Family category: 58238 books
Okayest Mom
When God's Plan of Adoption Doubled My Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
NATALIE GWYN uses humor to brilliantly capture how God led and helped this mother of two to adopt four children from Ethiopia and successfully bond her blended family.
A happy, working wife, already birth mother of two healthy young children -- a boy and a girl -- doubled the size of her family...
They're Your Parents, Too!
How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents' Aging Without Driving Each Other Crazy
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Your parents are growing older and are getting forgetful, starting to slow down, or worse. Suddenly you find yourself at the cusp of one of the most important transitions in your life—and the life of your family. Your parents need you and your siblings to step up and take care of them, a little...
The Modern Jewish Mom's Guide to Shabbat
Connect and Celebrate--Bring Your Family Together with the Friday Night Meal
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Bringing the family together every Friday night for the Shabbat meal has helped many families connect with each other, even as children grow into their teens and beyond. Having experienced the joys of Shabbat and witnessed how it has brought her family together, Meredith L. Jacobs now brings us THE...
Mom, I Want to Speak to Marie Antoinette
A Story About Traumatic Brain Injury, Abuse, Death, Divorce, Love & Laughter
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
A call from the police telling single mom Wendy Gaynor that her 18-year old daughter, Ruby, had been in an extremely serious car accident changed October 5, 1995 from an ordinary fall day to an extraordinary one. On the sixty minute drive through torrential rain and gusting winds to get to the hospital,...
Keep the Siblings Lose the Rivalry
10 Steps to Turn Your Kids into Teammates
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2010
For most of us, dreams of family harmony and cooperation often give way to the reality of squabbling and fighting between siblings. In Keep the Siblings, Lose the Rivalry, Dr. Todd Cartmell explodes the myth that parents must sit passively by while sibling conflict runs rampant. Based on solid biblical...
by Cecily A. Bequette
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
He’s dead… He was found dead on his front porch on a Saturday morning, completely alone. My first thought is, “I wonder where he is going for his afterlife?”My second thought is, “Does it make me a bad person because I am not upset he is gone?”I am not going to say that I was happy to...
The Melon Capital of the World
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
In this psychologically gripping memoir, Blake Allmendinger returns to his childhood home after a forty-year absence. His homecoming to the struggling farming community of Rocky Ford, Colorado, formerly known as the Melon Capital of the World, forces the author to confront his own sad and disturbing...
Real Family Values
Leading Your Family into the 21st Century with Clarity and Conviction
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This rerelease of the popular original edition continues to speak to parents in a society where "family values" no longer seem to exist. If anything, today's community standards threaten the family. Airwaves and movie theaters are drenched with obscenities; perversion is glorified; divorce...
Quest for Family Wholeness
Providing Spiritual Covering for Your Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
"Quest for Family Wholeness" is an account of the journey of Mary Wenger to bring her family from brokenness to wholeness. In the process, the relationship she developed with God is what caused her to triumph through the wisdom that was gleaned from many years of pressing into the heart...
Parenting: From Surviving to Thriving
Building Healthy Families in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Everything that parents need to survive and thrive in the 21st Century. Marriage, children and family have been lifelong priorities for Charles Swindoll. Based on his extensive study of both the Old and New Testaments, Chuck has drawn together those timeless insights for building close and rewarding...
The Sixty Minute Family
An hour to transform your relationships - for ever
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
What can you learn in an hour? How to find the most effective parenting style. How to save your marriage from 'a creeping separateness'. How to make time for your family. How to discover the magic of traditions. How to get your family through the tough times,enough to transform your relationships...
Same Sex Love 1700-1957
A History and Research Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Family history is often seen as the stories of people who were part of a traditional family unit, married to someone of the opposite gender, had children and lived their lives as 'normally' as possible. But what of the relatives who could not accept that this was the life for them, and were attracted...
Black Wave
A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster That Saved Them
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
“I told God that if he would let us survive this night, I would make it mean something worthwhile. And then, somehow, I felt calmer than I have ever felt. Unreasonably so. Irrationally so. I looked over the scene of our wrecked life and I smiled–a crazy smile for sure–and I looked through the...
Quarterly Essay 29 Love and Money
The Family and the Free Market
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
In Love and Money, Anne Manne looks at the religion of work – its high priests and sacrificial lambs. As family life and motherhood feel the pressure of the market, she asks whether the chief beneficiaries are self-interested employers and child-care corporations.
This is an essay that ranges...