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by Becky Lenarki, Julie Leibowitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Combining families after a divorce isn’t as easy as The Brady Bunch made it look. Adapting to divorce is difficult enough without dealing with another change in your family. This valuable resource will expose readers to the different scenarios they might encounter when a parent marries again. Teens...
Dinner with the Smileys
One Military Family, One Year of Heroes, and Lessons for a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
They say you are what you eat--but apparently, with whom you eat is pretty important too. Current medical research bears this out. But wellness was not what motivated mil-blogger/Navy wife and mom Sarah Smiley to invite one guest every week for 52 weeks to have dinner with herself and her three young...
The Duggars: 20 and Counting!
Raising One of America's Largest Families--How the
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
This practical, positive bookreveals the many parenting strategies that Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar use as they preside over America’s best-known mega-family.
Each time a new baby arrives, the press from around the world clamors for interviews and information. Visitors are amazed to find...
Run, Brother, Run
A Memoir of a Murder in My Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
A searing family memoir, hailed as “remarkable” (The New York Times), “compelling” (People), and “engrossing” (Kirkus Reviews), of a trial lawyer’s tempestuous boyhood in Texas that led to the vicious murder of his brother by the father of actor Woody Harrelson.
In 1968, David...
Planting Dandelions
Field Notes From a Semi-Domesticated Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Introducing a writer with a keen eye, a wicked tongue, and an appealing take on family.
In the family of Jen Lancaster and Elizabeth Gilbert, Kyran Pittman is the laid-back middle sister: warm and witty and confiding, with an addictively smart and genuine voice-but married with three kids and...
The Ride Together
A Brother and Sister's Memoir of Autism in the Fam
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
We looked like a cup of human fruit cocktail dumped onto the top of the house, each piece different but all out of the same can.
So begins a book unlike any other, half comics and half text, about a family that lives with autism -- and the strange life that is ordinary to them.
The oldest...
The Winter of Our Disconnect
How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
The wise and hilarious story of a family who discovered that having fewer tools to communicate with led them to actually communicate more.
When Susan Maushart first announced her intention to pull the plug on her family's entire armory of electronic weaponry for six months-from the itsy-bitsiest...
The Unfinished Revolution
Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the controversial public debate over modern American families, the vast changes in family life--the rise of single, two-paycheck, and same-sex parents--have often been blamed for declining morality and unhappy children. Drawing upon pioneering research with the children of the gender revolution,...
Glass Half Full: Our Australian Adventure
Sarah Jane's Travel Memoirs Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Find out what it takes to keep the Glass Half Full, as challenging life events including grief, loss, PTSD and devastating floods, test this expat step-family to their limits.
After enduring divorce and numerous child custody battles, Sarah Jane knew that a fresh start in Australia was their...
The Everything Family Guide to the Disneyland Resort, California Adventure, Universa
A complete guide to the best hotels, restaurants, parks, and must-see attractions
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
If your idea of the perfect vacation involves sunny days, thrilling rides, and movie magic, The Everything Family Guide to the Disneyland Resort, California Adventure, Universal Studios, and the Anaheim Area, 2nd Edition will help you make the most of your trip out West. Containing the most up-to-date,...
The Rain Watcher
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
The first new novel in four years from the beloved superstar author of Sarah's Key, a heartbreaking and uplifting story of family secrets and devastating disaster, set against a Paris backdrop, fraught with revelations, and resolutions.
"An absorbing tale of family secrets from the author...
Becoming Nicole
The Transformation of an American Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiring true story of transgender actor and activist Nicole Maines, whose identical twin brother, Jonas, and ordinary American family join her on an extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all.
Nicole appears...
Missives from Maravida
A Family's Caribbean Sailboat Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
298 photos! Missives from MARAVIDA: A Family’s Caribbean Sailing Adventure documents the extraordinary journey I took with my husband and our two children. Our adventure is chronicled in the e-mail messages I sent to family and friends after we met up with MARAVIDA in Trinidad. It is supplemented...
The Antiques
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
A family reunites after the death of its patriarch just as a hurricane tears through town in this “sparklingly funny novel about love, power, money, and adult siblings finding the beating heart of what matters most: one another” (People).
On the night of a massive hurricane, three estranged...