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|  | Kids Celebrate! by Clare B. Braham, Marie B. Esche
Skipping the typical green shamrocks and orange paper pumpkins, here are 100 days to remember with 200 related activities for children and grownups. The significance of each special day is explained in this educational tribute to the holidays, history, and accomplishments of many cultures and people. AUTHOR: Clare B. Braham, Marie B. Esche
PUBLISHER: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Advice 
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 | For All Time by Charles Kempthorne
Description not available.Discusses the importance of family history, techniques for writing a family history, and methods of printing and publishing these histories AUTHOR: Charles Kempthorne
PUBLISHER: Heinemann
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Advice
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 | Beyond Apperance by Judith Worell, Michael C. Roberts, Norine G. Johnson
Going beyond superficial media stereotypes, this volume presents a balanced view of teenage girls. Beyond Appearance reviews and assesses research on girls from a variety of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, searching for commonalities and differences. The contributing authors explore topics at the heart of adolescence, including gender-role prescriptions, body image concerns, relationships with family and peers, sexual decision-making, experiences at school and in the community, and health and safety concerns. A concluding chapter suggests ways of improving the support we give to adolescent girls on their developmental journey. AUTHOR: Judith Worell, Michael C. Roberts, Norine G. Johnson
PUBLISHER: American Psychological Association
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Advice
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 | Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Lover by Arielle Ford, Deepak Chopra
Ford collects 101 stories, slanted for the New Age audience, of fated romance. Includes an introduction by Deepak Chopra and commentaries by Jack Canfield and Neale Donald Walsch. AUTHOR: Arielle Ford, Deepak Chopra
PUBLISHER: Dutton/Plume
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Advice
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 | Losing a Parent by Alexandra Kennedy
Description not available.A guide to dealing with the death of a parent presents self-help exercises to gain insight and promote inner healing AUTHOR: Alexandra Kennedy
PUBLISHER: HarperSanFrancisco
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Advice
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 | Against Love by Laura Kipnis
With a novelist's eye for detail, psychological acuity, and linguistic panache, Kipnis at once humorously and seriously explores the rules and rituals of modern coupledom and domesticity.Will all the adulterers in the room please stand up? So begins Laura Kipnis's profoundly provocative and waggish inquiry into our never-ending quest for lasting love, and its attendant issues of fidelity and betrayal. In the tradition of social critiques such as Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism, Against Love keenly examines the meaning and cultural significance of adultery, arguing that perhaps the question concerns not only the private dilemma of whether or not to be faithful, but also the purpose of this much vaunted fidelity. With a novelist's eye for detail, psychological acuity, and linguistic panache, Kipnis at once humorously and seriously explores the rules and rituals of modern coupledom and domesticity (from the establishment of curfews and whereabouts to actual searches and seizures), even as she deftly analyzes the larger power structures that they serve. She wonders: Might adulterers be regarded not only as sexual renegades but as unwitting social theorists posing essential political questions about the social contract itself? What is the trade-off between personal gratification and the renunciations society demands of us? And is working at your relationship just another way of propping up the work ethic, as if we weren't all overworked enough as it is? If adultery is ultimately a referendum on the sustainability of monogamy, how credible is the basic premise of modern coupledom: that desire for your one and only love can and will persist through a lifetime of togetherness (despite so much evidence to the contrary)? Against Love offers no easy answers. Rather it intends to engage you in a commonsensical and brave examination of the plight of the modern personality, caught between the vicissitudes of desire and the decrees of social conformity. AUTHOR: Laura Kipnis
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Advice
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