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 +=== Solving the Self-Esteem Puzzle: A Guide for Moving from Piece to Peace ===
 +***ADDED 2014***\\
 +**Author:** \\
 +**Annotation:**\\
 +A blind mental-health counselor offers advice on improving self-awareness, focusing on the effect self-esteem has on personal relationships, on how we feel about our environment, and on life's meaning. She guides the reader through introspective examination of the component parts of life, endeavoring to fit the puzzle pieces together. Contains explicit sexual terms. **1991**.\\
 +**Available Formats:**
 +  * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/34984|DB 34984]] - Read by Miriam Wagner. Reading time 4 hours, 22 minutes.
  
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 Kreidman's theory is that a man falls in love with a woman because of the way he feels when he is with her. She offers suggestions on how to communicate with your man and make him a sex object, how to express feelings and create moods, and how to keep his fire lit forever. **1991**.\\ Kreidman's theory is that a man falls in love with a woman because of the way he feels when he is with her. She offers suggestions on how to communicate with your man and make him a sex object, how to express feelings and create moods, and how to keep his fire lit forever. **1991**.\\
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-  * [[RC 30551]]+  * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/30551|DB 30551]] - Read by Ilona Dulaski. Reading time 5 hours, 41 minutes.
   * [[BR 08108]] - 2 volumes.   * [[BR 08108]] - 2 volumes.
  
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   * [[BR 06184]]   * [[BR 06184]]
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-=== Light His Fire: How to Keep Your Man Passionately and Hopelessly in Love with You === 
-**Author:** Ellen Kreidman\\ 
-**Annotation:**\\ 
-Kreidman's theory is that a man falls in love with a woman because of the way he feels when he is with her. She offers suggestions on how to communicate with your man and make him a sex object, how to express feelings and create moods, and how to keep his fire lit forever. **1989**.\\ 
-**Available Formats:** 
-  * [[RC 30551]] 
-  * [[BR 08108]] - 2 volumes. 
  
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   * [[RC 14476]]   * [[RC 14476]]
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 +==== Emotional Illness in Your Family: Helping Your Relative, Helping Yourself ====
 +**Author:** Harvey R. Greenberg\\
 +**Annotation:**\\
 +The author, a clinical professor of psychiatry, has written this book to help adolescents contend with the difficulties a relative's troubles can cause. He examines ways, both within the family and through professional help, of dealing with problems. Presenting a catalog of disorders, he discusses each and suggests specific coping strategies. For junior and senior high readers. **1989**.\\
 +**Available Formats:**
 +  * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/35019|DB 35019]] - Read by Maxine Wasserman. Reading time 10 hours, 30 minutes.
  
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   * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/32117|DB 32117]] - Read by Kerry Dukin. Reading time 15 hours, 15 minutes.   * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/32117|DB 32117]] - Read by Kerry Dukin. Reading time 15 hours, 15 minutes.
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 +==== The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind ====
 +***ADDED 2014***\\
 +**Author:** Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson\\
 +**Annotation:**\\
 +Neuropsychiatrist Siegel and psychotherapist Bryson provide insight into child brain development. They discuss ways to foster children's emotional intelligence and offer tools to implement a holistic approach to modifying behavior. Commercial audiobook. **2011**.\\
 +**Available Formats:**
 +  * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/74711|DB 74711]] - Read by Tina Payne Bryson. Reading time 6 hours, 17 minutes.
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 +==== Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain ====
 +***ADDED 2014***\\
 +**Author:** Daniel J. Siegel\\
 +**Annotation:**\\
 +Neuropsychiatrist Siegel, author of //The Whole-Brain Child// ([[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/74711|DB 74711]]), uses scientific research into the field of interpersonal neurobiology and anecdotes from patients and his own family to explain teenage behavior. Discusses the purpose of the adolescent mind, the timing of puberty, and ways to help families thrive. Bestseller. **2013**.\\
 +**Available Formats:**
 +  * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/78189|DB 78189]] - Read by Jeremy Gage. Reading time 9 hours, 47 minutes.
  
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   * [[BR 06792]] - 2 volumes.   * [[BR 06792]] - 2 volumes.
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 +==== When Your Adult Child Breaks Your Heart: Coping with Mental Illness, Substance Abuse, and the Problems That Tear Families Apart ====
 +***ADDED 2014***\\
 +**Author:** Joel L. Young and Christine A. Adamec\\
 +**Annotation:**\\
 +Psychiatrist and medical writer offer practical advice and coping strategies for parents dealing with adult children who are mentally ill, drug addicted, abusive, or incarcerated. Focuses on identifying and treating underlying conditions of mental illness and substance abuse as the most efficient way to assist your troubled child. **2013**.\\
 +**Available Formats:**
 +  * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/78064|DB 78064]] - Read by Gary Tipton. Reading time 10 hours, 21 minutes.
  
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   * [[RC 25119]]   * [[RC 25119]]
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 +==== Reclaiming Our Lives: Hope for Adult Survivors of Incest ====
 +***ADDED 2014***\\
 +**Author:** Carol H. Poston and Karen Lison \\
 +**Annotation:**\\
 +Help for women who have been victims of incest--whether one incident, or many. Each chapter begins with a narrative by Poston, a victim, regarding her abused childhood, then Lison, a psychotherapist, presents case studies in which she analyzes victims' experiences. Contains a fourteen-step guide for recovery. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. **1989**.\\
 +**Available Formats:**
 +  * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/30420|DB 30420]] - Read by Mitzi Friedlander. Reading time 10 hours, 6 minutes.
  
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 ==== Multiple Sclerosis (ADDED 2014) ==== ==== Multiple Sclerosis (ADDED 2014) ====
 +=== Lean On Me: Ten Powerful Steps to Moving Beyond Your Diagnosis and Taking Back Your Life ===
 +***ADDED 2014***\\
 +**Author:** Nancy Davis (Nancy Sue)\\
 +**Annotation:**\\
 +The author describes a doctor telling her at age thirty-three that she had multiple sclerosis and there was nothing she could do. To provide others with tools for dealing with their own chronic illness, she details the steps she used to take charge of her health. **2006**.\\
 +**Available Formats:**
 +  * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/78345|DB 78345]] - Read by Mare Trevathan. Reading time 7 hours, 21 minutes.
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 === Waist-High in The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled === === Waist-High in The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled ===
 ***ADDED 2014***\\ ***ADDED 2014***\\
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 Award-winning health writer investigates the effectiveness of drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers by visiting fifteen treatment programs and interviewing clients, counselors, and administrators. Challenges common beliefs about addiction and offers insight into different types of therapy, success rates, and keys to recovery. **2013**.\\ Award-winning health writer investigates the effectiveness of drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers by visiting fifteen treatment programs and interviewing clients, counselors, and administrators. Challenges common beliefs about addiction and offers insight into different types of therapy, success rates, and keys to recovery. **2013**.\\
 **Available Formats:** **Available Formats:**
-  * [[DB 76527]] - **IN PROCESS**+  * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/76527|DB 76527]] - Read by Kerry Dukin. Reading time 19 hours, 21 minutes. 
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 +=== Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change: A Guide for Families  === 
 +***ADDED 2014***\\ 
 +**Author:** Jeffrey Foote, Carrie Wilkens, Nicole Kosanke, and Stephanie Higgs\\ 
 +**Annotation:**\\ 
 +Drawing on their collective forty years of clinic experience, the authors offer supportive, nonconfrontational techniques to promote positive behavioral change in family members struggling with addiction and compulsive disorders. They share case studies demonstrating that kindness, positive reinforcement, and motivational strategies helped loved ones change their behavior. **2014**.\\ 
 +**Available Formats:** 
 +  * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/78349|DB 78349]] - Read by Martha Harmon Pardee. Reading time 12 hours, 37 minutes.
  
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 ===== Disabilities: Deafness and Hearing Loss ===== ===== Disabilities: Deafness and Hearing Loss =====
 +==== How to Survive a Hearing Loss ====
 +***ADDED 2014***\\
 +**Author:** Charlotte Himber\\
 +**Annotation:**\\
 +Himber, whose hearing has been impaired for most of her life, is one of more than twenty million Americans with some form of hearing impairment. She chronicles her own hearing loss, her gradual acceptance of it, and her experiences with a variety of hearing aids. She also provides information on various kinds of hearing loss, on how hearing is evaluated, and on how to help friends and families adjust. **1989**.\\
 +**Available Formats:**\\
 +  * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/32878|DB 32878]] - Read by Kerry Dukin. Reading time 7 hours, 42 minutes.
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 ==== In Silence: Growing Up Hearing in a Deaf World ==== ==== In Silence: Growing Up Hearing in a Deaf World ====
 ***ADDED 2014***\\ ***ADDED 2014***\\
 **Author:** Ruth Sidransky\\ **Author:** Ruth Sidransky\\
 **Annotation:**\\ **Annotation:**\\
-As a hearing child of deaf parents, Ruth Sidransky learned signing as her first language. Only when she entered school did she master speech. She was placed in a class for **retarded** ("developmentally delayed" or "mentally challenged"???) children until her parents intervened. The richness of her experiences, surrounded by a loving family in a close-knit neighborhood in New York, helped to ease her transfer to the hearing world.\\+As a hearing child of deaf parents, Ruth Sidransky learned signing as her first language. Only when she entered school did she master speech. She was placed in a class for **retarded** ("developmentally delayed" or "mentally challenged"???) children until her parents intervened. The richness of her experiences, surrounded by a loving family in a close-knit neighborhood in New York, helped to ease her transfer to the hearing world. **1990**.\\
 **Available Formats:**\\ **Available Formats:**\\
   * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/32598|DB 32598]] - Read by Laura Giannarelli. Reading time 11 hours, 13 minutes.   * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/32598|DB 32598]] - Read by Laura Giannarelli. Reading time 11 hours, 13 minutes.
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   * [[RC 13412]]   * [[RC 13412]]
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 +==== How to Do Just About Anything ====
 +***ADDED 2014***\\
 +**Author:** Reader's Digest Association\\
 +**Annotation:**\\
 +In this comprehensive guide to solving common household problems are such diverse topics as making a pie crust, fixing a squeaky door, curing laryngitis, and how to get your rent deposit returned. Skills and tools needed to complete most jobs are suggested, as well as advice on when to seek professional help. **1986**.\\
 +**Available Formats:**
 +  * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/29903|DB 29903]] - Read by Kerry Dukin. Reading time 43 hours, 46 minutes.
  
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 ==== What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual For Job-Hunters and Career-Changers ==== ==== What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual For Job-Hunters and Career-Changers ====
-***ADDED 2014***\\ 
 **Author:** Richard Nelson Bolles\\ **Author:** Richard Nelson Bolles\\
 **Annotation:**\\ **Annotation:**\\
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   * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/62321|DB 62321]] - Read by Ken Kliban. Reading time: 16 hours, 10 minutes.   * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/62321|DB 62321]] - Read by Ken Kliban. Reading time: 16 hours, 10 minutes.
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 +==== Daddy Lost His Job (Children's Book) ====
 +**Author:** Jennifer Moore-Mallinos\\
 +**Annotation:**\\
 +When siblings learn that their father has lost his job, they launch Operation Save to cut expenses and help their family. Offers tips on ways parents can include their kids in family decisions and discusses changes caused by unemployment. For grades K-3. **2012**.\\
 +**Available Formats:**
 +  * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/78337|DB 78337]] - Read by Abigail Maupin. Reading time 10 minutes.
  
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   * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/19606|BR 19606]] - 2 volumes.   * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/BR/bookmag/19606|BR 19606]] - 2 volumes.
   * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/72994|DB 72994]] - **Spanish, 2011 edition**. Read by Harry Froget. Reading time: 8 hours, 52 minutes.   * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/72994|DB 72994]] - **Spanish, 2011 edition**. Read by Harry Froget. Reading time: 8 hours, 52 minutes.
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 +===== SPECIAL EDUCATION (Added 2014) =====
 +==== When the School Says No, How to Get the Yes!: Securing Special Education Services for Your Child ====
 +**Author:** Vaughn Lauer\\
 +**Annotation:**\\
 +Special education professional offers guidance to help parents obtain an Individualized Education Program (IEP) for a child with special needs. Advocates a collaborative approach and uses case studies to illustrate what works and what does not. **2014**.\\
 +**Available Formats:**
 +  * [[https://nlsbard.loc.gov/download/detail/prefix/DB/bookmag/78247|DB 78247]] - Read by Jeff Allin. Reading time 15 hours, 28 minutes.
  
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