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Berrett-Koehler Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social
Book SynopsisWar is no way to resolve our most problematic group, community, and societal issues, but neither is a peace that simply sweeps our problems under the rug. To create lasting change we have to learn to work fluidly with two distinct, fundamental drives that are in tension: power the single-minded desire to achieve oneâs solitary purpose; and love the drive towards unity. They are seemingly contradictory but in fact complimentary. As Martin Luther King put it, âœPower without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.â Using revealing stories from complex situations he has been involved in all over the world the Middle East, South Africa, Europe, India, Guatemala, the Philippines, Australia, Canada and the United States Kahane reveals how to dynamically balance these two forces. Just as when we are toddlers we learn to shift from one foot to the other to move ourselves forward, so we can learn to shift back and forth between power and love in order to move society forward.
£16.19
Boutique of Quality Books So, You're Raising Your Grandkids: Tested Tips,
Book SynopsisAccording to the US Census Bureau, more than 10% of all grandparents in the nation are raising their grandkids, and the number is going up. You may be one of these grandparents and it's a role you never expected. Willing as you are to assume this role, you have some questions. How will I find the energy for this? Is my grandchild normal? What if I "blow it?" Each day, you look for ways to make life easier. Help has arrived. This inspiring self-help book for grandparents raising grandchildren will: •Help ease your worries and guilt •Offer tips for creating a grandfamily •Give methods for improving grandparent-grandchild communication •Suggest ideas for how you can connect with your grandchild's school •Provide child development information •Recommend approaches to help your grandchild set goals •Stress the importance of having fun together •Offer ideas of how to foster your grandchild's hopes and dreams.So, You're Raising Your Grandkids blends Harriet Hodgson's unbelievable grandparenting story with recent research and findings. It comes from her 21 years of caregiving experience, including seven years of raising her twin grandkids. Each chapter ends with What Works, proven tips for grandparents raising grandkids. At the end, you'll cheer for all the loving grandparents—including you—who are putting grandchildren first.Trade Review"If you need reliable help in raising your grandchildrenthis book could save your life! Written from the heart, it contains expert advice on helping grandchildren meet life's unexpected twists and turns. Highly recommended." Robert L. Veninga, PhD, author, A Gift of Hope: How We Survive Our Tragedies"As with all of her writing, this understandable and easy-to-read contribution from Harriet Hodgsonbereaved mom, prolific author, and devoted grandmotheris wonderful! Her book is straightforward, practical and informative, and highly recommended for grandparents who unexpectedly find themselves in a parenting role." Marty Tousley"Written from the heart, [this book] contains expert advice on helping grandchildren meet life's unexpected twists and turns. Highly recommended." Robert L. Veninga, PhD, author, A Gift of Hope: How We Survive Our Tragedies"Book Excellence Award Finalist" https://bookexcellenceawards.com/2018-Finalists-c29486566?offset=90
£12.30
Seven Stories Press,U.S. Trevor: a novella
Book SynopsisBullied at school, dumped by his friends, and pressured at home, an artistic teenager struggling with his sexuality and identity makes a desperate attempt to end his loneliness.
£9.45
American Academy of Pediatrics Parenting Through Puberty
Book SynopsisPuberty is tough on kids—and maybe even more so on parents! Parenting Through Puberty explains the physical and emotional changes you can expect to see in your child. Dr. Kowal-Connelly covers the nitty-gritty of adolescents’ changing bodies, and, critically, addresses the emotional toll puberty can take, covering issues of moodiness, body image, and self-esteem. Dr. Kowal-Connelly's reassuring advice also includes ways to encourage your tween or teen to embrace a healthy, active lifestyle in these crucial years, with tips on exercise and nutrition.Trade Review"This book is extremely well written and informative.I recommend this book to all parents and health care providers looking to equip themselves with the most up-to-date information about puberty." Robert C. Lee, DO, MS, FAAP; associate pediatric program director, member of Bright Futures Expert Panel on Middle Childhood, NYU Winthrop Hospital"Get a refreshing and valuable perspective along with hands-on advice about puberty, emotional changes, and all those unavoidable pitfalls of raising an adolescent." Jack Levine, MD, FAAP; clinical assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell"This is a must read for all parents prior to or at any time during their child's adolescence. Turn to this book again and again as every child, at different stages of development, will present his or her own unique needs." Sarah Collins-Molese, BSN, MA, SNT; lead nurse, Freeport Public Schools" Parenting Through Puberty is a must-read for all parents of adolescents! ...Learn the nuts and bolts of what children go through, both physically and socially, as you raise healthy teens." Michelle Gallo, EdD; assistant superintendent, Baldwin School District"Dr Kowal-Connelly provides parents with a resource that is easy to read, has accessible references for more information, and above all a positive approach to what can often seem a daunting period of child development." Joy Connolly; director of education program services, Child Care Council of Nassau, Inc." Parenting Through Puberty offers parents information to successfully transition their child from childhood to young adulthood." Eduardo Ramirez; director for physical education, health education, health services, and athletics, Baldwin Union Free School District"Dr Kowal-Connelly is a dedicated advocate for families. Her expert advice is conveyed through a lens of compassion and empathy." Elizabeth Isakson, MD, FAAP; executive director, Docs for Tots"This book is like having an 'adolescence coach' to navigate you through the inevitable challenges of parenting through puberty! ...Filled with resources, checklists, and techniques to assist with important conversations, this book is very current, relevant, and empowering!" Diana M. Filiano, DSW; director, child welfare training program, Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare
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American Academy of Pediatrics High Five Discipline: Positive Parenting for
Book SynopsisWhen confronting the challenge of disciplining their children, moms and dads often default to the ways their own parents disciplined them, sometimes with harmful results. In High Five Discipline, mom and practicing pediatrician Dr. Candice Jones shows parents a better way. Dr. Jones coaches parents to understand their child’s developmental stages and their own motivations to create a family discipline plan that manages misbehavior and encourages good behavior. Her advice is packed with developmentally appropriate strategies to tame tantrums, stop sibling squabbles, and reward better behavior to create a calmer, more harmonious home.
£14.20
American Academy of Pediatrics The Baby Bonding Book
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University of South Carolina Press One Good Mama Bone: A Novel
Book SynopsisSet in the early 1950s rural South, One Good Mama Bone chronicles Sarah Creamer’s quest to find her “mama bone” after she is left to care for a boy who is not her own but instead is the product of an affair between her husband and her best friend and neighbor, a woman she calls “Sister.” When her husband drinks himself to death, Sarah, a dirt-poor homemaker with no family to rely on and the note on the farm long past due, must find a way for her and young Emerson Bridge to survive. But the more daunting obstacle is Sarah’s fear that her mother’s words, seared in her memory since she first heard them at the age of six, were a prophesy: “You ain’t got you one good mama bone in you, girl.”When Sarah reads in the local newspaper that a boy won $680 with his Grand Champion steer at the recent 1951 Fat Cattle Show & Sale, she sees this as their financial salvation and finds a way to get Emerson Bridge a steer from a local farmer to compete in the 1952 show. But the young calf is unsettled at Sarah’s farm, crying out in distress and growing louder as the night wears on. Some four miles away, the steer’s mother hears his cries and breaks out of a barbed-wire fence to go in search of him. The next morning Sarah finds the young steer quiet, content, and nursing on a large cow. Inspired by the mother cow’s act of love, Sarah names her Mama Red. And so Sarah’s education in motherhood begins with Mama Red as her teacher.But Luther Dobbins, the man who sold Sarah the steer, has his sights set on winning too, and, like Sarah, he is desperate, but not for money. Dobbins is desperate for glory, wanting to regain his lost Grand Champion dynasty, and he will stop at nothing to win. Emboldened by her lessons from Mama Red and her budding mama bone, Sarah is fully committed to victory until she learns the winning steer’s ultimate fate. Will she stop at nothing, even if it means betraying her teacher?McClain’s writing is distinguished by a sophisticated and detailed portrayal of the day-to-day realities of rural poverty and an authentic sense of time and place that marks the best southern fiction. Her characters transcend their archetypes, and her animal-as-teacher theme recalls the likes of Water for Elephants and The Art of Racing in the Rain. One Good Mama Bone explores the strengths and limitations of parental love, the healing power of the human-animal bond, and the ethical dilemmas of raising animals for food. Mary Alice Monroe, a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of eighteen novels and two children's books, provides a foreword to the novel.Trade ReviewFirst-time novelist McClain draws on her family’s history in the rural South to create a cast of deeply relatable characters, both human and animal, who readers will find themselves rooting for until the very last page.”—Booklist“A thought-provoking story about families and the animals who sustain them.”—Kirkus Reviews
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Shambhala Publications Inc The Mama Sutra: A Story of Love, Loss, and the
Book SynopsisA “beautifully written and self-revealing” memoir of motherhood—in all its messy glory—as a spiritual practice, by a longtime yoga and dharma teacher (Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance) Sutra is the Sanskrit name for a short spiritual teaching, and it comes from the same root as the English word suture, or stitch. This story of motherhood as a path to awakening is, says yoga and meditation teacher Anne Cushman, “an homage to the long threads that run through all human lives, stitching up what’s shredded in our hearts.” The Mama Sutra spans an eighteen-year journey through motherhood as a spiritual practice, chronicling Cushman’s first pregnancy, her daughter''s tragic stillbirth, the joyful birth of her son, the “home retreat” of early motherhood, the challenges of parenthood, the diagnosis and gifts of her son’s developmental differences, the meltdown of her nuclear family and its reconfiguration into a new and joyful form, and more. This is a powerful story of the rawness and beauty of life.
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The Experiment LLC How to be a Sister a Love Story with a Twist of
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The Experiment LLC Mom, Im Not a Kid Anymore
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£11.39
Experiment Stop the Fight!: An Illustrated Guide for
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£12.99
Experiment Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The
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£18.99
Experiment Sixty: A Diary: My Year of Aging Semi-Gracefully
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£12.34
Experiment The Motherhood Affidavits: A Memoir
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£18.99
Experiment The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for
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£13.29
Experiment Repotting Your Life: Sense When You're Stuck.
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£15.19
Algonquin Books Dinner with Edward
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£14.87
No Greater Joy Ministries Created to Be His Help Meet: 10th Anniversary
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£16.10
No Greater Joy Ministries Create a Better Brain Through Neuroplasticity: A
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£16.10
No Greater Joy Ministries Create a Better Brain Through Neuroplasticity -
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£12.17
Akashic Books You Have to Fucking Eat (Go the Fuck to Sleep #2)
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£14.36
Worthy Publishing AS MY PARENTS AGE: Reflections on Life, Love, and
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£13.49
Counterpoint Vista Del Mar: A Memoir of the Ordinary
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£16.19
Hendrickson Publishers Inc Mother's Journey
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£10.56
Bloomsbury USA If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the
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£16.99
Capstone Press Enojo Es.../Angry Is...
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£999.99
Ignatius Press Youcat for Kids
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£999.99
Ignatius Press True Friendship: Where Virtue Becomes Happiness
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£999.99
Sounds True Inc Nourishing Intimacy: Cultivating Trust,
Book SynopsisA Mindful Approach to the Unique Challenges of Intimate Relationships Why is it often so hard to truly connect with others, even those we care most about? "Our capacity to engage fully in relationship starts with becoming more awake and aware within ourselves," says Tara Brach. With Nourishing Intimacy, this renowned teacher offers a treasury of tools and insights for cultivating self-compassion, overcoming inner obstacles, and fostering authentic communication. Recorded at a live two-day event, this training brings you Tara’s special blend of storytelling, tender guidance, and potent meditations for applying mindfulness and loving-kindness to our relationships, including: • Dissolving the illusion of separation that keeps us isolated • Awakening from the belief that we are unworthy of love • How to address the true needs underneath our surface conflicts • Practicing forgiveness, healing from past relationship trauma, breaking stuck patterns in conflict, and much more. "When we are grounded in compassionate awareness," teaches Tara, "we can stay heart to heart with another, even when we don’t see eye to eye." Here she offers a gentle and practical guide for building healthy, openhearted relationships with Nourishing Intimacy.
£43.20
Sophia Institute Press Discovering God Together: The Catholic Guide to
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£999.99
Sophia Institute Press Christian Dating in a Godless World
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£18.00
Sophia Institute Press Nine Months with God and Your Baby: Spiritual
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£14.20
Sophia Institute Press Around the Year with the Vontrapp Family
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£26.96
North Atlantic Books,U.S. Deconstructing the Fitness - Industrial Complex:
Book SynopsisPerspectives from QTBIPOC, fat, and disabled trainers, bodyworkers, and coaches on reimagining fitness for all bodies.For readers of Belly of the Beast, Care Work, and The Body is Not an ApologyFit is subjective. Who our society designates as fit--and who gets to be fit in our society--is predefined by the coaches, gyms, and systems at large that uphold and reproduce the Fitness Industrial Complex for their own structural and material gain.The Fitness Industrial Complex uplifts some bodies while denigrating others. Bodies that are Black, Brown, queer, trans, poor, fat, and disabled--bodies that don''t conform, that resist and disrupt--are excluded from being "fit." Through the stories and experiences of activist trainers, coaches, and bodyworkers of diverse identities and experiences, this anthology interrogates:The ideas and beliefs we’ve internalized about health, fitness, and our own and others’ bodiesHow to deconstruct and re-envision fitness as a practice for all bodiesThe fitness industry’s role in upholding and reinforcing oppressionExclusivity, unsafety, and harm in mainstream fitness spacesHow to empower ourselves and our communities to push back against the FICSpeaking directly to sick, queer, trans, disabled, and BIPOC readers, Deconstructing the Fitness Industrial Complex is part urgent inquiry, part radical deconstruction, and part call to action: to build spaces that welcome and work for all; to reclaim movement as a vital and liberatory practice; and to embody a model of joy and community care outside the mainstream fitness culture.
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Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale The Mindful Mom-To-Be: A Modern Doula's Guide to
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£16.99
Tyndale House Publishers Raising Kingdom Kids Participant'S Guide
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£10.32
Page Street Publishing Co. I'm Sorry -Your Husband: Honest, Hilarious
Book SynopsisClint Edwards’s parenting tips include: 1. You don’t have to give your kid a bath all the time, just wipe them down from time to time. 2. If you find a long lost sippy cup, don’t open it. Just throw it away, trust me. 3. Getting a sitter so you can go to the store alone is worth every damn penny. With stinging wit, laugh-out-loud humour and brutal honesty, Clint brings to light what every parent and spouse eventually learns but refuses to say out loud to each other. His essays include “All the Things I Never Should Have Said to My Pregnant Wife,” “Just Because I Get Up In the Night Doesn’t Mean I Deserve Praise” and “Contrary to My Original Assumption, You Can Have a Favourite Child.” His essays will have parents everywhere shaking their heads “yes.” Clint’s blog, No Idea What I am Doing, has over 144,000 Facebook likes, and he writes for huge outlets like Scary Mommy, Babble, the New York Times and has been featured on Good Morning America. He has three children, aged 2, 7 and 10.
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Berrett-Koehler Got Your Attention? How to Create Intrigue and
Book SynopsisIn an impatient world of infobesity, people donât want more information - they want to be intrigued and they want to be intrigued fast. After all, goldfish have longer attention spans than humans - nine seconds to our eight. So, right now, people want to know, âœHow is this relevant and useful to me? Why are you worth my valuable time, mind, and dime?Bestselling author and ace communication strategist Sam Horn reveals her âœsecret sauceâ for truly connecting with people - whether itâs one or one million. Her disruptive eight-stage INTRIGUE process teaches readers how to replace boring, overlong, one-way communications with concise, compelling, mutually rewarding two-way interactions that add value for all involved. This is a must-read for executives, entrepreneurs, sales and marketing professionals, nonprofit leadersâanyone who wants to build meaningful relationships with others.The bottom line? If you canât get peopleâs favorable attention, youâll never get their business. The insights and instantly useful ideas here will get smartphones down and eyebrows up - this book has been called How to Win Friends and Influence People for our digital device-driven era. Readers will appreciate these innovative but proven ways to win respect and motivate people to take action now, whether thatâs to hire you, refer you, fund you, or say yes to you.
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Berrett-Koehler You Are What You Believe: Simple Steps to
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£12.59
Berrett-Koehler Breaking Through Gridlock: The Power of
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£16.19
Rose Publishing 10 Tips for Parenting the Smartphone Generation
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£7.82
Rose Publishing 24 Easy-To-Do Family Ministry Holiday Events
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£18.99
Rose Publishing Rebuilding Trust After Betrayal
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P & R Publishing Co (Presbyterian & Reformed) Prayers of a Parent for Young Children
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£999.99
NavPress Publishing Group Parenting Beyond The Rules
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WW Norton & Co Epilogue: A Memoir
Book SynopsisFor Will Boast, what looked like the end turned out to be a new beginning. After losing his mother and only brother, twenty-four-year-old Boast finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism. Numbly settling the matters of his father’s estate, Boast stumbles upon documents revealing a closely guarded secret his father had meant to keep: he’d had another family entirely, a wife and two sons. Setting out to find his half-brothers, Boast struggles to reconcile their family history with his own and to begin a chapter of his life he never imagined. “Riveting, soulful, and courageously told” (Maggie Shipstead), Epilogue is the stunning account of a young man’s journey through grief in search of a new, unexpected love.Trade Review"Wise, charming and deeply moving." -- Leslie Jamison - The New York Times Book Review"It is during these unspoken moments that the author deftly captures the fleeting intimacy between father and son…The power of Epilogue comes in Boast’s brave and candid recounting of his losses—and how this accumulated grief reshapes the author and his beliefs of what can make up a family." -- S. Kirk Walsh - San Francisco Chronicle"Boast, an accomplished fiction writer and essayist, has composed a moving, elegantly contrapuntal narrative about coming to terms with his families—the one he lost, and the one that welcomed him with open arms." -- Ben Dickinson - Elle"Excellent. . . . [A] finely wrought, wrenching yet lyrical study of a family that lives on past its seeming end." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review"This remarkable memoir is written with extraordinary care, intelligence, and honesty. Though the material is powerful to begin with, what makes it work so well is its authorial voice: a rare combination of rawness and restraint, probing and delicacy, self-laceration and tenderness toward others. In short, it's fully alive." -- Phillip Lopate, author of Portrait Inside My Head"Don't let the title of Will Boast’s magnificent memoir fool you—Epilogue is about beginnings as much as endings, discovering as much as losing family. It's honest, heartbreaking, gorgeously written, and hands down the most moving book I've read so far this year." -- Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena"A brave, brilliant, masterfully crafted story about an ordinary family's extraordinary collision of tragedies and secrets. Will Boast's efforts to write his family’s epilogue—to forge a space for his own life through understanding theirs—make for one of the most moving and transformative reading experiences I've had. I won't ever forget it." -- Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand Saints"Riveting, soulful, and courageously told, Will Boast's memoir is a gorgeous meditation on grief and family and also a deeply personal account of his coming of age under a relentless bombardment of tragedies and revelations. Never has a story of loss been so full of life." -- Maggie Shipstead, author of the national bestseller Seating Arrangements"The story of Epilogue would be compelling enough: a young man loses one family and discovers another. In Will Boast's expert hands, it becomes a plangent and penetrating meditation on grief, the weight of secrets, and the redemptive power of family. Clear-eyed, unsentimental, and heartbreaking, this book is a gift to its reader." -- Justin St Germain, author of Son of a Gun: A Memoir"Elegiac and unsentimental, Epilogue is a moving meditation on the enduring mysteries of family, the surprising possibilities of loss, and the deep resilience of an individual. With piercing clarity and wisdom, Will Boast reveals the unexpected within the unthinkable." -- Jennifer duBois, author of Cartwheel"Epilogue is a soulful and profoundly moving portrait of family and loss, of mystery and grief. The story unfolds and builds and doubles back on itself like the notes and riffs in a free jazz performance, and Will Boast is a virtuoso, a masterful writer and storyteller." -- Chad Simpson, author of Tell Everyone I Said Hi"What if you lost your family, only to discover you had another? Will Boast's unforgettable memoir explores this seemingly impossible question in a straightforward yet lyrical language that infuses these pages with both wistfulness and hope." -- Lysley Tenorio, author of Monstress"With a father-son relationship as complex and tortured as that in Knausgaard's My Struggle—and an obsession with music to boot—Boast takes his raw emotional content and faces it ruthlessly, translating his extraordinary experiences to the page with a poet's singular vision and restrained lyricism. Boast's story will break your heart; his prose will make it sing." -- Jamie Quatro, author of I Want to Show You More"[S]pellbinding… [Boast’s] affecting journey, related without sentimentality or self-pity, is not so much about his need for family as it is a candid reflection on loneliness and personal identity." -- Jonathan Fullmer - Booklist
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Pitchstone Publishing When Kids Say They're Trans: A Guide for Parents
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Wellspring Ask Him: Simple Words to Jumpstart Your
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£19.00
