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Stepmotherhood : How to Survive Without Feeling Frustrated, Left Out, or Wicked
Cherie Burns, Cherle Burns
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9.6 |
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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Stepfamily Problems : How to Solve Them
Tom Frydenger, Adrienne Frydenger
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Current:
9.6 |
Stepfamily Problems provides straightforward, down-to-earth answers about the whos, the whys, and the whens of anger, resentment, and conflicts blended families experience. Families are given the tools they need to resolve conflict and fost
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Winning the Heart of Your Stepchild
Bob Barnes
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Current:
9.6 |
This is the hands on guidebook for today's men and women who face the special challenge of blending families, showing the reader how to create an open atmosphere in the home, give reassuring answers to a child's questions, etc. Family autho
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The Combined Family : A Guide to Creating Successful Step-Relationships
Taube S. Kaufman
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Current:
9.5 |
In this essential guide to understanding individual family roles and the nuances within step-relationships, Kaufman empathetically details the hopelessness of children as they deal with the loss of a past family life, while adjusting to a n
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Stepparenting (Complete Idiot's Guides)
Ericka Lutz
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Current:
9.4 |
Tips on dealing with step-sibling rivalry, coping with teenagers, and cooperating with birth parents and grandparents--all are covered in this helpful guide designed to the approximately 1,300 new stepfamilies formed every year in America.
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Blending Families : A Guide for Parents, Stepparents, and Everyone Building a Successful New Family
Elaine Fantle Shomberg, Elaine Fantle Shimberg
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Current:
9.2 |
Today more Americans are part of a second-marriage family than a first. Inevitably, these newly blended "stepfamilies" will be confronted by their own special problems and needs. This insightful problem-solving guide offers solid solutions-
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Merging Families: A Step-By-Step Guide for Blended Families
Bobbie Reed
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Current:
9.2 |
Making the Best of Second Best is a warm, honest, and often humorous look at the challenges and rewards of stepparenting. This highly personal book offers some specific strategies for living comfortably in a stepfamily. It also challenges p
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Making the Best of Second Best: A Guide to Positive Stepparenting
Kathleen Fox
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Current:
9.1 |
Making the Best of Second Best is a warm, honest, and often humorous look at the challenges and rewards of stepparenting. This highly personal book offers some specific strategies for living comfortably in a stepfamily. It also challenges p
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Stepparenting
Jeannette Lofas, Dawn B. Sova
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Current:
9.0 |
A leading expert in the area of stepparenting provides sane, up-to-the-minute advice for dealing with the myriad issues of the stepfamily--from moving in together and the etiquette of weddings to holiday conflicts, discipline, and stepsibli
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The Courage to Be a Stepmom: Finding Your Place Without Losing Yourself
Sue Patton Thoele
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Current:
9.0 |
Sue Patton Thoele addresses the emotions of guilt, shame, fear, grief, and frustration commonly felt by stepmothers and offers hands-on advice for coming to terms with them. She also offers stepmoms tips on how to meet their own needs while
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Stepfamily Realities : How to Overcome Difficulties and Have a Happy Family
Margaret Newman
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Current:
9.0 |
Providing practical information and effective advice, this helpful guidebook helps stepfamilies understand and cope with the special problems and issues that arise in new family relationships. --This text refers to an out of print or un
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How to Be First in a Second Marriage; Forgiveness and Healing for All Concerned
Rose Sweet
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Current:
9.0 |
Marriage and family, non-fiction self help for those in or planning to enter second marriages, and those who deal with ex-spouses, blended families and stepparenting issues. This book is already available on your site. I have acquired fu
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Wonderful Ways to Be a Stepparent
Judy Ford, Anna Chase
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Current:
8.9 |
A warm, practical guide to creating a harmonious blended family from the author of "Wonderful Ways to Love a Child" and "Wonderful Ways to Love a Teenager". Read more
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Great Books for Girls : More Than 600 Books to Inspire Today's Girls and Tomorrow's Women
Kathleen Odean
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Current:
8.8 |
BOOKS THAT WILL CHANGE GIRLS' LIVESParents today want to raise strong, confident daughters. Yet the world works against that goal. To help parents counter society's negative images and safeguard their girls' sense of self, Kathleen Od
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The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
Lewis Carroll
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Current:
8.8 |
"What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations!" Readers who share Alice's taste in books will be more than satisfied with The Annotated Alice, a volume that includes not only pictures and co
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The Uses of Enchantment : The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
Bruno Bettelheim
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Current:
8.8 |
The great child psychologist gives us a moving revelation of the enormous and irreplaceable value of fairy tales - how they educate, support and liberate the emotions of children. more]
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Honey for a Child's Heart : The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life
Gladys M. Hunt
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Current:
8.7 |
The imaginative use of books in family life. Offers warm, practical advice on how to instill a love for reading in children. Extensive bibliography grouped according to ages. Read
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Books That Build Character : A Guide to Teaching Your Child Moral Values Through Stories
William Kilpatrick
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Current:
8.7 |
Arguing for the effectiveness of reading in the development of positive values, a companion to Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong evaluates more than three hundred books for children. 35,000 first printing. National ad/promo.
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The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys
Marvin Heiferman, Carole Kismaric
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Current:
8.7 |
The authors of Growing Up with Dick and Jane do themselves one better in this beautifully packaged and exhaustively researched volume. While Dick and Jane is loads of fun, it is a bi
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I Never Saw Another Butterfly : Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942-1944
Hana Volavkova
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Current:
8.7 |
Fifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp. Fewer than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well a
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Dear Genius : The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
Ursula Nordstrom, Leonard S. Marcus
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Current:
8.7 |
Ursula Nordstrom, editorial director of Harper's Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973 and a formidable creative force in 20th-century children's book publishing, was responsible for polishing and shepherding countless do
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From the Beast to the Blonde : On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
Marina Warner
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Current:
8.7 |
One dare not even call it seminal, yet in this ground-breaking work, English novelist and historian Marina Warner casts herself as the female Joseph Campbell in a fascinating and lively book that opens with the observation that "storytellin
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What the Dormouse Said : Lessons for Grown-Ups from Children's Books
Amy Gash(Compiler)
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Current:
8.6 |
A collection of over three hundred quotations from the best-loved children's books of all time, What the Dormouse Said brings together the wit and wisdom of such classics as Charlotte's Web, Peter Pan, Eloise, Goodnight Moon, and many other
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A Caldecott Celebration : Six Artists Share Their Paths to the Caldecott Medal
Leonard S. Marcus
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Current:
8.5 |
"Books bearing medals have the look of things that have been with us forever. But the truth, of course, is that someone, sometime, had to draw(and probably redraw) the pictures and write (and revise) the words. Certainly, none of the six
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Let's Hear It for the Girls : 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14
Erica Bauermeister, Holly Smith
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Current:
8.5 |
Once it was hard to find books for girls that didn't feature damsels loitering on the sidelines or being rescued by dashing princes. Now paper heroines are generally brave and resourceful, but, alas, many of the books aren't memorable. Ente
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Books Children Love : A Guide to the Best Children's Literature
Elizabeth L. Wilson, Susan S. Macaulay (Designer)
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Current:
8.5 |
Here is a book that will help parents open up the wonderful world of reading for their children. Books Children Love is a comprehensive guide to the very best in children's books. more]
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From Mother Goose to Dr. Seuss : Children's Book Covers, 1880-1960
Harold Darling
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Current:
8.5 |
Any bookworm will admit it: you can judge a book by its cover. Especially a children's book cover, which is usually created by the story illustrator and therefore gives a big taste of what's to come. In this glorious compendium of ch
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The New York Times Parent's Guide to the Best Books for Children
Eden Ross Lipson, Susan Luke
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Current:
8.3 |
In this newly revised edition of her successful guide, the children's books editor of THE NEW YORK TIMES recommends more than 1,700 new and classic books for every age group. Read
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The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Opie
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Current:
8.2 |
A brand new edition of the classic anthology of nursery rhymes, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes includes over 500 rhymes, songs, nonsense jingles, and lullabies traditionally handed down to young children. With each piece Iona and P
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99 Ways to Get Kids to Love Reading : And 100 Books They'll Love
Mary Leonhardt
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8.1 |
Mary Leonhardt, longtime English teacher, reading specialist, and author of the terrific Parents Who Love Reading, Kids Who Don't has put her almost 30 years of teaching experience toward p
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The Enlightened Stepmother : Revolutionizing the Role
Perdita Kirkness Norwood
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Current:
8.0 |
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Making It As a Stepparent : New Roles/New Rules
Claire Berman
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Current:
7.9 |
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Stepfamilies: Love, Marriage and Parenting in the First Decade
James H. Bray, John Kelly
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Current:
7.8 |
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The Step-Parent's Survival Guide : Positive Advice for Achieving a Successful Step-Family
Hilary Boyd
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Current:
7.7 |
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A Child's Journey Through Placement
Vera, MD Fahlberg
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Current:
7.7 |
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How to Win As a Stepfamily
Emily B. Visher, John S., M.D. Visher
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Current:
7.5 |
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Keys to Successful Stepmothering (Barron's Parenting Keys)
Philippa Greene Mulford
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Current:
7.4 |
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Stepfamilies : Love, Marriage, and Parenting in the First Decade
James H., Dr. Bray, John Kelly
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7.3 |
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Family Rules : Helping Stepfamilies and Single Parents Build Happy Homes
Jeannette Lofas
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7.2 |
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The Truth About Cinderella : A Darwinian View of Parental Love (Darwinism Today)
Martin Daly, Margo Wilson
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Current:
7.2 |
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The Read-Aloud Handbook (4th Ed)
Jim Trelease
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Current:
7.2 |
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Tending the Heart of Virtue : How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination
Vigen Guroian
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7.2 |
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Books to Build on : A Grade-By-Grade Resource Guide for Parents and Teachers (Core Knowledge Series)
E. D., Jr Hirsch, John Holdren
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7.1 |
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Building the Book Cathedral
David MacAulay
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7.0 |
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Great Books for Boys : More Than 600 Books for Boys 2 to 14
Kathleen Odean
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7.0 |
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Valerie & Walter's Best Books for Children : A Lively, Opinionated Guide
Valerie V. Lewis
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6.9 |
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From Cover to Cover : Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books
Kathleen T. Horning
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6.9 |
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Struwwelpeter : Fearful Stories & Vile Pictures to Instruct Good Little Folks
Heinrich Hoffmann
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6.9 |
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Parenting Keys : Keys to Successful Stepfathering (Barron's Parenting Keys)
Carl E. Pickhardt
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Current:
6.8 |
Psychologist Carl E. Pickhardt offers common-sense advice to stepfathers on practicing tolerance and making compromises in order to establish oneself as a benefit to the family structure. His book maintains that it is possible to be an effe
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Making Peace in Your Stepfamily
Harold H., M.D. Bloomfield
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Current:
6.7 |
A guide to recognizing and working through the hostilities and built-in pitfalls that stepparents and stepchildren experience sheds light on issues of jealousy, forgiveness, and power struggles. 75,000 first printing. more]
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