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This book shares true stories of how foster and adopted children inspire new understandings and teach us fifteen important life lessons. Each chapter explores a life lesson taught through the stories of my foster and adopted children. Lessons important to parenting and personal character include resiliency,...

"Whisper" follows one young girl's emotional journey as she learns to navigate a perilously shifting family landscape. Jennifer follows her father as he moves their family through assorted university teaching positions and several wives. As the women come and go, many leaving him with custody...

The most convenient, easy-to-use clinical manual for outpatient medicine and family practice Formerly authored by Dr. Mark Mengel, Family Medicine: Ambulatory Care and Prevention delivers information on the most common complaints, problems, conditions, and diseases encountered by family medicine clinicians...

One of the scariest things about getting divorced is the uncertainly about how your finances will look afterwards. This book will give you the clarity you need to make good decisions about your future and to be confident handling the court process yourself.  It uses stories to take you through exactly...

In most societies, of the world, including in Africa, responsibility for the material support of older people, unable to sustain themselves through work or investments, has originally resided with their younger generational family members - especially their adult children. Aboderin explores this topic...

In 1934 Grace photographed her favorite statue, a national monument named Serenity: The Statue of Friendship. Throughout the decades Serenitys destruction, caused by vandals, parallels the destruction in Graces family because she died leaving behind five young children. Destruction in the family comes...

Meet the Corleys: Mom and Pop and their three grown kids--Jeff, Ida, and Junior--a zany but lovable family living in a changing neighborhood in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mom wants to fix each of her children’s problems--Jeff’s gambling, Ida’s promiscuity, Junior’s drinking--and to create a...

How was it possible for Diane Roblin-Lee to have been married for 38 years without knowing that her husband, 13 years into the marriage, had begun to molest children? The answer lies in the fact that child-molesters are such highly skilled manipulators that they can fool even a mate with whom...

A woman has brain surgery that lasts for fourteen hours, far longer than her surgeon expects. She survives the operation, but the first sentence she speaks after she gains consciousness is spoken in a dialect that nobody in the family understands.-----Like everyone in Hong Kong, the womans family speaks...

Questing France is a self-help memoir that will assist readers with creating and maintaining relationships with integrity. It is a very personal, first hand account of how one woman deals with marital infidelity. It poses serious questions about marriage, betrayal, trust, friendship and family relationships....

A truely unique love story, "Our family Outing" is riveting in its honesty and openess as a family faces its reality their husband/father is gay. Told in two eloquent narrative voices - Joe, a husband, pastor and father who faces the truth about his sexuality and Leigh Anne, a wife, church musician and...

In this classic novel that inspired the TV series The Waltons, a father struggles to support his large family in Depression-era rural Virginia. For generations, the Spencers lived on the mountain that still bears their name in the Blue Hills of Virginia. But the hard times changed everything....

Do you know the Parts family? I think you know them personally. Did you know the parts family has a mind of their own? Would you like more control of the parts family? Who is Ginny anyway? Questions? Questions? Questions? This book has answers, answers, answers. You will be glad that you ask the questions...

This is in essense a ghost story, the old fashioned kind! but it does deal with other complex family issues! Sarah Jones was a 6 year old little girl living with her family in an old house, that was the family's home in the town of Bristol, the southwest of England, set in 1974 to end of 1984. You...