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Physical, emotional, verbal, and now cyber bullying are an increasing problem in our nation's schools and within our children's social networks. How can we understand it? Community leaders and activists Gómez and Arroyo worked with children, teenagers, and parents-both the victims and the bullies-to put together this searing anthology of original essays, poetry, plays, and commentary on how bullying has affected their lives.
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This comprehensive manual is an invitation to discover the secrets of erotic massage for couples.
Erotic Massage for Couples teaches you, step-by-step-with the help of one hundred color photos-how to unleash your new sensual experiences onto your partner. This comprehensive, practical book includes:
• A guide to the points of greatest pleasure
• Advanced techniques for couples
• Homemade recipes for massage oils
• Aromatherapy to awaken...
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From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged from their family, this is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author's fight to be true to themselves
My name is Amrou Al-Kadhi - by day. By night, I am Glamrou, an empowered, fearless and acerbic drag queen who wears seven-inch heels and says the things that nobody else dares to. Growing up in a strict Iraqi Muslim household, it didn't...
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Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808—1877) was an English author and social reformer. After Norton left her husband in 1836, he sued her friend and Prime Minister Lord Melbourne for adultery. Though the claim was thrown out of court, Norton was denied a divorce and access to her children. In response to this, Norton campaigned vehemently, which eventually led to the passing of the Custody of Infants Act 1839, the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857, and...
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Beto is a hysterical boy who knows no other way to communicate than shouting. He is demanding, whimsical and unfriendly. His mother has to deal with his tantrums everywhere they go. The same happens at school.
Beto would fight with everyone and because of that he is always alone.
One day, while visiting the aquarium, Beto learned a life-changing lesson, which led him to make an important decision.
38626) Inevitable
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Giselle Mosley is an accomplished attorney recently making partner at Simon & Franklin, one of Atlanta's most preeminent entertainment law firms. In the midst of their demanding careers, she and two of her closest friends manage to carve out time for relaxation while catching up on each other's love interests. One of their favorite places to frequent is the renowned Apache Café where they often find escape through the creative arts. Not long after...
38627) God Bless My Friends
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Hi, my friend! Come play with me-though we're as different as can be!
Big and small, short and tall, fluffy and prickly... these playmates of all shapes and sizes are the best of friends. Share some giggles with your little one about how fun friendships-and differences-can be!
38628) Walking the Bridgeless Canyon: Repairing the Breach Between the Church and the LGBT Community
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In 2001, Kathy Baldock, a straight conservative evangelical Christian, met Netto Montoya, a lesbian Native American, on a local hiking trail near her home in the Sierra Nevada. Their developing friendship challenged Baldock's cultural and religious beliefs about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people.
In Walking the Bridgeless Canyon: Repairing the Breach Between the Church and the LGBT Community, Baldock constructs a narrative timeline,...
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Nineteen-year-old NiNi Alexander can be full of smiles, but unbeknownst to anyone, she's broken on the inside. Being an only child, her cousin, Onyae, is the closest thing she has to a sister.
Onyae is young, wild and free. Her boldness and beauty makes her stand out from most. She knows all the pain that her cousin endures, and she tries to help her through it, but her sisterly love doesn't seem to be enough.
Because NiNi's mother is laden with...
38630) Live Free and Hike: Finding Grace on 48 Summits - A Journey of Healing and Self-Discovery Atop New H
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Find hope and healing in this powerful memoir of a woman who rebuilt her life in the White Mountains.Newly liberated after ending her toxic 25-year marriage to a controlling husband, Linda Magoon gradually regained her independence and rediscovered her love of hiking in the White Mountains. She set a goal to climb all 48 of New Hampshire's 4,000-foot and higher peaks. With every upward stride, Magoon cautiously rebuilt her life.But less than a year...
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An indispensable guide to parents of hockey hopefuls
At a time of great change in hockey, Justin Davis exposes the dark underbelly of the journey from the minors to the big leagues
Hockey culture: it's a commonly used phrase inside the game, glorifying sacrifice, toughness, loyalty, and a sense of identity. Justin Davis viewed this culture as something he was lucky enough to experience. After all, he'd won a Memorial Cup after leading the tournament...
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Bret and Kim Stafford, the oldest children of the poet and pacifist William Stafford, were pals. Bret was the good son, the obedient public servant, Kim the itinerant wanderer. In this family of two parent teachers, with its intermittent celebration of talking recklessly," there was a code of silence about hard things: Why tell what hurts?" As childhood pleasures ebbed, this reticence took its toll on Bret, unable to reveal his troubles. Against a...
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The perfect gift for any bride-to-be, this book reveals how to bring good fortune to any wedding celebration. Unveiling the true meaning behind everything from flower varieties and color combinations to auspicious wedding dates and symbols of affection, it illuminates what each preparation and promise foretells for the bride and groom. Filled with charming illustrations and other traditional information, this is the ideal present to bring along to...
38634) More for Les
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So, there I was, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Mark Wahlberg. Most women would say, "A dream come true," but in my case, it was a prayer answered. He is adorable, but I'm over seventy, and I was on a mission.
Sure, I've dreamed of being a movie star, but on that day my title was "unpaid extra" in a movie I would never go to the theater to see...R-rated...but I had a reason for being there and only God could have orchestrated it. It was October...
38635) Married by Lunchtime
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It is 1962 and Amanda is looking for something to liven up her life and is intrigued about a story in the Telegraph about a jewel thief.
Half daydreaming she imagines what he would look like. Then almost at the same moment who should knock on her door but the very person she has just pictured in her mind's eye. Julian has called hoping to engineer an invite to tonight's do, but Amanda realises who he is straight away.
Amanda and Julian are...
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YOU DO HAVE A STORY TO TELL, BUT WHERE AND HOW DO YOU BEGIN?
Studies show that 82% of the population dreams of someday writing a book. Sadly, many people die with their story still inside them. The secret to getting started is simply beginning with what you have.
Ten years ago, author Debra Irene began telling stories about everyday life-the past and the present. In Someday I Will Write, Debra brings these stories together for readers to find hope...
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Meet Jane Smith, college professor. That's it. No life. Not much to offer anyone except great copy-editing skills. She has experienced life vicariously through others. Untraveled, unmarried, dull. Then she met the beautiful and exotic Anita from Brazil. And sweet earth mother Greta from Poland. And, pious Fanta from Pakistan. Jane saw them as a connection to the outside world, but with Jane, they felt they had a "home."
38638) Apples in Applath
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Red headed Marcus lost his parents as a baby, his grandma at age nine and his freedom at ten. Now he is on the run with two of his cell mates and one of them is gravely injured. Where can they go, who will help, and how will Marcus know whether to trust his friends or the ragtag group of runaways and the recluse bear of a man who harbors them? When the worst happens, will he put his own freedom on the line and at what cost?
"A page turner! Do not...
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This book gives practical tips and advice to all parents, but especially working moms, about how to juggle the many roles we have in life and feel good about our success as a parent. Each chapter ends with exercises designed to help ensure that the reader can put these tips to use, as well as "Sanity Savers" - key ideas from each chapter.
38640) Finding Grace
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Abandoned on the steps of a Belgian convent as a baby, thirteen-year-old Grace has grown up among the nuns. But her days as a caretaker and companion for her older sister, Dotty, have come to a sad end with Dotty's death, and now Grace is living among the girls who attend the convent's boarding school-the very same girls who taunted and bullied her sister for having Down syndrome. Grace desperately wants to know who left her at the convent; she wants...
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