voices of Black women of all ages and sexual persuasions the Sister Circle serves up generous portions of straight talk and true confession along with stories of love lust and heartbreak. From the uninhibited conversation in "Having Some Fun Talking Trash" to a serious discussion in "I Am Not My Mother's Daughter" the women touch on everything from sexual freedom and experimentation to the dating and mating game the pain of breaking up and raising safe responsible kids. Author and psychotherapist Julia Boyd shares her personal stories as well -- how her own approach to life and intimate relationships has changed through the years. Filled with the frankness and sister-to-sister warmth and wittiness that distinguished Julia Boyd's previous books Embracing the Fire speaks directly to the hearts and minds of women everywhere. It is in Boyd's words "a celebration of who we are as sensuous Black women.". Plume Paperback
Bookseller reference : 034886 ISBN : 0452273935 9780452273931
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Fillion Kate
Lip Service: The Myth of Female Virtue in Love Sex and Friendship
HarperCollins 1996. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Very-good copy. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $23.00. 348 pages. Tight spine. NO writing or tears inside book. Pages show tanning. Synopsis Women aren't the best of friends models of sisterly support or paragons of emotional honesty. From the woman who sleeps with the boss to the woman who tells her friend she looks fine when she doesn't to the woman who pressures a male friend to have sex no woman is immune to the impulses of envy competitiveness aggression and coercion. None of this should come as a surprise women are human beings after all. Yet despite all evidence to the contrary the myth of women's moral superiority persists. And although gender roles are now more fluid than ever before especially among the generations born after 1960 the rhetoric of polarization continues. In Lip Service journalist Kate Fillion challenges our cherished convictions about women's natural instincts and shows how our most ingrained beliefs about gender differences actually blind us to the complexities and contradictions in women's and men's behavior. More important she demonstrates in powerful terms how confining and self-destructive this skewed perspective is for women in all aspects of their lives - including office politics their intimate relationships with men their friendships with women and their own self-images. Based on extensive academic research and in-depth interviews with North American women and men Lip Service paints a startling and ultimately very human portrait of the widening divide between women's actions and how we choose to interpret them. Acknowledging this is not antiwoman. In fact Kate Fillion so convincingly argues confronting the darker side of women's behavior frees us from the unequal moral standards and restrictive typecasting of the currently accepted codes of conduct and allows women to be honest about who they are and what they want. HarperCollins Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 034925 ISBN : 0060172908 9780060172909
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Lerner Harriet Goldhor
The Dance of Deception: Pretending and Truth-Telling in Women's Lives
HarperCollins 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Fine Condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $22.00. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 254 pages. Synopsis In this fresh challenging new book Dr. Lerner invites us to join her in a groundbreaking exploration of the many faces of truth and deception in women's lives. Through examples that are both startlingly intimate and deeply political Dr. Lerner provides us with bold insights into the countless ways and whys that women show the false and hide the real. Deception is not a "woman's problem" or even a uniquely human phenomenon: From viruses to large mammals deception is continuously at play. We are all affected by lying and faking by silence and pretending by self-deception and by brave - as well as misguided - efforts to tell the truth. Dr. Lerner shows us that women's failure to live authentically and speak truly deserves our closest attention. She illustrates how pretending is so closely linked with femininity that it is quite simply what the culture teaches us to do. Truth-telling is the central challenge in women's lives the foundation of intimacy self-regard and joy. At the center of a woman's life is the quest to discover speak and live her own truth to cease living a life dictated and defined by others. Yet in the name of "truth" or "being ourselves" we may hurt others by disregarding their different realities and move situations from bad to worse. How can we approach the process of truth-telling of knowing and being known of refining and deepening our disclosures to one another Like peace-making truthtelling does not just "happen." Sometimes it must be worked toward and planned. Drawing on more than two decades of clinical experience Dr. Lerner articulates her rich philosophy and thoughtful guidelines about speaking out and holding back. She shows us how honesty can sometimes impede truth-telling and how pretending can be a bold move toward the truth rather than a misdirected flight from it. She examines how patriarchy shapes what truths a woman can uncover share and invent about herself. HarperCollins Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 034386 ISBN : 0060168161 9780060168162
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Maushart Susan
Wifework: What Marriage Really Means for Women
New York New York U.S.A.: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. Stated First U.S. Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.95. 282 pages. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears. Synopsis Men get one thing from marriage that women never do: they get wives. Husbands and wives may say they are committed to equality and indeed many believe that they live that way. Yet whether they are employed or not wives still perform an astounding share of the physical emotional and organizational labor in marriage-everything from housework to 'sex work'. 'Wifework' is shorthand for this relentless routine of husband maintenance and it's the reason that a married man is so much better off than a bachelor. He does fewer chores is happier healthier and generally more satisfied. A married woman by contrast will perform two to three times more unpaid physical emotional and organizational labor than her husband-and for a fraction of the rewards. Women today initiate three-quarters of all divorces and wifework Maushart argues is at the core of their disillusionment. If family life is worth saving the job description for wives will have to be rewritten. Bolstering her own personal experience as a twice-married mother of three with substantial research and broad statistical evidence Maushart delves into history to explore the theoretical and evolutionary reasons behind marital inequity. Her arguments are passionate but she keeps her sense of humor intact throughout producing a work that is lucid provocative and resonant. Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 034519 ISBN : 1582342024 9781582342023
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Elkind David
Miseducation Preschoolers at Risk
Alfred A Knopf 1987. Book. Very Good . Trade Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Very-good clean condition. Tight spine clean pages - NO remainder marks or clippings. 221 pages. Previous owner's initials and name in book front. NO other writing or marks inside book. NO tears inside book. Stated First Edition. Designed to help parents avoid the miseducation of young children. Dr. Elkind shows us the very real difference between the mind of a pre-school child and that of a school age child. Alfred A Knopf Paperback
Bookseller reference : 034579 ISBN : 0394756347 9780394756349
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Rogers Victorya
Finding a Man Worth Keeping: 10 Dating Secrets That Work
Howard Pub Co 2005. Book. Near-Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 216 pages. Synopsis How to Find the Man of Your Dreams How to find the man of your dreams is no longer a matter of mystery and frustration. Victorya Michaels Rogers has done her dating homework and in this upbeat book she shares the wisdom from her dating experiences with more than one hundred men ninety-seven of whom asked her out for a second date. After having found Mr. Right Victorya will help you too find a man worth keeping as she shares secrets such as how to be a great date how not to freak him out how to know when to call it quits and much more. Don't give up. Refuse to settle. This book can teach you how to find a man who is truly worth keeping. Howard Pub Co Paperback
Bookseller reference : 034629 ISBN : 1582294496 9781582294490
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Broder Michael S.
The Art of Staying Together: A Couple's Guide to Intimacy and Respect
Hyperion Books 1993. Book. Near-Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. NO dustcover clippings or remainder marks. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Tight spine bright pages. 249 pages. Psychotherapist Broder director of Philadelphia's Rational-Emotive Institute here does for couples what he did for singles in The Art of Living Single. In his inimitable and provocative way he urges individuals to consult their own needs not to conform to externally imposed standards of what constitutes a ``proper'' relationship. First Broder discusses the foundation of lasting love relationships: without passion he says a relationship is merely platonic; without comfort it is destined to burn itself out. Next he shows couples how to overcome initial obstacles set ground rules and communicate better. Later sections tackle troubled relationships and such issues as jealousy monogamy vs. ``synogamy'' Broder's term for any relationship that is not monogamous whether to become parents and ending a relationship with dignity. The material is fresh even controversial at times as in the section on the potential benefits of outside affairs. Broder fittingly encourages readers to study only those sections that apply and emphasizes that his goal is ``to help you to understand your choices--not to moralize.'. Hyperion Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 034643 ISBN : 1562828835 9781562828837
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Collins Gary R.
Family Shock: Keeping Families Strong in the Midst of Earthshaking Change
Wheaton Illinois U.S.A.: Tyndale House Publishers 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Fine condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. 430 pages. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Synopsis Shaken by the shock waves of change our families need direction and hope. Family Shock contains fifty practical articles written by counselors family experts and other leaders. Tyndale House Publishers Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 034682 ISBN : 0842317562 9780842317566
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Melina Lois Ruskai
Raising Adopted Children: A Manual for Adoptive Parents
HarperPerennial 1986. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Very-good condition. NO tears inside book - Tight spine. NO remainder marks or clippings. 274 pages. - Covers are clean NO tears. Pages show light tanning. 22 pages show light writing/underlining. Does NOT interfere with reading. Annotation A childcare manual for adoptive parents featuring the latest research in child development psychology sociology medicine and much more. From the Publisher A classic in the field here is the first child care manual for adoptive parents featuring the latest research in child development psychology sociology medicine and the experience of adoptive families to provide practical and authoritative advice. HarperPerennial Paperback
Bookseller reference : 033815 ISBN : 0060960396 9780060960391
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Burch Beverly
On Intimate Terms: The Psychology of Difference in Lesbian Relationships
Baltimore Maryland U.S.A.: Univ of Illinois Pr 1993. Book. Very Good . Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Very-good condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean NO tears. NO tears inside book. 184 pages. 24 pages show light highlighting and/or writing. Does NOT interfere with reading. Synopsis On Intimate Terms looks at the internal logic of lesbian relationships arguing that they are not patterned after heterosexual ones but rely on the interplay of psychosexual differences between women. The book suggests that everyone seeks psychic complementarity with an Other in intimate relationships as a way of supporting personal growth and development. A complementary partner is one who is different in some individually meaningful way not necessarily in terms of gender. Drawing upon interviews with individuals and lesbian couples literature on lesbian psychology and contemporary psychoanalytic theory Beverly Burch observes a special attraction between primary lesbians - women who have been attracted to other women from an early age - and lesbians who formerly were heterosexual. This difference may be a source of tension for lovers but it also attracts and bonds them in conscious and unconscious ways. The intimacy between lesbian partners permits interpersonal exchanges that foster the continuing development of each according to Burch. This development can occur in three areas with the significance of each varying from couple to couple. It can be a source of both conscious and unconscious psychosexual exchanges a way in which each partner can experience "the road not taken" through her relationship with the other. The partners' different histories can reflect different ways of negotiating difference itself a pivotal theme in the development of adult women. And gender role identities related to different developmental experiences can be played with expanding the experience of being female in a way that can challenge gender categories. Univ of Illinois Pr Paperback
Bookseller reference : 033921 ISBN : 0252064313 9780252064319
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Weston Kath
Families We Choose: Lesbians Gays Kinship
Columbia Univ Press 1991. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Very-good condition. 261 pages. NO tears inside book. Covers are clean NO tears. Highlighting yellow and/or writing throughout book. Does NOT interfere with reading. Draws upon fieldwork and interviews to explore the ways gay men and lesbians are constructing their own notions of kinship by drawing on the symbolism of love friendship and biology. Annotation Winner of a Ruth Benedict Prize in Anthropology Women's Review of Books Graceful. . . . Valuable for the ways it demonstrates that like race gender and sexual identity the meaning of kinship is culturally relative-and susceptible to change. Biography Kath Weston is associate professor of anthropology at Arizona State University West in Phoenix. Columbia Univ Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 033925 ISBN : 0231072899 9780231072892
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Harvey John H.
Odyssey of the Heart: The Search of Closeness Intimacy and Love
W H Freeman & Co 1995. Book. Near-Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean NO tears. NO tears inside book. Tight spine bright pages. 8 pages show light highlighting yellow. Does NOT interfere with reading. NO other writing or marks inside book. 349 pages. Illustrated. Synopsis Written by a psychologist Odyssey of the Heart is one of the first scientifically based examinations of closeness intimacy and love for the everyday reader. W H Freeman & Co Paperback
Bookseller reference : 034055 ISBN : 0716725894 9780716725893
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Schwartz Pepper
Prime: Asventrues And Advice On Sex Love And The Sensual Years
Collins 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Like-new copy. Appears unread. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.95. NO writing marks or tears. Tight spine bright pages. 264 pages. Synopsis Dr. Pepper Schwartz has spent the past three decades encouraging women to embrace their sexual appetites. But when she became a single woman after 23 years of marriage she had to take her own advice and discover how sex and dating could work for her at this unique time in her life. Prime is her story of exploration sex adventure and romance spread out like a road map for women of every age. Whether you're looking to wake up a tired sex life start a new relationship or commit to the love of your life you can find tempting tips and genuinely helpful guidance. Prime invites every woman to relish her sexuality take risks and go after what she really wants. Collins Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 034229 ISBN : 0061173584 9780061173585
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Ludtke Melissa
On Our Own: Unmarried Motherhood in America
Random House Inc 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Fine condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $25.95. NO writing or tears inside book. Tight spine clean pages. 467 pages. Synopsis The U.S. has experienced a dramatic increase in births to unmarried women in recent decades--from 4% of births in 1950 with most of the babies then adopted to more than 30% today. Melissa Ludtke's book is the only in-depth analysis of this radical change in family formation to compare and contrast the lives of these mothers of varying ages and economic circumstances. Publishers Weekly Nearly one-third of U.S. children are now born to single mothers according to Ludtke a former correspondent for Time magazine in this nonjudgmental informative study. The 45-year-old single woman here contrasts the stories of single teenage mothers with older career women who raise children without husbands. Limiting her interviews to several dozen women living near her home in the Cambridge Mass. area Ludtke does not offer a definitive analysis but her skilled anecdotal research buttressed by academic studies gives a human face to a social phenomenon that deserves attention. Because teenage mothers often lack financial resources their daily lives can differ significantly from those of older single mothers. But Ludtke notes similarities as well between the two groups such as the feeling that motherhood will make their lives more meaningful and a concern that their offspring relate to positive male figures. Ludtke argues poignantly that adolescent pregnancy will be prevented only when adults develop "the patience and perseverance to stick with troubled youth across the span of their adolescence." Biography Melissa Ludtke drew national attention in 1978 when as a reporter for Sports Illustrated she took Major League Baseball to court to gain women reporters equal access to athletes' locker rooms. She then became a correspondent for Time where her articles including more than twenty cover stories focused on family and children. While researching and writing this book she had fellowships at Harvard Radcliffe and the Columbia School of Journalism. Ludtke is a graduate of Wellesley College and lives in Cambridge Massachusetts. Random House Inc Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 033281 ISBN : 0679424148 9780679424147
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Ford Debbie
The Secret of the Shadow: The Power of Owning Your Whole Story
New York New York U.S.A.: Harper San Francisco 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Fine condition. Stated First Edition. Remainder mark on bottom. NO price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.95. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Tight spine bright pages. 224 pages. Synopsis In her blockbuster The Dark Side of the Light Chasers Debbie Ford introduced us to our "shadow." In this new work she uncovers our "story" which is the collection of beliefs and attitudes that prevents us from having all the love happiness and success we desire. She guides us to discover that hidden in the shadow of our stories is our magnificence and our unique gift. The Secret of the Shadow shows that our stories do not define who we truly are and in fact prevent us from grasping our purpose and potential holding us back even while we long for transformation. When we live in these stories we engage in repetitious defeating habits and abusive behaviors. By offering tools for identifying and understanding our life dramas and all their shadows Ford enables us to see these stories as gifts and gain wisdom from our wounds. Ford's clear process will help us discover our unique purpose and realize the fulfillment of our deepest desires. About the Author: Debbie Ford works as a coach teacher consultant and integral faculty member of The Chopra Center for Well Being in La Jolla CA. She lives in La Jolla with her son Beau. Harper San Francisco Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 033484 ISBN : 0062517821 9780062517821
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Fisher Helen E.
Anatomy of Love: The Natural History of Monogamy Adultery and Divorce
W.W. Norton & Company 1992. Book. Very Good . Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Very-good clean copy. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Tight spine - Bright pages. 431 pages. NO remainder marks or clippings. - Why do we marry Why are some people adulterous Why do human beings divorce What is infatuation When did human love and sex evolve and what is the future of the family In this brilliant book anthropologist Helen Fisher examines the innate aspects of sex and love and marriage those traits and tendencies that we inherited from our past. She examines flirting behavior and the other courting postures and vocal tones we use naturally to court each other. She explains love-at-first-sight and why we fall in love with one person rather than another. She explores the brain chemistry of attraction and attachment. And she looks at divorce in 62 societies and adultery in 42 cultures to illustrate her new theory the "four-year itch." Fisher traces the evolution of human courtship marriage adultery divorce re-marriage and the sexual emotions back to their origins on the grasslands of Africa four million years ago. Women men and power the genesis of teenage the origin of human conscience gender differences in the brain and many other aspects of human sexuality take on new meaning as she follows human kind from caves in Africa through the agricultural revolution and on into contemporary Western social life. In the last chapter Fisher looks at several modern trends and concludes that many are not new. Instead these family patterns came across the centuries up from primitives who wandered out of Africa millennia ago. W.W. Norton & Company Paperback
Bookseller reference : 033485 ISBN : 0393034232 9780393034233
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Kirk Barbara
Grandpa Me and Our House in the Tree
New York New York U.S.A.: Atheneum 1978. Book. Near-Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $7.95. Number line: 109 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Illustrated throughout with photos. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Dustcover is clean shows 1 small closed tear. Orange boards with white lettering clean and bright. Atheneum Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 033522 ISBN : 0027507505 9780027507508
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Bettelheim Bruno
A Good Enough Parent: A Book on Child-Rearing
Alfred A. Knopf 1987. Book. Very Good . Trade Paperback. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. A photo of this book is available. Very-nice clean copy of this Bruno Bettelheim book. 377 pages. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean NO tears. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Tight spine clean pages. Previous owner's name stamp on bottom-outside page edges blacked out. In this book the preeminent child psychologist of our time gives us the results of his lifelong effort to determine what is most crucial in successful child-rearing. His purpose is not to give parents preset rules for raising their children but rather to show them how to develop their own insights so that they will understand their own and their children's behavior in different situations and how to cope with it. Above all he warns parents must not indulge their impulse to try to create the child they would like to have but should instead help each child fully develop into the person he or she would like to be. Alfred A. Knopf Paperback
Bookseller reference : 033632
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Grymes Sandra; Stanton Mary
Coping With the Male Ego in the Workplace
Ann Arbor Michigan U.S.A.: Longmeadow Press 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. A photo of this book is available. Stated First Edition. Near-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears. 191 pages. Publishers Weekly Grymes who manages a division of a social services corporation and Stanton a human resources administrator offer a carefully reasoned study which should prove useful to women. Their two basic premises are: although the balance of power is shifting the American workplace is a man's world; and by nature or nurture men and women are different. Although the authors maintain that this book is not intended as a how-to guide the dozens of case histories they adduce will surely help women to overcome their inclinations to be too deferential too accommodating and too sensitive to the male ego. Grymes and Stanton here confront difficult situations like those involving clients who expect special favors. They also deal with sexual harassment but only as part of the larger picture of gender harassment. Jan. Library Journal The authors who are longtime managers describe the male ego as the behavior that results from ``a strong need to maintain a sense of superiority and control.'' It may be expressed covertly by ignoring or downplaying women's contributions or overtly through sexual harassment and exclusion from decision-making processes. The authors are more concerned with ``how come'' than ``how to''; their extensive interviews with women illustrate a wide range of strategies for coping with gender-based conflicts about style authority and expectations. Though the authors hold out the promise of new management styles that make use of women's intuition and collaborative strengths many of their examples make it clear that ``barriers to success are real for women who expect to exert power.'' Like Beth Milwid's Working with Men Berkley Pub. 1992 this book offers no universal prescriptions. Recommended for public libraries.-- Mary-Ellen Mort Univ. of California at Berkeley Extension. Longmeadow Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 033718 ISBN : 0681414545 9780681414549
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Kuster Elizabeth
Exorcising Your Ex: How to Get Rid of the Demons of Relationships Past
Fireside 1996. Book. Near-Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Covers are clean NO tears. 191 pages. Synopsis Are you hurting from a recent breakup Still pining for a guy you dated ten years ago Here are surefire ways to demolish those demons of loves past -- and still maintain your dignity and sense of humor. This hilarious and eminently helpful collection of real-life tricks and techniques is like no other book of its kind. With cutting-edge wit. Elizabeth Kuster presents tried-and-true solutions from dozens of women who have survived the trauma of breaking up -- clever or desperate methods for getting over guys who for some silly reason think they can live without you. In this book you'll find An exclusive equation to help you recalculate your post-breakup recovery time. How not to make your current boyfriend pay for what your ex did to you. What to do with the ratty bathrobe your ex left hanging in your closet. On-target lists of movies books and songs appropriate for each phase. Quick fixes harmless revenge tactics and much much more! These sassy tales from the trenches will help you get over nagging negative memories quickly effectively painlessly. And failing that they'll give you a few cheap laughs. Biography Elizabeth Kuster is a freelance writer who lives in New York City. She was formerly the editor of Glamour's "Couple Time" column. Fireside Paperback
Bookseller reference : 032573 ISBN : 068480302X 9780684803029
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Arden Cathy
My Sister's Picture
Riverside New Jersey U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster 1986. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Fine condition. Publisher's remainder stamp on bottom. NO price clippings. Price inside book is $17.95. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Tight spine clean pages. 239 pages. Publishers Weekly Not until the death of Doren her beloved frail but protective older sister did the author robust but more timid come to know her through journals notebooks poetry and an unfinished novel. Skipping back and forth in time and alternating quotations from the writings of both women Arden recalls their close though competitive relationship through a stormy childhood of parental discord adolescence and young womanhood accompanied by a succession of male companions. The survivor reflects upon the joy and pain the sisters caused each other and wonders how truthful Doren was in her journals and how much of her real feelings are concealed. Of the more than two years in Manhattan watching her sister succumb at 33 to the ravages of cancer Arden recounts that she observed the dying woman with intensity in an effort to ``memorize'' her. In deeply felt passages and poems she states that she learned that one must ``love without taking on someone's pain.''. Simon & Schuster Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 032611 ISBN : 0671504673 9780671504670
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Williams Pat; Williams Jill; Spring Beth
Twelve-Part Harmony: A Heartwarming Story of Adoption
Fleming H Revell Co 1990. Book. Near-Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or dustcover clippings. Illustrated with photos. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Tight spine clean pages. 205 pages. Dustcover is clean NO tears. Fleming H Revell Co Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 032678 ISBN : 080071640X 9780800716400
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Rimm Sylvis B.
How to Parent So Children Will Learn
Watertown Wisconsin U.S.A.: Apple Pub Co 1993. Book. Illus. by Maas Katherine Raue. Near-Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine bright pages. Illustrated throughout. ONLY writing/mark inside book is a small notation on the title page. NO tears inside book. 278 pages. Apple Pub Co Paperback
Bookseller reference : 032674 ISBN : 0937891029 9780937891025
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Bryan Kimberli; Blake Stephen Foreword
Loving Your Long-Distance Relationship for Women
Anton Pub 1998. Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO writing marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Anton Pub Paperback
Bookseller reference : 032687 ISBN : 0968097162 9780968097168
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Weiner Davis Michele
A Woman's Guide to Changing Her Man: Without His Even Knowing It
Golden Books 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Fine condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $22.95. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 261 pages. Synopsis The only thing more universal than a woman's desire to change her man is a man's resistance to it. But internationally renowned relationship expert and best-selling author Michele Weiner-Davis tells women not to abandon ship and assures them that just one person can truly effect relationship change. Step by step she teaches women how by making minor shifts in their own actions they can create major changes in their men and in their love lives. Convinced that not all efforts to change men are created equal Weiner-Davis urges women to stop shooting from the hip and doing what "feels right" and start being more strategic and results-oriented. She teaches women "male-friendly" unorthodox and subtle methods of persuasion that influence men to be more responsive and accomodating - without their even knowing it! Her straightforward practical sometimes politically incorrect advice inspires readers to move beyond thir self-limiting belief that men don't change. Library Journal The title which promises an easy fix is meant to lure readers. Actually this work is about how women can change their approach to their partners which means changing themselves first thus improving their relationships. As a seminar leader and frequent visitor on the talk-show circuit Weiner-Davis knows how to reach an audience. The best-selling author of Divorce Busting Summit 1992 and other works presents her ideas in a friendly and practical manner. Although some may balk at what appears at first glance to be manipulation others will want to try Weiner-Davis's advice. Granted that the author may have oversimplified complex relationships her ideas provide at least a starting point for women who are unhappy. Buy where Mars/Venus books are in demand.January Adams Franklin Twp. P.L. Somerset NJ. Golden Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 032726 ISBN : 0307440427 9780307440426
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Campolo Tony Campolo Bart
Things We Wish We Had Said: Reflections of a Father and His Grown Son
W Pub Group 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Fine Condition. NO remainder marks or dustcover clippings. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 216 pages. W Pub Group Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 032723 ISBN : 0849906857 9780849906855
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Leman Kevin
Sex Begins in the Kitchen: Because Love Is an All-Day Affair
Fleming H Revell Co 1999. Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Like-new copy. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears. 272 pages. Synopsis Build communication affection consideration and caring in your marriage to make it more emotionally--and physically--satisfying. Fleming H Revell Co Paperback
Bookseller reference : 032731 ISBN : 0800757092 9780800757090
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Shaw Mary Ann
Your Anxious Child: Raising a Healthy Child in a Frightening World
Birch Lane Press 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Price inside dustcover: $14.95. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Tight spine bright pages. 174 pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Synopsis This timely book Your Anxious Child will appeal to a wide audience of parents and caregivers by helping them recognize children's everyday fears and giving them valuable information to cope with the anxiety produced by these fears. It also provides parents with an understanding of how their behaviors affect their children beginning in infancy. Dr. Shaw explains and responds to a wide variety of anxiety related disorders in all ages of children in a way that's easy to read understand and implement. This up-to-date guide helps readers recognize and respond to common anxieties in normal children as well as more profound anxieties in children with a wide range of psychological and developmental problems. Dr. Shaw takes the reader through divorce sibling rivalry helping sensitive children survive the rigors of their school years the effects of terrorism and many of the more serious problems facing children in our world today. She offers case studies and appropriate self-help for the parent in a nurturing and common sense style. Annotation Today anxiety is recognized as a more common and more serious problem in children than was previously thought. It frequently goes undertreated in the medical community in part because parents don't immediately seek help. Dr. Shaw gives valuable and practical advice on how to stop anxiety before its starts to interfere with a child's natural development. Biography Mary Ann Shaw Ed. D. Dr. Shaw a licensed psychologist has been helping parents and their children since she began teaching mentally retarded children in 1959. She served for 10 years as Director of Psychological Services at Texas's nationally known Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. Prior to establishing her private practice Dr. Shaw was a consultant on staff at the world-renowned Children's Medical Center in Dallas and an assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Psychology Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Center. She lives in Santa Fe and maintains a residence in Dallas. This is her second book her first Helping Your Child Survive Divorce was published by Birch Lane Press and is now out of print. Birch Lane Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 032748 ISBN : 1559723181 9781559723183
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Bronson Po
Why Do I Love These People Honest and Amazing Stories of Real Families
Random House 2005. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.95. 383 pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Tight spine bright pages. Synopsis We all have an imaginary definition of a great family. We imagine what it would be like to belong to such a family. No fights over the holidays. No getting on one another's nerves. Respect for individual identity. Mutual support without being intrusive. So many people believe they are disqualified from having a better family experience primarily because they compare their own family with the mythic ideal and their reality falls short. Is that a fair standard to judge against In the pages of Why Do I Love These People Po Bronson takes us on an extraordinary journey. It begins on a river in Texas where a mother gets trapped underwater and has to bargain for her own life and that of her kids. Then a father and his daughter return to their tiny rice-growing village in China hoping to rekindle their love for each other inside the walls of his childhood home. Next a son puts forth a riddle asking us to understand what his first experience of God has to do with his Mexican American mother. Every step and every family on this journey is real. Calling upon his gift for powerful nonfiction narrative and philosophical insight Bronson explores the incredibly complicated feelings that we have for our families. Each chapter introduces us to two people a father and his son a daughter and her mother a wife and her husband and we come to know them as intimately as characters in a novel following the story of their relationship as they struggle resiliently through the kinds of hardships all families endure. Some of the people manage to save their relationship while others find a better life only afterletting the relationship go. From their efforts the wisdom in this book emerges. We are left feeling emotionally raw but grounded and better prepared to love through both hard times and good time. In these twenty mesmerizing stories we discover what is essential and elemental to all families and in doing so slowly abolish the fantasies and fictions we have about those we fight to stay connected to. In Why Do I Love These People Bronson shows us that we are united by our yearnings and aspirations: Family is not our dividing line but our common ground. The Washington Post - Carolyn See Bronson is no Pollyanna; he tells stories about himself that reveal his own compulsion to "succeed" to be "better" but he reminds himself and us repeatedly that those aren't the things that count. Love and decency and self-control count. And the integrity of his prose style as well as the incredible sweetness of those he writes about give him 24-karat credibility. Biography Although it took him some time to find his literary niche Po Bronson has settled into his role as social documentarian with great ease penning two books that have become tremendous commercial critical and personal successes in the process. Random House Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 032849 ISBN : 1400062373 9781400062379
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Jong Erica
What Do Women Want: Bread Roses Sex Power
HarperCollins 1998. Book. Near-Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-fine condition. Stated First Edition. Remainder mark on bottom. NO price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $25.00. 202 pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Tight spine clean pages. Pages show light tanning. Synopsis What Do Women Want is a book of inspiration humor and provocation-an intimate conversation between the reader and Erica Jong. In these personal statements Jong addresses many of the questions that concern women and men today. Are women better off today than they were twenty-five years ago Why do powerful women evoke ambivalence Why so mothers continue to be blamed for working outside the home How does the mother-daughter relationship influence cycles of feminism and backlash What is the connection between pornography and the creative spirit Who is the perfect man With her characteristic wit and her refreshing refusal to bow down before political correctness Erica Jong tackles these and other issues. An informal memoir and a book of inspiration for all women and the men in their lives What Do Women Want is both funny and serious full of Jong's delight in language and her passion for ideas. Grappling with the writers she loves and the hypocrisy she hates she reveals her own original quirky take on the world we live in. Author Biography: Erica Jong award-winning poet novelist and essayist is best known for seven bestselling novels including her most recent Inventing Memory and her midlife memoir Fear of Fifty. She is a former president of the Authors Guild and frequent lecturer on women's rights authors' rights and free expression both here and abroad. She lives in New York City and Connecticut. HarperCollins Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 032915 ISBN : 0060183764 9780060183769
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Rush Anne Kent
The Back Rub Book: How to Give and Receive Great Back Rubs
New York New York U.S.A.: Vintage Books 1989. Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine clean pages. Illustrated throughout. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 162 pages. Annotation Teaches the fine art of giving and receiving great backrubs that offers a respite from life's stresses and responsibilities. Hundreds of backrubs to fit the mood. Vintage Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 032993 ISBN : 0394759621 9780394759623
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Sawyer Scott
Earthly Fathers: A Memoir: A Coming of Age Story About Faith and the Search for a Father's Love
Grand Rapids Michigan U.S.A.: Zondervan 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 203 pages. Synopsis In this moving and tender memoir Scott Sawyer traces his relationship with two men the father who died shortly after Scott was born and the man who took his place and loved Scott and his brother as only a dad can. Here is a celebration of the joys of family and a poignant reflection on it's sorrows and intimate insights into the character of our heavenly Father. Zondervan Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 031943 ISBN : 0310230039 9780310230038
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Bloomfield Harold H.; Kory Robert B.
Making Peace in Your Stepfamily: Surviving and Thriving As Parents and Stepparents
Hyperion Books 1993. Book. Near-Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-fine condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $19.95. 296 pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Tight spine clean pages. Pages show light tanning. Synopsis The New York Times bestselling author of How to Survive the Loss of a Love now presents a valuable handbook combining personal experience and professional expertise for understanding and overcoming the inevitable conflicts within stepfamilies. The most important tools in any effort to make peace are the ability to understand and the willingness to cooperate. Annotation Here are innovative ways to defuse inevitable hostilities in blended families cope with common fantasies of instant success end power struggles and encourage communication. Featuring exercises visualizations--and a comprehensive bibliography and list of helpful organizations--this indespensable guide is both practical and compassionate. Hyperion Books Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 032052 ISBN : 1562828851 9781562828851
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Biederman Jerry and Lorin Compiled and Edited by; Leach Penelope Foreword
Parent School: Simple Lessons from the Leading Experts on Being a Mom & Dad
New York New York U.S.A.: M Evans & Co 2002. Book. Near-Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $21.95. NO tears inside book. 8 pages show light highlighting. Does NOT interfere with reading. Tight spine clean pages. 424 pages. Tight spine clean pages. Synopsis A collection of 78 original essays from the most respected parenting authors of our time. These leading authorities have contributed what they consider to be their most valuable lesson philosophy tips advice for parents. M Evans & Co Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 032081 ISBN : 0871319586 9780871319586
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