Abbi Waxman

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Kentucky

Other People's Houses

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Kate Russo

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

“Get ready to smile….[A] sweet story and the perfect antidote to the chaos that’s been 2021.” –the Skimm A deeply funny and shrewdly observed debut novel about being lost in the very place you know by heart. Bennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now, at age fifty-five, his wife has left him, he hasn't sold a painting in two years, and his gallery wants to stop selling his work, claiming they'll have more value retrospectively...when he's dead. So, left with a large West London home and no income, he's forced to move into his artist's studio in the back garden and list his house on the popular vacation rental site, AirBed. A stranger now in his own home, with his daughter, Mia, off at art school, and any new relationships fizzling out at best, Bennett struggles to find purpose in his day-to-day. That all changes when three different guests--lonely American Alicia; tortured artist Emma; and cautiously optimistic divorcée Kirstie--unwittingly unlock the pieces of himself that have been lost to him for too long. Warm, witty, and utterly humane, Super Host offers a captivating portrait of middle age, relationships, and what it truly means to take a new chance at life.

Super Host

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Antonia Hylton

Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

When we learn about the global history of mental healthcare and the birth of institutions like the asylum, Black patients are conspicuously absent from the history books, excluded from the narrative of recovery. Nowhere is this truer than in the history of Maryland's Crownsville Hospital for the Negro Insane. Founded in 1911, Crownsville Hospital was one of the few American segregated asylums with surviving records. During its peak years, it held 2,657 subjects, and for decades served as the only mental hospital in the State of Maryland that would accept Black patients. In Madness, Emmy award-winning news correspondent, Antonia Hylton explores Crownsville's history and how the legacy of slavery and racist stereotypes ultimately pave the way to the criminalization and stigmatization of Black patients. Madness is using journalistic investigation, photographs, original research, interviews, primary sources, and newspaper records to raise questions about our country's incomplete narrative. Hylton beautifully moves between anecdotal accounts from within Crownsville and wider-lens perspectives on how it shaped the legacy of care and empathy for Black people. She connects the aftermath of chattel slavery to Crownsville, where patients were also forced to work the land. She explores treatment from the medical staff and the fearmongering in surrounding neighborhoods. And she examines the state of our broken medical healthcare system of today. Above all, Madness provides deep context on who is considered redeemable, centered on those receiving the worst of what is available.

Madness

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Olivia Campbell

How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!



For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionizing the way women receive health care.



In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they avoided receiving medical care. Examinations performed by male doctors were often demeaning and even painful. In addition, women faced stigma from illness--a diagnosis could greatly limit their ability to find husbands, jobs or be received in polite society.



Motivated by personal loss and frustration over inadequate medical care, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Sophia Jex-Blake fought for a woman's place in the male-dominated medical field. For the first time ever, Women in White Coats tells the complete history of these three pioneering women who, despite countless obstacles, earned medical degrees and paved the way for other women to do the same. Though very different in personality and circumstance, together these women built women-run hospitals and teaching colleges--creating for the first time medical care for women by women.



With gripping storytelling based on extensive research and access to archival documents, Women in White Coats tells the courageous history these women made by becoming doctors, detailing the boundaries they broke of gender and science to reshape how we receive medical care today.

Women in White Coats

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Marc Weissbluth

Front cover has small crease line.  Rest of book is excellent 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A New Step-By-Step Guide for a Good Night's Sleep

The perennial favorite for parents who want to get their kids to sleep with ease--now in its fifth edition, fully revised and updated, with a new step-by-step guide for a good night's sleep.

With more than 1.5 million copies in print, Dr. Marc Weissbluth's step-by-step regimen for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child's natural sleep cycles has long been the standard-setter in baby sleep books. Now with a new introduction and quick-start guide to getting your child to sleep, Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child has been totally rewritten and reorganized to give tired parents the information they need quickly and succinctly. This new edition also includes the very latest research on the importance of

* implementing bedtime routines
* practicing parental presence at bedtime
* recognizing drowsy signs
* the role of the father as an active partner in helping the child sleep better
* overcoming challenges families face to help their child sleep better
* different cultural sleep habits from around the world
* individualized and nonjudgmental approaches to sleep training

Sleep is vital to your child's health, growth, and development. The fifth edition of Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child gives parents proven strategies to ensure healthy, high-quality sleep for children at every age.

Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, 5th Edition

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