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The Gift of Caring
Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The desire to help our elders navigate health issues is clear and universal—how to assure proper care and a good ending is not. Combining adroit storytelling skills with expert advice, The Gift of Caring: Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare brings the reader into all-too-familiar...
The Down's Syndrome Handbook
The Practical Handbook for Parents and Carers
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Combining medical knowledge with sympathetic common sense, this completely updated comprehensive handbook offers help and advice to all parents and carers of children with Down's syndrome, and shows them how to help their children flourish and reach their full potential. Written in association with...
Before Your Time
The Early Menopause Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
HAS "THE CHANGE" COME TOO SOON ? DON’ T WORRY, YOU’RE NOT ALONE!
Every year more than two million women enter early menopause and find themselves suddenly dealing with a host of unforeseen (and little discussed) issues. In Before Your Time, Evelina Weidman Sterling and Angie Best-Boss provide...
Health Communication
Theoretical and Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Health communication is key to promoting good population and individual health outcomes. As the field has developed, there is a growing need for a critical appraisal of the ideologies and theories underpinning health communication in order to ensure effective practice.
This book clearly situates...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Get All The Support And Guidance You Need To Understand Getting All The Abundance You Want!
Is the fact that you would like to understand the way to get all the abundance you want in life but just don't know how making your life difficult... maybe even miserable?
First, you are NOT alone!...
I See Reality
Twelve Short Stories About Real Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
An anthology of twelve original short stories by top authors exploring real issues for real teens.
Through prose and comics alike, these heart-pounding short stories for young adults ask hard questions about a range of topics from sexuality and addiction to violence and immigration. Here is...
by Gabriella van Rij
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Does it ever go away? No, it doesn’t… I’ll never get used to the bad words. I’ll never get used to the extreme meanness. What are they whispering? I’ll continue to pretend not to care.
But, boy, do I care…
Meet three-year-old Gabriella, adopted from Pakistan into a Dutch...
I Just Get So … Angry!
Dealing With Anger and Other Strong Emotions for Teenagers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Today’s teenagers struggle with issues such as anger, depression and anxiety, grief, substance abuse, friendship and body image problems. But by using the simple techniques of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), they can develop effective, flexible coping skills that will build their mental resilience...
by Deanna Macaulay - Earle
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
This version portrays the main character a boy.
Helping youngsters deal with childhood issues can be difficult however storytelling can open a child's imagination giving them a new perspective. In this issue, fear of crowds or people watching them is approached by having the main character...
by Sarah Crossan
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Carrying just a suitcase and an old laundry bag filled with clothes, Kasienka and her mother are immigrating to England from Poland. Kasienka isn't the happiest girl in the world. At home, her mother is suffering from a broken heart as she searches for Kasienka's father. And at school, Kasienka is...
Can I tell you about Autism?
A guide for friends, family and professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Meet Tom - a young boy with autism. Tom invites readers to learn about autism from his perspective, helping them to understand what it is and explaining the challenges he faces with issues such as social communication, sensory overload and changes in his routine. Tom tells readers about all the ways...
Gays and Mental Health
Fighting Depression, Saying No to Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Why would a young, beautiful, talented country music star want to end her life? It seems like a mystery to most people, but before coming out, that's exactly what openly gay singer Chely Wright wanted to do. And thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people have felt the same...
Earth Hates Me
True Confessions from a Teenage Girl
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
"This book is filled with juicy young person wisdom." --Amy Poehler
The definitive guide to being a teen in the modern age, with sage advice from a modern teenager and appealing to fans of *Rookie.
Earth Hates Me* presents a look inside the mind of the modern teenager--from...
Reena's Bollywood Dream
A Story About Sexual Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Reena wants to be a star...
...A Bollywood star. Unfortunately, her family won't stand for it. It doesn't help that Reena is only eight-years-old. However, a beacon of hope arrives in the form of Uncle Jessi. He's just emigrated from India to America, and is a welcome addition to her family household....