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Ode to America is a song both difficult and sweet. It touches upon America's bittersweet soul as it struggles to impress itself upon a girl so unfamiliar with its cold and aloof persona. It is written in poetic form, daring its readers to catch up as it takes flight into issues both far and near to every person's aching heart, in a country so treasured and bold. It covers topics such as racism, prejudice, capitalism, relationships and more, as it...

How are your children learning about intimacy? What are they seeing when they watch you interacting with your spouse?  In a ground breaking approach to family dynamics, What Children Learn from Their Parents' Marriage shows how a child's perception of the marriage his or her parents have created is the key to his or her psychological development and ultimate well-being. Talking to both intact families and divorcing couples with children, marriage...

This is the second book in the chronological order of the life of the author. Experience and contrast your life as young woman, from age 13 through 18 with that of the author and realize the generational destructive patterns of addiction.

"Spanning 40 years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the extraordinary family into which they were born."--Page 4 of cover.

The best thing about the holiday season is spending time with family. At the same time, sometimes the worst thing about the holiday season is spending time with family. The stories in this collection touch on that and more as Mandy Nichols, Jeff Resnick, and Judi Straub struggle through what's supposed to be the joyous season. One family contemplates murder; another wants to end what they see as a bad relationship, while another can only see their...

After being placed in foster care, Paula Vauss grows up to become a tough divorce attorney only to have her life thrown into chaos by an astonishing revelation and a cryptic message from the mother she has not seen in years. After a childhood on the road, and being placed in foster care when her mother went to prison, Paula Vauss grew up to become a tough divorce attorney. Her life is thrown into chaos by an astonishing revelation and a cryptic message...

"Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a 'normal' life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives"--

Find Your Voice Heal Your Past Free Your True Self Step Out with Confidence Relate Authentically Do you sense your current relationship, parenting or life challenges can be traced back to unresolved, childhood experiences? Inner Child Rescue is a step-by-step holistic guide to freeing yourself from the pain of childhood trauma, dysfunctional behaviours and broken relationships. At its heart are simple, practical processes and practices that support...

Just about everyone knows a family like the Radleys. Many of us grew up next door to one. They are a modern family, averagely content, averagely dysfunctional, living in a staid and quiet suburban English town. Peter is an overworked doctor whose wife, Helen, has become increasingly remote and uncommunicative. Rowan, their teenage son, is being bullied at school, and their anemic daughter, Clara, has recently become a vegan. They are typical, that...

"A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family, about a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for--and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting, supportive mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter--Violet...