Family category: 58238 books

The challenges that children and families are difficult.. Moreover,And given the intake of children from the parents home and into the custody of the Department of Protective Services is just heartbreaking. And children return home: even if it's from child to adulthood and on their own terms. It happens...

* More than 50 outings that the entire family will relish in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks * New features include PARC (Pretty Amazing Really Cool) fun facts to capture children's imaginations and a "Choose Your Adventure" chart that directs families to outings that perfectly suit their...

THE GOLDEN CORD is an exciting family memoir. It starts with a rush and continues the excitement in every sentence and paragraph. The author’s memory of childhood through adult lifetime is unequalled. The manner of expression catches every thought and memory with new surprise. Though this is the personal...

This classic volume, now completely revised, has helped tens of thousands of therapists integrate play therapy and family therapy techniques in clinical practice. Eliana Gil demonstrates a broad range of verbal and nonverbal strategies for engaging all family members--including those who are ambivalent...

My father Silas’s Marital War, is a book about love, marriage and family. It focuses on parenting, paternal and maternal parenting, step-parenting, divorce and death of a parent and the impact it has on the children involved. There is the aspect of core-parenting of children from different spouses...

James was desperately in need of a family. His life so far had been traumatic. Neglected and abused by his birth parents, separated from his brother and with a string of foster homes, institutional stays and a failed adoption, James had grown into an anti-social ten year old at war with the world. His...

Separated by a decade and 200 points on their SAT scores, Jack and Connor Reed have a life in the Cleveland suburbs held together by spit and Chinese takeout. With his self-absorbed, over-the-hill parents dead by his twenty-fifth birthday, Jack has abandoned his own plans and returned to his parents’...

A former literary notable, Cynthia Wilkes is looking down the barrel of an empty nest, an empty desk, and an endless supply of empty pages when an unlikely protégé comes calling, setting in motion a chain of events that will force Cynthia, and those closest to her, to redefine the idea of family...

When Lovey Batistes Mama brings her home to a small Louisiana town filled with people who hate them and a Grandmother she never knew she had, she begins to slowly unravel family secrets that she, her beloved Mama and her new Maw Maw can never escape, which makes her wonder if you ever really can come...

Whitney Wallace, our elementary-school-aged heroine, has a pretty active imagination and no problems getting into trouble. Now, you can listen to three of her fun adventures in one amazing volume. Meant to be entertaining and also educational to a small degree, these stories for young listeners allow...

This anthology includes Books 1 - 3 in The Women of Valley View series. CALLIE A baby is dead and Callie Stillman blames herself. Haunted by memories of a tiny coffin, Callie can't understand how God could expect her to put her heart on the line a second time. But the evasive little girl attending...

In this poignant spiritual novel that echoes the emotional resonance of The Glass Castle and Running with Scissors, an unexpected reunion at a remote lakeside camp in the Maine woods offers the possibility of reconciliation and healing for a man and his fractured family. For years, Paul Strand...

In September 1997 Isobel and Rupert bump into each other in the departure lounge at Heathrow and their lives are changed forever. Isobel Campbell is free at last from work, a philandering husband and the emotional ballast of her family and is flying to Venice for a holiday in a city which she's longed...

Family trees and family secrets embroil amateur sleuth Suzie Fewings in a murder mystery: “A good choice for genealogists and cozy lovers” (Booklist Online). Genealogy-enthusiast Suzie Fewings and her family are on an ancestral-history trip to Saddlers Wood Farm when they hear a gunshot...