Finding the Words
Candid Conversations with Loved Ones
Written by Susan P. Halpern
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $14.95
Finding the Words offers principles and practical suggestions for those moments in relationships when one wants to be kind but also must discuss a sensitive matter. In thoughtful prose, Susan Halpern explains how to communicate with care in order to strengthen and increase our loving connections. The principles provided in the...
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Family Constellations
A Practical Guide to Uncovering the Origins of Family Conflict
Written by Joy Manne
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $12.95
Mapping out a “family constellation,” explains Dr. Joy Manné, encompasses exploring previous powerful life events from accidents to adoptions and accessing the deepest dynamics in that family system. This process helps us recognize and then resolve deeply seated family patterns. For example, in order to understand a person’s inability to trust...
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Passion
Written by Barbara De Angelis
Format: eBook, 112 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2009
Price: $12.00
She showed you the secrets of loving. Now discover the secrets of living.
Use the power of passion to live the life you've always wanted.
Every day holds the promise to be wonderful. Every life has the potential to be great. Every person has the power to live each moment to the fullest. The...
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The Center of the Universe
A Memoir
Written by Nancy Bachrach
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $24.95
Nancy Bachrach is living in Paris, selling deodorant to the French, when a freak accident kills her father aboard his cabin cruiser, the aptly dubbed
Mr. Fix It, in her incongruously named hometown of Providence. Her mother, Lola, the self-proclaimed “center of the universe,” whose medical history reads like the chapter...
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Aunties
Thirty-Five Writers Celebrate Their Other Mother
Written by Ingrid Sturgis
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $13.95
An aunt is not just another mother—and aunts defy any sort of archetypal image. Like humanity, they span the spectrum, from down-home Auntie Em to the uninhibited Auntie Mame. Some aunts are smart, others are crazy. Some act bravely, others downright foolish. Now in Ingrid Sturgis’s marvelous
Aunties, she gives these...
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"Mom, Jason's Breathing on Me!"
The Solution to Sibling Bickering
Written by Anthony Wolf
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $13.95
AT LAST—SOUND, PRACTICAL RELIEF
FOR PARENTS WITH BATTLING KIDS!
Imagine. You might never again have to hear the words: “Mommy, Ann drooled on me on purpose.” You could have the answer for every “It’s not fair!” your kids have ever whined at you. Constant sibling squabbling—and the ensuing demand that you pick...
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Are You Made for Each Other?
The Relationship Quiz Book
Written by Barbara Pease and Allan Pease
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.95
Put your partner to the test and find out just how well you know one another.
After more than thirty years of research into how relationships work and where they often go wrong, Allan and Barbara Pease devised this clever quiz book to help you determine how compatible you and your partner...
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The House on Childress Street
A Memoir
Written by Kenji Jasper
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
In this vivid and piercing memoir of his grandfather, noted novelist Kenji Jasper captures the story of his family and sheds a keen light on the urban and rural experiences of Black America.
Author Kenji Jasper only knew his maternal grandfather, Jesse Langley Sr., as a quiet man who smoked too many...
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Lily's Ghost
Written by Cheryl Drake Harris
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
As a doctor in Vietnam, Lily survived unimaginable terror and loss. Now, safely ensconced in a close-knit Maine town and a seemingly comfortable marriage, she no longer needs to be afraid, but she is: afraid of light, afraid of sudden sounds, afraid of seeing the wide-eyed child of war who haunts...
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Lily's Ghost
Written by Cheryl Drake Harris
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 27, 2006
Price: $13.00
As a doctor in Vietnam, Lily survived unimaginable terror and loss. Now, safely ensconced in a close-knit Maine town and a seemingly comfortable marriage, she no longer needs to be afraid, but she is: afraid of light, afraid of sudden sounds, afraid of seeing the wide-eyed child of war who haunts...
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Unraveled
One Woman's Story of Moving Out, Moving On, and Becoming a Better Mother
Written by Maria Housden
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 23, 2006
Price: $13.95
As a twelve-year-old girl, Maria Housden’s vision of a happy future included everything that society expects girls to yearn for: a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had other plans.
Unraveled is Housden’s riveting and thoughtful story of how, after the death of her young daughter, she found the courage to...
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Are You Made for Each Other?
The Relationship Quiz Book
Written by Barbara Pease and Allan Pease
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: December 27, 2005
Price: $9.95
Put your partner to the test and find out just how well you know one another.
After more than thirty years of research into how relationships work and where they often go wrong, Allan and Barbara Pease devised this clever quiz book to help you determine how compatible you and your partner...
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