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No Sugar Coating: The Coffee Talk You Need About Foster Parenting

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By Jillana Goble — 2025

No Sugar-Coating is a warm, straight-up guide that reads like a conversation with a knowledgeable friend. It is filled with practical suggestions interwoven with compelling narrative rooted in foster parenting experience. See more...

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A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness

“All those years you tried your best to break me, and I’m still here. One day you’ll see, I’m going to make something of myself.” These words were Dave Pelzer’s declaration of independence to his mother, and they represented the ultimate act of self-reliance.

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The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor

When Dr. Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist, began caring for his wife, Joan, after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, he found just how far the act of caregiving extended beyond the boundaries of medicine.

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Educated: A Memoir

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No Saints around Here: A Caregiver’s Days

When we promise “in sickness and in health,” it may be a mercy that we don’t know exactly what lies ahead. Forcing food on an increasingly recalcitrant spouse. Brushing his teeth. Watching someone you love more than ever slip away day by day.

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Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America

Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles.

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Counting Down: A Memoir of Foster Parenting and Beyond

When Deborah Gold and her husband signed up to foster parent in their rural mountain community, they did not foresee that it would lead to a roller-coaster fifteen years of involvement with a traumatized yet resilient birth family.

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Mama, Mama, Only Mama: An Irreverent Guide for the Newly Single Parent―From Divorce and Dating to Cooking and Crafting, All While Raising the Kids and Maintaining Your Own Sanity (Sort Of)

Being a single mother means relaxing your cleanliness standards. A lot. Being a single mother means missing your kids like crazy when your ex has them, only to want to give them back ten minutes after they come home. Being a single mother means accepting sleep deprivation as a natural state.

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Frumpy Middle-Aged Mom: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Motherhood

Never mind the Real Housewives of Orange County―Marla Jo Fisher is the woman everyone can relate to, complete with bad parenting, rotten dogs, ill health, and fashion faux pas.

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Because I Come from a Crazy Family: The Making of a Psychiatrist

From the bestselling author of the classic book on ADD, Driven to Distraction, a memoir of the strange upbringing that shaped Dr. Edward M. Hallowell’s celebrated career. When Edward M. Hallowell was eleven, a voice out of nowhere told him he should become a psychiatrist.

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Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays with Morrie comes Mitch Albom’s most personal story to date: An intimate and heartwarming memoir about what it means to be a family and the young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart.

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