In a book that is “at once heart-wrenching and heart-warming” (Kirkus Reviews), Parent, a social worker in New York City, recounts his most desperate cases and life on the front lines in the battle to help abused children. “A revelatory and affirmative work, a grace note played against the darkest passages of family life” (Newsday). Foreword by Anna Quindlen.

Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk

Biographies & Memoirs

Parent, Marc

Leaders & Notable People

Harcourt

Assuming that life's most difficult questions may in fact be answerable, the author offers an inspirational look at fatherhood, playfulness, and spirituality.

Believing It All: What My Children Taught Me About Trout Fishing, Jelly Toast, and Life

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

Little,Brown & Co

The acclaimed book in which a natural-born storyteller relays the vital lessons and inspiration he has drawn from life's most perfect teachers: children.

Believing It All: Lessons I Learned from My Children

Back Bay Books

The Secret Society of Demolition Writers

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Random House, Inc.

What would you write if no one knew who you were?In the spirit of the demolition derby, where drivers take heedless risks with reckless abandon, welcome to the first convocation of the Secret Society of Demolition Writers. Here is a one-of-a-kind collection by famous authors writing anonymously-and dangerously. With the usual concerns about reputations and renown cast aside, these twelve daredevils have each contributed an extreme, no-holds-barred unsigned story, each shining as brightly and urgently as hazard lights.Unconventional and unapologetic, this publishing equivalent of a whodunit features an eclectic group of fictional characters, including a delusional schizophrenic narrator, an egg donor with second thoughts about her decision, a pharmacist who forms a weird crush on a woman who beat both of her parents to death, and a little girl who understands that an old safe is the threshold to another, ghostly, world. Equally diverse and surprising are the authors themselves: Aimee Bender, Benjamin Cheever, Michael Connelly, Sebastian Junger, Elizabeth McCracken, Rosie O'Donnell, Chris Offutt, Anna Quindlen, John Burnham Schwartz, Alice Sebold, Lauren Slater, and Marc Parent, the editor of the collection. Never before has such a wide-ranging and talented group of authors been assembled to such explosive and entertaining effect.The Secret Society of Demolition Writers is an intriguing puzzle in itself, but it's also an important addition to the careers of some of our finest storytellers-even if we never really know who wrote what. Its boundary-smashing fiction offers exhilarating proof that for an artist, withholding your identity can mean gaining your freedom.

SCHWARTZ, John Burnham

Offutt, Chris

O'Donnell, Rosie

Junger, Sebastian

SLATER, Lauren

CHEEVER, Benjamin

SEBOLD,ALICE

McCracken, Elizabeth

Connelly. Michael

BENDER, AIMEE

Quindlen, Anna.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Tantor Audio

United States

What if There are Actually Answers to some of the Biggest Questions in life? from a Natural-Born Storyteller, A Gorgeous Book of Lessons and Inspiration from life's most perfect teachers: our Children.There is nobody like a child to look life's greatest mysteries square in the eye, and there is no writer like Marc Parent to translate their revelations to the rest of us. He tries to teach his sons how to win at his favorite board games, but learns instead the real joy of making up your own incoherent rules. He nurtures their compassion, they teach him about love and forgiveness in the face of anger. This is an audiobook about the things we knew as children -- about gratitude and playfulness, acceptance and love -- but elude us as adults.

Believing It All

Parenting

Warner Adult

Stella was born in 1930 in New York. She died in 1988 in Paris. Constantly traveling across the Atlantic, she embodied the high expectations of haute couture. What was it like to be a top model in the the 1950s between Paris and New York? How did the fashion world differ from today's? Through photography by Willy Maywald, the Harcourt Studio, Sam Levin, and other famous photographers, this book takes the reader through an almost unreal world of beauty, appearances, and glamour.

Stella

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

Ipso Facto

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