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Heather Has Two Mommies
Leslea Newman, Diana Souza (Illustrator)
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Current:
9.8 |
Originally self-published in 1989, Heather Has Two Mommies became the first title in Alyson's newly formed Alyson Wonderland imprint in 1990. The simple and straightforward story of a little girl named Heather and her two lesbian mothers wa
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The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians : Tips and Techniques from Conception to Birth : How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself
Rachel Pepper
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Current:
9.8 |
This lively and readable book provides basic pregnancy and preconception advice for lesbians and their partners. Concentrating on topics of special interest to lesbian families--such as choosing an anonymous donor, drafting agreements with
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Women in Love : Portraits of Lesbian Mothers & Their Families
Barbara Seyda(Photographer), Diana Herrera
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Current:
9.7 |
In the foreword to Women in Love, new mother Linda Villarosa describes "the proverbial moment of truth," when, leaving home one day with her baby in the stroller, an older woman smiled and said, "Don't you live three doors up? You li
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Waiting in the Wings : Portrait of a Queer Motherhood
Cherrie Moraga
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Current:
9.6 |
At age 40, Chicana writer and activist Cherrie Moraga decided she wanted to have a child. Waiting in the Wings comprises diary entries made during her pregnancy and the first difficult years of her son's life, as well as retrospectiv
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The Lesbian Family Life Cycle
Suzanne Slater
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Current:
9.6 |
Until now, lesbian families have had little help in identifying the stages of their couple relationships or recognizing the often stressful periods of relational transition. In this first-of-its-kind book, psychotherapist Suzanne Slater des
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Lesbians Raising Sons : An Anthology
Jess Wells
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Current:
9.4 |
Lesbians are having babies left and right, and, as Jess Wells points out in her introduction, lesbians who conceive via donor insemination have a 65 percent chance of bearing a son. Times have changed from the radical lesbian separatist day
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The Kid : What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant : An Adoption Story
Dan Savage
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Current:
9.4 |
Best known for his syndicated sexual advice column, "Savage Love," Dan Savage shares his own story in The Kid, a hilarious account of his efforts--along with his partner--to adopt a child. (Whoops, make that his boyfriend; Savage can
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The Lesbian Parenting Book : A Guide to Creating Families and Raising Children
D. Merilee Clunis
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Current:
9.4 |
This comprehensive and indispensable guide for lesbians raising children, written by two lesbian therapists who are themselves parents, is filled with supportive advice, humor, and wisdom. The book covers a wide range of parenting topics, a
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There's Something I'Ve Been Meaning to Tell You
Loralee MacPike
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Current:
9.4 |
How do people come out of the closet to their families and their own children? These true stories of lesbian and gay parents opening up with their children are both heartbreaking and heartwarming, but above all, they are honest. The stories
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Gay Parents/Straight Schools : Building Communication and Trust
Virginia Casper, Steven B. Schultz
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Current:
9.2 |
Until now, lesbian families have had little help in identifying the stages of their couple relationships or recognizing the often stressful periods of relational transition. In this first-of-its-kind book, psychotherapist Suzanne Slater des
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families : Building a Beautiful Family Culture in a Turbulent World
Stephen R. Covey, Sandra Merrill Covey
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Current:
9.2 |
"What is 'effectiveness' in a family?" asks author Steven R. Covey. He promptly answers with four words: "a beautiful family culture." Building this culture is the primary theme of Covey's parenting guide, a manual based on concepts introdu
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The Indigo Children : The New Kids Have Arrived
Lee Carroll, Jan Tober
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Current:
9.2 |
An Indigo Child is a child who displays new and unusual psychological attributes that reveal a pattern of behavior generally undocumented before. This pattern has factors that suggest that parents and teachers change their treatment and upb
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Boundaries With Kids : When to Say Yes, When to Say No to Help Your Children Gain Control of Their Lives
Henry Cloud
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Current:
9.1 |
"Boundaries and Kids" will help parents set boundaries with their children and will help them teach the concept of boundaries to their children. The authors of the award-winning Boundaries now help moms and dads apply its principles to rais
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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff With Your Family : Simple Ways to Keep Daily Responsibilities and Household Chaos from Taking over Your Life
Richard Carlson
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Current:
9.0 |
"While it's easy to allow little things to take over our lives, there are things we can do to make life around the house less stressful," writes Richard Carlson in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff with Your Family: Simple Ways to Keep Daily R
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'I'm Not Mad, I Just Hate You!' : A New Understanding of Mother-Daughter Conflict
Roni Cohen-Sandler, Michelle Silver
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Current:
8.9 |
If you are a mother and many of your conversations with your teenage daughter begin with a rolling of eyes, move into shrieked insults, and end with a door slam, I'm Not Mad, I Just Hate You! could save you both. As Roni Cohen-Sandle
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Children : The Challenge
Rudopf Dreikurs
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Current:
8.8 |
Children:The Challenge gives the key to parents who seek to build trust and love in their families, and raise happier, healthier, and better behaved children. Based on a lifetime of experience with children--their problems, their del
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Stepmotherhood : How to Survive Without Feeling Frustrated, Left Out, or Wicked
Cherie Burns, Cherle Burns
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Current:
8.7 |
The role of stepmother has long been maligned--just think of Cinderella's or Snow White's stepmothers. Since 1985 when Cheri Burns published this funny, helpful book, stepmothers have felt relieved and no longer so alone. Burns, a stepmothe
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Communication Miracles for Couples : Easy and Effective Tools to Create More Love and Less Conflict
Jonathan Robinson
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Current:
8.6 |
From getting a partner to listen to repairing broken trust to avoiding arguments altogether, this practical, down-to-earth, and heartfelt guide offers ideas and approaches to easing conflict in even the most challenging real-life situations
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Respect : An Exploration
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara Lawrence Lightfoot
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Current:
8.6 |
Respect is a mission, a service, a "way to create symmetry, empathy, and connection"; it is self-generating, a "many-splendored quality" that can build relationships and self-esteem. It is, says author Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, much more tha
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Aunts : A Celebration of Those Special Women in Our Lives
Annette Sara Cunningham
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Current:
8.5 |
For those who take the role of aunt seriously, and for nieces and nephews everywhere who want to honor the aunts in their lives, here is a collection of anecdotes and humorous observations that celebrate that special relationship. Aunts is
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Struggle for Intimacy
Janet Geringer Wotitiz, Janet Geringer Woititz
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Current:
8.5 |
The struggle for intimacy is part of a life-long process for those who have grown up with alcoholism or dysfunction in the home. To be intimate, to be close, to be vulnerable, contradicts all the survival skills learned by Children of Alcoh
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Another Sip of Chicken Soup for the Soul : Heartwarming Stories of the Love Between Parents and Children
Health Communications
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Current:
8.4 |
This collection of stories is certain to touch the hearts of parents and children. Read more
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Love Is Never Enough : How Couples Can Overcome Misunderstandings, Resolve Conflicts, and Solve Relationship Problems Through Cognitive Therapy
Aaron T., M.D. Beck
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Current:
8.4 |
One of today's most influential psychologists tells how effective communication can restore solid, harmonious relationships. Read more
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Love Must Be Tough : Proven Hope for Families in Crisis
James C. Dobson
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Current:
8.3 |
Is there one symptom common to troubled marriages that if left untreated hastens the drift toward divorce for millions of couples? Love Must Be Tough squarely addresses this often overlooked problem by carefully demonstrating that at the co
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Adult Children : The Secrets of Dysfunctional Families
John Friel, Linda Friel
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Current:
8.2 |
It is estimated that as many as 34 million people grew up in alcoholic homes but what about the rest of us? The authors provide a readable explanation of what happens to those of us who have had no alcoholism, but did have perfectionism, wo
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The Family Manager
Kathy Peel
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Current:
8.2 |
A fun and meaningful way to manage the most important "small business" in the world. Author Kathy Peel not only gives your demanding job a new title, she shows you how to use the same skills and strategies that successful business managers
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Mothers & Daughters
Carol Saline, Sharon J. Wohlmuth (Introduction)
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Current:
8.2 |
Carol Saline and Sharon J. Wohlmuth once again explore the familial bonds of women in this charming follow-up to their 1994 smash hit Sisters. In words and pictures, Mothers and Daughter
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Hidden Keys of a Loving, Lasting Marriage : A Valuable Guide to Knowing, Understanding, and Loving Each Other
Gary Smalley
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Current:
8.0 |
Best-selling author Gary Smalley shares the principles of strong marriages. Read more
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The Blessing
Gary Smalley, John T. Trent
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Current:
8.0 |
Now family counselors Gary Smalley and John Trent, Ph.D., show us how we can transform our lives-even when it is no longer possible to receive our parents' blessing, and offer practical, effective methods to heal broken hearts and families.
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Material World : A Global Family Portrait
Peter Menzel
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Current:
8.0 |
In honor of the United Nations-sponsored International Year of the Family in 1994, award-winning photojournalist Peter Menzel brought together 16 of the world's leading photographers to c
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Families of Value : Gay and Lesbian Parents and Their Children Speak Out
Jane Drucker
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Current:
8.0 |
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Gold Fever
Lyn Denison
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Current:
8.0 |
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Mothers
Jax Peters Lowell
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Current:
8.0 |
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Love Makes a Family : Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parents and Their Families
Gigi Kaeser(Photographer)
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Current:
8.0 |
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Love Makes a Family : Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parents and Their Families
Gigi Kaeser(Photographer)
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Current:
8.0 |
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Billy's Boy
Patricia Nell Warren, Jay Fraley (Illustrator)
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Current:
8.0 |
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Albert : Or the Book of Man
Perry Brass, Tom Laine
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Current:
7.9 |
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Growing Up in a Lesbian Family : Effects on Child Development
Fiona L. Tasker, Susan Golombok
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Current:
7.9 |
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The New Birth Order Book : Why You Are the Way You Are
Kevin Leman
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Current:
7.8 |
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The Shelter of Each Other : Rebuilding Our Families
Mary Bray Pipher
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Current:
7.7 |
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Welcoming Your Second Baby
Vicki Lansky
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Current:
7.7 |
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Bradshaw on : The Family : A New Way of Creating Solid-Self Esteem
John Bradshaw
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Current:
7.7 |
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Siblings
Nick Kelsh, Anna Quindlen
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Current:
7.6 |
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Considering Parenthood
Cheri Pies
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Current:
7.5 |
At age 40, Chicana writer and activist Cherrie Moraga decided she wanted to have a child. Waiting in the Wings comprises diary entries made during her pregnancy and the first difficult years of her son's life, as well as retrospectiv
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Lesbian Step Families : An Ethnography of Love (Haworth Innovations in Feminist Studies)
Janet M. Wright, m Janet M. Wright
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Current:
7.3 |
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Coping When a Parent Is Gay (Coping)
Deborah A. Miller
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Current:
7.2 |
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| 47
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Lesbians and Gays in Couples and Families : A Handbook for Therapists
Joan Laird, Robert-Jay Green
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Current:
7.1 |
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Queer Family Values : Debunking the Myth of the Nuclear Family (Queer Politics, Queer Theories)
Valerie Lehr
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Current:
7.0 |
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Lesbians and Lesbian Families : Reflections on Theory and Practice
Joan Laird
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Current:
6.9 |
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Zack's Story : Growing Up With Same-Sex Parents
Keith Elliot Greenberg, Carol Halebian (Photographer)
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6.7 |
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