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In 1954 Bill Blair and Penny Greenway marry and have four children. Thirty years later, the three oldest Blair children, adults now and still living near the family home, are disrupted by the return of the youngest, whose sudden presence and all-too-familiar troubles force a reckoning with who they are, separately and together, and set off a struggle over the family's future.
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Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
23) Better together
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Jamie's an aspiring stand-up comic in Los Angeles with a growing case of stage anxiety. Siri's a stunning ballering from New Jersey dealing with a career-changing injury. When the two girls meet at the Rediscover Yourself retreat in Colorado, they discover they are sisters separated as young children by their bitterly divorced parents.
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Writers On The Edge offers a range of essays, memoirs and poetry written by major contemporary authors who bring fresh insight into the dark world of addiction, from drugs and alcohol, to sex, gambling and food. Editors Diana M. Raab and James Brown have assembled an array of talented and courageous writers who share their stories with heartbreaking honesty as they share their obsessions as well as the awe-inspiring power of hope and redemption.
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13 Things To Tap Into Your Masculinity and be Confident Man. Being a man in today's modern world is not the same as before. About 40% of kids are raised in single family household. Young men are lost without a father figure. They dont know how to be man or what a man is supposed to do in modern society. In this book you will find the core values of being a man and how to handle the real world. This book is for young men and adult males who struggle...
26) You Are You
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This book is about overcoming your situation and what you are going through, dance can be used as a tool to let the music heal you and be exactly who you are. Life can be hard, we should always be true to ourselves.
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"Behind The Pretty Doors" is a piercing memoir that balances prose and poetry in an expulsion of a lifetime of events and emotions. The lessons shared could be the validation you need to unshackle yourself and discover the stillness of peace. This memoir displays the stifled childhood of a family subjected to a substance abusive parent. The ripples roll throughout the life of Michelle Hancock, whose words jolt the reader into examining their own thoughts.
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If you had a difficult childhood then you know the challenges you face in trying to live a happy and successful life. This is because you may still be struggling with the aftermath of what you endured. Imagine what your life would be like if you could break free, so that you can fulfill your heart's desires. This groundbreaking book guides you on a journey that will inspire you to transcend your troubled past.
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Book Preview: Children subjected to unspeakable cruelty and neglect are deeply impacted by such trauma, which in turn affects their growth and behavior. In “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog” (2017), psychiatrist Bruce D. Perry and his co-writer Maya Szalavitz approach childhood trauma following a hands-on method. Based on Perry's clinical experience, they explore cases of trauma...
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Empower Your Life Despite All of Your Problems. What if shame, guilt, inadequacy, low self-esteem and painful memories of your past failures no longer plagued your mind? What if you could take full control of your life and achieve the goals and success you always yearned for with just a few easy habits? "When we tell ourselves something is too hard, or easy, or that we are successes or failures, it's self-talk. "Six years ago, the prevailing thought...
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"Opiates, Methadone, and Detox" was written by an active Substance Abuse Counselor; with the hope of educating families who are dealing with opiate dependent loved ones. The struggles that opiate dependent families go through to hide their addiction can lead to the destruction of the family unit. Young families are often torn apart when one parent goes to jail while the other is left behind to deal with financial problems, the need for a good job,...
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In 1959, at the age of eleven, Michael Keith left a relatively stable life with his mother and sisters in Albany, New York, and surreptitiously set off for California with his irresponsible alcoholic father. For the rest of Michael's childhood, the two crisscrossed America, perpetually en route to someplace else. His memoir, told in the fresh, funny, world-wise voice of the young boy he once was, describes their bizarre encounters hitchhiking the...
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AMERICAN OVERDOSE is a trilogy of three separate books. The first book, American Overdose, addresses the growth and reasons for our youth being targeted for hard drugs, in the rural and suburban communities. No longer are dangerous drugs sold just in the inner cities, the dealers realize that there is more money outside of the city, they are coming your way. The second book TREATMENT TALK, reveals the treatment industry and provides some views as...
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When Eden was ten years old she found her father, David, bleeding out on the bathroom floor. The suicide attempt led to her parents' divorce, and David all but vanished from Eden's life. Since childhood, she has heard from him only rarely, just enough to know he's been living on the streets and struggling with mental illness. But lately, there has been no word at all. Now in her thirties, Eden decides to go look for her father, so she can forgive...
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Alice Brill wakes up one day with a vague, but nagging sensation of unease in her chest that signals trouble. Is it her marriage-drifting along for years on auto pilot-that's so troubling? Her unrealized aspirations as a writer? Her unsettled younger son? Or is it something about her father, once a prominent surgeon but now slipping deeper into senility in a nursing home? There is also the matter of the writer whose book she's editing, in her new...
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"As the face of her eponymous couture bridal business, Erin Cole radiates refined elegance. But the designer's glamorous lifestyle and sweeping success belie a childhood marked by profound dysfunction. Raised on a steady diet of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and death, no one would have expected Cole to go on to become a force in the fashion world. As a child, she often had no access to food; other times she was force-fed until she vomited. At home...
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Taking chances is part of life, but when you bet your future against the odds, it's a high-risk game. Kate Madison's stylish resale shop has been a big SoHo success, supporting her and her four kids since her husband's untimely death. Now they are grown and ready to forge lives of their own. And they all choose to play against the odds, to their mother's dismay. Isabelle, a dedicated attorney, is in line to make partner at her Wall Street firm when...
40) The stepsisters
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"Once upon a time, when her dad married Sage's mom, Daisy was thrilled to get a bright and shiny new sister. But Sage was beautiful and popular, everything Daisy was not, and she made sure Daisy knew it. Sage didn't have Daisy's smarts - she had to go back a grade to enroll in the fancy rich-kid school. So she used her popularity as a weapon, putting Daisy down to elevate herself. After the divorce, the stepsisters' rivalry continued until the final,...