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1) The Montessori baby: a parent's guide to nurturing your baby with love, respect, and understanding
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"Drawing on principles developed by the educator Dr Maria Montessori, The Montessori Baby shows how to raise your baby from birth to age one with love, respect, insight, and a surprising sense of calm... Including how to prepare yourself for parenthood physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. Become an active observer to understand what your baby is really telling you. Create Montessori spaces in your home, including "yes" spaces...
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Flora y Mails, dos niños huérfanos, están bajo la tutela de su tío, un joven adinerado, dueño de la mansión Blay. Éste no desea hacerse cargo de la educación de sus sobrinos, salvo en lo estrictamente material. Para ello contrata los servicios de una joven e inexperta institutriz que viajará hasta la mansión para cuidar y educar a los niños. Con cierto recelo a su llegada, está dispuesta a hacerse respetar. Sin embargo, se verá sorprendida...
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"From building blocks to city blocks, an eye-opening exploration of how children's playthings and physical surroundings affect their development. Parents obsess over their children's playdates, kindergarten curriculum, and every bump and bruise, but the toys, classrooms, playgrounds, and neighborhoods little ones engage with are just as important. These objects and spaces encode decades, even centuries of changing ideas about what makes for good child-rearing--and...
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It's not just how much time you have with your kids, but how you spend that time that matters in the life and legacy of a family. No Regrets Parenting focuses on the simple truth that the long days of busy parenting race quickly by and, looking back someday, the years with kids will feel far too short. Written by renowned pediatrician, celebrated author, and distinguished parenting expert, Dr. Harley Rotbart, No Regrets Parenting, Updated and Expanded...
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Todos hemos pensado que el cuento de Caperucita termina cuando el lobo muere ahogado en el río con la barriga llena de piedras. Pero no es así. En esta historia descubrimos que Jefe Lobo, en la asamblea donde se encuentra reunida la manada, planea no uno, sino varios ataques para vengar la muerte de Cabeza Gris y además tener comida en una época de crisis en el bosque. A Jefe Lobo no le importan los consejos de Profesor Lobo y precipita un final...
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En una reunión de Alcohólicos Anónimos en Nueva York, una joven conoce a un escritor a quien le encarga la elaboración de un libro. Este encuentro es el origen de una extraña relación entre dos exiliados colombianos que nos va enseñando la cruda realidad de una nación asiática que vive en medio de un conflicto y la psicología de varios personajes inmersos en luchas que parecen inacabables. Novela psicológica y de aventuras con un fuerte...
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Las aventuras de Alicia en el país de las maravillas se publicó originalmente en 1865. Nació de los relatos que Lewis Carroll improvisaba para tres amiguitas suyas, las hermanas Liddell, a una de las cuales está dedicado este libro. Con el paso de los años, Alicia se ha convertido en un libro clásico de la literatura universal, y aunque su autor lo escribió como una historia para niños, personas de todas las edades se lo han apropiado gracias...
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When a baby dies one of the first concerns a parent has is the impact this loss has on their young living children. It is difficult to know what to say or how to talk about the death of a long-awaited sibling. Ethan's Butterflies provides a way for parents and professionals to connect with young children who experience the loss of a sibling. This story is written from a young child's perspective and told by a pink elephant named Emma. Emma describes...
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One of those drunken dirty derelicts you saw sleeping under a bridge could have been my brother. Before you turn away and pretend he is invisible take a second if you will to look at him through my eyes. He was a golden child full of energy, hope, enthusiasm for life, filled with sunshine and laughter. My brother was ten years older than I and from the very first he was my champion and hero. I loved him unconditionally. He and his entire generation...
10) Too Many Stones
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Too Many Stones is the story of Evelyn Toraason. It begins in 1930 when Evelyn is a bright, promising eleven-year-old girl with the potential to go far beyond the poor, rural, but beautiful and almost spiritual Wisconsin coulee farm where she lives. The bond between Evelyn and her father, Olav, cannot quite fill the void created by her failing mother who continues to retreat within herself over several years. Evelyn's teacher and mentor, Miss Johnson,...
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In a captivating tale, we follow the life of Jessica, a young girl who, born out of wedlock, was raised by her grandmother with little knowledge of her father and a distant relationship with her mother. Nurturing a deep-seated resentment toward men, she resolves to become a feminist lawyer, determined to see men like her father held accountable for their actions. However, a pivotal moment unfolds during her grade-school years when she encounters a...
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In her usual conversational style, Dr. Akanet, through her perspective as a GP (family doctor) and mother to two young children, shares her ups-and-downs of 2020, while trying to move house. Moving home, particularly, when it involves buying or selling a house, has been, noted to be one of the three most stressful life events, and doing so, during a pandemic would make it even more challenging.
2020 brought with it challenges and changes most of...
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I Took My Mommys Heart To School is a heartwarming story about a puppy, named Myla, who is facing a common fear about change and uncertainty on her first day of school. Myla is content with her safe and comfortable life and is not so sure she wants it to change. Her mother tries to encourage her, while facing her own personal fears about letting Myla go. Together with loving support they learn they will always be together in each others hearts no...
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The Nonsagacious Saga of the Fourth Monkey President Reagan was reportedly born in 1911. He had plenty of time to read about the outrages committed against black people during his lifetime and afterward. Either he didnt read the papers between then and now or he chose to ignore what he read. Virtually all the outrages committed, as outlined in this book to me personally and millions of other black citizens during that lifetime, including the lynching,...
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From the first time you were sent home to "tell your mother what you did" to the earliest schoolyard crush and beyond, this family-oriented collection of stories, told through the eyes of a young boy, rediscovers a time when life revolved around parents and grandparents, neighborhood, school and church. With a near-eidetic memory, author Robert Layton reminds us of the events that shaped our lives. The stories within reflect the youthful curiosities,...
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Monica Drake exhibe en La locura de amar la vida la cara más vulnerable y humana de varios personajes a lo largo de décadas, a menudo huyendo o tratando de encontrar su sitio en un mundo demasiado grande y hostil. A lo largo de ese tiempo, de esas páginas, la vida revela su esencia como algo simultáneamente comprimido y expansivo, en un reflejo de lo que implica haber vivido tanto, y asistir al paso de esos años en un abrir y cerrar de ojos....
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Growing Up under the Palm Trees is about a young Haitian American's journey advancing through the rough streets of Little Haiti, Miami, Florida during the late 80s to the early parts of the 21st Century. His account starts with his exit out of Haiti amidst a brutal revolution in which he and his family barely escaped with their lives. Upon arriving in Miami, they found another group of challenges in which each member had to acquire skills that would...
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Glenn's memoir reflects on his childhood adventures as a little boy and his teenage years' mischievous activities while living in the small town of Amesbury, Ma. He shares his struggles as an adult with both humor and seriousness. Approaching the last few decades, he contemplates God's presence. The other observation is our ever-changing world, especially for the younger generations. The memoir includes not a year-by-year account of his life but only...
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This Bible-study material is the product of much time and seeking spent in quietness before God, reading the Word, and listening to the Holy Spirit. It can offer a life-changing exercise for anyone who is hungry for the truth and willing to partner with the Almighty in faith and obedience. Why have these women been included in the Bible? Surely it is for our good, so that we can learn from their lives. And the author finds great peace in being egalitarian...
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