Touchstone: 629 books
Whining
3 Steps to Stop It Before the Tears and Tantrums Start
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Are you ready to end the whining wars in your house?
It starts with a whimper, an insistent demand, or a certain tone of voice that every parent recognizes with dread -- your child is starting to whine, and if you don't respond properly you'll have a full-blown tantrum or argument on your hands....
The 10 Greatest Gifts I Give My Children
Parenting from the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic parenting book, now updated to reflect Steven Vannoy’s two decades of experience helping both families and businesses better care for their children and employees.
For more than twenty years, The 10 Greatest Gifts I Give My Children has been...
by Victor Mollo
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Renowned bridge expert Victor Mollo has another card up his sleeve! Advance technique and simple bridge psychology, closely linked, are the salient features of the many brilliant plays described in Victor Mollo's Bridge Club.
There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather
A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this “fascinating exploration of the importance of the outdoors to childhood development” (Kirkus Reviews) from a Swedish-American mother who sets out to discover if the nature-centric parenting philosophy of her native Scandinavia holds the...
Please Enjoy Your Happiness
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
A beautiful and evocative memoir based on the author’s summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman in the wake of World War II—“the most romantic memoir you’re likely to read in a lifetime” (New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand).
Pulitzer Prize–winning...
Am I Weird Or Is This Normal?
Advice and Info To Get Teens in the Know
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2002
Am I Weird or Is This Normal? is for every girl who has ever wondered whether all the stuff that's happening to her body, feelings, and relationships is normal -- and who's seeking the 411 that will get her in step with life.
Am I Weird or Is This Normal? is like being a part of a private conversation...
Technology and War
From 2000 B.C. to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In this impressive work, van Creveld considers man's use of technology over the past 4,000 years and its impact on military organization, weaponary, logistics, intelligence, communications, transportation, and command. This revised paperback edition has been updated to include an account of the range of technology in the recent Gulf War.
Touching Tomorrow
How to Interview Your Loved Ones to Capture a Lifetime of Memories on Video or Audio
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2002
What does your mother remember
about her first kiss?
What's the first thing your father
tells himself every morning?
By the time we are adults, it is all too easy to look at our parents and grandparents as though their lives have been miles removed from our own, causing a communication and generation...
You Are Not Your Illness
Seven Principles for Meeting the Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1995
The author, who has lived with multiple sclerosis most of her adult life, delves deeply into her own experience to reveal the keys to regaining emotional and spiritual wholeness when a serious illness or injury threatens to destroy one's sense of self.
While serious illness, injury, or disability...
Altruistic Personality
Rescuers Of Jews In Nazi Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
Why, during the Holocaust, did some ordinary people risk their lives and the lives of their families to help others--even total strangers--while others stood passively by? Samuel Oliner, a Holocaust survivor who has interviewed more than 700 European rescuers and nonrescuers, provides some surprising answers in this compelling work.
Project Everlasting
Two Bachelors Discover the Secrets of America's Greatest Marriages
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
A heartwarming and revealing look at the wisdom drawn from successful marriages and the secrets to making love last, not from Ph.D.s or therapists but from more than 200 real couples who have walked the walk to more than forty years of marriage.
Jaded by his parents' divorce, Mathew Boggs was...
Chocolate for a Woman's Soul
77 Stories to Feed Your Spirit and Warm Your Heart
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Treat yourself to 77 true stories that celebrate life and capture the essence of what it means to be a woman. Like chocolate, these stories soothe, satisfy, and delight -- better yet, they're good for you! Written by and for women, here are heartfelt insights on commitment, compassion, work, marriage,...
Chocolate para el corazon de la Mujer
77 relatos de amor, bondad y compasion para nutrir su alma y endulzar sus suenos
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
¡Dese el gusto de comer más chocolate!
El amor, como el chocolate, llega a nosotros en muchas variedades: puro y sencillo, sabroso y complicado, dulce y agridulce, y siempre memorable. Ahora, la creadora del éxito de librería Chocolate para el alma de la mujer nos sirve 77 deliciosas “historias...
Chocolate for a Woman's Courage
77 Stories That Honor Your Strength and Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2003
Be Brave! Celebrate and Eat Chocolate!
Every woman knows that courage isn't just something you find in a crisis, it's something you tap into every day of your life. In this triumphant salute to mothers, daughters, sisters, friends, and colleagues, these 77 true-life stories celebrate women at their...