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Incorporating mindfulness and family therapy into play-family sessions. When a child is offered a space to relax the “busy mind,” his experience is comparable to mindfulness meditation. Therapists can help children remain in this calm state—in the state of the present moment—if they...

After years of bouncing between foster homes, Livvy Sherman's one attempt at commitment and family blew apart with a resounding thud, and she ran, hiding within an environmental protest gone wrong. Her companions leave her in the middle of the woods to face a frighteningly angry lumberjack holding a...

A Family of Choice by Paul Hampsch   A Family of Choice is a love story about how the author and his adopted children found each other. Hampsch takes readers by the hand and walks them through his experiences with the international adoption process which were both terrifying...

New Family ist ein Magazin für Familien, die neue Wege gehen; als Single-Eltern, Patchwork-oder Regenbogen-Familien zum Beispiel. Denn unsere Gesellschaft ist im Umbruch: Die traditionelle Familie - die Ehe mit Kind - ist nicht mehr das einzige lebenswerte Modell mit Kindern. Familie ist heute so...

​Pursuing Legacy: Principles for an Influential Career & Impactful Life is a research-based professional development book that offers practical knowledge on how individuals can tap into their familial environment and personal ambitions to make impactful career decisions. This book guides the...

The House of Wittgenstein is the grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family whose members included a famous philosopher and the world's greatest one-handed classical pianist. The Wittgenstein family was one of the wealthiest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history,...

Many parents today believe that two steady incomes are not only desirable but absolutely necessary in order to raise a family. Yet most full-time working mothers say that if it weren't for the money, they would not work, and instead would stay at home with their children. After the birth of her second...

Like his three siblings, 32-year-old Alfredo “Freddy Flowers” Falconi has led two lives: the idyllic one before “The Incident”—his mother’s 1984 death—and the complicated one afterward. He was just eight-years-old when his father abandoned the family, and nine when his oldest brother,...

A family vacation dredges up a boatload of trouble in the next witty, insightful novel from the acclaimed author of The Intermission. "An irresistible drama filled with humor and heart-tugging emotion about family and what it means to belong. I absolutely adore Friedland's warm, witty writing!"—Emily...

From Calabria to Connecticut: a sweeping family saga about sisterhood, secrets, Italian immigration, the American dream, and one woman's tenacious fight against her own fate For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents—moments...

For as long as she can remember, Dana Clarke has longed for the stability of home and family. Now she has married a man she adores, whose heritage can be traced back to the Mayflower, and she is about to give birth to their first child. But what should be the happiest day of her life becomes the day...

William Styron’s stunning debut: a classic portrait of one Southern family’s tragic spiral into destruction First published to wide critical acclaim in 1951, Lie Down in Darkness centers on the Loftis family—Milton and Helen and their daughters, Peyton and Maudie. The story, told through...

From Mark Haddon, the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, comes a dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family life. Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister and her family to join his family for a week at a vacation home in the English...

Based on the author’s discoveries about her great-grandfather, this stunning debut novel that “powerfully portrays the inner struggles of ordinary people moved to do extraordinary things” (Booklist) takes place over three days during World War II when members of a German family must make “the...