Alternative Family category: 388 books
World in Us
A Memoir of Open Marriage, Turbulent Love and Hard-Won Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
A guided tour of non-monogamy, A World in Us begins with Louisa and her husband Gilles, who love each other but whose marriage is going nowhere. They decide to explore polyamory, falling for another couple and trying to forge a life together as a quad. But they are challenged in ways they didn't expect,...
A Fundamental Freedom
Why Republicans, Conservatives, and Libertarians Should Support Gay Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
It is an axiom of modern American politics that many Republicans and most conservatives are not only anti-gay but that they have capitulated to an anti-gay agenda formulated and pursued by the religious right for the past several decades. In A Fundamental Freedom, David Lampo makes the case that support...
Love Between Men
Enhancing Intimacy and Resolving Conflicts in Gay Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Read Love Between Men if you’d like to improve your relationship and communicate better with your boyfriend, lover, or even your next date! You’ll learn how to resolve conflicts instead of escalating or retaliating, enhancing the sense of intimacy and love that brought you together in the first place.
The Transgender Myth
Through the Gender Looking Glass
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Paula had a great childhood believing she was a girl. She dreamed of being a 50's-TV-style mom, just like Donna Reed and June Cleaver. Just like her own mother. When she was enrolled in a school that separated boys and girls, she faced the realization that she was a boy, and soon, the harsh realization;...
by David Learmont
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The Foster Factory deals with the experiences of David Learmont and his wife Marsha once they retired and started working again as Foster Carers. David claims that if he had written this book as a novel, the characters in it would have been considered 'too outlandish to be credible.' How the elderly...
How Homophobia Hurts Children
Nurturing Diversity at Home, at School, and in the Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Homophobia hurts kids. Explore ways to minimize that trauma!
This book illustrates the ways that children growing up to be gay are harmed by homophobia before anyone, including themselves, even knows they are gay. This compelling and sympathetic volume describes many simple ways that these...
by Andrew C. Branham
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
More than 10 million adults have been adopted or fostered in their childhood. Along with spiraling increases in adoptions comes a growing need to disclose the significant flaws in adoption laws that open the doors to fraud, manipulation, and abuse of the system. AMELIA is the first book to explore...
So, You're Raising Your Grandkids!
Tested Tips, Research, & Real Life Stories to Make Your Life Easier
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
If you are a grandparent raising your grandchildren, help has arrived.
According to the US Census Bureau, more than 10% of all grandparents in the nation are raising their grandkids, and the number is going up. You may be one of the millions of these grandparents and it's a role you never expected....
by Mary Verdier
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Merritt, at thirty-seven, overcame a tragic childhood to become a successful attorney with her own law firm. She loves being single and has no desire to marry nor have children. She does not want to risk repeating the anguish she endured as a child. Then she met Ian, a man who seemed to meet her every...
by win c. kelly
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Kelly is a woman who has faced many challenges in her life, including the many obstacles presented as a result of Cerebral Palsy, but that hasn't stopped her from climbing the professional ladder. The driving force, for so many years, has been the young children who enter the school with smiles...
by Joseph W Crown
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
This is the Tao of the Crown. It is a way of life. This is exactly how I want you to think about the text you have in your hand right now. This book will impart the knowledge to use the Crown Control System for long term relationship management. The difference in this system from any other out there...
by Marion Küstenmacher, Werner Küstenmacher
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Simplify your life – vivere in modo più semplice e felice
Tema: La famiglia
by Federica Ferrari
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Se non sono pazzi non li vogliamo è il mio primo romanzo e nasce dall’idea di toccare argomenti che per molte persone risultano essere ancora tabù. Alcuni dei personaggi hanno un profilo “particolare”, a volte tendente al patologico, ma non per questo meno affascinanti.
Dopotutto è vero che...
by John DeGarmo
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Foster parenting is often seen as a calling and a mission of love. At the same time, foster parenting can be both very difficult and exhausting. When caring for children who have suffered abuse, neglect, and traumas, foster parents face their own set of unique challenges each day.
The Foster...