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Interviews | June 14, 2013

Heidi Durrow: IMG Susan Nussbaum: The Powells.com Interview



Susan NussbaumSusan Nussbaum's debut novel, winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, is, as Rosellen Brown says, "a celebration of... Continue »
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Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk

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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.

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ISBN:
9780151002047
Subtitle:
My Days and Nights with Children at Risk
Foreword:
Quindlen, Anna
Author:
Parent, Marc
Author:
Quindlen, Anna
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
Child welfare
Subject:
Social Services & Welfare
Subject:
Social Work
Subject:
Abused children
Subject:
New york (n.y.)
Subject:
Child welfare workers
Subject:
Parent, Marc
Subject:
Child welfare -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
Subject:
Abused children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
Subject:
General Biography
Subject:
Work
Edition Number:
1st U.S. ed.
Edition Description:
Trade Cloth
Series Volume:
v. 1300
Publication Date:
19960925
Binding:
Hardback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
384
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in

Related Subjects

Biography » General
Health and Self-Help » Child Psychology » General
History and Social Science » Sociology » Children and Family
History and Social Science » Sociology » General
History and Social Science » Sociology » Social Work

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