Family category: 58238 books
Surviving Your Divorce
6th Edition - Expanded and Updated: A Guide to Canadian Family Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Divorce doesn't have to be messy and bitter to be difficult. Even the most amicable break-ups are tough for everyone concerned. It's hard to understand and deal with the legal and financial consequences of a marriage breakdown during such an emotionally charged time. For more than a decade, Surviving...
A Special Child in the Family
Living with your sick or disabled child
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
Written by a parent for parents, this book is for anyone whose child is sick or disabled or has other special needs. It talks about feelings and how to cope with them. It looks at ways to balance the needs of your family, your special child and yourself, and it gives you parent-sized solutions you...
Toward a Spiritual Psychotherapy
Soul as a Dimension of Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Toward a Spiritual Psychotherapy collects a series of lectures presented by psychologist Hunter Beaumont over a 10-year period. Covering such themes as relationships, family, healing, grief, mourning, and death, the book features case stories that demonstrate clients’ healing experiences.
Practicing...
The Case for Only Child
Your Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
What's really wrong with having one child? Is one enough for you? For your partner? What constitutes a complete, happy family? Will your only child be lonely, spoiled, bossy, selfish? Read this book and find out.
Despite the personal distress and pressure to have a second baby, the number of...
Grandparents as Parents, Second Edition
A Survival Guide for Raising a Second Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
If you're among the millions of grandparents raising grandchildren today, you need information, support, and practical guidance you can count on to keep your family strong. This is the book for you. Learn effective strategies to help you cope with the stresses of parenting the second time around,...
by Cindy Ruth Stuve
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Do you have trouble understanding alcoholism? Have you or your family and friends been challenged by it? Read the journey of one family deeply affected by generations of alcoholism in their lives. Learn how living in reality and also by faith can be the key to stepping up to the plate in your circumstances....
by Rosie Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Betrayed can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts. This is PART 1 of 3. You can read Part 1 two weeks ahead of release of the full-length eBook and paperback. In the much-anticipated follow-up to Sunday Times bestseller Trapped, foster carer Rosie Lewis tells the...
by Irfan Alli
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
FAMILY MAKEOVERS: Is a practical and spiritual guide to help parents cope with today's challenges. Each letter of the alphabet is used as a title for a topic related to parenting. For example: A is for Accountability, B is for Basics, C is for Communication, D is for Discipline, etc. Under each...
The Smell of the Soil
Writing Your Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Stories bring people to life, even the dead. They paint an indelible history. It's commendable to have an orderly and complete genealogy. It is the official family record, but it's only the bare bones. Stories put flesh on these people. "The Smell of the Soil" is both a montage of my stories...
A New Season
A Robertson Family Love Story of Brokenness and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Alan and Lisa Robertson, members of America’s favorite back woods family and the Duck Commander Clan, take on the topic of relationships as they share the secrets that saved their marriage.
Infidelity, deceit, distrust, and shame. Unfortunately, these are recurring themes in many of today’s...
Isan Son-in-Law
A family’s roots in Northeast Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Isan Son-in-Law is a memoir of the author’s developing relationship with his father-in-law and with his family which has its roots in a small town in Isan, where the cultures of Thailand and Laos mix. We get to know some of the people and places he came to know and love in Thailand and how he and...
A Time to Dance
One Family's Recovery from Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
In August of 1983, Mark Laughlin, a young graduate student, was involved in a seemingly minor bicycling accident. Thirty-three hours later, he was lying in bed, his body stiff from convulsions and blood gushing from his mouth. Its seldom that we are allowed to watch a crisis unfold in which the key...
by Kris D'Agostino
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
In the spirit of novels by Nick Hornby and Tom Perrotta, a smart, funny debut about a disillusioned young man whose fledgling leap from postadolescence to adulthood lands him back in an already overburdened family nest.
Calvin Moretti can’t believe how much his life sucks. He’s a twenty-four-year-old...
Never Tell Our Business to Strangers
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
When Jennifer Mascia is five years old, the FBI comes for her father. At that moment Jenny realizes that her family isn’t exactly normal. What follows are months of confusion marked by visits with her father through thick glass, talking to him over a telephone attached to the wall. She and her mother...