Family Relationships category: 37031 books

A secret and desperate choice, made by young Imogene Sayle during the rigors of post-World War II England, triggers shockwaves through three generations of a family. Almost fifty years later Imogene’s daughter Penelope, married and living in California, learns of her mother’s illness and...

On December 17, 2005, the city of Barre lost four kids and their mom in the worst fire the city has ever had. Just before Christmas in an apartment protected by three working smoke detectors, this family never got out. In fact, this family never even knew there was a fire until it was too late. The...

Grandson of a Ghost explores how a family’s unspoken, festering grief impacted a boy born 25 years after the suicide of his grandfather. It follows the struggle of Scott as he grows up but fails to see how abuse from his mother clouded his perception of the world, and fueled his self-destructive behavior...

This is the story--a grandmother’s story--of the experiences and events that have shaped her life, including the sexual abuse of her four-year-old granddaughter in a daycare center. In these pages, the author will share her trials and tribulations and provide insight into overcoming life’s adversities,...

“I wanted to tell the secret stories that my great-grandmother Blanche whispered to me on summer nights in a featherbed in Iowa. I was eight and she was eighty . . .” At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas, watching a train take her mother...

Fly-by-the-seat-of-her-pants mom Jennifer Magnuson knew her spoiled suburban brood needed a wake-up call—she just couldn’t find the time to fit one in. But when her husband was offered a position in India, she saw it for what it was: the perfect opportunity for her family to unplug from their...

Nancy and Andy Parker lives in a 3 bedroom home with 5 boys.Nancy is a educated woman, who works at the Post Office and as for Andy, he's a no educated man, who likes to give orders.The 3 older boys run the streets all day causing trouble while the father do a little dirt of his own. Nancy try's hold the family together. Will she continue to hold on or will shelet them go.

A captivating, deeply affecting memoir chronicling a journey from a Hollywood childhood as the son of a fading show business figure to a bohemian life in Europe and back to his native state of California, where the author must face the man who had driven him away. Summoned from abroad to attend...

Beaten, battered and subjected to terrifying psychological cruelty at the hands of his sadistic, alcoholic father, by the age of twelve Andy McQuade realized that he and his family had suffered enough. Afraid for the lives of himself and his mother and brothers, tortured by painful memories of years...

Growing up, Shawn Thornton’s life was anything but normal—but then, so was his mother. After waking from a coma following a car crash, Beverly Thornton’s once sweet and gentle disposition had been replaced by violent mood swings, profanity-laced tirades, and uncontrollable fits of rage....

Spouse Calls: Messages From a Military Life is a collection of the best military life columns by respected journalist Terri Barnes, based on her popular weekly Spouse Calls column in Stars and Stripes. From her own kitchen table to Capitol Hill, Terri takes readers beyond the headlines and homecoming...

Three of Aesop's fables (The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Lion and the Mouse and The Father’s Bundle) told from the perspective of a child observing the world and learning from it.  In this truly unique series, Aesop is that child.  He comes to life as an inquisitive, confident young raccoon...

How to approach the role of a stepparent?How to achieve greatness as a stepparent?How to bond with the blended family?How to deal with different opinions in the blended family?How to create an atmosphere for a successful marriage in a blended family?Enjoy reading forward about the wonderful world of being a stepparent!

The Chicago Sun Times praises "Into the Blue is Susan Edsall's fascinating chronicle of the fight to get her father back into his beloved Big Sky...an engagingly readable testament to an everyday courage....Salted with hilarious memories of Edsall family life, peppered with touching reminiscences...