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3) Instant mom
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Writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Nia Vardalos firmly believed she was supposed to be a mom, but Mother Nature and modern medicine stood in her way. So she made a choice that shocked friends, family, and even herself: with only fourteen hours' notice, she adopted a preschooler. This is Vardalos's hilarious and poignant true chronicle of trying to become a mother while fielding nosy "frenemies" and Hollywood reporters. With her signature...
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The author shares her best tips and tricks for breaking out of your comfort zone and experiencing the world with your kids. Along with how to pack, plan, and budget, she offers her best advice for surviving a plane ride with a toddler, tackling jet lag and naptimes, and finding childcare abroad. Includes 50 itineraries to destinations around the globe.--Adapted from back cover.
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A full-length version of the viral "New York Times" op-ed column of the same name shares stories about the author's life with her autistic son, whose therapeutic use of Apple's electronic personal assistant became an unusual example of the power of technology.
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"At age thirty-six, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but she felt that something insider her had changed irrevocably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we'd like to believe. Like many of us, Wizenberg...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Ingrid and Winnie López have lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for eight years, but their friends Skylar and Zora Williams-the new first daughters-are about to move into the White House with their mom, the president-elect. What the Williamses don't know is that incoming presidents' families are often pranked by the folks they're replacing, and Ingrid and Winnie take that tradition very seriously. But when the four girls get wrapped up in an ever-escalating...
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"Sarah Creech's "Season of the dragonflies" beguiles in the tradition of Alice Hoffman, Adriana Trigiani and Sarah Addison Allen, with a story of flowers, sisters, practical magic, old secrets and new love, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains"--
When trouble starts brewing at the family perfumery, and the unique flowers used in the perfume start dying, Lucia, the youngest daughter who left years ago to make her own way - and who has begun showing signs...
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Ya-Yas volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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"Brilliant. . . . A structural tour de force. . . . A classic Southern tale of dysfunctional and marginal madness. The author's gift for giving life to so many voices leaves the reader profoundly moved."- Seattle Weekly
The companion novel to Rebecca Wells's celebrated #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Who can resist the rich cadences of Sidda Walker and her flamboyant, secretive mother, Vivi? Here, the young Sidda-a...
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Two women wrenched apart by a family member's disappearance must find a way back to each other in this haunting page-turner by the author of A Crooked Tree.
Nessa Garvey's sister Deena vanished without a trace in Philadelphia in 2004. In all that time, Nessa has never once doubted what her instincts told her: her sister's ex-husband has gotten away with an unspeakable crime.
Nessa's niece, Ruby, is raised by her father, the man Nessa suspects,...
14) Garmann's summer
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Garmann books (Stian Hole) volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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As the summer ends, six-year-old Garmann's three ancient aunts visit and they all talk about the things that scare them.
15) Handy dad in the great outdoors: more than 30 super-cool projects and activities for dads and kids
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Trade in screen time for fresh air and family fun with adventures and experiments from the host of HGTV's Room Crashers.
Slacklining, edible bugs, tarp surfing, and more! In this awesome follow-up to the hugely popular Handy Dad, extreme sports athlete and TV host Todd Davis gathers more than thirty projects and activities sure to get kids outside and entertained for hours. With easy-to-follow instructions, helpful photographs, and detailed line...
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From the laugh-out-loud talent behind A Pizza with Everything on It, Kyle Scheele and Andy J. Pizza stir up yet another deliciously hilarious picture book adventure that will melt readers' hearts.
Embark on a quest for dessert that is truly out-of-this-world in this deliciously funny family adventure tale. Sure, it's hard to find a bowl big enough for an asteroid-size scoop of ice cream, but when your mom is a quantum physicist who also happens to...
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Meryl Becker wants to give her oldest daughter Meg the perfect wedding, but when her two younger daughters, Amy and Jo, also become engaged, three weddings are more than she and her husband, Hugh, can realistically afford. The solution? A triple wedding! It's a tough sell to the girls, and juggling three sets of future in-laws is a logistical nightmare. Then Hugh loses his teaching job, and Meryl's aging mother moves in with them and the onslaught...
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"From a bright new talent comes this debut novel about a young woman who travels for the first time to her mother's hometown, and gets sucked into the mystery that changed her family forever. Mattie Wallace has really screwed up this time. Broke and knocked up, she's got all her worldly possessions crammed into six giant trash bags, and nowhere to go. Try as she might, Mattie can no longer deny that she really is turning into her mother, a broken...
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The New York Times bestselling author offers an intimate portrait of America's original first family in this groundbreaking major biography of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother, filled with rich anecdotes and stories that reveal the father of our country in a fresh and original way. George Washington's first fight for independence was from his controlling, singular mother. Mary Ball Washington was entrenched in the Old World ways of...
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