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From the challenges the author faced working and caring for her own parents, readers will learn how they, too, can navigate caregiving while working. There are plenty of books about managing careers and children but little advice about balancing careers and parents--along with children, marriages, and friendships. Provides a blueprint for women and a call to action for business leaders and policy makers.
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University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (192 pages)
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English
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"The daughter of an artist and a scientist, and your own interesting self, Millie. What more could you need?"But Millie isn't sure that Tom, her mum's boyfriend, is right about that. A new town, a school project due, an enemy called Tayla, a boy with the initials RH and Tom himself.... It's all too much even for an interesting girl like Millie. But as her father says, change is needed, and sometimes it's the biggest changes that make us who we are....
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Keeper of the lost cities volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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At age twelve, Sophie learns that the remarkable abilities that have always caused her to stand out identify her as an elf, and after being brought to Eternalia to hone her skills, discovers that she has secrets buried in her memory for which some would kill.
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2017.
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English
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"The celebrated author of Single, Carefree, Mellow, returns with her debut novel--a rueful, funny examination of love, marriage, infidelity, and origami. Divorcing his wife to marry his girlfriend, Audra, is the one impulsive thing Graham Cavanaugh has ever done. Audra is charming and spontaneous and fun, but life with her can be exhausting, constantly interrupted by phone calls, burdened by houseguests, and populated by old men with backpacks full...
26) Talk Under Water
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University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (336 pages)
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English
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A page-turning and inspirational story which celebrates and embraces difference, courage and friendship.Will and Summer meet online and strike up a friendship based on coincidence. Summer lives in Will's old hometown, Kettering, a small Tasmanian coastal community. Summer isn't telling the whole truth about herself, but figures it doesn't matter if they never see each other in person, right? When Will returns to Kettering, the two finally meet and...
27) Lisdalia
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University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (104 pages)
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English
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It's bad enough being the smartest kid in the school, but when you're a girl, and when your father still thinks it's a man's world, and when you never learned to back down from an argument, it's even worse. Lisdalia has all these problems . and more. Of course, it helps if you have a couple of really good friends, like Mike and Tanja, and a teacher who cares, but in the end, when things get serious, it's who you are inside that counts. Who ever said...
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Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (108 pages)
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English
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And bigger than all of that, I knew that sometimes you had to do the impossible like eat oysters or go shopping even when you could hardly breathe because that is what people did when they truly loved one another and it had nothing to do with freckles or anklebones or lipstick." Dave is dying. Chrissie, Mum, Nan and Badger are going to be left behind. Because sometimes life is like that. "painted love letters" ... a story of the heart. --Provided...
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Tracks Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource (224 pages)
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English
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"Exploring the role of coaches and parents, this book emphasizes the importance of team identity and a team mindset and presents the necessary foot skills and tactics to help young soccer players both perform better and have more fun. As youth soccer becomes increasingly popular, coaches often gloss over individual improvement in order to win, relying on rigid systems and a few elite players to carry a team. This impairs player development and kills...
30) Mimi and Dona
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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What happens when love runs out of time? For 92-year-old Mimi, who has spent much of her life caring for 64-year-old Dona, her daughter with an intellectual disability, it means facing the inevitable -- the likelihood that she will not outlive her daughter and the need to find her a new home. Filmmaker Sophie Sartain, Mimi and Dona's granddaughter and niece, respectively, captures the quirky and deeply connected mother-daughter duo at their most poignant...
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 online resource (211 pages)
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English
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"This book focuses on the emotional, physical, and often financial upheaval that many young people experience when parents divorce. The book addresses such issues as money concerns, self-blame, getting caught in the middle, living in a stepfamily, and depression. With an emphasis on how teens can cope with parental divorce, the book includes informational sidebars as well as a list of resources."--
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The Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix Original Series!
From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sherryl Woods
Single mom Lynn Morrow is determined to put food on the table for her son and daughter. Her soon-to-be-ex-husband has failed to meet his obligations time and again—but it turns out that Ed is struggling with his own demons.
Enter contractor Mitch Franklin, an unlikely knight...
From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sherryl Woods
Single mom Lynn Morrow is determined to put food on the table for her son and daughter. Her soon-to-be-ex-husband has failed to meet his obligations time and again—but it turns out that Ed is struggling with his own demons.
Enter contractor Mitch Franklin, an unlikely knight...
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English
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What are the effects of children on their parents? Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question, isolating and analyzing the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives, whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships or their internal senses of self.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, 22 min. 51 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
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English
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Traditional, single parent, blended or extended - there are many ways we define a family. Our families help make us the people that we are today. Learn the different types of families and the developmental roles they play, including physical, emotional, intellectual, social and moral development.--Kanopy.
35) Sing them home
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English
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Everyone in Emlyn Springs knows the story of Hope Jones, the physician's wife whose big dreams for their tiny town were lost along with her in the tornado of 1978. For Hope's three young children, the stability of life with their preoccupied father, and with Viney, their mother's spitfire best friend, is no match for Hope's absence. Larken, the eldest, is now an art history professor who seeks in food an answer to a less tangible hunger; Gaelan, the...
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Discusses unemployment and its effects on the family, including reasons why people lose their jobs and cannot find another, the emotional and economic effects of unemployment, and coping strategies, and provides a story about a girl whose father loses his job.
37) The last song
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father--a former concert pianist and teacher--moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father--until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. An unforgettable story of love on many...
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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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"In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of...
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English
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"Bunny? Bunny! It's time to convince Bunny to get to bed, but somehow, bedtime keeps taking longer and longer. Let the kids take charge in this book make sure Bunny goes to sleep. Features 24 full-color illustrations and simple text. Perfect for bedtime routines, beginning readers and toddlers."--
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