Free Press: 1051 books
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How an American Woman Found Her Way Through Politics, Love, and Obedience in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
In the early 1980s, Deborah Jacobs was an ordinary Lebanese American college student from Long Island, New York. By the end of the decade, she would bear witness to the making of international history. Her story begins in graduate school: through a series of chance encounters, young Deborah was introduced...
Hidden
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
As unnerving as it is mesmerizing, Hidden is an evocative, emotionally charged domestic drama -- a willful and traumatized woman's painful search for the truth about the man who assaulted her one summer night.
Six years after the attack, Maggie Wilson receives a call from the prosecutor who...
The Other Half of Me
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
“What good can the past do the living? What harm?” Growing up in their family’s ancestral home in Wales, Jonathan Anthony and his little sister, Theo, are inseparable. Together they explore the wild acres of Evendon, inventing magical worlds and buttressing each other against the loneliness...
Approximately Heaven
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Enter the distinctly off-kilter world of Don "Wendell" Brush, an unemployed Tennessee electrician with a penchant for throwing back a few beers before lunch. Mary, his long-suffering wife of seven years, has left him -- or is trying to. Heartsick at the thought of losing her, Don beats her out the...
Elijah's Cup
A Family's Journey into the Community and Culture of High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2002
Faced with her two-year-old toddler's precipitous bout with epilepsy and his puzzling behaviors, Valerie Paradiz took a bold and unusual path, coming to terms with and ultimately embracing the strange beauty of her son Elijah's special neurological disorder, which was diagnosed as Asperger's syndrome,...
The Pretender
How Martin Frankel Fooled the Financial World and Led the Feds on One of the Most Publicized Manhunts in History
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2002
How could a two-bit investor, too paralyzed with fear to trade stocks, bilk insurance companies out of $200 million?
How could a gawky misfit with an obsessive terror of germs induce a harem of attractive young women to feud over him?
How could a recluse from Toledo, Ohio, penetrate the circles of...
Magnetic Partners
Discover How the Hidden Conflict That Once Attracted You to Each Other Is Now Driving You Apart
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Do you and your partner argue about the same things over and over again? Are you often confused about why your partner is so angry with you? Are things getting worse and worse even though you’ve tried everything you can think of to make them better?
In this breakthrough guide to repairing...
Willem's Field
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2003
What are the limitations of what we do and don't know about our hearts? Oprah Book Club author Melinda Haynes, hailed as "the real thing, a true artist, a genuine writer" (the Cleveland Plain Dealer) for her bestselling debut, Mother of Pearl, returns with a tender, heartbreaking, and occasionally...
by Claudia Bepko
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
Bepko and Krestan integrate theory and practice in describing the treatment of families with alcohol problems.
“This book is the outgrowth of seven years of work in which we have made an attempt to integrate our own understanding of alcoholic dynamics within the framework of systemic family...
Being Single in a Couple's World
How to Be Happily Single While Looking for Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
You Can Be Single and Happy
Whether you are actively looking for a mate or have decided that marriage isn't what you want right now, psychotherapists Xavier Amador and Judith Kiersky can help you deal with the problems that come from being single in a couples' world.
Drawing on years of clinical...
The Myth of the First Three Years
A New Understanding of Early Brain Development and
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Most parents today have accepted the message that the first three years of a baby's life determine whether or not the child will grow into a successful, thinking person. But is this powerful warning true? Do all the doors shut if baby's brain doesn't get just the right amount of stimulation during...
Small Wonders
Healing Childhood Trauma With EMDR
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Childhood can be an exciting time, full of joyous exploration, new skills, friends, and imaginative play. It can also be very frightening, especially when children have experiences that threaten their feelings of safety and well-being. Even common traumatic childhood events can deeply affect children's...
Frankland
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
With his offbeat sense of humor and down-home Southern sensibility, James Whorton has been compared to luminaries such as John Kennedy Toole and Carson McCullers. He sharpens his cutting wit to a keen edge in Frankland, following the misadventures of a wannabe academic who goes hunting for a secret...
by Andrew Bushard
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
In America, the two major parties monopolize our political system, but despite this, political independents, 3rd party candidates, and mavericks still press on. Bold political independents, mavericks, and 3rd party candidates refuse to lie down and accept less than God's best. Instead, these political...