Adult category: 11594 books
Conversations With The Little Girl Within
A Journey of Forgiveness, Healing, and Liberation from Unresolved Childhood Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Painful experiences from childhood often shape the way we grow and develop as adults. Many children are not provided with the necessary tools and outlets for dealing with negative circumstances at home, which causes unhealthy coping methods to form and wounds from these past traumas to stay...
A Full Life with Autism
From Learning to Forming Relationships to Achieving Independence
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
A guide for helping our children lead meaningful and independent lives as they reach adulthood
In the next five years, hundreds of thousands of children with autism spectrum disorder will reach adulthood. And while diagnosis and treatment for children has improved in recent years, parents want...
Children of the Aging Self-Absorbed
A Guide to Coping with Difficult, Narcissistic Parents and Grandparents
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Growing up with a parent who is self-absorbed is difficult, and they may become more difficult to deal with as they age. This essential book shows how to cope with your aging parent's narcissistic behavior, and provides tips to help protect yourself and your children from their self-absorbed, destructive...
Free Mother to Good Home
A Handbook & Survival Guide for Good Parents, Stepparents & Grandparents Who Find Themselves Underappreciated, Under-Loved, and Overwhelmed
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Have you heard the words, I never dared to treat my parents the way kids do today? If you are a baby boomer or the parent of a tween, teen, or adult child, not only have you heard those words, you may have uttered them yourself. If, in this new age of childparent relations, youve ever felt like a...
The Resilient Self
How Survivors of Troubled Families Rise Above Adversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
An informative and inspiring guide to rebounding from childhood hardships to find uncommon strength and courage
“The Resilient Self reminds us all of the importance of being aware of and building on the strengths of our young people, whatever their early life experiences. We must work to...
Every Person Is a Philosopher
Lessons in Educational Emancipation from the Radical Teaching Life of Hal Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Hal Adams was a legendary radical educator who organized writing workshops with people who had been written off during much of their lives, marginalized for reasons of race, gender, class, and caste. Hal detested the carelessness and neglect his students endured and set about building spaces of respect...
Learning through Digital Game Design and Building in a Participatory Culture
An Enactivist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This book discusses topics concerning digital game-based learning focusing on learning-by-game-building and Web 2.0. Grounded in the new theoretical perspective of enactivism, this book shows how such an approach can help students gain deep understanding of subjects such as mathematics and history,...
by Lisa Burstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Sneaking Candy by Lisa Burstein. A new adult novel from Entangled's Embrace imprint...
One taste is never enough...
All I ever wanted was to make a name for myself as Candice Salinas, creative writing grad student at the University of Miami. Of course, secretly I already have made a name for myself:...
Abandoned Faith
Why Millennials Are Walking Away and How You Can Lead Them Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Millennials (those born between 1980 and 2000) constitute a group of over 80 million individuals who are technologically astute, ethnically diverse, and culturally and vibrantly engaged. Yet they face high unemployment and massive debt, and they comprise the largest number of religiously unaffiliated...
The Message in the Bottle
Finding Hope and Peace Amidst the Chaos of Living with an Alcoholic
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The Message in the Bottle helps those who feel alone in their struggle with the drinker in their life find peace and hope. Is the drinker in your life making you crazy? Do you find that your thoughts and free time are consumed by ideas and plans to fix things so they won’t want to drink? Do you...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Teaching with Disney, the first comprehensive volume on Disney as cultural pedagogy and classroom praxis, explores what it means to teach, learn, and live in a world where many familiar discourses are dominated by The Walt Disney Company. The book analyzes the ways in which the powerful messages of...
by Jacob Z. Flores
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Truman L. Cobbler has not had an easy life. It’s bad enough people say he looks like Donkey from Shrek, but he’s also suffered the death of his policeman father and his mother’s remarriage to a professional swindler, who cost them everything. Now dirt poor, they live in the barrio of San Antonio,...
by Elizabeth Marx
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Revenge. Betrayal. Retribution. That’s the Russian way.
Seattle businessman Alexander Volkow arrives in Crossroads, Alabama and buys up half of Broad Street. Local residents think he’s there to buy low and sell high, but he’s really after information pointing to a hometown hero who’s MIA....
by Ella Jade
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Jocelyn Andrews, a shy, awkward, high school senior, has never even been on a date until she meets Alex Jordan, the older, more experienced brother of her best friend Evan. Jocelyn falls hard for the charming player and wants to explore all of the "firsts" that go along with young love....