Family Relationships category: 37031 books
Mindfulness for Parents
Finding Your Way to a Calmer Happier Family
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Many of us find the challenges of family life, especially the early years daunting and overwhelming. The task of raising children is not easy, the stakes are high so how can mindfulness help us parent better? What is it? How do you do it? And does it help? This book will teach you how to become a...
by Tori Spelling
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Welcome to Los Angeles, birthplace and residence of Tori Spelling.
It’s not every Hollywood starlet whose name greets you on a Virgin Airways flight into la-la land. But Tori Spelling has come to accept that her life is a spectacle. Her name is her brand, and business is booming. Too bad...
A Year by the Sea
Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
The basis for the major motion picture of the same name. An entrancing memoir of how one woman's journey of self-discovery gave her the courage to persevere in re-creating her life.
Life is a work in progress, as ever-changing as a sandy shoreline along the beach. During the years Joan Anderson...
Run Like a Mother: How to Get Moving--and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity
How to Get Moving--and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
In Run Like a Mother, authors Dimity McDowell and Sarah Bowen Shea offer both inspirational advice and practical strategies to help multitasking women make running part of their busy lives.McDowell and Shea understand the various external and internal forces in everyday life that can unintentionally...
The Poison Tree
A True Story of Family Terror
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Edgar Award Finalist: The shocking account of a Wyoming father who terrorized his family for years—until his children plotted a deadly solution.
One cold November night, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, fifteen-year-old Richard Jahnke Jr., ROTC leader and former Boy Scout, waited for his parents to...
The 13th Gift
A True Story of a Christmas Miracle
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
For readers of Richard Paul Evans and Greg Kincaid comes The 13th Gift, a heartwarming Christmas story about how a random act of kindness transformed one of the bleakest moments in a family's history into a time of strength and love.
After the unexpected death of her husband, Joanne Huist Smith...
Train Like a Mother: How to Get Across Any Finish Line—and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity
How to Get Across Any Finish Line - and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Since the publication of their first book, Run Like a Mother, the authors have built up an engaged, vibrant tribe of women runners--more than 10,000 fans on Facebook and an average of 2,500 daily visitors to anothermotherrunner.com--who are clamoring for another book. At its core, Train Like a Mother...
Slow Motion
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
From one of the most gifted writers of her generation comes the harrowing and exquisitely written true story of how a family tragedy saved her life.
Dani Shapiro was a young girl from a deeply religious home who became the girlfriend of a famous and flamboyant married attorney—her best friend's...
Who Do You Think You Are?
The Essential Guide to Tracing Your Family History
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
The companion how-to guide to the hit TV series-with advice for anyone starting their own genealogical search.
In the groundbreaking NBC series Who Do You Think You Are? seven celebrities-Sarah Jessica Parker, Emmitt Smith, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Broderick, Brooke Shields, Susan Sarandon, and...
Like Family
Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
This powerful and haunting memoir details the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s.
As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next 14 years moving from foster home to foster home. The dislocations,...
The Long Journey Home
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
First introduced to the world in her sons’ now-classic memoirs—Augusten Burroughs’s Running with Scissors and John Elder Robison’s Look Me in the Eye—Margaret Robison now tells her own haunting and lyrical story. A poet and teacher by profession, Robison describes her Southern Gothic childhood,...
by Marlayna Glynn
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
What happens to those left behind when a friend, family member or loved one takes their life?
How do the survivors navigate the grieving process?
***How do they recover from such a profound trauma? ***
Answers can be found through the tales of the twenty-six contributors to this...
Sold To Be A Wife
Only a determined foster carer can stop a terrified girl from becoming a child bride
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
The powerfully moving new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Maggie Hartley.
Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care after a conversation at school leads her teacher to suspect that the teenager's family are planning to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage.
To...
by Casey Watson
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
It’s late on Friday night when Casey’s mobile starts to ring. She is expecting it to be her daughter Riley. But it isn’t Riley. It’s a woman from the Emergency Duty Team. So begins Casey and Mike’s latest fostering challenge – a fifteen-year-old girl called Keeley who’s run away from...