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Fannin' the Flames: A Novel

by Parry Ebonysatin Brown

The fire and rescue squad from Los Angeles County’s Fire Department Station Twenty-seven’s “C-Shift” was a rock-solid team. The camaraderie among them was only made stronger by the fact that they were...

Yours 2 Keep

by Kay Hooper & Marilyn Pappano

The millennium bug plays matchmaker!

When the millennium bug gives a crash course in romance, anything can happen--in these spellbinding stories by five beloved romance writers.

"Arts Magica" by Kay Hooper

When...

Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child

by Joan Declaire, John Gottman & Daniel Goleman

Intelligence That Comes from the Heart

Every parent knows the importance of equipping children with the intellectual skills they need to succeed in school and life. But children also need to master their emotions....

The Price of Privilege

by Madeline Levine

Madeline Levine has been a practicingpsychologist for twenty-five years, but it was only recently that she began to observe a new breed of unhappy teenager. When a bright, personable fifteen-year-old girl, from...

Your Adolescent: Volume 2

by David Pruitt & Aacap

Parents, teachers, and mental health workers will find the answersto these- and many other-questions in this forthright yet compassionate guide to helping your adolescent through the tumultuous teen years. From...

Your Child: Volume 1

by Aacap & David Pruitt

What does a typical three-year-old think about and feel? What can you anticipate from your five-year-old about to begin school? What does it mean that your eight-year-old seems to lie regularly?

Your Child takes...

Ten Stupid Things Couples Do to Mess Up Their Relationships

by Dr. Laura Schlessinger

1. Stupid Secrets

Withholding important information for fear of rejection

2. Stupid Egotism

Asking not what you can do for the relationship but only what the relationship can do for you

3. Stupid Pettiness

Making...

What God Has Joined Together

by David G. Myers & Letha Dawson Scanzoni

Gay marriage has become the most important domestic social issue facing twenty-first-century Americans -- particularly Americans of faith. Most Christians are pro-marriage and hold traditional family values,...

Punk Rock Dad

by Jim Lindberg

Jim Lindberg is a Punk Rock Dad. When he drives his kids to school in the morning, they listen to the Ramones, the Clash, or the Descendents—and that's it. They can listen to Britney and Justin on their own...

Essential Manners for Couples

by Peter Post

From the man who closed the lid forever on the "toilet seat debate" in the New York Times bestseller Essential Manners for Men comes the follow-up book that paves the way for couples everywhere to fix relationship...

Illisions

by Sissy Marlyn

All parents foster false illusions about their children. Will three children, and long-term friends -- Mason, Katie Rose and Callie -- overcome their parents' destructive illusions for their lives? Or will they...

White Swan, Black Swan

by Adrienne Sharp

The world's most famous choreographer becomes infatuated with a coltish young dancer who proves both siren and muse. A rising star plunges into an affair with a principal but finds that ecstasy on the stage...

Daughters of Men

by Rachel Vassel

From actress Sanaa Lathan to Georgia State Supreme Court chief justice Leah Ward Sears, many African-American women attribute much of their success to having a positive father figure

In Daughters of Men, author...

How To Love Like a Hot Chick

by Jodi Lipper & Cerina Vincent

Hot Chick: A confident, passionate, honest woman. . . . You want to be around her to soak up those good vibes.

The duo that taught you to embrace your body and indulge without guilt in How to Eat Like a Hot Chick...

Deceptively Delicious

by Jessica Seinfeld

It has become common knowledge that childhood obesity rates are increasing every year. But the rates continue to rise. And between busy work schedules and the inconvenient truth that kids simply refuse to eat...

Mr. Right, Right Now!

by E. Jean Carroll

The Mr. Right, Right Now! Promise:

If you start following the principles of the Man Catching Theory right now, 6 weeks from today, you will have the man of your dreams.

E. Jean Carroll, the popular advice columnist...

The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Ch

by Harriet Lerner

In The Dance of Intimacy, the bestselling author of The Dance of Anger outlines the steps to take so that good relationships can be strengthened and difficult ones can be healed. Taking a careful look at those...

A Career Girl's Guide to Becoming a Stepmom

by Jacquelyn B. Fletcher

You have an exciting, fulfilling job. You've fallen in love with the man of your dreams—and met his three kids! Now what? Jacquelyn B. Fletcher shows how any professional woman turned wife and instant stepmother...

About My Sisters

by Debra Ginsberg

On the heels of her poignant and critically acclaimed memoirs, Waiting and Raising Blaze, Debra Ginsberg explores the unique connection she shares with her three sisters.

In About My Sisters, Ginsberg examines...

Life Beyond Measure

by Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier is one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model for many Americans because of his convictions, bravery,...