Category: Book Reviews
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The wait is over!
The Well-Armored Child is here and available for purchase!
It’s been a long wait, but the day has come. Click here to purchase what reviewers are calling “smart and well-written” and “the most important parenting book you will ever own.”
The Well-Armored Child gives parents the tools and strategies to understand how predators “groom” children, why many of our trusted institutions cover up abuse, the importance of statutes of limitations and reporting, and how to empower children without shame, fear, or inappropriate discussions of sex.
More advance praise:
In these pages you will the wisdom, intelligence, and perspective you need to both understand the challenge of making the world safer and the tools to do the job.
– Michael D’Antonio, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success, Hershey, Mortal Sins, and The State Boys Rebellion
An essential manual for any parent, grandparent, aunt or uncle, “The Well-Armored Child” teaches adults how to keep their kiddies away from sexual abuse in a manner both informative, down-to-earth, serious yet humorous.
– Gustavo Arellano, editor of OC Weekly and author of ¡Ask a Mexican! and Taco USA
With frank language and compassion. Joelle Casteix demystifies sexual abuse. She offers tools and strategies that every parent can be comfortable using to help keep their child safe. resilient, and loved.
– Jeff Dion, National Center for Victims of Crime
It’s amazing to think about how many children’s lives will be changed (or better yet, will remain innocent) because of The Well Armored Child. Parents can better protect and empower their kids, especially in this digital age, by reading this smart and well-written book.
– William Lobdell, author of Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America and Found Unexpected Peace
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Goodreads Signed Book Giveaway!
The Well-Armored Child: A Parent’s Guide to Preventing Sexual Abuse is ALMOST HERE!
Enter NOW by clicking the link below or visiting Goodreads to win your free signed copy.
Well … the contest starts April 12 and closes the day the book is released: September 15. So be sure to enter on August 12.
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Goodreads Book Giveaway
The Well-Armored Child
by Joelle Casteix
Giveaway ends September 15, 2015.
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Book Review: How to Start a Fire
Relationships are brutal, honest, naked, and charged—few more so than those between women who are brave enough to trust each other beyond small talk and social niceties. Lisa Lutz (author of The Spellman series) in her latest novel HOW TO START A FIRE, creates a complex and page-turning saga of three women—imperfect and completely human—as they grow from college to almost-middle-age.
What makes this book so readable and intriguing is the compassion and integrity she maintains for her three main characters, who—while quirky—are elevated beyond cookie-cutter stereotypes.
Coupled with a rapid-action storyline, Lutz’ razor-sharp insight draws the reader into a world where nothing is black and white, but where everyone has a capacity for forgiveness and redemption.
Kind of like friendship itself.
A great read.
From the publisher:
From a bestselling writer, a story of unexpected friendship—three women thrown together in college who grow to adulthood united and divided by secrets, lies, and a single night that shaped all of them
When UC Santa Cruz roommates Anna and Kate find passed-out Georgiana Leoni on a lawn one night, they wheel her to their dorm in a shopping cart. Twenty years later, they gather around a campfire on the lawn of a New England mansion. What happens in between—the web of wild adventures, unspoken jealousies, and sudden tragedies that alter the course of their lives—is charted with sharp wit and aching sadness in this meticulously constructed novel.