Take Out Your Nose Ring, Honey, We're Going to Grandma's


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The antidote to today's epidemic of negative stereotypes about teenagers! Instructive and inspiring articles about successfully parenting teens from Chicago Tribune contributor Barbara Cooke and nationally known family therapist Carleton Kendrick. Invaluable for parents and educators.




Battleground: The Family [2 volumes]


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Everyone is part of a family, but what constitutes a family is one of the most hotly debated issues in the United States today. Battleground: The Family provides extensive coverage of those critical issues in U. S. culture concerning current and future family life, such as dating, marriage, parenting, work and family, abuse, and divorce. The scholarly contributors to this set provide unbiased coverage on these often incendiary topics, allowing students to assess the role of these controversies in their own lives. Entries thoroughly introduce the topic of concern, describe the problem as it currently exists, provide context for the controversies surrounding it, synthesize the current knowledge on the topic, and guide the reader to additional areas for consideration. Battleground: The Family serves as a starting point for those advanced high school and beginning undergraduate students who wish to pursue a more detailed study of family controversies and cultural concerns for classroom assignments. Non-specialist readers will also find this a useful resource in critically assessing current trends and conflicts in constituent groups' conceptions of family.




Multitasking


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Working Mother


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The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.




Working Mother


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The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.




On Grandma's Porch


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Stories and "True Facts" about growing up Southern in the good old days. More than a dozen southern authors contribute warm, nostalgic stories and fun trivia about "the era before shopping malls, Disney, and Wal-Mart." Includes the authors' favorite nostalgic recipes.




Battleground


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Everyone is part of a family, but what constitutes a family is one of the most hotly debated issues in the United States today. Battleground: The Family provides extensive coverage of those critical issues in U.S. culture concerning current and future family life, such as dating, marriage, parenting, work and family, abuse, and divorce. The scholarly contributors to this set provide unbiased coverage on these often incendiary topics, allowing students to assess the role of these controversies in their own lives. Entries thoroughly introduce the topic of concern, describe the problem as it currently exists, provide context for the controversies surrounding it, synthesize the current knowledge on the topic, and guide the reader to additional areas for consideration. Battleground: The Family serves as a starting point for those advanced high school and beginning undergraduate students who wish to pursue a more detailed study of family controversies and cultural concerns for classroom assignments. Non-specialist readers will also find this a useful resource in critically assessing current trends and conflicts in constituent groups' conceptions of family. - Publisher.




Just Say the Word


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When her boyfriend is naively sucked into the Mob, a young woman spends years trying to reconcile her days as a school teacher against her nights as a mob mistress. Eventually, the distraught young woman flees the familiarity of the east coast with her young daughter to begin a new life in Seattle. Though tortured by leaving her lover behind, she is now free of the Mafioso's hold. After peaceful years in the Pacific Northwest, her life takes another dangerous turn: a recent fling turns up dead, and the woman's fingerprints are found on the handgun that killed him.When a million-dollar bail is mysteriously posted and a hot-shot defense lawyer arrives from San Francisco, her friends want answers - so does the FBI. Delving into the investigation head first, authorities hit a wall when they find no record of the petite office manager's history before her arrival 20 years ago.Is this seemingly innocent woman what she appears to be or has she been framed? Who is watching out for her and what forces have shaken her destiny? Could this single mom really be a killer?




Please Pass Grandma's Leg


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An 11 year-old diabetic boy catches his wacky grandma showing off her articial leg at the mall. Later he and his bad mannered beagle work together to discover where lunchroom food has been disappearing, therefore removing all accusations from a friend's mother, the lunchroom manager.




Church Lady


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Somewhere along the way, this woman of noble character—wholesome, God-fearing, lovable, kind, giving, and serving—lost her respect. You’ve seen her. You may even be her—the godly and beautiful woman who, in spite of herself, has resembled her complete opposite twin, evil and ugly, a time or two in her life. And wouldn’t you know it? That was the exact moment someone snapped a picture and recorded it on the hard drive of her mind, filed it under Stereotypes, and titled it Church Lady. It’s time for a do-over, a truce, a meeting of the sisters. Delete the hard drive, wipe out the negative stereotype, and shine up her tarnished reputation. Join Chandra Peele and reclaim the honor and humility that is the Church Lady.