Family Relationships category: 37031 books
The Mighty Franks
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
WINNER OF THE 2018 JG-WINGATE PRIZE
A psychologically acute memoir about an unusual Hollywood family by Michael Frank, who "brings Proustian acuity and razor-sharp prose to family dramas as primal, and eccentrically insular, as they come" (The Atlantic)
“My feeling for Mike...
by Christine Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
You are invited to read my memoirs, With Vigilance, a woman of long term recovery. Someone told me my story is the key that can unlock someone else's prison. The slow, painful path back to becoming a functioning member of society, seeking employment, unlearning many messages, took much time, and many...
Silent Voices
A True Story of One Family's Tragedy and Journey Toward Acceptance, Grace and Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
“It was Thursday, September 29th, and I woke up completely exhausted. The sun was shining but it felt gloomy to me. I hadn’t had much sleep the last week. My family was experiencing a tsunami of turmoil and confusion, and we were so drained from facing the threat of violence. I felt sick to my...
Orchard House
How a Neglected Garden Taught One Family to Grow
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
For fans of Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving memoir of rediscovering, reinventing, and reconnecting, as an estranged mother and daughter come together to revive a long-abandoned garden and ultimately their relationship and themselves.
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Peeling paint, stained floors, vined-over windows, a neglected...
Love & Respect in the Family
The Respect Parents Desire; The Love Children Need
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Children need love. Parents need respect.
It is as simple and complex as that!
When frustrated with an unresponsive child, a parent doesn’t declare, “You don’t love me.” Instead the parent asserts, “You are being disrespectful right now.” A parent needs to feel respected,...
The Family of Adoption
Completely Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Full of wonderful stories that give insight into a wide variety of adoption issues, now revised in light of recent developments, The Family of Adoption is a powerful argument for the right kind of openness in adoption. Joyce Maguire Pavao uses her thirty years of experience as a family and adoption...
Fearless Motherhood
The Road To Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
A small, emotionally charged look at one families choice to have a family when the odds were stacked against them.
When Sariah Fletcher and her husband discovered they would not be able to have biological children of their own, their dream of having a family of their own was shattered. What...
It's Not Okay to Be a Cannibal
How to Keep Addiction from Eating Your Family Alive
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Today's top addiction consultants guide families devastated by a loved one’s addiction.
Two of today's top addiction consultants guide families devastated by a loved one's addiction. As countless families can attest, addiction is a disease that destroys families, not just individuals. Secrecy,...
by Judy Ford
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Family therapist and nationally known parenting expert Judy Ford has a lot to say on the subject of family and home. Her accessible and friendly style offers practical suggestions and helpful advice from her own life and practice. This hard-won wisdom and tried-and-true approach to strenthening family...
Stepfamilies
Love, Marriage, and Parenting in the First Decade
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Based on a landmark longitudinal study, the nation's leading expert on stepfamilies reveals his breakthrough findings and offers the first detailed guide to easing the conflicts of stepfamily life and healing the scars of divorce.
There are more than twenty million stepfamilies in America....
Working Girltalk - Family Business
Keeping it in the family
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Working Girltalk
Natasha talks about her experience working for a family business. Sometimes it’s better to mind your own business than get too involved, but then you want to be a part of the “family”. Find out how this working girl copes with la familia……
We're Still Family
What Grown Children Have to Say About Their Parents' Divorce
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
What is the real legacy of divorce? To answer this question, Constance Ahrons, Ph.D., interviewed one hundred and seventy-three grown children whose divorcing parents she had interviewed twenty years earlier for her landmark study, the basis of which was the highly acclaimed book The Good Divorce....
by Jean Illsley Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Serving as a source of parental support, this book provides a range of imaginative and effective suggestions for dealing with each family member in ways that nourish self-esteem for all involved.
Strong self-esteem is a critical ingredient for human happiness--and its development begins at...
by Julie Hall
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
"How to Divide Your Family's Estate and Heirlooms Peacefully and Sensibly" is a must-have resource packed with practical expertise and a fair equitable process for dividing personal property within a family estate. From how to minimize fighting and manage the emotional roller coaster that...