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Families

1. Families as They Really Are

   Barbara Risman

   A fresh collection of original essays by leading scholars that focuses on how families operate in everyday life: what they are, how they work, and why they matter.
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2. My Father Married Your Mother: Dispatches from the Blended Family

   Anne Burt

   "[Includes] a take on just about every version of a newly extended family....Stellar."—Boston GlobeMore

3. The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging

   Kym Ragusa

   A memoir of astonishing delicacy and strength about race and physical beauty.More